SYDNEY--23 Mar--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
AUSTRALIA-INDIA RELATIONS...
MELBOURNE - The Inaugural Dr Martand Joshi Memorial Lecture will be held in
Melbourne on the evening of Wednesday April 14 to honour a champion of cultural
relations between Australia and India.
TANDBERG EX90...
TOKYO - Today, TANDBERG launched the EX90, a revolutionary personal
telepresence solution that extends the award-winning TANDBERG Telepresence
in-person experience to individuals at their desks or home offices. The EX90
integrates the superior audio and visual quality and signature touch screen
interface of TANDBERG Telepresence into a sleek desktop solution that will
change the way executives and experts communicate and collaborate.
www.tandberg.com
Ocean Blue Demonstrates Turnkey HbbTV Solution at CCBN2010
BEIJING - Digital TV software specialist Ocean Blue Software is
demonstrating its full turnkey Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV - compatible
software solution at China Content Broadcasting Network Expo, the world's
leading Digital TV and broadband network industries event, from 23-25 March at
the China International Exhibition Center in Beijing, China.
www.oceanbluesoftware.com
BECEEM CHIP...
LAS VEGAS - CTIA -- Beceem Communications, the leading provider of 4G
chips, announced today the availability of its BCSx350 chip, the company's
sixth-generation WiMAX chip. The BCSx350 includes a patented "Twin-Turbo" dual
transmit uplink technology that provides up to 6dB of performance gain compared
to traditional Wave 2 uplink technology, and represents the most advanced
4G-WiMAX platform ever designed.
www.beceem.com
DIGITAL MARKETING...
LONDON - The rapid replacement of classified ads and traditional media by
Facebook, Twitter, blogs and video sharing sites has created a severe shortage
of talented professionals who can think innovatively and capitalize on the
marketing opportunities presented by digital channels. To fill this large and
growing vacuum, Hult International Business School has created a Master of
Digital Marketing Program that covers all aspects of digital marketing
including best practice methodologies for Search Engine Optimization (SEO), how
to acquire and retain customers, how to harness web 2.0 capabilities and how to
plan and execute digital publishing strategies.
www.hult.edu
ASSISTANCE SOFTWARE...
NAARDEN - Assistance Software, a leading vendor of solutions for the
professional services industry, announced today that it has released Assistance
PSO that works with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Intended for the modern knowledge
worker, this complete system streamlines the front office business processes,
connects the various divisions of an organization and integrates all relevant
information - from CRM to project management.
www.assistancesoftware.com
TELAIRITY ENCODERS...
BEIJING - Telairity, a global leader in encoding technology, announced
today that the China Meteorological Administration, the national weather bureau
of the People's Republic of China, will use Telairity's BE8500 encoders
throughout its country-wide system.
TELAIRITY CONSORTIUM...
BEIJING - Telairity, a global leader in encoding technology, announced
today it has executed agreements forming a consortium in The People's Republic
of China to design, manufacture and sell systems throughout the country based
on China's AVS encoding standard.
BRITISH PHILANTHROPY...
LONDON - Generous philanthropists today have a new community to help
"unleash philanthropy", and their efforts are being backed by the Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown.
http://ambassadorforphilanthropy.com
NETWORK COSTS...
CHICAGO - Novarra, the Internet Mobility company, today released findings
demonstrating how the tsunami of mobile web, video and app usage from data
hungry smartphone and netbook subscribers impacts underlying network costs and
capacity.
www.novarra.com
TRAYPORT EXCHANGE...
LONDON - Trayport Exchange Systems and 3i Infotech today announced they
have agreed to terms with the Jakarta Futures Exchange in Indonesia for the
deployment of a new trading, surveillance and risk management system with an
integrated online broker workstation.
ODYSSEY LOGISTICS...
DANBURY, Connecticut - Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corporation,
announced today that it has entered into a five-year logistics management
outsourcing agreement with Momentive Performance Materials Inc., a global
leader in silicones and advanced materials.
www.momentive.com
www.odysseylogistics.com .
IPC SYSTEMS...
JERSEY CITY, New Jersey - IPC Systems, Inc., a leading provider of
indispensable trading communications solutions to the world's top financial
services firms and global enterprises, today announced the launch of its new
One Management System, a secure web-based tool, for managing system information
and providing increased visibility into a user's accounts.
www.ipc.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTN, MTNR
and FINP securities issues on April 1, 2010 at a redemption price equal to 100
per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
SAILPOINT RELEASES NEXT GENERATION PROVISIONING SOLUTION
AUSTIN, Texas - Global 500 companies have invested millions of dollars on
IT provisioning implementations, yet most still cannot provide prompt access to
resources for new employees, immediate removal of access for terminated
workers, or rapid processing for all the changes as employees move around the
organization. To address that problem, SailPoint has added end-to-end
provisioning capabilities to its award-winning identity governance solution,
SailPoint IdentityIQ, and can now automate the entire user access request and
fulfillment process.
www.sailpoint.com
WATER PRIZE...
STOCKHOLM - Dr. Rita Colwell, distinguished Professor from the University
of Maryland and John Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health in
the United States, has been named the 2010 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate. Dr.
Colwell's pioneering research on the prevention of waterborne infectious
diseases has helped protect the health and lives of millions.
www.siwi.org/SWP2010
I'M HERE...
STOCKHOLM - Today, Spike Jonze's highly anticipated short film, I'm Here,
is globally released on http:/www.imheremovie.com. This 30-minute robot love
story was premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and thereafter
screened at the Berlinale.
www.imheremovie.com
ISC2 NOMINATIONS...
HONG KONG - ISC2 today announced the opening of nominations for its fourth
annual Asia-Pacific Information Security Leadership Achievements Program. In an
effort to bolster public awareness of information security throughout the
region, the 2010 ISLA will recognize an honorees project which has
significantly contributed to building or broadening security awareness within
ones own community or beyond within the last 12 months.
www.isc2.org
www.informationsecurityasia.com
BECEEM COMMUNICATIONS..
NEW DELHI - CONVERGENCE INDIA -- Beceem Communications, a leading provider
of semiconductor solutions for 4G-WiMAX, and ICOMM Tele, a leading Indian
Telecommunications Equipment Maker, announced that the recent launch of BSNL's
WiMAX service in Kerala is using devices made by ICOMM that are based on
Beceem's high-performance BCS5200 and BCSM250 chipsets.
www.beceem.com
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