ViVOtech’s NFC Technology Enables du and Dubai First to Continue Roll-Out First Mobile Payment Pilot in MENA Region

Posted on November 30th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

ViVOtech provides end-to-end NFC Payment Infrastructure including Over-The-Air (OTA) provisioning, Electronic Wallet and NFC Readers at Merchant Locations
Silicon Valley-based ViVOtech, the leader in Near Field Communication (NFC) and contactless payment systems, announced that its NFC mobile payment wallet, Over-The-Air (OTA) provisioning and NFC payment readers are being successfully used by Dubai First, a Dubai Group [...]

Tags: du, dubai first, mobile payments, vivotech

Peugeot Sport Selects HyperWorks Suite to Streamline Development Processes

Posted on November 30th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

Altair’s CAE product family enables faster and more flexible design of composite structures
Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of simulation technology and engineering services that empower client innovation and decision-making, announced that Peugeot Sport, the racing department of the Peugeot brand, has chosen the HyperWorks Suite to optimize composite development processes.
“A major reason to [...]

Tags: hyperworks, peugeot, simulation technology

AT&T and LG Mobile Phones Announce the First 1 GHz Smartphone in the US

Posted on November 30th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

7.2 HSPA-capable Smartphone from AT&T and LG Mobile Phones Packs a Powerful Punch, Features Optional Mobile Projector
AT&T and LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A., Inc., announced the LG eXpo will be available online beginning December 7. Featuring the first 1 GHz processor in the United States, the LG eXpo allows business professionals to meet their demanding data [...]

Tags: at&t, lg, mobile phones, windows mobile

Review: Acer Aspire 1810TZ 11.6in CULV notebook

Posted on November 29th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

So you want a small notebook, but you’re put off by the average netbook’s puny graphics, relatively low res screen and limited-horsepower Atom processor. What do you do?
We think you could do a lot worse than Acer’s Aspire 1810TZ. Sony’s skinny and compact Vaio X is nice, but it’s not cheap. Acer’s alternative is a [...]

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Cromoz Launches Carbon Nanotechnology for Target Drug Delivery System in Cancer Treatment

Posted on November 29th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

Cromoz Inc., located in Research Triangle Park, will initiate a water-soluble carbon nanotube-based cancer drug delivery system in Hyderabad, India. The water-soluble carbon nanotubes, which have functional groups on the walls that allows for conjugation with cancer drugs, was developed in partnership with the Indian Institute of Kanpur (ITT). The conjugated carbon nanotubes serves as [...]

Tags: cancer treatment, carbon nanotubes, cromoz, nanotechnology

Wikipedia denies mass exodus of editors

Posted on November 27th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

Wikipedia has disputed claims that it has lost a huge number of editors that help maintain the online encyclopaedia.
On 26 November it was reported that ten times more editors had left Wikipedia in early 2009 than during the same period in 2008. The group overseeing the reference work said the claims on losses were not [...]

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Carta Worldwide announces the appointment of Jason Currill as UK MD and GM EMEA

Posted on November 27th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

Carta Worldwide, headquartered in Ontario Canada, announced that Mr. Jason Currill former Vice President, North American Sales will now take up a new position as UK Managing Director and GM EMEA.
Based in London, United Kingdom, Mr. Currill will consolidate and lead the continued growth Carta Worldwide is experiencing within the EMEA region.
Previous to joining Carta [...]

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Global Fashion Group Gerry Weber Chooses Avery Dennison RFID Solution to Reduce Theft

Posted on November 27th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

Gerry Weber, a leading fashion and lifestyle company with 338 HOUSES OF GERRY WEBER stores and 1,400 shop-in-shop areas throughout the world, will become the first German retail company to roll out RFID technology combining inventory management and loss prevention.
Gerry Weber will be using an Avery Dennison RFID solution in over 25 million garments a [...]

Tags: avery dennison, gerry weber, rfid

Call of Duty Franchise Surpasses $3 Billion in Retail Sales Worldwide

Posted on November 27th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

Activision Blizzard, Inc. announced that the Call of Duty franchise has surpassed $3 billion in retail sales worldwide, according to The NPD Group, Charttrack, GfK and internal Activision estimates.
Since its first release, the award-winning Call of Duty franchise has sold in excess of 55 million units worldwide. The latest title in the franchise, Infinity Ward’s [...]

Tags: activision blizzard, call of duty: modern warfare 2

imVOX Brings Cloud Hosted Free Voice Chat to Gamers

Posted on November 26th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

imVOX service connects up to 30 gamers for free; paid service allows users to connect to up to 250 gamers
Ayalogic announced the public beta availability of imVOX, a new voice communication service designed to broaden the use of voice in games. The free imVOX service allows up to 30 gamers to join a voice chat [...]

Tags: ayalogic, imvox, modern warfare 2, world of warcraft

US-based Cnanoz Unveils NanoPure to Government in India

Posted on November 26th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

Research Triangle Park-based Cnanoz Inc. unveiled the first energy-efficient, single-treatment water purification system NanoPure developed from carbon nanotubes to Andhra Pradesh, Minister of Rural Water Supply, Hon. Minister Viswarup and other leaders in Hyderabad, India today. Initial tests, performed at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, confirmed that the majority of the drinking water available [...]

Tags: carbon nanotubes, cnanoz, nanopure, nanotechnology

Shell Opens State-of-the-Art Lubricants Blending Plant in China

Posted on November 26th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

New On-Site Technology Facility to Provide R&D Support to Auto Manufacturers
Shell Lubricants announced the start-up of its newest lubricants complex in Asia to meet growing demand in China. With a production capacity of 50 million gallons a year, and the potential for a phased development to 100 million gallons a year, the complex could become [...]

Tags: china, shell lubricants

IT Managed Services Provider Fifosys Honoured at Chelsea FC in 2010 Deloitte Fast Awards

Posted on November 26th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

At an awards dinner held at Chelsea Football Club last night, London-based IT managed services provider (http://www.fifosys.com/) Fifosys http://www.fifosys.com/ was awarded membership of the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 (http://www.fifosys.com/fasttrack.php) for the EMEA region as part of a celebration attended by more than 500 people.
Mitesh Patel, managing director of IT managed services provider Fifosys said, “The [...]

Tags: chelsea football club, deloitte, emea region, fifosys

2009 Will be a Bumper Thanksgiving for Online Retailers, says report

Posted on November 26th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

Retail Decisions (ReD) predicts that 2009 will be a lucrative Thanksgiving for retailers as online retail sales could hit $51 billion over the holiday season, up 23% on last year’s $41.4 billion. ReD, a world leader in card fraud prevention, payment processing and a card issuer, screens some sixteen billion card transactions annually for fraud, [...]

Tags: online shopping, retail decisions

Google backs away from racist search results

Posted on November 26th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

Search outfit Google is sticking up adverts linked to words which could be used by racists saying that it has nothing to do with supporting that sort of thing.
People have been more than a little miffed that their nice searches on things like Judaism have been spoilt by the appearance of racist and anti-Semitic material [...]

Tags: google, offensive image of michelle obama, racist advertising

Germany does not like Google Analytics

Posted on November 26th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

Not very happy with Google at the best of times, certain German authorities want the search engine’s analytics product banned.
Google Analytics is a free software service that allows website editors and publishers to get detailed statistics about the number, whereabouts and search behaviour of their visitors.
However according to Zeit Online German officials claim that Google [...]

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Cable&Wireless Strengthens Business Presence in China

Posted on November 26th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

Strategic Partnerships and Customer-Focused Investments Drive Business Performance
Cable&Wireless Worldwide, a market leader in delivering business critical communications globally, is building its infrastructure services capabilities and strengthening its partnership agreements in China, to continue its significant growth in the region.
During the past year, the company has consolidated and expanded its partnership with China Telecom and China [...]

Tags: cable&wireless, china

Survey: IT spending to recover in 2010

Posted on November 26th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

By Dave Rosenberg
Goldman Sachs’ latest IT spending survey is out and it looks a tech-spending recovery is on the way for 2010. To a large extent, the data suggests not so much that spending is dramatically higher, but that it has normalized at pre-recessionary growth rates, rather than contracting as it has over the past [...]

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Posted on November 26th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

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Tata Communications Wins Capacity Magazine’s Best Global Wholesale Offering Award 2009

Posted on November 25th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

Leading Trade Publication Affirms the Global Service Provider’s Leadership in Developing and Delivering International Wholesale Solutions
Tata Communications, a leading provider of a new world of communications, today announced that it has received the Best Global Wholesale Offering Award from Capacity magazine. This prestigious accolade from Capacity magazine, one of the most important publications for telecommunications [...]

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