INGELHEIM, Germany - Wednesday, October 31st 2012 [ME NewsWire]

Presentation of RELY-ABLE® study results: First and only long-term efficacy & safety data on a novel oral anticoagulant for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation (AF) to be announced in the Clinical Science: Special Reports session
New sub-analyses from the 18,000 patient landmark trial RE-LY® also discussed
Real-world clinical data for VTE prevention in total knee or hip replacement to be presented

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Widely anticipated results from RELY-ABLE®, the first long-term follow-up study of a novel oral anticoagulant treatment for stroke prevention in AF, will be among the numerous clinical reports on Pradaxa® (dabigatran etexilate) to be presented at the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Scientific Sessions in Los Angeles from 3-7 November.1 The wealth of evidence being presented for Pradaxa® at this year’s AHA sh ... Read more »

SUGAR LAND, Texas - Wednesday, October 31st 2012

RT System 2 – Provides fully cable-less solutions for traditional seismic operations and for hydraulic fracture monitoring applications

(BUSINESS WIRE/ME NewsWire)-- Wireless Seismic, Inc. today announced the addition of a 4-channel wireless remote unit (4C WRU) to its market-leading RT System 2real-time wireless seismic data acquisition system.

The 4C WRU operates without cables and with ultra-low power consumption, in the same manner as Wireless Seismic’s 1-channel WRU. An extension to the company’s proprietary 2.4 GHz radio technology has been developed that will operate at inter-node distances of a kilometer or more. With this added capability, a large areal array of instruments will be able to deliver the continuous flow of passive seismic data to a central recording system in real time.

“This new 4C WRU, when combined with our proprietary wireless technology, delivers a multi-chan ... Read more »

Deploys complete NFC solution for nationwide rollout in Poland

AMSTERDAM - Wednesday, October 31st 2012

(BUSINESS WIRE/ ME Newswire)- Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, announces that T-Mobile has selected its LinqUs Trusted Service Manager (TSM)platform for the group-wide rollout of NFC services. Gemalto’s TSM platform will enable the secure installation and management of T-Mobile’s NFC services across major European markets. This group-wide deployment will be implemented firstly in Poland.

Gemalto provided PTC, T-Mobile’s network operator in Poland, with a complete NFC solution encompassing the TSM platform and the mobile wallet software, as well as the UpTeq NFC high-end card for mass deployment of SIM-based mobile contactless services. PTC will start the nationwide SIM upgrade to the new UpTeq NFC card by year-end to ensure NFC-readiness for the deployment of a broad range of innovative services to its 1 ... Read more »

BUSINESS WIRE / ME NewsWire SAN FRANCISCO - Tuesday, October 30th 2012

“Past practice” royalties waived for companies taking advantage of a license in Via’s LTE standard essential patent licensing program by April 12, 2013

Via Licensing Corporation today announced an “early-adopter” incentive for initial signing licensees of its LTE (Long-Term Evolution) patent pool announced earlier this month. Any entity that executes the LTE patent license with Via by April 12, 2013, will benefit from a waiver of license fees (and interest) that would have been due for products sold prior to October 15, 2012, implementing the LTE standard.

“Our early-adopter incentive provides great value to licensees that have already been delivering LTE products to the market,” said John Ehler, Director of Wireless Programs, Via Licensing. “This limited-time incentive offers a significant cost savings for companies that need access to the broad coverage of LTE essential paten ... Read more »

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LONDON - Tuesday, October 30th 2012

Ernst & Young supports the recommendations in the report released yesterday by the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) private sector Enhanced Disclosure Task Force (EDTF) initiative. The EDTF was convened in May 2012 with the objectives of developing principles for enhanced disclosures for banks, based on current market conditions and risks, and identifying leading practice risk disclosures among banks.

The EDTF was unique in its approach by bringing together interested constituents in the process - preparers, investors, rating agencies and auditors - to work toward solutions to enhance disclosures that benefit the investing public.

Ernst & Young encourages all affected stakeholders to carefully consider and work to implement the recommendations of the EDTF. We believe these recommendations are an important step to improving confidence in global systemic financial institut ... Read more »