MONTREAL - Thursday, May 2nd 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Silanis Technology today announced that Forrester Research Inc. has recognized Silanis as a Leader in e-signatures in the firm’s report The Forrester Wave™: E-Signatures, Q2 2013. The report states, "Silanis is the strongest vendor with both an on-premise and cloud offering.”

Silanis was among the select companies that Forrester invited to participate in the e-signatures report, which compared 10 electronic signature vendors across three categories and 18 criteria. Forrester cited Silanis with high scores in its current offering, strategy and market presence categories, with top scores (5/5) in criteria including:

    E-signature capture
    Sender configuration and customization
    Compliance with industry/country regulations and technical standards
    Authentication
    Electronic evidence
    ... Read more »

Converged CS/IMS and IMS hosting solution helps to smoothly implement VoLTE

VIENNA--(BUSINESS WIRE/ME NewsWire) -- ZTE Corporation (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, is to provide a CS/IMS converged voice network to the Telekom Austria Group. ZTE is realising this project under collaboration with KCC (Kapsch Carrier Com), a well experienced local system integrator.
Under the agreement, ZTE will deploy a mobile CS (Circuit Switched) softswitch network to replace the existing mobile core network for Telekom Austria Group in its northern operational districts, including Austria, Slovenia and Liechtenstein. At the same time, ZTE will build a new IMS (IP multimedia subsystem) network in these branches.
The converged voice solutions provided to Telekom Austria Group is based on a cloud solution helping to reduce TCO. Using an IMS hosting solution ... Read more »

HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. - Thursday, May 2nd 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE/ME NewsWire)-- General Cable Corporation (NYSE: BGC), one of the most globally diversified industrial companies, reported today results for the first quarter ended March 29, 2013. Each of the Company’s three reportable segments performed as expected to start the year led by acquisitions and solid results in North America’s base businesses. Excluding certain items, adjusted earnings per share of $0.23 and adjusted operating income of $46.2 million were within management’s range of expectations for the first quarter of 2013. For the first quarter, reported operating income was $32.0 million and reported loss per share was $0.94, which principally reflects a charge of $0.80 per share related to the currency devaluation of the Venezuelan Bolivar in the first quarter. A reconciliation of adjusted earnings per share to reported loss per share and adjusted operating income to reported operating income is includ ... Read more »

MIDDLEBURY, Conn. - Thursday, May 2nd 2013 [BUSINESS WIRE/ ME NewsWire]

-- With its purchase by SK Capital finalized today, the global leader in specialty additives unveiled a new corporate identity and announced plans for expansion, a broader product offering and increased emphasis on innovation. AddivantTM, the former Antioxidant and UV Stabilizer Solutions business of Chemtura Corporation, will operate as an independent portfolio company of SK Capital.

"With its unique pedigree resulting from the merger of three leading polymer additives companies, we believe the business is an attractive platform with significant growth and performance improvement potential,” noted Barry Siadat, a Managing Director of SK Capital and Chairman of Addivant. "The transition from a non-core business within a large public company to a stand-alone organization will enable improved execution and a renewed emphasis on growth. Management has done an excellent job of redefining the business’ str ... Read more »

SCHILLER PARK, Ill. - Wednesday, May 1st 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Breaking a sweat without your smartphone will be a thing of the past, even at the gym. Global trend reports predict sports- and health-focused mobile app downloads will reach a billion annually by 2016.* With the launch of its cloud-based LFconnect website and app, Life Fitness, the global leader in commercial fitness equipment manufacturing, provides customizable tools to fitness facilities and exercisers looking to tap into this trend.

"Tracking workouts increases motivation and makes achieving fitness goals easier,” said Dan Wille, Life Fitness vice president of global marketing and product development. "New technology allows Life Fitness treadmills, elliptical and bikes to integrate with smartphones, so users can track and share fitness results with exercise buddies or personal trainers.”

The free LFconnect app is an extension of the LFconnect website, which lets users choose preferre ... Read more »

Blinded, Independent Study Shows NATUS Technology Accurately Detected Trisomy 21, Trisomy 13, Trisomy 18, Monosomy X and Triploidy



LONDON & SAN CARLOS, Calif. - Wednesday, May 1st 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Fetal Medicine Foundation and Natera today announced the publication of data in Prenatal Diagnosis demonstrating the high accuracy of Natera’s non-invasive prenatal testing technology, which detected all cases of trisomy 21 (Down syndrome), trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome), trisomy 18 (Edwards syndrome), monosomy X (Turner’s syndrome) and triploidy using fetal cell-free DNA found in maternal blood. Natera’s non-invasive prenatal test based on this technology, marketed under the brand name PanoramaTM, was launched on March 1, 2013.

This independent and blinded study was conducted and supported by a grant from the Fetal Medicine Foundation and involved 242 samples. The results demonstrated Panorama’s specificity and sensitivity of 100 percent ... Read more »