The third annual The Maritime Standard Ship Finance and Trade Conference will take place on November 8th 2017 at the Sheraton Abu Dhabi Hotel and Resort. The event is expected to attract more than 150 senior executives from different sections of the market, including shipping, ports, finance and banking and law. Dubai, United Arab Emirates -Thursday, June 8th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ] There will be distinct conference sessions following the keynote speeches, and these will deal with a number of themes, including regional trade patterns, ship finance, ports and shipping. There will also be a series of speeches giving details about recent case studies, illustrating how the financial sector can help release the full potential of regional shipping and ports operators to the benefit of trade and economic growth. A high level group of expert speakers and panellists is being assembled by The Maritime Standard, and will include representatives from leading ship owners and managers, port operato ... Read more »

La nouvelle technologie dissocie les numéros de téléphone des appareils et élimine le besoin de porter plusieurs téléphones RICHARDSON, Texas-Jeudi 8 Juin 2017 [ ME NewsWire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)--Mavenir, le leader qui accélère et redéfinit la transformation des réseaux pour les fournisseurs de services de communication (CSP), a annoncé le déploiement en direct aux États-Unis et le lancement commercial de sa plateforme de communications nuagique, unique et programmable, Multi-ID, pour les opérateurs de niveau 1. Cette plateforme qui révolutionne l’industrie peut enfin transférer l’identité de l’utilisateur d’un appareil à la personne. De nos jours, les consommateurs possèdent différentes personnalités, étant tantôt au travail, à la maison, dans leurs vies privées, et sont obligés de gérer différents numéros de contact. Pour la première fois, ils auront une expérience différenciée et native qui leur permettra d’envoyer et de recevoir voix, vidéo et message via plusieurs appareils en u ... Read more »

The event highlighted key strategies and best practices for exercising leadership, a well-structured evaluation, competent board committees and training programmes that match the needs of each board Dubai, United Arab Emirates -Thursday, June 8th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ] The role of SOEs in improving board efficiency and performance was the key topic of discussion on the second day of the Hawkamah Corporate Governance Conference, held in cooperation with the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), that took place at the Armani hotel in Dubai lately. Held in cooperation with Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the event highlighted key strategies and best practices for exercising leadership, a well-structured evaluation, competent board committees and training programmes that match the needs of each board. Organised for corporate governance professionals, the event facilitated a round-table discussion and intervi ... Read more »

New Technology Decouples Phone Numbers from Devices And Eliminates the Need to Carry Multiple Phones RICHARDSON, Texas -Tuesday, June 6th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Mavenir, the leader in accelerating and redefining network transformation for Communication Service Providers (CSPs), announces the live U.S. commercial deployment in a Tier-1 operator and market launch of its unique and game-changing programmable cloud communications platform, Multi-ID that finally moves the user identity from the device to the person. Consumers today have personas for work, home and their personal lives often requiring them to manage several different contact numbers. For the first time, they will have a differentiated and native experience where they can send and receive voice, video and messaging across multiple devices using a single number, including messages, call logs and voicemail synchronization, and the ability to assign multiple numbers to a single device. With Multi-ID, Maveni ... Read more »

TOKYO-Tuesday, June 6th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- ibis mobile inc. (head office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President/CEO: Eiji Kamiya) released an additional function for social drawing app ibis Paint. Using deep learning, the function enables automatic painting based on line drawings. Watch how auto paint works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjCsASiOGmU ibis Paint, a popular social drawing app with 8 million downloads, now features deep-learning-based automatic painting for line drawings. On the ibis Paint social site, many artworks are posted every day, with more than 600 thousand user-created works on the server. We selected about 300 thousand artworks suitable for deep learning from over 600 thousand posts, performed some image processing of the artworks in advance and used them to develop the new function through several months of trial and error-based research and development by using AWS’s machine learning cloud server (P2 instance) in Oregon in the U.S. For users, this ... Read more »

EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. & BANGALORE, India-Wednesday, June 7th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, today announced that it has been positioned as a ‘Leader’ in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant North America (NAM) & Europe, Middle-East and Africa (EMEA) 2016-17 for Oracle Applications Services. The report evaluated 20 service providers from NAM and 16 service providers from EMEA on their ability to deliver implementation and management services across the Oracle portfolio and placed Wipro in the Leaders quadrant for both NAM and EMEA. Wipro is positioned highest for its ability to execute in NAM. This Magic Quadrant is focused on the full lifecycle of Oracle application services, spanning project-based implementation and multi-year applications management services (AMS). Additionally, Gartner’s Critical Capability reports for both North America and EM ... Read more »

BOISE, Idaho -Wednesday, June 7th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cradlepoint, the global leader in cloud-based network solutions for connecting people, places and things over wired and wireless broadband, has helped a Dubai radio presenter to break the world record for broadcasting live underwater. The new record of 5 hours, 25 mins and 25 secs was set in the aquarium at the Atlantis Palm Resort in Dubai, UAE, on May 13th and smashed the previous record of 4 hours and 33 mins by a UK radio station. The Channel 4 104.8 FM radio presenter, Stu Tolan was submerged three metres below the surface of the water in the 11-million-litre tank as he played music, conducted interviews and talked to his listeners while surrounded by 65,000 marine animals, sharks and stingrays. The record-breaking show even included a number of special guests, including Michael Rutzen the renowned South African conservationist, film-maker and shark enthusiast. The show demanded a high level of technical ... Read more »

YuppFlix users can now access latest Hindi movies from Yash Raj Films, including Sultan, Fan, Befikre and more NEW DELHI-Wednesday, June 7th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- World’s largest OTT player for South-Indian content, YuppTV, announced its partnership with one of the leading Indian production houses, Yash Raj Films (YRF). As part of the association, YuppTV will now host popular Hindi movies produced by Yash Raj Films on its movie-on-demand service, YuppFlix. These titles include the latest and popular offerings by Yash Raj Films, such as Sultan, Fan, Befikre, Dhoom:3, among others, that will be available in TVOD model within India and in SVOD/TVOD models outside India. Commenting on the association, Mr. Uday Reddy, Founder & CEO of YuppTV, said, “We are glad to announce the association with Yash Raj Films and offer our users a stimulating assortment of latest movies made under their banner. At YuppTV, we are driven with the vision to extend the most captivating enter ... Read more »

Solution designed to improve, extend and reinforce administrative services within the country LUXEMBOURG-Wednesday, June 7th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- SES (Euronext Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) announced that it has been selected to lead a project to extend high-speed communications infrastructure throughout Burkina Faso. SES Networks will be providing the full end-to-end solution, including wireless terrestrial communication and integration with the available optical fibre backbone, to connect 881 sites for e-government, education and health across Burkina Faso. In order to enhance connectivity in the landlocked country, SES Networks will be using high throughput, low latency satellite capacity via its Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) fleet, and will provide managed service and maintenance support from Luxembourg, and through a local presence in Burkina Faso. The solution is specifically designed for the Support Programme of the Reinforcement of Communication Infrastructures (PAR ... Read more »

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & OSAKA, Japan & BOTHELL, Wash. -Wednesday, June 7th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE:4502) and Seattle Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: SGEN) today announced that data from the randomized Phase 3 ALCANZA clinical trial evaluating ADCETRIS (brentuximab vedotin) in patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) were published in the journal Lancet. Data were previously presented in an oral session at the 58th American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting in December 2016. ADCETRIS is an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) directed to CD30 which is expressed on CTCL lesions in approximately 50 percent of patients with the disease. ADCETRIS is currently not approved for the treatment of CTCL. “Today’s publication of the positive results of the ALCANZA trial is another milestone for our brentuximab vedotin clinical program. We plan to submit the data to regulatory bodies around the world, and if approved, ADCETRIS would be a potent ... Read more »