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Hilton Worldwide and the International Youth Foundation Issue Industry-Wide Call to Action to Help Prevent a "Lost Generation”

DAVOS-KLOSTERS, Switzerland - Tuesday, January 22nd 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- At a time when more than 75 million young people can’t find jobs, and countless more are underemployed, investing in opportunities for youth is not only a critical development issue but also a growth strategy for businesses around the world. In response to this challenge, Hilton Worldwide will announce at the World Economic Foruma commissioned white paper from the International Youth Foundation (IYF) that highlights solutions to youth joblessness that the global hospitality sector is uniquely positioned to provide. The company will also announce the launch of Bright Blue Futures, a global commitment to youth development around the world led by its flagship Hilton Hotels & Resorts brand.

The white paper, Creating Opportunities for Youth in Hospitalit ... Read more »

AGCO Supports Agricultural Mechanization in Africa

DULUTH, Ga. - Tuesday, January 22nd 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AGCO, Your Agriculture Company (NYSE: AGCO), a worldwide manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment, today held the 2nd annual AGCO Africa Summit in Berlin. The Summit is a joint initiative of AGCO, Bayer CropScience, DEG – Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH and Rabobank. "Africa’s population is set to rise to two billion by 2050,” said Martin Richenhagen, AGCO Chairman, President and CEO. "But food security in Africa is by no means where it needs to be to face this challenge. It is a global responsibility to develop agriculture in Africa to meet the growing demand for food security and better nutrition.”

The AGCO Africa Summit highlighted the needs of the African continent and discussed the challenges of today’s agriculture with regard to the world food supply problem, declining arable land base and rapid pop ... Read more »

To address "Storage Innovation and Toshiba's Strategy"

ME Newswire / Business Wire

TOKYO - Monday, January 21st 2013

Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced that Yoichiro Tanaka, Ph.D., Senior Manager of Storage Products Application Engineering Department, Storage Products Division, Semiconductor & Storage Products Company, will give a presentation at IDEMA[1] Japan January 2013 Quarterly Seminar on Friday, January 25. Dr. Tanaka will speak on "Storage Innovation and Toshiba's Strategy." The structure of the storage products market of HDDs and SSDs is rapidly changing with tablets becoming common in the client/personal market along with PCs. At the other end of the spectrum, use of high speed and large capacity storage products in cloud computing, big data, and smart community is evolving as infrastructure to support the client/personal market and the ITC society. Toshiba will continue to develop leading-edge technology and products for the drastically ... Read more »

Advice from Hilton Worldwide’s Head of Fitness

ME Newswire / Business Wire

MCLEAN, Va. - Friday, January 18th 2013

Whether you’re away for business or pleasure, don’t let traveling be an excuse to break your healthy New Year’s resolutions.Check out these tips from Jodi Sullivan, Hilton Worldwide’s senior director of global fitness, to help maintain your health wherever your travels may take you.

    Eat five to six small meals a day. Try to eat five to six small meals per day. This will keep your metabolism running all day long and prevent blood sugar spikes which lead to excess fat storage.Incorporate plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables into your meals and try to avoid high calorie, high fat food.
    Plan exercise in advance. Schedule your workout like you would a business meeting. Determine the day and time you plan to visit the gym and log it into your itinerary. Keep in mind the majority of our fitness centers offer 24 ... Read more »

Reduces power consumption by 70% of existing product

TOKYO - Friday, January 18th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) has launched a MIPI-DSI to LVDS interface-converter bridge LSI for LCD displays that is suited for use in mobile devices, such as tablet PCs and UltrabooksTM. The new lineup supports panel resolutions up to WUXGA (1920 x 1200 x 24bit @ 60fps). Samples are available now with mass production scheduled to start in March 2013.

The new interface bridge changes the power supply operating voltage of the LVDS operating system from 3.3V to 1.8V, reducing the power consumption of the LSI to 30% that of Toshiba's current product, a level that can contribute to reduced overall power consumption by products in which it is used.

Key Features

    Reduces power consumption by 70%, compared to Toshiba's current product, by using a 1.8V LVDS operating system.
    Maximum 1Gbps/lane link ... Read more »

New satellite services bring fiber speed and satellite reach at a very affordable price.

ST. JOHN, Channel Islands & PAGO PAGO, American Samoa - Friday, January 18th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The American Samoa Telecommunications Authority (ASTCA) and O3b Networkshave signed agreements for O3b Networks to provide up to 1.2Gbps of future broadband connectivity for Internet and other services for American Samoa starting in 2013.

O3b Networks is launching a Middle Earth Orbit constellation of satellites that deliver fiber speed and satellite reach for Pacific Island nations. Because O3b satellites are situated in orbit at only 8062 km over the planet, they are 4 times closer than the geosynchronous satellites that have served American Samoa in the past. This proximity dramatically reduces roundtrip delay for voice calls and web surfing. The O3b constellation will be ready for service in the third quarter of this year.

Today, the territory is ser ... Read more »

ST. JOHN, Channel Islands & LUXEMBOURG - Friday, January 18th 2013 [BUSINESS WIRE/ ME NewsWire]

O3b Networks and SES (Paris:SESG)(LuxX:SESG) announced today that Digicel has contracted capacity on SES' NSS-9 satellite and O3b's Medium Earth Orbit fleet to provide high quality internet bandwidth for their cellular network in Papua New Guinea.

Under the multi-year agreement, the fast growing mobile phone network provider will use the C-band capacity on the NSS-9 satellite at 183 degrees East and the O3bTrunk service to continue to deliver high-quality voice and high-speed mobile data services to its customers across Papua New Guinea.

"As a long-term partner of Digicel, we understand their business needs and are pleased to meet them again by collaborating with O3b Networks," said Ferdinand Kayser, Chief Commercial Officer at SES. "The contract with Digicel is a fine example of how geostationary and Medium Earth Orbit satellites complement each other to offer a uni ... Read more »

HOUSTON - Friday, January 18th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Board of Directors of Schlumberger Limited (NYSE:SLB) today approved a 13.6% increase of the quarterly dividend. The increased dividend of $0.3125 per share of outstanding common stock is payable on April 12, 2013 to stockholders of record at the close of business on February 20, 2013.

About Schlumberger

Schlumberger is the world’s leading supplier of technology, integrated project management and information solutions to customers working in the oil and gas industry worldwide. Employing more than 118,000 people representing over 140 nationalities and working in approximately 85 countries, Schlumberger provides the industry’s widest range of products and services from exploration through production.

Schlumberger Limited has principal offices in Paris, Houston and The Hague and reported revenues of $36.96 billion in 2011. For more information, visit www.slb.com.

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ATLANTA - Thursday, January 17th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- SIPCO, LLC is pleased to announce that SmartLabs, Inc., a leader in automation and control technology, has become a proud member of the Essential Wireless MeshTMPatent Portfolio by taking a license to SIPCO’s patents, including U.S. Patent Numbers 7,103,511; 6,437,692; and 7,697,492.

About SIPCO, LLC

SIPCO is a leading innovator of mesh networking and related technology based in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded by renowned inventor T. David Petite, SIPCO developed technologies enabling robust self-organizing wireless networking and related technologies known as Wireless Mesh in conjunction with IntusIQ. Wireless Mesh is used in protocols such as ZigBee, Z-Wave, IEEE 802.15.4, WirelessHART and proprietary mesh network and in other wireless applications such as SmartGrid, building automation, industrial controls, network backhaul, smart vehicles, home appliances, home automation and entertainment, sensor ... Read more »

Phase III HCVerso™ trial design focuses on genotype-1b patients following positive Phase IIb data in this population


INGELHEIM, Germany - Thursday, January 17th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

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Today, Boehringer Ingelheim announced that the first patients have been enrolled in the company’s pivotal Phase III interferon (IFN)-free hepatitis C (HCV) clinical trial programme, HCVerso™. Boehringer Ingelheim’s IFN-free investigational polymodal* regimen combines faldaprevir (BI 201335)+, a next wave once-daily protease inhibitor, and BI 207127+, a non-nucleoside polymerase inhibitor, plus ribavirin.

The HCVerso™ clinical trial programme includes two Phase III IFN-free clinical trials that will treat approximately 1,000 treatment-naïve HCV genotype-1b (GT-1b) patients.1,2The decision to focus the Phase III trials on this patient group follows positive Phase IIb trial data from the SOUND-C studies, where B ... Read more »