Zurich (ots) - cablecom previewed its 2006 business year today and unveiled new product plans that will bolster the company's market position. In the beginning of the year, mobile telephony and the digital tv recorder (DVR) will dominate the agenda for Switzerland's largest cable operator. Since launching wireless telephony service in December 2005, cablecom has become the first Swiss company to offer TV, broadband ...
Geneva (ots) - WISekey, the world's most trusted e-security infrastructure and leading provider of Internet trust services, today announced it has appointed Sheetal Mehta as senior vice president and general manager of the WISekey's Affiliates Network Division. Sheetall, formerly a Microsoft Director in ...
Zurich (ots) - For the first time, the pan-European television survey by UPC (published at www.cablecom.ch/wirueberuns/upc_2005_tv_survey) was conducted in Switzerland this year. The study's most conspicuous findings include high credibility for Swiss public television, as well as Switzerland's ranking as the country with Europe's lowest rate of TV consumption. To ...
Geneva/Brussels (ots) - The Microsoft event MERID (Microsoft European Research & Innovation Day) was designed to bring together politicians, companies, researchers, academics and policy makers in Brussels for a debate on the future of European research and development (R&D). Speakers included Carl Bildt, former ...
The image can be downloaded from www.u-blox.com/news/lea_4h.jpg Thalwil, Switzerland (ots) - u-blox AG, the leading Swiss provider of innovative GPS receiver technology, today announced the release of a new module, the LEA-4H. Powered by u-blox' new ANTARIS 4 positioning engine, and just 17 x 22 mm in size, the LEA-4H offers SuperSense indoor GPS functionality, ...
Zurich (ots) - cablecom has secured an order in Geneva worth CHF 20 million that involves modernization of three cable networks. For 25,000 households in Onex, Lancy and Carouge, the project will provide access to cablecom's triple play service, featuring digital television, broadband Internet and digital telephony. Under this multi-year contract, the three municipalities have commissioned cablecom to modernize ...
- Indication: A of permitted characters with their Unicode position can be downloaded for free as pdf: www.presseportal.ch/de/story.htx?firmaid=100004516 - Zurich (ots) - On 1 December 2005 at 8.00, the character "" will be making its debut in the internet - or, to be more precise, SWITCH will be permitting ...
WISeKey launched a global partnership to expand the use of Digital Identification as part of the WSIS "Pledge to Connect the World" with the aim of increasing digital connectivity to 1 billion people by 2015 Geneva (ots) - This new initiative from WISeKey and the OISTE Foundation has been designed to allow the ...
WISekey expands the activities derived from WISekey's participation at the latest World Summit on Information Society Geneva (ots) - Mr. Daniel Stauffacher, former Ambassador, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs/WSIS Swiss Executive Secretariat has accepted WISekey's invitation to join as President of ...
Zurich (ots) - VIA NET.WORKS (Switzerland) Ltd., a company of Solution24 Ltd., and TIC Ltd. from Kriens/Luzern merge, becoming the biggest Full Service Internet and IT-Provider of Central Switzerland. The two companies will be known under their new name "TIC The Internet Company Ltd.". The name stands for one of the biggest independent Swiss Internet-Providers (ISP) with EUR 18 Mio. Revenue. "Over 12.000 ...
This project will form part of an ambitious "Plan of Action for Electronic Governance". The immediate objective of the "Secure Angola Project", which is planned to start in 2006, is the establishment of a "Public Key Infrastructure" (PKI); it will be headed by WISeKey and rely on the direct participation of ...
Tunis (ots) - As part of its support to the World Summit on Information Society, WISeKey in cooperation with Microsoft and the OISTE Foundation will be providing a Digital Identification Infrastructure designed to support a network of 20,000 Certification Authorities. Each of these Certification Authorities ...
Zurich (ots) - VIA NET.WORKS (Switzerland) Ltd., a company of Solution24 AG, receives national WiMAX test licence by the Swiss authorities. VIA NET.WORKS will be carrying out WiMAX pilot operations in Zurich and Geneva. The planned area-wide covering of WiMAX will be supported by Chinese companies - VIA NET.WORKS is conducting negotiations with Chinese carriers ...
- Hinweis: A graphic can be downloaded under http://www.presseportal.ch - Frankfurt, Helsinki, Stockholm, Zurich (ots) - Two worlds co-exist within cash management of PSA Peugeot Citroën Group. Firstly, the industrial and commercial world that produces and sells cars, and secondly, the world of financing (over half the cars sold are purchased on ...
Zürich (ots) - Liberty Global Inc. ("Liberty Global") today announced that its subsidiary, United ACM Holdings, Inc. ("United ACM"), has entered into a definitive agreement (the "Agreement") to acquire 100% of the outstanding share capital of Cablecom Holdings AG ("Cablecom") from the sole shareholder Glacier Holdings S.C.A. ("Glacier") - The terms of the Agreement value Cablecom at approximately CHF 56.22 per share, which implies a total equity value of CHF 2,825 ...
Zurich (ots) - As of 1 October 2005, it will be even easier than before to register a domain name via the internet. SWITCH, the registry for domain names ending in .ch and .li, has redesigned the "Internet Domains" section of its website in response to changing customer needs. Users will benefit not only from the new design but also from optimised processes and functions. The launch of this new website zone ...
Zurich (ots) - VIA NET.WORKS (Schweiz) AG, a company of Solution24 AG, receives high-ranking delegation of CETC-Chinacomm in Switzerland. CETC-Chinacomm is one of the biggest telecommunications provider in China and a partner of VIA NET.WORKS. In May 2005 both parties signed a partner agreement and have been in an enriching business relationship since. During the five day visit, the two partners focused on the ...
In June 2005 the Ecma General Assembly approved ECMA-367, the first standard for the Eiffel programming language. Geneva (ots) - Eiffel is a method of software construction and a language for use in the analysis, design, implementation and maintenance of software systems. The ECMA-367 standard covers the language, with an emphasis on implementational aspects. Originally designed by Eiffel Software under the leadership of Object Technology pioneer Bertrand Meyer, the ...
Exchange of electronic invoices across borders. Wallisellen (ots) - Deutsche Post, PayNet, and SAP want to form an international EBPP (Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment) network together. The cooperation's goal is to make the exchange of electronic invoices across borders possible for companies on the basis of a common technology. The international solution will be realized in the close cooperation between ...
Environmentally Conscious Design Geneva (ots) - ECMA-341 was the world's first standard defining the requirements and recommendations for a commercially viable, environmentally conscious design of products in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Consumer Electronics (CE). The objective is to ...
Thalwil (ots) - Swiss Air-Rescue (Rega) has adopted "FLARM" (Flight Alarm), a small-size aircraft anti-collision device containing GPS technology developed by u-blox AG. Rega is the largest air rescue organization in Switzerland and a corporate member of the Swiss Red Cross. It deploys over ten helicopters from many bases within Switzerland to transport medical assistance to the scene of an accident. The helicopter ...
- Indication: The picture can be downloaded on: www.presseportal.ch/fr/story.htx?firmaid=100003888 - Robert Bornträger has been named by the Telekurs Holding Ltd. Board of Directors as new CEO of Telekurs Services Ltd., effective August 1, 2005, and at the same time, has been made a Member of the Telekurs Group Executive Committee. Robert Bornträger, born in 1960, is Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Member of the extended Executive Committee of ...
THALWIL, Switzerland (ots) - u-blox AG today announced the availability of LEA-LA, the company's smallest GPS receiver module. Measuring only 17 x 22 mm, it is a 40% reduction of the TIM product family without compromising performance and functionality. The high manufacturing quality and the separate shielding of the RF and digital parts provide optimum immunity against electromagnetic interferences, high sensitivity ...
THALWIL (ots) - u-blox AG today announced that the TIM-LH GPS receiver module with ANTARIS(®) SuperSense Weak Signal Tracking technology is now available for ordering. Ideal for indoor GPS reception, TIM-LH with ANTARIS SuperSense combines superior tracking sensitivity, ultra low power consumption and high navigation performance delivered by the 16 channel ...
WISeKey to Create 500 New Jobs in Upstate New York to Make DestiNY USA the Most Secured and Visited Destination on Earth New York, US & Geneva, Switzerland (ots) - March 4, 2005, WISeKey was selected by DestiNY USA to implement its Digital Identification Backbone. In turn, WISeKey will open its first office in the U.S. and bring 500 new jobs to Upstate New York ...
orangeclick.ch - purely Internet-based mobile phone offer Lausanne (ots) - On 22nd January 2005 Orange will be the first mobile service provider to launch an offer, with orangeclick.ch, that is exclusively available on the Internet. orangeclick.ch is a "PrePay subscription", which combines the advantages of a PrePay account with those of a subscription but without ...
Singapore (ots) - With widespread adoption of the new legal framework guaranteeing Asia Pacific (APAC)-wide recognition of electronic signatures, Microsoft Corporation and WISeKey today announced an unprecedented growth in the deployment of PKI (public key infrastructure framework), a jointly developed digital ...
Zurich (ots) - Swiss Post has acquired Document Services from Telekurs Group. Following the signing of the agreement between Swiss Post and Telekurs in November the assets have been transferred per 1st December 2004. The new company, to be known as DocumentServices AG, which will be wholly owned by Swiss Post, has a workforce of around 120 and aims to position itself successfully in the document management field. ...
Thalwil (ots) - u-blox AG today announced the delivery of its millionth GPS receiver to Socket Communications, Inc., for Socket's new wireless GPS Nav Kit. The millionth GPS module, a TIM-LA, was presented personally by Nikolaos Papadopoulos, President of u-blox America, to Kevin Mills, President and CEO of Socket Communications in a commemorative celebration at Socket headquarters in Newark, California. "u-blox ...