BUSINESS WIRE / ME NewsWire - GEORGETOWN, Cayman Islands - Tuesday, October 16th 2012

Following its global expansion plans, Investors Trust Assurance SPC (“ITA”) is thrilled to announce the recent opening of its branch office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at the renowned Petronas KLCC. The Grand Opening celebration took place last Wednesday, October 10th and was a very successful event, with the presence of the company's directors and officers, local press & media, business partners and distributors.

Malaysia is a politically stable country and has a highly educated, multi-lingual and cultural workforce, which contributes to its business friendly environment. ITA is in a position to deliver a significant positive impact to the insurance market in this region, which is known to have excellent prospects, thanks to their savings mentality and considerable medium to high income. ITA can leverage its global experience into Malaysia, while continuing with its core valu ... Read more »

BusinessWire/ME-Newswire - ZTE Corporation ("ZTE”) (0763.Hong Kong /000063.Shenzhen), a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment, network solutions and mobile devices, today announced, that according to the latest market share report from Infonetics research, ZTE leads the worldwide market for major fixed broadband terminals.

According to the report 2012-Infonetics-2Q12-Broadband CPE and Subscribers Market Forecast released by the research firm Infonetics in September, ZTE had the highest share of both overall sales and shipments, at 10.3% and 15.8% respectively, among major fixed broadband terminals vendors for the past rolling 4 quarters.

The report shows that over the period from H2 2011 to H1 2012, the worldwide overall sales of fixed broadband terminals rose 11% YoY to US$7.19 billion and the overall shipments increased 12% YoY to 175 million units.

"The rapid development of the Internet has gradually spread from enterprises and individuals to h ... Read more »

New CDN service optimizes web applications and dynamic content delivery

BONN - Wednesday, October 17th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Deutsche Telekom International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS), the international wholesale arm of Deutsche Telekom AG, has announced the launch of Application Delivery Network. The new service is capable of substantially improving the performance and throughput of web applications and the provision of dynamic content.

Application Delivery Network (ADN), based on the cutting-edge CDN technology of EdgeCast, is a multi-layered, easy-to-use service that combines best practice optimizations with core technology refinements.

Through extensive testing, ADN has proven its efficiency with customized information portals, e-commerce and booking engine applications, social media services, and other online tools-all serving content that cannot be cached at the edge.

"Application Delivery Networ ... Read more »

SHENZHEN, China - Monday, October 15th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE/ME NewsWire)-- ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a publicly-listed global provider of telecommunications equipment, network solutions and mobile devices, today announced it has won China Mobile’s TD-LTE contract. According to the contract, ZTE will construct China Mobile’s TD-LTE networks in five Chinese cities, namely Beijing, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Shenyang, with more than 13,000 carrier frequencies.

In China Mobile’s earlier TD-LTE project in Hong Kong, ZTE was assigned 50% of the construction work. ZTE has become the largest LTE device supplier for all such projects initiated by China Mobile.

China Mobile launched the TD-LTE bidding in August 2012. The tender included contracts for some 20,000 base stations and 52,000 carrier sectors, and the TD-LTE devices purchased by China Mobile will be deployed in an expa ... Read more »

Compliant with FSAN/ITU Standardization Trend

AMSTERDAM - Wednesday, October 17th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

Broadband World Forum 2012

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ZTE Corporation ("ZTE”) (0763.Hong Kong /000063.Shenzhen), a leading global provider of telecommunication equipment, network solutions and mobile devices, has unveiled the world’s first time and wavelength division multiplex passive optical network (TWDM-PON) prototype at Broadband World Forum 2012 (BBWF) in Amsterdam.

ZTE also demonstrated a solution for building pay-as-you-grow, flexibly evolving, green broadband networks involving GPON, XG-PON1, NG-PON2 and WDM-PtP by TWDM technology. Meanwhile ZTE considers it will be a good idea to deploy the FTTx network with GPON and XGPON1 in the next 5 years. Overlay other wavelengths by TWDM technology will be a good choice for the higher bandwidth requirement in the future.

In April 2012, the Full Service Access Network (FSAN) Group designated TWDM-PON as the main ... Read more »

VILLEJUIF, France - Tuesday, October 16th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Worldwide Innovative Network (WIN) in personalized cancer medicine consortium proudly announces that Oracle Health Sciences has become a member of the consortium. Oracle will provide access to its data management, clinical trials, genomics and analytics expertise to help WIN advance its mission of increasing the efficacy of cancer care globally through personalized therapy and early diagnostics.

The development of personalized therapies requires new collaborations between industry, healthcare and academia. This includes the ability to access and build upon the collective knowledge and data of the entire cancer community, including clinical, genomic and patient data leveraging modern information technologies.

Oracle Health Sciences has developed a portfolio of integrated, cloud-based software applications that help advance personalized medicine by enabling new collaboration models between ... Read more »

DENVER - Tuesday, October 16th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE/ME NewsWire)-- MPEG LA today announced the appointment of Daniel Abraham as Vice President, Science and Business Strategy. In this newly created position, Mr. Abraham's responsibilities include technology and related business strategies for MPEG LA and its subsidiaries. Before MPEG LA, Mr. Abraham was Director at Columbia Technology Ventures.

"Dan’s appointment presents an exciting new opportunity for MPEG LA,” said MPEG LA President and CEO Larry Horn. "With his distinguished academic, research and business credentials, Dan blends a rare mixture of applied science, intellectual property and business experience with an exceptional knowledge of emerging technologies and relationships with the universities that spawn them.”

"Our innovation ecosystem is faced with many challenges to ensure a balance of wide access for users and incentives for inventors,” said Mr. Abraham. "It's both a pleasure and an hon ... Read more »