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Tipic Inc. aquired by DadaMobile Inc.

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:08:20 +0200

Tipic Inc. has been acquired by DadaMobile Inc.

The acquisition of Tipic represents a strategic operation in one of the segments of the internet offering the greatest opportunities for growth in the coming years, in line with the worldwide consolidation currently taking place in the social networking and UGC (user generated content) segments. The operation also increases the Group’s know-how, technological assets and user base, with a view to optimising the convergence between web and mobile, i.e. the strength of Dada.

Tipic, headquartered in New York City, is a leading international player in the Blog Community segment through its brand Splinder (www.splinder.com), undisputed blog leader in Italy and one of the richest resources for user generated content in the Italian market, and Motime (www.motime.com), the leading service in the same sector in the American market. Today Tipic manages approximately 220 thousand active Blogs and counts 320 thousand registered users with an addition of almost 12 thousand new users per month. It also has over 5.2 million monthly unique visitors and registers 35 million page views per month.
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TIMP and other products will not be sold anymore. Current customers will be supported.

Tipic Inc. release the first batch of Open Source Code for the P2P, Audio and Video Solution

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:39:49 +0200

Tipic Inc. is proud to announce the availability of a complete Open Source solution that can be used by anyone interested in adding audio and video calls to their wares; the solution is composed of two major parts to allow to:
1) open a P2P multimedia channel between two parties
2) make Audio and Video calls

Today we release the second part of the solution, which is based on a modified iaxclient library, with the aim of making it one of the best to create VoIP/Video calls.

The first part of the solution, is based on the XMPP/Jabber protocol. We are still working on cleaning up the code and harmonizing it with Jingle. This library will be released shortly.

If you want to try a complete working example of the solution, download TipicIM from http://www.tipic.com

Please note that this project is still in early development state and that there are many aspects that should be improved, hopefully with the help of Open Source community.

To get the code: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tipicforge/

Tipic Inc. launches the first Open Source, P2P, VoIP and Video conferencing solution for XMPP/Jabber.

Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:29:29 +0200

October 17, 2005

Tipic Inc. launches the first Open Source, P2P, VoIP and Video conferencing solution for XMPP/Jabber.

NEW YORK, October 17 - Tipic Inc. announces the immediate availability of an Open Source, peer to peer (P2P), VoIP and video conferencing solution for XMPP/Jabber. This first-of-its-kind implementation is now available for Tipic's XMPP client, TipicIM, and its XMPP server, TIMP.NET. The solution runs on both Windows and Linux and is completely Open Source, allowing companies to add it to their instant messaging clients and servers. It can be integrated with a variety of proprietary and Open Source software that supports SIP or H323 protocols, allowing the integration of voice and video with instant messaging in a company's VoIP infrastructure.

The P2P implementation is based on a NAT friendly protocol, so as to allow for the establishment of the P2P channel even under the most difficult conditions.

“Tipic Inc. is a pioneer of open protocol and open source solutions that integrate Web, IM, voice and video communication and presence. We develop state-of-the-art products, such as IM servers and wired and wireless clients, and integrate them into our blog and social network platforms (www.motime.com and www.splinder.com, the leading Italian blogging community),” said Marco Palombi, President of Tipic Inc., adding, “We welcome all Open Source developers to contribute to our P2P, VoIP and video conferencing projects, adding new features and capabilities”.

The platform can be tested by downloading TipicIM, the XMPP client, from Tipic’s website or by opening an account on www.motime.com, where these features have been fully integrated. The source code is available as a tgz and a wiki/svn site will be ready shortly.

Tipic Voip/audio implementation is based on the following Open Source projects:
- http://iaxclient.sf.net: Basic VOIP stack. Tipic added video, wideband audio and support for echo cancellation.
- http://www.speex.org: Default audio Codec. Tipic sponsored the echo cancellation improvements.
- http://www.theora.org: Default Video Codec.
- http://www.libsdl.org: Video visualizzation in TipicIM.

About Tipic
Tipic Inc. was among the first companies to develop XMPP solutions. It was first to market with an IM server for Windows and developed the first wireless client based on J2ME/Personal Java. Tipic, Inc. develops network independent IM platforms based on open protocols for wired and wireless devices. Focused on security, scalability and usability, Tipic's products allow its customers to reduce development, administration and training costs. Tipic's products are used by major corporations, organizations and ISPs worldwide. Additional information about Tipic, Inc. can be found on the Web at http://www.tipic.com.

Tiscali Selects Tipic for ISP Grade Instant Messaging technology

Wed, 25 May 2005 18:44:51 +0200

May 25, 2004

TIMP.NET Enterprise 2005 Meets Key Requirements for Existing User Base Integration and Third Party Services Integration (VOIP, Video and SMS)

NEW YORK, May 25 – Tipic Inc. (http://www.tipic.com), a pioneer of network independent Instant Messaging platforms based on open protocols, for wired and wireless devices, today announced that Tiscali, the European Internet Communication Company, has selected TIMP.NET Enterprise 2005 as its company standard for Instant Messaging. Tiscali will deploy TIMP.NET to enable real-time communications internally as well as integrate VOIP and Video communication.

“Tipic has provided us with an easy to use yet sophisticated application for Instant Messaging that addresses our exact needs – including integration with our existing Data Base, integration with our consumer services such as VOIP and Video Communications, FAX, Radio streaming and SMS services”, said Mario Mariani SVP Business Development at Tiscali.

Besided supplying TIMP.NET Enterprise 2005, Tipic assisted Tiscali with the implementation of the single sign-on authentication as well as helping Tiscali customize Tipic’s Wired Instant Messaging Client.

“Being an ISP we were looking for an Instant Messaging Solution with the correct mix of Open Standards, Open Source and Commercial applications, that is why we chose Tipic” added Mr.Mariani.

Tiscali is planning to complete its rollout of TIMP.NET Enterprise 2005 to all its users globally by December 2005.

About Tiscali
Tiscali S.p.A., (Borsa Italiana, Milan: TIS, Euronext, Paris: 005773), is the European Internet Communication Company providing broadband and narrowband access for consumer and business applications as well as innovative communications services and contents. As of 31st March 2005, Tiscali had 5.2 million active users in Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and the Czech Republic. 1.2 million were broadband customers, of which 235.000 received unbundled services. Tiscali's corporate website can be found at http://www.tiscali.com.

About Tipic
Tipic Inc. develops network independent Instant Messaging platforms based on open protocols, for wired and wireless devices. Focused on security, scalability and usability, Tipic's products allow enterprises to reduce development, administration and training costs. Tipic's products are used by major organizations, corporations and ISPs worldwide. Additional information about Tipic, Inc. can be found on the web at http://www.tipic.com.

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TipicIM 1.6.8 released

Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:16:04 +0200

This new version of TipicIM marks the entry of Tipic in the VOIP market. The VOIP part of the client is still in beta, but it works really well.

More announcements about VOIP will follow!

Motime, Splinder and Tipic sites upgraded to version 2.0

Tue, 11 May 2004 14:55:58 +0200

The blogging platforms hosted at www.motime.com and www.splinder.it and the support site for the Instant Messaging Community at www.tipic.com have been upgraded to version 2.0; among them there are more than 180,000 registered users.

One of the more interesting aspects of the Splinder/Motime project is the way that it takes advantage of a series of stand-alone modules written by Tipic, Inc. which showcase the flexibility of Drupal's module-based architecture.

Perhaps the most innovative aspect of this approach is the way in which the platform is integrated with a XMPP (Jabber) instant messaging (IM) system, which runs on Tipic's TIMP2 IM server. Upon registration, the same account is used on Drupal and the TIMP2 server. Users are encouraged to 'subscribe' to each other's blogs so that when a blog to which they have subscribed is updated, an alerts module sends the contents of the update (blog entry, comment or both) directly to the user's IM client if he or she is online and to a dynamically generated web page, always accessible to the logged-in user. This mechanism creates the feeling of "live blogging" among the community members and leads to the creation of very active real-time comment threads when a group of friends find themselves online at the same time.

The system works with any XMPP (Jabber) client which supports headlines and Tipic has also enabled a simple one-click browser-based java IM client for those members of the community that blog from computers on which downloads are not permitted.

With the introduction of IM-enabled mobile devices, the idea of carrying your blog (and the community which it supports) in your pocket is suddenly a reality. For those interested, Tipic provides a free IM client for a range of mobile devices called TipicME.

The blogger's control panel has been completely redesigned and is a great example of the kinds of customized solutions that Drupal permits. Powered by another stand-alone module, the new release shows how it is relatively simple to add increased functionality and to create an intuitive GUI to support it. The blog owner has all of the blog formatting controls that one could wish for, plus a suite of blog privacy and community management tools that will grow ever richer in the coming weeks. There is no other CMS out there that allows such a streamlined development path.

MOTIME.COM announces innovative new features on its free blogging service, which integrates weblogs and instant messaging

Mon, 5 Apr 2004 17:38:24 +0200

Tipic, Inc. announces the upgrade of MOTIME.COM, the fast and easy way to create a personal blog, create group weblogs and chat with fellow bloggers. The new subscription service activates instant messaging alerts to weblog updates.

NEW YORK, NY, MILAN, ITALY – September 17, 2003
The creator of Europe’s most popular blogging platform announces the launch of new features on Mo’time, it’s new personal publishing and community building platform. With offices in New York and Milan, Tipic Inc., is known for its Splinder.it blogging platform, which has grown in just 10 months into the largest such service in Europe.

Mo’time bloggers are now one-click away from the fastest and coolest subscription system in the world of weblogs. Each Mo’time blog now displays a bright orange “Subscribe to me” button. Clicking the button not only subscribes visitors to that blog, but signs them up to receive instant alerts of updates and comments in their built-in instant messaging window.

Mo’time, which signifies “more than instant messaging”, gives even inexperienced users a fast and simple way to participate in the “blogging” phenomenon, the most popular new trend on the Internet. Blogging is the act of publishing personal weblogs, journals or diaries on the Web, and is one of the fastest growing online activities for all types of users – young and old, men and women, newbies and experienced users.

“Mo’time allows even a first time user to publish a personal journal in under 5 minutes,” declares Marco Palombi, Tipic’s CEO. “Just as importantly, we have made it very easy for our members to create community blogs, to make new friends and to keep in touch with what’s happening on their favorite blogs.”

“The great leap forward is the integration of instant messaging and real-time alerts,” continues Palombi, “whenever someone leaves a comment on your blog, or a blog that you follow is updated or commented upon, you receive a notification right on the desktop. With the latest ‘always-on’ GPRS mobile phones and Tipic’s free wireless instant messenger, the alert is delivered to your pocket!”

Everything about the platform is designed to heighten the user’s experience of being connected to a community, using tools that have been proven to be the most popular with current users -- instant messaging, web logs and wireless devices.
"We're already seeing Mo’time members using the service in very interesting ways,” adds Palombi. “If you're a teenager and you have a group blog on Mo’time, you can use that blog for organizing a night out -- you just post to your blog and everybody gets a notification. The notifications spur spontaneous online conversations which are then archived on our servers."

Mo’time is currently online at http://www.motime.com. In Q3 2003, Mo’time will launch new features such as the ability to create photo-blogs and to register personal domain names for a small fee. The basic service will remain free.

About Tipic, Inc.

Tipic Inc. develops network independent Instant Messaging platforms based on open protocols, for wired and wireless devices. Focused on security, scalability and usability, Tipic's products allow enterprises to reduce development, administration and training costs. Additional information about Tipic, Inc. can be found on the web at http://www.tipic.com.

Contact:
Howard Liptzin
Tipic, Inc.
Telephone: +39 348.261.7878 (Italy, CET)
Email & XMPP/Jabber: howard@tipic.com

TipicIM 1.4 Beta and TipicME 1.1 Beta released

Tue, 6 Apr 2004 18:03:35 +0200

TipicIM 1.4 Beta and TipicME 1.1 (Beta)TipicIM and TipicME now have a new coherent graphic interface supporting avatars.

TipicIM Ver 1.4 Beta is based on Tipic's Client SDK, while the graphical interface is based on RhymBox.

TipicME 1.1 Beta is now available for download. This new version has improved presence management, correcting some issues from the previous beta version.

Tipic CEO elected to the Board of the Jabber Foundation

Mon, 5 Apr 2004 22:26:16 +0200

Marco Palombi, Tipic Inc. CEO, has been elected to the Board of the Jabber Foundation.
"Jabber is gaining momentum, more and more servers are being installed and the IETF is evaluating Jabber for Standard approval; the Board will have to work on many fronts going forward", Marco Palombi said.