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MATTAWAN, Mich. - Tuesday, October 15th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- MPI Research, the largest single-site preclinical/early clinical contract research organization (CRO) worldwide, is pleased to announce that D. Thomas "Tom” Oakley has been appointed President and Chief Operating Officer. Tom recently joined the company as Executive Vice President of Preclinical Operations.

Oakley is an eminent senior executive with over 30 years of domestic and international strategic and operational leadership experience in major contract research organizations, industrial and consumer product businesses, and the United States Army. He most recently was President and CEO of ChanTest Corporation, a privately held global CRO that specializes in safety pharmacology and drug discovery services.

Prior to ChanTest, Oakley was the President and CEO of Bridge Laboratories, a multinational CRO with operations in the United States and China. In addition to leading a turnaround at ... Read more »
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LONDON - Wednesday, October 16th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Colorcon and Evonik have announced the signing of a cooperation agreement for the market promotion and technical support of Acryl-EZE®, aqueous acrylic enteric system.

Prior to this new cooperation agreement, the product was produced, distributed, marketed and supported solely by Colorcon to the pharmaceutical industry. This cooperation will create additional value for customers as the two organizations focus on the promotion and technical support for the high performance and cost effective enteric acrylic coating solution, Acryl-EZE® through the Evonik network and established Colorcon channels.

The Acryl-EZE® system, for the application of an enteric film coating for oral solid dosage forms, was originally co-developed by the two companies. It combines the benefits and performance of Evonik’s globally accepted enteric polymer, EUDRAGIT® L 100-55, with a fully or partially formula ... Read more »
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PCCW-HKT, leading Hong Kong mobile operator, deploys FeliCa on Octopus Mobile SIM as next generation mobile wallet, towards leadership in contactless services in smart cities

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AMSTERDAM - Monday, October 14th 2013

Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, announces it has worked with PCCW-HKT, one of Hong Kong’s major mobile network operators and Octopus Cards Limited (OCL), a leading contactless smartcard payment service provider in the world, to bring the security and convenience of mobile NFC ticketing to its subscribers, as well as a number of additional value added NFC services. Gemalto’s UpTeq™ multi tenant NFC SIM1 will enable PCCW-HKT subscribers to load the Octopus payment functions onto their mobile NFC device for payment in Hong Kong’s public transportation and retail services, as well as other purposes such as Octopus access control and loyalty applications.

With more than 23 million Oc ... Read more »
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SHENZHEN, China - Friday, October 18th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) 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, is working with governments and enterprises across 15 African countries, including Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Niger, to deploy the use of renewable solar energy.

ZTE is providing governments and business with the means to meet local power needs for households, communication systems and mobile power sources, bringing light and telecoms to thousands of homes and businesses throughout the African continent. The projects involve a variety of ZTE’s green energy products and solutions, including solar lighting systems, mobile solar power systems, solar power for telecommunications base stations and solar power for household lighting systems.

"The solar street lighting project constructed by ZTE is one ... Read more »
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SlimPort Transcends Form Factors and Operating Systems to facilitate a Single Connector for HD Audio-Video Connectivity

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Monday, October 14th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Analogix Semiconductor, Inc. today announced that the new HP Chromebook 11 ultraportable notebooks feature built-in SlimPort® interface solution, which allows users to connect with high-resolution HDTVs, monitors and projectors over a single standard mobile USB connector to give presentations or play movies and video games on the big screen, while using very little power.

The new HP Chromebook 11 is the first SlimPort-enabled device to use Google’s Chrome operating system. Previous SlimPort-enabled products, including Google’s Nexus 4 smartphones and Nexus 7 tablet computers, have used either Android™ or other operating systems. HP’s new Chromebook is also the first SlimPort-enabled product to support Samsung’s Exynos family of ARM processors.

"HP Chromeboo ... Read more »
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Monday, October 14th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AquaFold, Inc. has released Aqua Data Studio 14, a major upgrade to its universal database query and management software, allowing users to design and administer the latest class of databases, including relational, embedded, NoSQL, and even databases hosted in the cloud. NoSQL and cloud databases have grown in importance as both startups and large enterprises face the challenge of working with massive data sets.

"Aqua Data Studio is the first to market with a multi-database GUI that also supports NoSQL, Cloud and Hadoop-based databases,” says AquaFold’s CEO, Niels Gron. "Our customers see huge value in these specialized databases that provide low cost and highly scalable solutions for their business analytics.”

Adding support for NoSQL required the AquaFold development team to develop creative ways to provide a relational "SQL” frontend to databases that explicitly do not support it. The ... Read more »
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