Barcelona (ots/PRNewswire) - Orange today announced the launch of its own Orange-branded tablet. The 7" Android device available in four markets - Spain, Poland, Slovakia and Romania - is lowering the entry level for tablet computing and broadening the company's portfolio of tablet devices. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20110215/437446 ) With ...
Amsterdam (ots/PRNewswire) - The Durbin Amendment in the US is putting the card payments business model under significant pressure. With major revenue loss, especially on higher value card transactions, it will be even more difficult for the banks to provide attractive merchant fees for the huge number of low value payments - everyday small purchases below $20, ...
Barcelona (ots/PRNewswire) - Orange today announced a new 'opt-out' approach for all new smartphone consumer customers. This 'opt-out' is a safetyguard for all new smartphone consumer adopters and will be available across the Orange European footprint - by summer 2011. New customers will be given default data ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - Valeo announces the arrival of Fabienne de Brebisson as Corporate Communications Director. Jacques Aschenbroich, Group CEO, declared: "I am pleased to welcome Fabienne de Brebisson to Valeo. Her rich professional experience and her knowledge of communications within major corporations will enable her to develop an ambitious ...
Barcelona, Spain (ots/PRNewswire) - Orange is today launching two new and exclusive Orange Homescreen developments, Orange Gestures and Orange Live Wallpapers, for Android smartphones[1]. Orange Gestures provides 27 designs which users can assign to an action or application, such as speed dialling, sending a text to a specific contact or launching a weather widget ...
Barcelona, Spain (ots/PRNewswire) - As the first European operator to announce that we would deploy a new generation of SIM cards and handsets to facilitate mobile contactless services, Orange has extended its successful and long-term relationship with Samsung to deliver handsets enabled for NFC (Near ...
Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - The Company, Vez Inc. had previously announced several products, including the "Key to Knowledge" and the "Genius Switch", described as "An Automated way of thinking, learning, understanding and using knowledge." In addition, the Company had stated that Patent, Trade Mark and Copy ...
Barcelona (ots/PRNewswire) - Orange is extending the reach of its Expert Assistance programme, a paid-for service giving smartphone customers access to technical advice and guidance, beyond phone and internet hotlines to the high street. 3,000 specialist in-store Experts will provide face-to-face and personalised ...
Hatfield, England (ots/PRNewswire) - Zebinix(R) (eslicarbazepine acetate), an add-on (adjunctive) therapy for adults with partial-onset seizures, with or without secondary generalisation (where the seizure spreads to both sides of the brain), has been launched today in Spain by Eisai and BIAL in a co-promotion. In 2009, the European Commission approved Zebinix ...
Nanterre, France (ots/PRNewswire) - Oberthur Technologies, the world's second largest provider of security and identification solutions and services based on smart card technologies, announced the Grand Opening of its brand new 75,000 square foot manufacturing facility and service center in Cotia, Brazil. The new facility, already fully operational, provides ...
Nuremberg, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - Stardoll, the online fashion game and world's largest website for teen and tween girls today announced at the International Toy Fair, a multi-year licensing agreement with Mattel. The partnership is aimed at taking the Stardoll brand from the virtual into the physical world with the first product line to come in the autumn of 2011. (Photo: ...
Lyon, France (ots/PRNewswire) - Bluestar Silicones will be sharing a stand with its Italian distributor Biophil at the In-Cosmetics show at Fiera di Milano from 29 - 31 March 2011 to present its full range of silicones for use in a number of cosmetics application fields - Stand R 80. (Photo: ...
Astellas Pharma Europe Limited
Staines, England (ots/PRNewswire) - Astellas Pharma Europe Ltd. announced today that it has entered into an exclusive collaboration and license agreement with Optimer Pharmaceuticals Inc., San Diego for the development and commercialisation of fidaxomicin, an investigational antibiotic for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in Europe and certain other countries ...
Deerfield, Illinios (ots/PRNewswire) - The first assessment of the total cost of dengue illness in the Americas reveals the economic burden to be approximately $2.1 billion per year, exceeding that from other viral illnesses including human papillomavirus (HPV) and rotavirus. Results of the study conducted by Brandeis University were released in the February ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - Valeo announces that it filed a record number of patents in 2010. The Group filed 612 initial patents throughout the year, an increase of more than 20% versus the average of the past five years. This places Valeo among the top patent filers in France. CEO Jacques Aschenbroich declared: "This performance reflects Valeo's dynamic research and development policy. It is an illustration of the ...
Geneva (ots) - - - E150 Million fund to promote Climate-Friendly Economic Growth - Mercuria as Anchor Investor Mercuria will participate as anchor investor in a new Carbon Credit fund launched today by the International Finance Corporation. This new fund, of value up to E150 million, will be an instrument to purchase carbon credits to help reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, extend carbon markets, and ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - Thirteen US blockbusters will lose patent protection over the next two years, data from EvaluatePharma show, highlighting the challenges facing the pharmaceutical industry in the coming years. With the reporting season in full swing it is no wonder that several big pharmaceutical company chief executives have warned of tough times ahead. ...
Edinburgh, Scotland (ots/PRNewswire) - Aircraft Medical Ltd ("Aircraft") is pleased to announce that judgment has been passed in its favour in the long running patent infringement litigation between it and US rival Verathon Medical Inc. ("Verathon"), a subsidiary of Roper Industries Inc. Heard in the UK at the Scottish Court of Session, Verathon unsuccessfully ...
Swalmen, The Netherlands (ots/PRNewswire) - The world's most sustainable washroom was on show at the Facilities Exhibition in the Brabant Halls in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. Van Houtum, based in Swalmen, the Netherlands, used the event to present a completely equipped washroom, supplied with certified cradle-to-cradle hygienic paper, hand soap and hand foam. (Photo: ...
Tokyo (ots/PRNewswire) - HOYA Corporation today announced financial results for the third quarter ended December 31, 2010. Net sales were up 1.5% to 108,449 million yen year-on-year, and operating income rose 4.7% to 19,897 million yen. Net income was up 12.0% to 13,210 million yen, and earnings per share were 30.62 yen compared with 27.24 yen in the same period last year. During the quarter, due to the economic ...
Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - On January 25, "Vez Inc." announced the "Key to Knowledge". On January 27, they announced the "Brain Switch". Both were described as "An Automated way of thinking, learning, understanding and using knowledge." The beta release date was to be February 15, 2011. In 1998, the Late Fred Wiebe copy wrote the "HYWY 101(C)" Knowledge Map ...
Brussels (ots) - Will it be better to invest in equities or bonds in 2011? Growth prospects in emerging countries are strong and the US economy is improving gradually, so, coupled with the renewed monetary stimulus, we have a positive outlook for financial assets, especially equities. This combination should favour shareholders over debt holders in 2011. We expect a gradual economic recovery in the G7, but Pandora's ...
Toronto, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - A Canadian Company, VEZ Inc., has developed a methodology for "People to turn on" the "Human Genius Switch" to allow people to instantly train themselves to think and act like a genius, using "Infinite-Simplified-Logic". The Company also has a multi-interface technology for ...
Calgary, Alberta (ots/PRNewswire) - Resverlogix announced today that its lead drug RVX-208, a first in class ApoA-I production drug, illustrated positive effects on an important cognitive function and Alzheimer's Disease (AD) marker, plasma Amyloid beta 40 (Abeta40). This analysis was performed based on increasing evidence in the literature that the transport ...
Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - A Canadian Company, VEZ Inc., has developed a methodology to create a 3 dimensional Knowledge Map and Tool that enables a new type of "Knowledge Computing" by Humans and Machines compatible with existing digital technologies and devices. The invention is a way to, "Visualize Everything and Zoom In 3D", to access knowledge. (VEZ) By using the "Key to Knowledge" people will be able to do things better. The "Key to Knowledge" will be ...
International Society for Cellular Therapy
Vancouver (ots/PRNewswire) - In keeping with its commitment to connect industry, regulatory experts, therapeutic societies and translational centers to advance emerging cellular therapies, ISCT announces its first commercial development focus group addressing Cell Therapies for Peripheral Vascular ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - - Orange and TP to be an Official Technology Partner of UEFA EURO 2012(TM) - UEFA and Orange to Develop and Distribute the Official UEFA Mobile Application for UEFA EURO 2012(TM) - Orange Underlines its Commitment to Sport by Partnering With UEFA to Sponsor ...
Agence de Medecine Preventive (AMP)
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - The inaugural meeting of Mozambique's Committee of Experts on Immunization (Comité de Peritos para a Imunização, CoPI) was held in Maputo on January 7, 2011. The CoPI is the second National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG) in a sub-Saharan African country eligible for ...
Astellas Pharma Europe Limited
Tokyo (ots/PRNewswire) - Astellas Pharma Inc. announced today that its European subsidiary Astellas Pharma Europe Ltd.("Astellas Pharma Europe", headquarters: Stains, U.K.)" acquired the license for commercialization of the treatment for advanced prostate cancer Eligard(R) from TOLMAR Inc. ("TOLMAR", headquarters: Colorado, U.S.A.) on December 22, 2010 in a selection of Asian, Middle Eastern, North African and ...
Vancouver (ots/PRNewswire) - ICS Copper Systems Ltd. (the "Company) announces that it held its 2010 Annual General and Special Meeting of Shareholders (the "Meeting") on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at which Meeting the following individuals were re-elected directors of the Company: Graham Chisholm, Markus Janser, David A. Fynn, Lawrence G. Treadgold. Shareholders ...