NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. & ISTANBUL - Wednesday, April 17th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- PMI’s 2013 Pulse of the Profession™ In-Depth Report: Talent Management found that although consistent, continuous training and development for project managers significantly reduces financial risk, half of organisations have scaled back their training programs due to economic conditions. This deficit leaves organisations and practitioners alike unprepared to fill the 15.7 million new project management roles expected to be created between now and 2020—nearly two million of which will be in the EMEA region.

At the upcoming PMI® Global Congress 2013—EMEA in Istanbul, project and program managers will learn what it takes to fill these roles as leaders of the profession’s next generation: agile, innovative individuals who can skillfully navigate change, manage risk and build and nurture teams that drive organizational success in international and emerging markets.

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LUXEMBOURG & WARSAW, Poland - Wednesday, April 17th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Telecommunications operator Signalhorn SARL and Wojskowe Zakłady Łączności Nr 1 S.A. (WZŁ Nr 1) have reached an important milestone in their long-term agreement. Signalhorn and WZŁ have now received approval from the Polish Ministry of Economy (MOE) and Ministry of Defense (MOD) to proceed with the €5.6 million agreement and exclusive partnership.

After more than two decades of producing advanced military command and control field operation communication units for the Polish Ministry of Defense, Signalhorn and WZŁ will now be in a position to offer these complex communication units worldwide. A component of the expansion includes the creation of Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse (NEMP) testing laboratory for communication equipment allowing Signalhorn and WZŁ to certify and produce communication solutions that will withstand electromagnetic shock in the event of a nuclear event. ... Read more »

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BONN, Germany - Wednesday, April 17th 2013

Today, Deutsche Telekom’s Business Development and Innovation (BDI), part of Deutsche Telekom’s International Wholesale Business Unit, announced a new CDN and cloud delivery optimization solution comprising two services called "NetAnalyze" and "NetOptimize." These services enable the evaluation, development, and automation of multi-vendor hosting and delivery solutions (and hybrids of each).

This solution is a breakaway from the convention commonly held in telecommunications, in which services are often specified as being provided via a single platform for hosting or delivery. It has been designed with today’s enterprise users and consumers and their expectations for high-quality performance whenever and wherever they want it in mind.

Even though it is a two-part solution, each module can be implemented independently. NetAnalyze works by providing an examination of how the end user exper ... Read more »

Performance Rivals Traditional Quartz Based Product Offerings

HUDSON, N.H. - Wednesday, April 17th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Vectron International, a leader in the design and manufacture of Precision Oscillators and Timing Solutions for Communication, Industrial, Military & Space applications, today announced the release of its enhanced high performance MEMS product family. This generation of MEMS based oscillators will support traditional clocking applications across all markets.

"Vectron has been involved in the emerging MEMS oscillator market since 2004. Our latest generation of MEMS Oscillators is now bringing the benefits of MEMS to mainstream applications,” said Rick Hajec, President of Vectron. "Advancements in MEMS technology will now allow it to be a truly disruptive product and allow us to expand our market presence in high volume commercial applications.”

The market continues to ask for size reduction, increased flexibility, reliab ... Read more »

DALLAS & AMSTERDAM - Wednesday, April 17th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Regulatory News:

As it moves closer to bringing its much-anticipated versatile, secure and widely accepted mobile commerce solution to the marketplace, Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) today announces the selection of Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, to build its mobile wallet.

MCX selected Gemalto for its unmatched expertise in mobile financial services and track record of being trusted by leading banks, governments, merchants and mobile operators and their customers all over the world.

The initial MCX wallet, which will be primarily barcode and cloud-based, will run on Gemalto’s Allynis Mobile Payment platform. MCX will also leverage Gemalto’s mobile wallet software for a rich smartphone application as well as development kits to enable retailers to embed the wallet functionality within their own applications.

Once it is full ... Read more »

MUMBAI, India - Wednesday, April 17th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

    To build four turnkey high voltage GIS substations
    Will improve electricity supply & upgrade electricity transmission grid in Iraq
    Win demonstrates widened product scope and extended capabilities

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Avantha Group Company CG has been awarded a major contract for $60 million for the turnkey construction of four high voltage GIS substations by the Electrical Transmission Project Office of the Ministry of Electricity (MOE) in Iraq. The company will design, manufacture, deliver and install the substations, thus helping upgrade and reinforce the existing 132 kV electricity transmission grid.

This win showcases the widened product scope and extended capabilities of CG that enable the company to offer optimal solutions to customers who are looking for integrated systems in smart power transmission. The technological up-gradation will he ... Read more »

CLARENCE, N.Y - Tuesday, April 16th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- 22nd Century Group, Inc. (OTCBB: XXII) today announced that its subsidiary Goodrich Tobacco Company has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with Wilshire Marketing BV for the DUTCH MAGIC™ brand in The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg, known as Benelux.

DUTCH MAGIC consists of two cigarette brand styles and two roll-your-own brand styles. Unlike "light” and "ultra light” cigarette brands, which essentially have the same nicotine content as full flavor brands, DUTCH MAGIC cigarettes have a nicotine content that is significantly reduced. The very low nicotine Dutch Magic brand style contains approximately 95% less nicotine than typical "ultra light” and "light” cigarettes.

The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg are the first European countries in which very low nicotine tobacco products will be available to consumers. Goodrich Tobacco Company will ship Wilshire’s initial order of 4 ... Read more »

New claim will help physicians better guide treatment with P2Y12 inhibitors


SAN DIEGO - Tuesday, April 16th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Accumetrics, Inc., developer of the market-leading VerifyNow® System, announced an expansion in the intended use for the CE marked VerifyNow P2Y12 Test. Physicians can now use the test results to assess whether a patient may be at greater risk for both bleeding or ischemic events, as an aid to manage therapeutic treatment decisions and accurately assess the antiplatelet effect from P2Y12 inhibitors (such as clopidogrel, prasugrel and ticagrelor).

The expanded claim was developed based on the ADAPT-DES registry (8500 patients using the VerifyNow system), which validated the existence of a therapeutic window. The data demonstrated that patients with a P2Y12 Reaction Units (PRU) result of ≥208 were at a significantly increased risk of cardiovascular events and patients with a PRU of <95 were receiving virtually no ... Read more »

CLARENCE, New York - Mercredi 17 Avril 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)--22nd Century Group, Inc. (OTCBB : XXII) a annoncé aujourd'hui que sa filiale Goodrich Tobacco Company a conclu un accord de distribution exclusive avec Wilshire Marketing BV pour la marque DUTCH MAGIC™ dans le Benelux (Pays-Bas, Belgique et Luxembourg).

DUTCH MAGIC comprend deux types de cigarette et deux types de tabac à rouler. À la différence des cigarettes étiquetées « light » et « ultra-light » qui contiennent pratiquement la même teneur en nicotine que les cigarettes classiques, les cigarettes DUTCH MAGIC ont une teneur en nicotine considérablement réduite. Les cigarettes à très faible teneur en nicotine Dutch Magic contiennent environ 95 % de nicotine en moins que les cigarettes « light » et « ultra light » ordinaires.

Les Pays-Bas, la Belgique et le Luxembourg sont les premiers pays européens où les produits du tabac à très faible tene ... Read more »