Partnerships: Vringo partners with Stingray; D&H to distribute Jitterbug; and more

Vringo Inc. signed a content license agreement with Stingray Music USA that calls for Stingray to license its proprietary The KARAOKE Channel-branded video recordings to Vringo to create video ringtones. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
GreatCall Inc. announced a partnership with D&H Distributing under which D&H will carry the entire line of GreatCall’s Jitterbug J cell phones. The deal makes the Jitterbug handsets available to a network of 20,000 independent consumer electronics retailers throughout the United States.
Wind River and VIA Telecom have teamed up on a multiyear project they are calling Kunlun, which is focused on bringing low-cost Android smartphones to regional OEMs for the Chinese CDMA market. The collaboration will bring an integrated software and hardware Android solution to help OEMs meet operator requirements and speed devices to market, said the companies. The Android software stack will feature Wind River’s software platform, while VIA Telecom is providing the 3G EVDO Rev. A and 1xRTT modem and telephony software and a print circuit board assembly phone board hardware.
Elster and Tropos Networks signed a reseller agreement that calls for Elster to resell Tropos’ wireless regional area networking products to strengthen the company’s Smart Grid advanced metering infrastructure solution. Tropos also announced a deal with Silicon Valley Power to provide its GridCom product as the distribution area communications network for its SVP Meter Connect smart grid program.