NEW YORK - Wednesday, June 5th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE/ME NewsWire)-- Regus, the world’s largest provider of flexible workspaces, today introduces New York to a new way to work with the official opening of its flagship business lounge at 747 Third Avenue in Midtown and a second street-level lounge in the heart of Chelsea at 275 7th Avenue. These latest investments are part of the company’s global initiative to provide mobile workers with high quality, business focused locations where they can drop-in for either a few minutes or a few hours and stay productive while on the go.

"Research is forecasting that mobile workers will make up 40 percent of the global workforce by 2015. Relying on smartphones, tablets and laptops, these 1.3 billion workers are free to work anywhere but are often unable to find a professional place to conduct business,” said Mark Dixon, CEO, Regus plc.

To meet the needs of these remote workers, Regus has set out to offer its business ... Read more »

Achieves low power consumption and low voltage drive suited for battery operation

TOKYO - Wednesday, June 5th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced that it has launched an RF-IC[1] for the fast-growing China ETC[2] market. Samples are available now with mass production scheduled to start from November 2013.

ETC sets in China usually operate on battery power and requiring ICs that offer low power consumption and low voltage operation. Toward meet this demand, the new RF-IC, TC32168FTG, contains a wake-up function that starts the microcontroller only when it receives radio signals from ETC toll booths, lowering power consumption. It also achieves low voltage operation, a fast boot sequence and dual channel reception.

In order to reduce traffic congestion, China will start multi-lane free flow (MLFF) service, which allows drivers to pass through toll gates at higher speeds than conventional ETC systems, by the en ... Read more »

AMSTERDAM - Wednesday, June 5th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Regulatory News:

Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO, the world leader in digital security, will supply the Government Printing Works (GPW) of South Africa with Sealys eID cards for their national identity program. GPW will harness Gemalto’s secure embedded software to protect the holder’s image and biometric data within the secure identity e-document, delivering outstanding levels of integrity and privacy. Moreover, GPW selected the high-end Sealys document fitted with the contactless feature, ensuring added levels of convenience with unrivaled security for citizens.

Designed to modernize and replace South Africa’s traditional, paper-based ‘green book’ identity documentation, the new Sealys eID card will be offered by the Department for Home Affairs (DHA) to citizens aged 16 and over. The South African government embarked on this service program to improve confidence in official identity credentia ... Read more »

The long awaited arrival of stylish and functional smartphones Grand S and Grand Memo to the Russian market has finally happened

MOSCOW - Thursday, June 6th 2013 [BUSINESS WIRE/ ME NewsWire]

ZTE today officially launched its new Grand Series Smartphones – the ZTE Grand S and ZTE Grand Memo – in Russia; the first country outside of China to sell the flagship smartphones.

Combining attractive design with high efficiency – the flagship phones feature powerful Quad-Core processors running at 1.5 GHz as well as a 13-megapixel camera capable of capturing HD video.

In addition to the Grand S and Grand Memo, two more smartphones were introduced: the ZTE Grand X Quad, designed for a younger audience, and the Dual-SIM card smartphone ZTE V880H – a helpful device for those looking to juggle professional and personal calls.

The new smartphones have already gained positive attention at mobile conferences around the world. For instance, both the Grand S and Grand ... Read more »