HANOVER - Wednesday, March 6th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

Mobile World Congress 2013

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ZTE today announced a strategic collaboration with Intel focused on the new Intel® Atom™ Processor Z2580 platform recently announced at Mobile World Congress. The platform will bring significant performance enhancements to the next generation of ZTE smartphones with Intel Inside®.

The collaboration with Intel is an important part of ZTE’s strategy for product development, both in terms of time-to-market and in providing customers’ with a great handset experience. ZTE is currently working with Intel to develop unique smartphones based on the Intel Atom Z2580 processor. The platform’s dual-core processor with Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology provides double the compute performance and up to 3x graphics capabilities over the previous generation Intel® Atom™ Z2460 processor while delivering the same competitive battery life.

This latest engagement buil ... Read more »

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Tuesday, March 5th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

The UAE is seen as the fourth most attractive education destination in the world for students seeking to pursue their studies abroad, and the most attractive education destination among emerging market economies – beating the likes of China, Singapore and Australia. This is according to ground-breaking new research released today by Dubai International Academic City (DIAC), in conjunction with Deloitte.

The survey of over 2,400 students and a cross section of companies was carried out to provide DIAC with the region’s most comprehensive, independent study regarding workforce skills gaps that currently exist within emerging markets.

The findings, officially revealed today during a panel debate at Going Global 2013 by Dr Ayoub Kazim, Managing Director of TECOM Investments’ Education Cluster (which includes DIAC and DKV) shows that in the minds of students and recent graduates, the UAE’s educational o ... Read more »

Company Announces Significant EMEA Growth and Expansion in Fiscal 2012, Additional Investment in EMEA Sales and Support Operations

LAS VEGAS - Tuesday, March 5th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rimini Street, Inc., the leading third-party maintenance and support provider for enterprise software, including SAP AG (NYSE:SAP) software and Oracle Corporation’s (NASDAQ: ORCL) Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, Oracle Database and Hyperion software, today announced that in fiscal year 2012 it more than doubled new sales in EMEA, with 117 percent year-over-year growth in new client invoicing; achieved more than $42 million in new EMEA sales bookings, a 175-percent year-over-year increase; and nearly doubled the total number of clients in EMEA. The Company also announced its expansion and additional investment in EMEA to meet continued growing demand for its SAP and Oracle support services.

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DALLAS - Tuesday, March 5th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Xtera Communications, Inc. ("Xtera”), a leading global provider of optical networking solutions, today announced the launch of OTN switching capabilities on its advanced 100G optical networking platform, Nu-Wave OptimaTM. Xtera now offers a stand-alone or integrated switching solution capable of providing the flexibility and scale necessary to enable service providers to efficiently respond to the continued growth of the Internet, greater prevalence of video content, and more dependence on network-based storage. The benefits of Xtera’s converged Layer 0 WDM transport and Layer 1 OTN switching solution include scalable transport and switching capacity, efficient capacity utilization in backbone networks, high manageability on per service and per wavelength basis, fast service provisioning, quick failure protection, and policy-based restoration.

Using the latest technologies and chipsets, Xtera’s OTN switch in ... Read more »

DALLAS - Mardi 5 Mars 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Xtera Communications, Inc. (« Xtera »), fournisseur leader mondial de solutions de réseaux optiques, a annoncé aujourd’hui le lancement de capacités de commutation OTN sur sa plateforme avancée de réseau optique 100G, Nu-Wave OptimaTM. Xtera offre désormais une solution de commutation autonome ou intégrée capable de fournir la souplesse et l’évolutivité nécessaires pour permettre aux fournisseurs de services de faire face avec efficacité à la croissance continue de l’Internet, à la plus grande prédominance du contenu vidéo, et à une dépendance plus importante vis-à-vis du stockage sur réseau. Les avantages de la solution convergée de transport Layer 0 WDM et de commutation OTN Layer 1 de Xtera comprennent la capacité d’évolutivité du transport et de la commutation, l’utilisation effic ... Read more »

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INGELHEIM, Germany - Tuesday, March 5th 2013

    80 percent of patients achieved early treatment success* with faldaprevir^ plus PegIFN/RBV highlighting the potential to reduce treatment duration from 48 to 24 weeks
    Interim results indicate potent activity of faldaprevir in HCV/HIV co-infected patients

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Interim study results from STARTversoTM 4 presented today at CROI+ show that 80 percent of hepatitis C (HCV) patients also infected with HIV achieved early treatment success with faldaprevir (BI 201335) combined with pegylated interferon and ribavirin (PegIFN/RBV).1 These patients have a high unmet medical need due to limited treatment options; up to 10 million people2 are co-infected with HIV and HCV worldwide and it is estimated that only around one-third of those diagnosed actually receive HCV treatment.3

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GOTHENBURG, Sweden - Monday, March 4th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Ascom Wireless Solutions introduces the next phase in mission-critical communication for Healthcare by delivering patient monitor waveform1 images from GE Patient Monitors to smart devices. The Ascom Unite Axess for Smart Devices is a communication application enabling sophisticated, two-way alerts and messaging for healthcare clinicians on Apple iOS and Android phones and tablets. The addition of waveform image delivery significantly improves the tools now available to healthcare clinicians on-the-go. Now clinicians have more choices and can get waveforms on their Ascom VoWiFi handsets, IP-DECT handsets as well as smartphones and tablets.2

The old adage, "a picture is worth a thousand words”, really rings true when nurses view a critical event on their smart device. Enabling patient waveform image viewing allows care providers to more easily determine how quickly they need to respond to the bedsi ... Read more »

- Wearable Prototype Senses Electric Cardio Gram, Pulse, Body Temperature and Movement -

TOKYO - Tuesday, March 5th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

ISMICT2013

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced that it has developed an intelligent vital signs sensor module, Smart healthcare Intelligent Monitor Engine & Ecosystem; Silmee, that simultaneously senses information on key vital signs: Electric Cardio Gram, pulse, body temperature and movements, and that can deliver the data to smartphones and tablet PCs with wireless technology. Toshiba has fabricated a prototype of the sensor module that is small enough to wear, and will present and demonstrate it at the International Symposium on Medical ICT 2013, to be held at Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan on March 7.

Current healthcare cloud and services make use of already developed individual healthcare devices, such as sphygmomanometers or clinical thermometers. Such services face major challenges in ... Read more »