MCLEAN, Va. - Tuesday, June 24th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. (“Hilton Worldwide” or the “Company”) announced today that certain selling stockholders affiliated with The Blackstone Group L.P. have commenced a secondary offering of 90,000,000 shares of Hilton Worldwide common stock. The underwriters will have a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 13,500,000 shares of common stock from the selling stockholders.

Hilton Worldwide is not offering any shares of common stock in the offering and will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares in this offering. In addition, none of Hilton Worldwide’s officers or directors are selling any shares of common stock beneficially owned by them in the offering.

Deutsche Bank Securities, BofA Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley are serving as representatives of the underwriters and joint book-running managers for the offering. J.P. Morgan, Citigrou ... Read more »

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Wednesday, June 25th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

Abu Dhabi Police mandated the working hours during the holy month of Ramadan for the Traffic and Patrols Directorate and the Vehicles and Drivers Licensing Department at Abu Dhabi Police. At the Traffic and Patrols Directorate, the Violations Department will operate from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm, Sunday through Thursday. The Customer Service Center will operate from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm, while the Investigations and Major Accidents Section will be working around the clock, in order to make it easy for customers to finish their paperwork during the holy month.

At the Vehicles and Drivers Licensing Department, working hours during the holy month of Ramadan will be from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm in the service centers of Abu Dhabi and Al Ain- while working hours will be from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm in the service centers in the Western Region. Technical inspection centers in Abu Dhabi including: the Al Salama buildin ... Read more »

COLOMBES, France & LYON, France. - Mercredi 25 Juin 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) Oberthur Technologies (OT), un leader mondial dans les solutions de sécurité digitale numérique pour la mobilité et V3D, éditeur indépendant de logiciels de QoS et QoE pour les réseaux mobiles, annoncent aujourd'hui leur partenariat stratégique afin de fournir aux opérateurs mobiles une solution intégrée permettant d’analyser et d’améliorer la qualité d'expérience (QoE) directement ressentie par les utilisateurs de terminaux mobiles.

Avec l'utilisation croissante de nouveaux appareils connectés et l'arrivée de nouvelles technologies telles que la technologie LTE, les opérateurs mobiles sont confrontés à des attentes de plus en plus élevées des utilisateurs concernant aussi bien la qualité du réseau que la qualité d'expérience perçue.

Le partenariat entre V3D et OT a été mis en place dans ce contexte pour associer les meilleures technologi ... Read more »

Honored for Sixth Year as a Top Destination for IT Professionals

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - Tuesday, June 24th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) Quintiles, the world’s largest biopharmaceutical services provider and a Fortune 500 company, has been named one of IDGComputerworld's 100 Best Places to Work in IT 2014, the sixth time it has received this employer distinction over the past seven years.

Computerworld has ranked the top 100 work environments for technology professionals at U.S. companies or U.S. staff of international companies each year since 1994. The list is compiled each year based on company offerings in categories such as benefits, career development, training and retention. In addition, Computerworld conducts extensive surveys of IT workers with their responses factoring heavily in determining the rankings.

“We are delighted to be named for the sixth time as one of the top IT workplaces,” said Quintiles Chief ... Read more »

tHIS 2015

SHANGHAI. - Mercredi 25 Juin 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)Reed Sinopharm Exhibitions, le principal organisateur chinois d'événements du domaine des soins de santé, a annoncé mercredi le lancement du Salon The Health Industry Summit (tHIS) à Shanghai. Ce nouvel événement, prévu pour se tenir du 15 au 18 mai 2015 au National Exhibition and Conference Center (Shanghai), le plus vaste complexe unique dédié aux expositions au monde, combinera un programme du Sommet contenant plus de 100 conférences, avec une zone d'exposition gigantesque de 260.000 m², regroupant trois des principales expositions de l'industrie de la santé - à savoir CMEF, PHARMCHINA et API CHINA - pour créer effectivement le plus important événement au monde de l'industrie de la santé intégrée.

Il n'est pas étonnant que Reed Sinopharm, une joint-venture établie entre le Groupe public chinois Sinopharm et le premier organisateur d'événements au monde, Re ... Read more »

tHIS 2015

SHANGHAI - Wednesday, June 25th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Reed Sinopharm Exhibitions, the leading healthcare event organizer in China, announced Wednesday the launch of The Health Industry Summit (tHIS) in Shanghai. This new event, to be held 15-18 May 2015 at National Exhibition and Conference Center (Shanghai), the world’s largest single block exhibition complex, will combine a Summit program of over 100 conferences with a gigantic 260,000 sqm exhibition area through co-locating three of the leading health industry exhibitions, namely CMEF, PHARMCHINA, API CHINA, effectively forming the world’s largest integrated health industry event.

It is not surprising that Reed Sinopharm, a joint venture between China’s state-owned Sinopharm Group and the world’s leading event organizer Reed Exhibitions, decided to launch such a grand international event. With China predicting its health industry to grow into an RMB 8 trilli ... Read more »

COLOMBES, France & LYON, France. - Tuesday, June 24th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) Oberthur Technologies (OT) a world leader in digital security solutions for the mobility space and V3D, the independent QoS and QoE software editor for mobile networks, announced today their strategic partnership to provide mobile operators with an embedded solution for analyzing and improving the Quality of Experience (QoE) directly perceptible and felt by the mobile user.

With the extensive use of new connected devices and the arrival of new technologies such as LTE, mobile operators are facing higher expectation of end-users in terms of network quality and quality of experience.

In this context, V3D and OT partnership was initiated to combine both companies’ best of breed Customer Experience monitoring technologies. OT’s Smart Monitoring associated to the V3D’s EQual One solution provides mobile operators with an accurate picture of the coverage, ... Read more »

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Monday, June 23rd 2014 [ME NewsWire]

The Traffic and Patrols Directorate at Abu Dhabi Police has announced that trucks weighing 2.5 tons and over will not be allowed to enter the cities of Abu Dhabi and Al Ain during the rush hours of the holy month of Ramadan. In order to ensure a smooth flow of traffic, trucks will be prevented from entering the cities between 7:30 to 9:30 am and from 1:30 to 3:30 pm.

Brigadier Eng. Hussein Ahmed Al Harithi, Director of Traffic and Patrols Directorate at Abu Dhabi Police, stressed that traffic control will be intensified during Ramadan in order to prevent heavy trucks from entering Abu Dhabi. Al Harithi noted that violating trucks will face impoundment for a period of one week, a fine of AED 1000, and a penalty of eight black points on the driver's license for the first offense. The penalty for a second violation will be increased to an impoundment period of two weeks in addition to the fine an ... Read more »

PARIS. - Mercredi 25 Juin 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) StreamWIDE (Paris : ALSTW) (FR0010528059 – ALSTW), l’expert en services mobiles à valeur ajoutée de nouvelle génération, a annoncé aujourd’hui le lancement de « Team on the Run » (TOTR), une application générique de messagerie instantanée sécurisée et fiable.

L’application TOTR est spécialement conçue pour répondre aux besoins en communications mobiles internes des entreprises et des organisations de toutes tailles, et elle est disponible à travers le site www.teamontherun.com.

Après avoir créé un compte prépayé pour ce service, qui est gratuit pour les cinq premiers utilisateurs, un administrateur gère le compte à travers un portail Web en ligne. Il lui est alors possible de personnaliser la plate-forme avec des contacts, des groupes, des fonctions et des règles de communication.

Les membres de l’équipe téléchargent l’application directement d ... Read more »

PARIS. - Tuesday, June 24th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) StreamWIDE (Paris:ALSTW) (FR0010528059 – ALSTW), the Next-Generation Mobile Value Added Service expert, announced today the launch of Team on the Run (TOTR), a secure and reliable white label instant messaging application.

The TOTR App is especially designed to meet the internal communication needs of businesses and organizations of all sizes and is available through the specialized e-commerce website www.teamontherun.com.

Once the account for this prepaid service, free for the first five users, has been successfully enrolled; a designated team administrator manages the account through an online web portal. From here, the platform can be customized with contacts, groups, features and restriction rules.

Team members download the App directly from Google Play or the App Store onto their smartphone. Once installed, Team on the Run automatically pushes the organization’s contacts a ... Read more »

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Tuesday, June 24th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

The Abu Dhabi Police launched on Tuesday a media and community outreach initiative under the slogan “Together… Against Begging.” This campaign is to raise awareness about the growing risks of obliging beggars whose numbers seem to peak particularly before and during the holy month of Ramadan and the Eid Al Fitr holidays.

Major General Mohammed bin Al Awadhi Al Menhali, Director General of Police Operations at Abu Dhabi Police, called upon members of society to spend their money wisely by donating it to support humanitarian efforts carried out under the supervision of authorized charities during the holy month of Ramadan.

Major General Al Menhali pointed out that the “Together… Against Begging” initiative, carried out by the Security Media Department at the General Secretariat of the Office of H.H Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, is a pa ... Read more »

La plateforme unifiée EPC et les solutions eNodeB de ZTE seront déployées pour aider Wind Telecom à construire un réseau rentable et hautement performant

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SHENZHEN, Chine. - Mercredi 25 Juin 2014

ZTE Corporation (« ZTE ») (code titre action H : 0763.HK / code titre action A : 000063.SZ), fournisseur mondial coté en Bourse d'équipements de télécommunications, de solutions réseau et de terminaux mobiles, a annoncé que la société a obtenu un contrat de Wind Telecom pour la construction du premier réseau 4G TD-LTE en République dominicaine.

Les solutions TD-LTE de pointe de ZTE seront mises en œuvre pour aider Wind Telecom à déployer un réseau haut débit stable afin de fournir des services mobiles à large bande aux consommateurs et aux entreprises en République dominicaine. La plateforme unifiée EPC et les solutions eNodeB de ZTE, basées sur la technologie radio sur le Cloud propriétaire de ZTE, permettront à Wind ... Read more »

ZTE’s unified platform EPC and eNodeB solutions to be deployed to help Wind Telecom build cost-effective and high-performance network

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SHENZHEN, China. - Tuesday, June 24th 2014

ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a publicly-listed global provider of telecommunications equipment, network solutions and mobile devices, announced that the company won a contract from Wind Telecom to build the first 4G TD-LTE network in the Dominican Republic.

ZTE’s globally-leading TD-LTE solutions will be implemented to help Wind Telecom deploy a stable high-speed network to provide mobile broadband services for consumers and businesses in the Dominican Republic. ZTE’s unified platform EPC and eNodeB solutions, based on ZTE’s proprietary Cloud Radio technology, will help Wind Telecom achieve savings in capital expenditure, and operation and maintenance costs, a ... Read more »

Transférez les appels vocaux entre LTE et Wi-Fi de façon transparente avec Evolved Packet Data Gateway

RICHARDSON, Texas - Mercredi 25 Juin 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) Mavenir Systems (NYSE : MVNR), un prestataire de premier plan de solutions réseau logicielles pour services mobiles, a annoncé aujourd'hui la disponibilité de sa solution Evolved Packet Data Gateway (ePDG). Pour les abonnés utilisant Wi-Fi, l'ePDG assure une connexion sécurisée au réseau Evolved Packet Core (EPC) et permet une mobilité transparente entre LTE et Wi-Fi.

« Globalement, les opérateurs tentent de gérer la demande des abonnés mobiles en termes d'accès à un service omniprésent tout en gérant l’augmentation extraordinairement forte de l'utilisation des données mobiles »

L'ePDG de Mavenir permet aux abonnés de maintenir un accès constant à des services voix et données à grande vitesse, qu'ils soient situés dans des zones de couver ... Read more »