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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Wednesday, September 4th 2013

The Abu Dhabi Police reviewed the preparations made by the Security Committee of the

International Hunting and Equestrian Exhibition (IHEE) 2013.

For this end, Brigadier Dr. Saif Bu Dhafira Al Ameri, Director General of Security and Ports Affairs at

Abu Dhabi Police visited the committee at the Exhibition Land Center in Abu Dhabi. He was given an

overview of the preparations and procedures established to ensure the security of the exhibition

and the weapons licensing mechanisms.

Brigadier Al Ameri was greeted by Colonel Hameed Al Afrit, Head of the Weapons and Explosives

Department at Abu Dhabi Police, and Chairman of the Security Committee; accompanied by

Colonel Abdul Rahman Al Hammadi, Head of the Criminal Evidence Department. Colonel Al Afrit

shed light on the preparations made to ensure the best high-end security services ... Read more »

Announcing More Patrols in Pedestrian-filled Areas


ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Tuesday, September 3rd 2013 [ME NewsWire]

The Traffic and Patrols Directorate at the Abu Dhabi Police, in collaboration with Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC), will launch the "Students Safety is Everyone’s Responsibility” campaign at the Khalifa City "A” School on September 8th.

Brigadier Eng. Hussein Ahmed Al Harithi, Director of Traffic and Patrols Directorate at the Abu Dhabi Police, said: "The campaign aims to engage all social categories, as well as empower the role of schools, parents, education and administration entities, and school bus drivers in order to provide traffic safety for students during the new school year.” This announcement came during a press conference held at the directorate. H.E. Mohammed Salem Al Dhaheri, ADEC’s Executive Director of School Operations, and Yusuf Ali Al Raisi, General Manager of the Government Relations, Health, Security, Safety and ... Read more »

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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Wednesday, September 4th 2013

In its fifth meeting of 2013 held yesterday, the Federal Civil Defense Sector

Development Council, headed by Major General Nasser Lakhrebani Al Nuaimi, Secretary

General of the Office of HH Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, chairman

of the council, discussed the Smart Civil Defense Centers project, the Civil Defense

Services E-transformation project, and a number of other topics listed on the agenda.

The meeting, which was held in the conference room at the Abu Dhabi Police General

Headquarters, was attended by the board members and a number of senior officers.

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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Tuesday, September 3rd 2013 [ME NewsWire]

Major General Staff Dr. Obeid Al Hiri Salim Al Kutbi, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Abu Dhabi Police, met a delegation from the Italian Embassy in his office at the Police General Headquarters. The delegation from the Italian Embassy included Commodore Franchises Koniali, the Military Attaché to the Italian Embassy in the UAE, and Lieutenant Colonel Pietra Karoza, Deputy Military Attaché.

Major General Staff Al Kutbi briefed the delegation on the Abu Dhabi Police’s strategy, its implementation of the global excellence standards, and its continuous performance improvement. He also stressed the commitment of the Abu Dhabi Police to qualify its human cadres on an ongoing basis, maximize its capabilities through partnerships with members of the public, and disseminate the culture of excellence.

During the meeting, both parties discussed the means necessary to strengthen the disting ... Read more »

MILWAUKEE - Wednesday, September 4th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), a South Korean shipbuilder established in 1973 in South Korea, has awarded a $6.7 million+ order to Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK). Rockwell Automation will deliver fully integrated safety solutions for Transocean, a leading international provider of offshore contract drilling services for energy companies, and an important DSME customer. Rockwell Automation will employ its large-project delivery management expertise to provide its PlantPAx™ Integrated Control Power and Safety Solution with the AADvance™ process safety system.

The contract covers deliveries to four new Transocean drill ships, with options for six more ships. It follows a $6 million+ order from DSME to Rockwell Automation for four new offshore drill ships in 2011.

According to DSME, Rockwell Automation offers a complete portfolio of offshore solutions, and a proven, robust ... Read more »

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Wednesday, September 4th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

Major General Nasser Lakhrebani Al Nuaimi, Secretary General of the Office of HH Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, met a delegation from the United States on Wednesday at the Abu Dhabi Police GHQ. The US delegation was headed by John Sandweg, Director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He was accompanied by Adam Seitz, the Attaché of the Department of Homeland Security at the US Embassy in the UAE in addition to a number of officials.   During the meeting, both parties discussed areas of police cooperation and coordination especially regarding training.   The meeting was attended by Colonel Faisal Sultan Al Shuaibi, Director of Strategy and Performance Development in Abu Dhabi Police; Colonel Khalifa Butti Al Shamsi, Director of the Training Department at the Ministry of Interior; Colonel Thani Al S ... Read more »

The first and only satellite adaptor for the iPhone® now provides access to users’ favorite Apps, email and instant messaging in the most remote parts of the world

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Wednesday, September 4th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

 Thuraya Telecommunications Company, a leading Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) operator, today launched a new edition of the Thuraya SatSleeve, the world’s first and only satellite adaptor for the iPhone®. The new release not only allows users to make phone calls and to send SMS messages via Thuraya’s satellite network, it also enables them access to emails, as well as popular social media and instant messaging apps such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and WhatsApp among others. Thuraya SatSleeve users can now post news updates, chat via messaging apps with their contacts as well as send and receive email from the most remote locations in satellite mode. The device can be used across Thuraya’s extensive satellite network with ... Read more »

PARIS - Mercredi 4 Septembre 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Le Consortium Worldwide Innovative Networking (WIN) (www.winconsortium.org), leader dans le domaine de la médecine personnalisée du cancer, est fier d'annoncer aujourd’hui avoir reçu une subvention de 3 millions d’euros de l’Union Européenne dans le cadre du programme FP7 afin de mener l’essai WINTHER (WINTherapeutics), le premier essai clinique en médecine personnalisée de WIN. Basé sur un concept innovant de biologie des systèmes et de bioinformatique, WINTHER est le premier essai clinique à offrir un choix de thérapies guidé par la biologie de chaque patient, pour tous les patients participant à cette étude.

 « La Direction de la Santé de l’UE a attribué cette subvention pour l’essai WINTHER en raison de sa valeur scientifique et de la qualité du design de l’essai » a déclaré le Dr. Vladimir Lazar, fonda ... Read more »

NEW YORK - Mercredi 4 Septembre 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)--La société The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE: EL) a annoncé aujourd'hui la nomination de Pamela Gill Alabaster à la tête de la fonction de responsabilité d'entreprise à l'échelle mondiale. À ce titre, Mme Alabaster sera chargée de la poursuite de l'élaboration et de la mise en œuvre à l'échelle mondiale de la stratégie de responsabilité d'entreprise de la société The Estée Lauder Companies, conformément aux objectifs commerciaux à long terme de la société. Mme Alabaster relèvera directement de M. Gregory Polcer, vice-président exécutif de la chaîne d'approvisionnement mondiale et de M. Peter Jueptner, premier vice-président de la stratégie et du développement de nouvelles activités, co-présidents des initiatives de responsabilité d'entr ... Read more »

La solution SlimPort Ultra-HD permet aux smartphones et aux tablettes de partager des contenus de qualité cinéma avec des téléviseurs, des moniteurs et des projecteurs

SANTA CLARA, Calif - Mercredi 4 Septembre 2013 [ME NewsWire]

Uplinq 2013

(BUSINESS WIRE), Analogix Semiconductor, Inc. a annoncé aujourd’hui le lancement des premières solutions de transmetteur SlimPort® ultra haute-définition (Ultra-HD), permettant aux smartphones, aux tablettes, et à d’autres appareils mobiles de se connecter à des téléviseurs, des projecteurs et des moniteurs d’ordinateurs pour afficher des films, des présentations et d’autres contenus jusqu’à une résolution de 4K.

L’entreprise assurera la démonstration de sa nouvelle famille de transmetteurs SlimPort Ultra-HD ANX781X au cours d’Uplinq 2013 de Qualcomm Inc., la conférence des développeurs du secteur mobile qui aura lieu du 3 au 5 ... Read more »

PARIS - Tuesday, September 3rd 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The WIN Consortium (www.winconsortium.org) in personalized cancer medicine today announced it has received an European Union Framework Program 7 (EU FP7) grant of 3 million Euros to conduct WINTHER (WINTherapeutics), WIN’s first personalized medicine clinical trial. Based on a systems biology concept, WINTHER is the first clinical trial offering a choice of therapy guided by each patient’s biology for all the patients in the study.

"The EU Health Directorate awarded the grant for WINTHER for its scientific merit and trial design” said Dr. Vladimir Lazar, Founder and Chief Operating Officer of WIN Consortium. Significant additional funding for WINTHER has been committed by Pfizer Novartis, and Millennium.

WINTHER represents a breakthrough concept compared to current oncology practice, which at best offers personalized, biology-guided therapy to the 30-40% of patients who harbor known tumor DNA aberr ... Read more »

SlimPort Ultra-HD Solution enables Smartphones and Tablets to Share Theater-Quality Content with TVs, Monitors and Projectors

SANTA CLARA, Calif - Tuesday, September 3rd 2013 [ME NewsWire]

Uplinq 2013

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Analogix Semiconductor, Inc. today launched the industry’s first SlimPort® ultra high-definition (Ultra-HD) transmitter solutions, which enable smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices to connect with TVs, projectors and computer monitors to display movies, presentations and other content in up to 4K resolution.

The company is demonstrating its new ANX781X family of SlimPort Ultra-HD transmitters during Qualcomm Inc.’s Uplinq 2013 mobile developers conference, Sept. 3-5, at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront hotel.

"We are delighted to work with Qualcomm to be the first to enable Ultra-HD capability for tablets and smartphones,” said Andre Bouwer, vice president of marketing for Analogix. "Our new ANX781X family raises the capabili ... Read more »

STAMFORD, Conn. - Mercredi 4 Septembre 2013 [ME NewsWire]

La solution Portrait de Pitney Bowes permettra à Skandia d’intégrer, automatiser, analyser et personnaliser l’engagement multicanal de l’entreprise avec ses clients

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pitney Bowes (NYSE : PBI) a annoncé aujourd’hui que Skandia, l’un des plus importants groupes de services bancaires et d’assurance indépendants détenus par les clients dans la région nordique, a sélectionné la solution Portrait de Pitney Bowes pour soutenir la stratégie de campagne multicanal de la société. Skandia utilisera la solution Portrait de Pitney Bowes qui offre une plus grande capacité d’automatisation et de personnalisation des communications clients de la société, ainsi qu’une analyse plus aisée des données clients, ce qui permet aux équipes de marketing et de vente de découvrir de nouvelles opportunit&eacut ... Read more »

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Wednesday, September 4th 2013

    In keeping with the positive macro-economic outlook, GCC real estate markets have widely stabilized and partially recovered
    While country- and segment-specific development opportunities exist across the GCC states, opportunistic development approaches will no longer work and making money will become tougher in the future
    Competition among developers is heating up and client-developer relationships are becoming more professional while land supply remains limited
    GCC real estate developers will be forced to determine how to leverage the status quo to ensure long-term success
    Developers will also have to rethink their corporate and portfolio strategies in a holistic manner in order to cope with the changing market environment

While macro-economic conditions are improving in GCC countries, in ... Read more »

NEW YORK - Tuesday, September 3rd 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE: EL) announced today the appointment of Pamela Gill Alabaster to lead the Company’s global Corporate Responsibility function. In this role, Ms. Alabaster will be responsible for the continued development and implementation of The Estée Lauder Companies’ global Corporate Responsibility strategy in alignment with the Company’s long-term business objectives. Ms. Alabaster will report to Mr. Gregory Polcer, Executive Vice President, Global Supply Chain and Mr. Peter Jueptner, Senior Vice President, Strategy and New Business Development, co-chairs of the Company’s Corporate Responsibility efforts, under the leadership of Executive Chairman, William P. Lauder.

"Corporate Responsibility has been an important part of our Company’s success since its founding. As we continue to grow and prosper globally, it is critical that we continue to understand and serve t ... Read more »

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Tuesday, September 3rd 2013 [ME NewsWire]

 

A delegation from the UAE’s Ministry of Interior participated in the 5th meeting of the GCC Security Media Committee. The meeting was held on the 27th and 28th August and hosted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Colonel Hussein Mahmoud Al Awadhi, Director of the Public Relations Department at the Ministry of Interior, revealed that the meeting tackled the unification of GCC Security Media authorities’ efforts in establishing pillars of security and stability in the Gulf Region.

Participants in the meeting reviewed a number of topics and cases of interest for Security Media authorities, including the resolutions of the GCC’s Ministers of Interior and executive procedures regarding security media.

The meeting discussed the means to enhance cooperation and coordination between these authorities for the benefit of mutual security work in the Gulf, in addition to educational m ... Read more »