Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Wednesday, July 23rd 2014

The Fourth Ramadan-special Seven-a-side Football tournament of 2014 organized by the Abu Dhabi Civil Defense General Directorate at the Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi concluded on Tuesday.  Eight teams took part in the tournament and represented the External Civil Defense stations; the Internal Civil Defense stations; the Civil Defense Academy; as well as the Petroleum Institute team, the Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company, (TAKREER) team, the Ports Security team, Paris Saint-Germaine team, and Al Mafraq Police Department team.

Colonel Juma Salem Al Dahmani, Acting Director of Abu Dhabi Civil Defense crowned the Petroleum Institute team, crowned champion of the tournament, after ranking first and winning the championship trophy. Al Mafraq Police Department team ranked second; followed by the External Civil Defense stations and the Ports Security teams, ranking third and fourth respectively. Player Fa ... Read more »

BANGKOK - Thursday, July 24th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Heart disease is a very common disease of the world population. It’s 1 in 4 of the cause of death all nationalities and countries. Heart disease can find in all age from newborns to the elderly. Depending on the cause, as in newborns to a cause of congenital anomalies or in the elderly, the most common heart disease is coronary heart disease were found in men than in women.

Phyathai Nawamin Heart disease treatment center in Thailand offers wide range of services with sophisticated method and technique in a setting of a good quality standard care. Our team of specialists provides topnotch care through an extensive and collaborative approach.

Phyathai Nawamin Heart Disease treatment Center in Thailand is indeed very beneficial for our cardiac patients and also for our doctors who concentrate in the cardiac surgery with a long experience in the operating room. They prefer non-surgical appro ... Read more »

COLOMBES, France - Jeudi 24 Juillet 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oberthur Technologies (OT), un leader mondial dans les solutions de sécurité numérique pour la mobilité, annonce ce jour son partenariat avec Cumulocity, principal fournisseur de plateformes IoT1, afin d’offrir une plateforme d’AEP et de gestion des objets pour les marchés du Machine-to-Machine et de l’Internet des Objets. Cette nouvelle solution d’OT a la flexibilité pour répondre à divers cas d’usage, comme entre autres la gestion de flotte, le suivi d’actifs ou encore la maintenance et la surveillance à distance dans un cadre industriel.

Le marché de l’Internet des Objets est en pleine expansion dans de nombreux verticaux avec la connexion d’équipements variés tels que des machines industrielles, des véhicules, des compteurs intelligents ainsi que des wearable devices. Au delà de la connectivité, les acteurs du marché tels que les opérateurs mobi ... Read more »

Conrad London Westminster to Welcome Guests in September 2014

LONDON. - Wednesday, July 23rd 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) The inspired luxury of Conrad Hotels & Resorts is due to arrive in Westminster, central London, following a franchise agreement with Supreme Hotels LLP. The 256 guest room hotel will join the Hilton Worldwide portfolio of 23 existing Conrad hotels and resorts worldwide, including Dublin, Dubai, Istanbul, and Portugal. Conrad London Westminster, located between Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace, is expected to welcome guests beginning in September 2014.

John T.A. Vanderslice, global head, Conrad Hotels & Resorts, Hilton Worldwide, said, “Conrad creates inspired experiences for our guests in the world’s gateway cities and most sought after leisure destinations. London continues to be a political, cultural, and economic powerhouse in the world, which makes it a natural destination for international travellers. ... Read more »

LUXEMBOURG & LAGOS. - Wednesday, July 23rd 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) SES (NYSE Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), in cooperation with service provider Computer Warehouse Group (NSE Nigerian Stock Exchange: CWG), today announced the launch of a new digital TV platform for West Africa on SES’s ASTRA 2F satellite at 28.2 degrees East.

This independent and neutral TV platform in Nigeria will be the country’s first free-to-air (FTA) DTH digital TV platform and provide the opportunity for broadcasters to reach millions of satellite homes in West Africa which are pointing their dishes to 28.2 degrees East. Besides providing additional growth opportunities for local and international broadcasters, the platform could be used to quicken the pace of digital migration.

The platform provides end-to-end contribution, ground and space services to local, regional, national and international TV broadcasters across West Africa. SES will be providing the space se ... Read more »

OSAKA, Japan. - Wednesday, July 23rd 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) Panasonic Corporation is promoting its VIERA 4K TV, an ultra-high definition set with a massive 65-inch screen, as the perfect screen to enjoy watching online videos such as YouTube videos. To appeal to those who watch, the company decided to engage with creative people who produce such YouTube videos at the first place.

Through crowdsourcing platform eYeka, Panasonic connected with creative people from all over the world and invited them to create amazing, surprising videos showing how a story or creative moment would be transformed now that they have a bigger and more beautiful canvas for their creativity.

The competition had worldwide appeal with 34 videos received in the space of 5 weeks, from 13 countries as diverse as France, Japan, the USA, Russia, India, China and the UK. Some of the Japanese participants were students from the Nihonkogakuin College in Tokyo. The 3 winning videos, ... Read more »

COLOMBES, France - Wednesday, July 23rd 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Oberthur Technologies (OT), a world leader in digital security solutions for the mobility space, today announced its partnership with Cumulocity, the leading ‘Internet-of-Things’ (IoT) platform provider, to offer an application enablement and objects management platform for the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) markets. This new OT solution has the flexibility to address various M2M use cases from fleet management and asset tracking to industrial remote maintenance and surveillance, among many others.

The IoT market is exploding in many verticals with industrial machines, vehicles, smart meters and also wearable devices getting connected. Beyond connectivity, market stakeholders such as mobile operators, OEMs and enterprises need to remotely control and automate the management of these objects. OT is now able to propose a simple and secure solution to help the ... Read more »

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Thursday, July 24th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

Reduces Relapses, Disability Progression, and MRI Brain Lesions, with a Favorable Safety Profile Consistent with the Established Interferon Class –

– Initial Country Launches Expected to Begin in the Coming Weeks –

(BUSINESS WIRE) Today Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) announced that the European Commission (EC) has granted marketing authorization for PLEGRIDYTM (peginterferon beta-1a) as a treatment for adults with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS), the most common form of multiple sclerosis (MS). PLEGRIDY is dosed once every two weeks and is administered subcutaneously with the PLEGRIDY PEN, a new ready-to-use autoinjector, or a prefilled syringe.

“PLEGRIDY offers people living with MS an interferon with compelling efficacy that requires considerably fewer injections than other platform therapies," said George A. Scangos, Ph.D., chief executive officer at Bi ... Read more »

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Wednesday, July 23rd 2014 [ME NewsWire]

Lt. General H.H Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior expressed his utmost pride for belonging to a country, whose leadership is dedicated to providing care and support to its people, in life and in deaths; to martyrs, workers and retirees, healthy and injured, young and old, and females and males.

H.H Sheikh Saif also added that the UAE leadership, headed by His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE and the loyal Crown Prince, who do not miss any opportunity to check on their people’s conditions and inquiring about their personal and general needs. "The leadership also dedicates top priority to martyrs’ families, whose sons have scarified their souls for to serve the UAE and protect its sovereignty and security," H.H Sheikh Saif continued.

Additionally, H.H Sheikh Saif bin Zayed explained that t ... Read more »

La carte multi-applicative Cosmo RSA v5 M/Chip™ permet l’utilisation de deux réseaux de débit non membres

COLOMBES, France - Jeudi 24 Juillet 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oberthur Technologies, un leader mondial dans les solutions de sécurité numérique pour la mobilité, annonce ce jour avoir développé la première carte de débit certifiée par MasterCard, conforme aux recommandations de l’Amendement Durbin en vigueur aux États-Unis. Cet amendement, exige que les banques émettrices identifient deux réseaux de débit non affiliés, pour chaque carte de débit ou carte prépayée émise.

La carte Cosmo RSA V5 M/Chip™ multi-applicative d’OT, conforme aux recommandations Global Platform, est basée sur un système d’exploitation Java et supporte une authentification dynamique des données. La plate-forme OT Cosmo RSA V5 existante a été spécifiquement adaptée pour supporter les AID MasterCard débit et débit “Maestro U.S.” ... Read more »