Festival To Be Held Alongside Mobile World Congress Shanghai, Expected to Attract 30,000-50,000 Consumer Attendees to SNIEC

LONDON. - Wednesday, May 6th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2015

(BUSINESS WIRE) The GSMA today announced a partnership with the Shanghai International Information Consumption Festival in bringing mobile and ICT-focused exhibitions, events and activities to Shanghai. The GSMA Mobile World Congress Shanghai will be held 15-17 July, alongside the Shanghai International Information Consumption Festival at the Shanghai New International Expo Center (SNIEC) and attendees will have access to a range of experiences across both shows. The Shanghai International Information Consumption Festival will also feature additional events, seminars and other activities held across the city during the week of 13 July.

“We are excited to form this collaboration with the Shanghai Government and the Ministry of Industry and In ... Read more »

AMSTERDAM. - Tuesday, May 5th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Regulatory News:

Pershing Square Holdings, Ltd. (ticker: PSH:NA) today released the following regular monthly Net Asset Value (NAV) and Performance Report for the month of April 2015. The information has also been posted to the PSH website, www.pershingsquareholdings.com. Monthly net asset value and performance are calculated at the close of business on the last business day of the month.

PSH will host its quarterly investor conference call on 18 May 2015 at 15:00 GMT. During the call, Bill Ackman and the other members of the Pershing Square investment team will address questions e-mailed by investors to ir@persq.com.

An audio webcast of the conference call will be available to the public on PSH's website at www.pershingsquareholdings.com. The conference call will also be available by phone. The dial-in details will be available at www.pershingsquareholdings.com.

Following ... Read more »

MARINA BAY SANDS, Singapore. - Tuesday, May 5th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Securiport, a global leader in the design and implementation of passenger biometric recognition, immigration processing, and intelligent management and reporting software systems, has announced innovative solutions as an INTERPOL World Strategic Partner at the inaugural INTERPOL World 2015 biennial conference. INTERPOL World is a new biennial international security event, which brings government leaders together with international organizations and researchers to discuss strategies to develop safer and more secure cities and nations. INTERPOL World 2015 aimed to create a public-private partnership to identify, develop and drive security initiatives across Cyber security, Border Management, Safe Cities, and Supply Chain Security.

Securiport’s Chief Operating Officer, Dr. Attila Freska, represented Securiport in the INTERPOL World Congress panel discussion and presented a Global ... Read more »

EMC’s first global partner to deploy ViPR as part of its own worldwide service delivery capability

LAS VEGAS - Tuesday, May 5th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Dimension Data today announced that it would use EMC® ViPR® and ViPR SRM in the delivery of its own Managed Service for Storage, enabling intelligent storage management for clients globally.

The company has made ongoing investments in its managed services automation platform to automate service assurance, fulfillment, services catalogue and a self-service portal. The addition of EMC’s ViPR products enables 24/7 access to the tools and services required for effective and proactive storage provisioning, orchestration, management and reporting across multiple vendors’ storage technologies.

Steve Joubert, Group Executive, Data Centres at Dimension Data said, “Storage unit costs are declining, but costs rise as much as 35% due to growing application utilisation, ... Read more »

MANILA, The Philippines and MCLEAN, Va. - Tuesday, May 5th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) Hilton HHonors, the loyalty program for Hilton Worldwide’s 12 distinct hotel brands, today announced a new partnership with Philippine Airlines, the national carrier of the Philippines. Through this partnership, members of both Mabuhay Miles loyalty program and Hilton HHonors can earn Mabuhay Miles and HHonors Points when they stay at any of the more than 4,350 hotels and timeshare properties within the Hilton Portfolio around the globe.

“Travelers out of the Philippines are one of the fastest growing spenders among emerging markets, their outbound expenditure grew 18 per cent in 2013, making them the second highest in the list of top travel spenders1," said Mark Weinstein, vice president, Commercial Services Strategy, Loyalty Programs & Partnerships, Hilton Worldwide. "Through this partnership, we are offering new ways to reward more Hilton HHonors ... Read more »

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Saturday, May 2nd 2015 [ME NewsWire]

TECOM Investments, a member of Dubai Holding and operator of Dubai’s leading industry-focused business communities, has announced 2014 as a record year for growth.

Over the year, TECOM Investments welcomed more than 800 new business partners and enabled 380 expansions across its 11 business communities. The positive performance brings the total number of businesses operating to more than 4,650, supporting a workforce of 74,000 across its six industry sectors of ICT, Media, Education, Science, Industry, and Design, Fashion, Art & Luxury.

Customer loyalty remains high with TECOM reporting high retention rates of 95 per cent across its business communities. Over 30 per cent of its business partners have been located within TECOM’s communities for a decade or more, and occupancy across Dubai Internet City (DIC), Dubai Media City (DMC) and Dubai Knowledge Village (DKV) remains high ... Read more »

TOKYO - Tuesday, May 5th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Toshiba Tec (TOKYO:6588), a leading provider of technology solutions announces it joined the MopriaTM Alliance, a non-profit membership organization that promotes wireless printing from smart phone, tablets and other mobile devices in September 2014, and now several Toshiba MFPs have received Mopria-certification. The aim of Mopria Alliance is to bring together the mobile, software and print industries with the goal of aligning to a standard that ensures universal printing compatibility from any mobile device to any printer anywhere.

The number of mobile users is expanding exponentially and the opportunity to print from those mobile devices is similarly increasing. While this trend is convenient for users, it entails more complexity as there are various mobile print applications and services. Toshiba Tec supports users by providing suitable products to facilitate easy and simple mobile printing environmen ... Read more »

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Sunday, May 3rd 2015 [ME NewsWire]

In a recently held meeting, the newly established General Directorate of the Community Protection and Crime Prevention at the General Secretariat of the Office of H.H Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior discussed its organizational structure and vision in regards to future developmental roles and to enhancing security processes. The meeting was chaired by Colonel Mubarak Awadh Bin Muhairom, the Director General of the Directorate – of which was established following the strategic directions of the Ministry of Interior succeeding the Ministerial Decree No. 149 of 2015.

During the meeting, the concerned department heads reviewed the tasks and achievements of the Directorate during the past period. The participants additionally discussed the Directorate’s current and future visions in order to achieve the objectives of the General Directorate of the Community Protection and Crime ... Read more »

 Newly Designed App Optimized to Work Across Mobile, Tablet and PC

LONDON - Wednesday, May 6th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Viber (www.viber.com), the pioneering mobile communications platform offering free messaging, HD-quality phone and video calls, unveiled a new version of its app today at Microsoft Build in San Francisco. Viber’s new design is fully optimized for Windows 10’s responsive OS, creating a well-integrated product that blends seamlessly into the user experience of Windows 10.

During the keynote presentation, a demonstration showed how Cortana voice commands could be used to send Viber messages and to start chatting with contacts quickly. Attendees will also be shown deep integration of Viber contact card data within the platform, allowing users to send messages and make voice and video calls via Viber more easily.

The app will work smoothly across PC, tablet and mobile, resizing and adapting the on-screen conte ... Read more »

ORLANDO, Fla. - Tuesday, May 5th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

Lack of Strong Business Case, Unclear ROI, Unproven Platform, Early Stage Product Cited as Top Reasons; Only Three Percent of Respondents Using Any HANA In Their Environments Today

(BUSINESS WIRE) SAPPHIRE NOW 2015 Conference – Rimini Street, Inc., the leading independent provider of enterprise software support for SAP AG’s (NYSE:SAP) Business Suite and BusinessObjects software and Oracle Corporation’s (NYSE:ORCL) Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, Oracle Database, Oracle Middleware, Hyperion and Oracle Retail software, today revealed the key findings from a recent global survey conducted by Rimini Street to help SAP licensees benefit from peer insights on how other companies are responding to the many questions and challenges surrounding SAP’s newly announced S/4HANA product with mandatory re-platforming to HANA. As detailed in the full survey report, these key findings and re ... Read more »

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Sunday, May 3rd 2015 [ME NewsWire]

Last Thursday, the participants of the Ministry of Interior’s council held under the slogan “The Impact of Drugs on Youth” recommended the need to strengthen the role of media in raising awareness about the dangers of drugs. Participants highlighted the prevalent role of social media and how it attracts the highest percentage of public from all ages and social segments. The council comes as a part of the awareness councils organized by the Law Respect Culture Bureau at the MoI. Citizen Obaid Mohamed Al Kaabi hosted the council in his home in Al Ain and media figure Rashid Al Nuaimi from Al Khaleej Newspaper moderated the event.

The participants called to promote the efforts of all the governmental bodies in the UAE to raise the awareness of the youth about the dangers of drugs and of the negative toll it takes on individuals and the society. They also hailed the leading role of the ... Read more »