Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Friday, February 13th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

The Directorate General of Police Operations at the Abu Dhabi Police General Headquarters honored 171 distinguished officers, non-commissioned officers, staff members, and community members who provided achievements, initiatives, and implemented proposals for the years 2011, 2012 and 2013. During the ceremony, which was recently held at the Capital Police Directorate’s auditorium, the distinguished staff members who received the Minister of Interior’s Excellence Award in its third edition in the Director General category were also honored.

The honoring ceremony was attended by Brigadier Omair Al Muhairi, Deputy Director of Police Operations and Chairman of the Employees Recognition Committee; Brigadier Maktoum Al Shareefi, Director of the Capital Police Directorate; along with directors of police stations and a number of officers.

Brigadier Al Muhairi praised the unrelentin ... Read more »

VEVEY, Switzerland - Monday, February 16th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

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FUJISAWA, Japan. - Tuesday, February 17th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) Panasonic Corporation, its partner companies and the city of Fujisawa have worked together to make Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town a reality. The city of Fujisawa in Kanagawa Prefecture is located approximately 50km west of Tokyo.

In April 2014, residents began to move in, and the town's core facility, Fujisawa SST SQUARE, which is serving as the main landmark of the town and a central communication base, opened in November. The Fujisawa SST has now moved forward from the "construction" phase to the "cultivate" phase. It has now become fully operational as an eco and smart town that holds people's lifestyles at the heart of town development. This video introduces views of families that live in this town, people who have helped build it, and reporters from overseas.

[VIDEO] Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tyoHJxBI5o (Watch o ... Read more »

Burgan Bank AS, one of Turkey’s fastest growing corporate and commercial financial institutions, joins forces with Murex to drive of its treasury and derivatives business into new areas of growth and reinforce its position in the Middle East.

PARIS. - Monday, February 16th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) Murex, the leading provider of integrated trading, risk management and processing solutions, has announced today that Burgan Bank, one of Turkey's leading corporate and commercial financial institutions, has gone live on Murex’s MX.3 front-to-back-to-risk integrated platform. In December 2012, Kuwait-based Burgan Bank Group, with operations across the Middle East and North Africa, acquired a majority shareholding in Eurobank Tekfen and renamed it Burgan Bank. The newly created bank was then confronted with the imperative to find and implement a new front, middle and back office system with enriched market risk functionality within a 24 months&rsquo ... Read more »

Luxembourg - Monday, February 16th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) - SES (NYSE Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) announced today the procurement of a new satellite jointly with the Luxembourg government.

The satellite, SES-16/GovSat, has been ordered by LuxGovSat, a new joint venture between SES and the Luxembourg government, from the satellite manufacturer Orbital ATK, Inc. (NYSE: OA). It will be positioned at 21.5 degrees East and is scheduled for launch in Q2 2017.

SES-16/GovSat is a multi-mission satellite using dedicated military frequencies (X-band and military Ka-band) to provide high-powered and fully steerable spot beams for multiple government-specific missions. The satellite will cover Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The Luxembourg government has pre-committed to a significant amount of capacity on the new satellite in support of its NATO obligations; the remaining capacity will be made available to governmental and institutional customers.

Th ... Read more »

- A system to improve customer’s repurchase rate - 

TOKYO - Tuesday, February 17th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

EuroCIS 2015

(BUSINESS WIRE) - Toshiba Tec (6588), a leading provider of technology solutions announces its system which increases repurchase rate by a personalized recommendation brochure handed to a customer at a real store. This system will be showcased at EuroCIS, the leading trade fair for retail technology held in Dusseldorf, Germany from 24-26 February, 2015.

Recently many online stores apply the system to provide recommendations to customers based on their past behaviour such as browsing and purchasing history. Toshiba Tec has developed a system to provide personalized recommendation brochures printed at stores. The Personalized recommendation brochure enhances the visibility of recommendation, and it will result in increasing repurchase rate of the customer without depending on skill and experience of store staff.

This syst ... Read more »

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Friday, February 13th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

Delegations representing a number of ministries and government authorities visited the Security Media Department’s headquarters in Abu Dhabi and praised the efforts and practices of the Ministry of Interior (MoI) in the field of government communication. The visit falls in line with the internal benchmarking workshops, designed to review the best practices adopted at the MoI, in addition to its experience in the field of government and social communication. The visiting delegations included representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Ministry of Culture, Youth, and Community Development; in addition to the Federal Demographic Structure Council; and the Emirates Identity Authority.

Colonel Saeed Al Khajah, Deputy Director Security Media Department at the General Secretariat of the Office of H.H Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior briefed the visiting delegations on the ... Read more »

LUXEMBOURG - Monday, February 16th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) - SES (NYSE Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) announced today that it has ordered its new SES-14 satellite to capture growth opportunities in dynamic markets, buoyant business segments and growing video neighborhoods across the Americas and the North Atlantic region.

The new satellite will be built by Airbus Space and Defence, is scheduled for launch in Q4 2017 and will operate at 47.5/48 degrees West, where it will replace SES’s satellite NSS-806 and add new capacity.

SES-14 is a hybrid satellite with C- and Ku-band wide beam coverage, as well as Ku- and Ka-band High Throughput Satellite (HTS) coverage across the Americas and the North Atlantic region. The satellite will fully rely on electric propulsion and will be equipped with an electric plasma propulsion system for orbit raising and in-orbit manoeuvres. The electric propulsion system delivers significant reduction in the weight of the sat ... Read more »

A cloud-based application that will make customers’ working environment convenient

TOKYO - Tuesday, February 17th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) - Toshiba Tec (6588), a leading provider of technology solutions introduces its new cloud based application e-BRIDGE CloudConnect, a valuable tool that provides the ability to remotely monitor, configure and service machines in the field. The new e-BRIDGE CloudConnect shows how Toshiba Tec is moving from the traditional to the new way of business with modern technology. It will significantly improve customers’ working environment by increasing uptime, reducing workload and optimising device management.

    Increased uptime The e-BRIDGE CloudConnect allows Toshiba multifunction printers (MFP) to connect to a cloud service and automatically communicate with the application to avoid down-time. Based on pre-defined policies, the MFP notifies e-BRIDGE CloudConnect and requests troubleshootin ... Read more »

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Thursday, February 12th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

The Abu Dhabi Police organized a workshop to discuss ways to develop mechanisms related to partners’ relationship management, as well as the exchange of opinions and suggestions to achieve development leaps in work fields.

The Diwan Department, represented by the Key Partnerships Section at the Abu Dhabi Police GHQ, recently organized the workshop, with the participation of  liaison officers and their deputies in charge of implementing the methodology, with the aim of identifying the implementation challenges, and collecting their opinions and suggestions.

Brigadier Mohammed Rashid Kasheem Al Shamesi, Head of the Diwan Department at the Abu Dhabi Police GHQ, said that the workshop personifies the vision and strategy of Abu Dhabi Police to strengthening partnership with the various institutions and achieving effective partnerships. Adding further, he noted that the valuable ... Read more »

LUXEMBOURG - Monday, February 16th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) - SES (NYSE Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) announced today that it has ordered its new SES-15 satellite to provide growth capacity in North America and capture business potential in vibrant market segments.

The new satellite is to be built by Boeing (NYSE: BA), due to be launched in Q2 2017 and will open up a new orbital location to serve North America.

SES-15 will carry a hybrid payload, with additional Ku-band wide beams and Ku- as well as Ka-band High Throughput Satellite (HTS) capability. The satellite will be equipped with an electric propulsion system for orbit raising and in-orbit manoeuvres.

Alongside the newly procured SES-14 satellite (see today's announcement), SES-15 will solidify SES’s positioning in the aeronautical mobility and government markets, providing fresh capacity and coverage over major airline routes across the continent. SES-15 will enable SES to serve i ... Read more »

ENFIELD, Conn. - Monday, February 16th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Thursday, February 12th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

The Security Media Department extends its warmest greetings and thanks for your unrelenting cooperation. We highly value your partnership aimed at boosting security and safety system in the UAE. We would like to inform you that we are shedding the light on the positive and negative behaviors that are captured by the Security Media patrols cameras. We will be providing you with a reality photo and caption of the various behaviors and incidents taking place in society and photographed by our patrols; in order to promote security awareness, and improve the sense of security and community responsibility. We hope that you would kindly dedicate the appropriate space to these photos and captions.

Enclosed photo Caption (courtesy of the Security Media):

Overloading vehicles is a very dangerous practice that may compromise the safety of the vehicles, motorists, and other road users.

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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Thursday, February 12th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

The Directorate General of Punitive and Correctional Establishments at the Ministry of Interior hosted a ceremony to celebrate winning Excellence awards in the “Best Institution in Policy Implementation” category, as a part of the Minister of Interior’s Excellence Award’s third edition. During the ceremony, which was held at the directorate’s headquarters in Abu Dhabi, recipients of the “Ideal Employee” award were also honored.

Brigadier Hamad Adeel Al Shamesi, Director General of Correctional and Punitive Establishments at the Ministry of Interior, hailed the support of the police leadership to the ongoing march of excellence achieved by the Ministry of Interior in various fields. “Excellence has become an integral part of our culture and a way of life for our staff members, in their quest to enhance levels of performance, provide excellent se ... Read more »