International celebrity & UNICEF ambassador, Emma Bunton, joins Pampers & UNICEF to reflect on the 10 year-long partnership that has helped protect the lives of millions of women & their babies NEW YORK - Thursday, October 1st 2015 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- An estimated 500,000 newborn lives have been saved and 100 million women and their newborns protected from the deadly disease, maternal and newborn tetanus, thanks to a ten-year long partnership between Pampers® and UNICEF that helped achieve this milestone. The partners marked the tenth anniversary of their work today by celebrating the contributions of their joint effort that has helped in the elimination of maternal and newborn tetanus in 17 countries, with the success of the ‘1 Pack = 1 Vaccine’ initiative. Long-standing spokesperson for the 1 Pack = 1 Vaccine campaign, Emma Bunton, united with Pampers & UNICEF during a global summit in New York to celebrate the progress for mothers and babies as a result of the partn ... Read more »

Seacrest to back experienced management team led by Ola Borten Moe, former Norway Minister for Petroleum and Energy and Erik Haugane, Former CEO of Det norske oljeselskap HAMILTON, Bermuda - Thursday, October 1st 2015 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Global investment firm Seacrest Capital Group (“Seacrest”) today announced that they have partnered with OKEA AS, a new oil and gas development and production company that is headquartered in Trondheim, Norway. OKEA will focus on developing discovered oil and gas fields on the Norwegian continental shelf to create a material development and production focussed Norwegian oil and gas company. Seacrest will initially invest up to $200m in OKEA. OKEA is led by Erik Haugane, an industry veteran, who has more than 30 years’ experience in the sector, and Ola Borten Moe, the former Norway Minister for Petroleum and Energy. OKEA’s management team also includes Anton Tronstad and Knut Evensen, who have a long history of working with Erik at Det n ... Read more »

TOKYO - Thursday, October 1st 2015 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) Group today announced that it has entered into a premium partnership with SAP to provide infrastructure services for SAP HANA® Enterprise Cloud. SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is a private, secure cloud fully managed by SAP and supported by global partners, and is offered for companies that run mission-critical applications in the cloud. SAP plans to use the NTT/Dimension Data Cloud Platform, NTT DATA’s broad range of comprehensive managed services using SAP® applications, and NTT Communications’ premium-grade IT infrastructure services. The initial focus is on South Africa and the Asia Pacific region with the goal to expand availability of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud globally. With this agreement, NTT becomes one of the select few partners delivering cloud infrastructure for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. In May this year, Dimension Data and NTT DATA announced that they had par ... Read more »

Seacrest appuiera l’équipe de gestion expérimentée dirigée par Ola Borten Moe, ancien Ministre du pétrole et de l’énergie de la Norvège et Erik Haugane, ancien PDG de Det norske oljeselskap HAMILTON, aux Bermudes - Samedi 3 Octobre 2015 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)--La société d’investissement mondiale Seacrest Capital Group (« Seacrest ») a annoncé aujourd’hui avoir formé un partenariat avec OKEA AS, une nouvelle société de développement et de production dans le secteur pétrolier et gazier dont le siège social est situé à Trondheim, en Norvège. OKEA mettra l’accent sur le développement de champs pétroliers et gaziers découverts sur le plateau continental norvégien pour constituer une société pétrolière et gazière de développement et de production de matériel ciblée sur la Norvège. Seacrest investira, dans un premier temps, jusqu’à 200 millions de dollars dans OKEA. OKEA est dirigée par Erik Haugane, un vétéran de l’industrie avec plus de 30 ans d’expérience dans le secteur, et Ola ... Read more »

RICHARDSON, Texas - Wednesday, September 30th 2015 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Taqua®, LLC, a leading supplier of mobile and fixed communications solutions, announced today that Interop Technologies has placed a follow-on order for Taqua’s Virtual Mobile Core and Mobile Client to enable the expansion of their Voice over WiFi (VoWiFi) and Voice over LTE (VoLTE) service offerings in Europe. Interop Technologies enables telecommunications service providers of all sizes to launch new virtualized IP communication services via the private Interop Cloud™, which utilizes the latest in network function virtualization (NFV) technology. By incorporating Taqua’s Virtual Mobile Core and Mobile Client into its CorePlusXSM solution, Interop enables its customers to quickly launch in demand IP services like VoWiFi and VoLTE. “WiFi calling from Interop’s CorePlusXSM is allowing operators to offer advanced voice services today, while providing a seamless path to VoLTE and the all-IP network,” sai ... Read more »

Cutting-Edge vCPE Solution Demonstrates Opportunities to Optimize Customer Experience and Reduce Cost TOKYO & WALTHAM, Mass - Wednesday, September 30th 2015 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- NEC Corporation and NetCracker Technology have announced that Etisalat UAE, one of the world’s largest mobile communications service providers, has successfully completed a series of comprehensive virtual customer-premises equipment (vCPE) trials. The vCPE solution was provided through NEC’s and NetCracker’s joint business brand, NEC/NetCracker SDN/NFV Solutions, and demonstrated new ways to optimize customer experience through an innovative self-service portal. Etisalat UAE is the Middle East’s leading telecommunications provider, offering a wide range of 3G, 4G and Fiber-to-the-Home services to more than 11 million customers across the region. The proof of concept (PoC) validated the NEC/NetCracker vCPE solution’s ability to move highly complex IP and connectivity functionality from end-user g ... Read more »

TOKYO & WALTHAM, Mass - Wednesday, September 30th 2015 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- NEC Corporation and NetCracker Technology have announced that Etisalat UAE, one of the world’s largest mobile communications service providers, has successfully completed a series of comprehensive virtual customer-premises equipment (vCPE) trials. The vCPE solution was provided through NEC’s and NetCracker’s joint business brand, NEC/NetCracker SDN/NFV Solutions, and demonstrated new ways to optimize customer experience through an innovative self-service portal. Etisalat UAE is the Middle East’s leading telecommunications provider, offering a wide range of 3G, 4G and Fiber-to-the-Home services to more than 11 million customers across the region. The proof of concept (PoC) validated the NEC/NetCracker vCPE solution’s ability to move highly complex IP and connectivity functionality from end-user gateways to Etisalat’s data center, which will reduce complexity for residential customers and provide th ... Read more »