ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Wednesday, August 12th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

Brigadier Eng. Hussein Ahmed Al Harithi, Director General of Central Operations at Abu Dhabi Police General Headquarters (GHQ), recently decorated a number of officers with their new ranks as per the Ministerial Decree No. 396 of 2015.  

Brigadier Al Harithi congratulated the newly promoted officers stressing that this honor of promotion serves as a tribute to the dedicated and unwavering efforts they have made in carrying out their duties in accordance with best practices and standards. Moreover, he urged the officers to remain worthy of trust by maintaining loyalty to the beloved country.  

Adding further, the Director General of Central Operations encouraged the promoted officers to continue to endeavor towards professional excellence and to achieve overall quality. He also called upon them to work together as one team and with high professionalism in order to achieve the ... Read more »

SAN FRANCISCO. - Tuesday, August 11th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Andersen Global is proud to announce a new presence in São Paulo and Campinas, Brazil with the addition of INOVV Consultores Associados. After joining the Andersen Family, INOVV will be known as Andersen Tax in Brazil. INOVV is the third member firm to adopt the name and the first to join Andersen Global in South America.

“I am confident that INOVV will be a great addition to Andersen Global,” shared Mark Vorsatz, CEO of Andersen Tax. “Their specialization in corporate international taxation will perfectly complement our international business development efforts and support our model of best in class service. Brazil is an important market and will have increasing global importance.”

Joining Andersen Global will be a total of 10 highly skilled professionals including partners Bernardo Oliveira and Leonardo Mesquita. Before starting INOVV, both Oliveira and Mesqu ... Read more »

Nextreme-3 enables scalable, high bandwidth, cabled connectivity with SATA-Express using PCIe Gen3.1

SANTA CLARA, Calif - Wednesday, August 12th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- eASIC® Corporation, a fabless semiconductor company that delivers a custom integrated circuit (IC) platform (eASIC Platform) today announced immediate availability of silicon-proven transceivers optimized for the PCIe 3.1 electrical specification.

The eASIC Nextreme-3 family incorporates transceivers that feature advanced receiver clock-data recovery (CDR) circuits, enabling them to operate with separate reference clocks between link ends with independent spread-spectrum modulation, in keeping with the SRIS (separate refClks independent spread) usage model. Coupled with advanced equalization capabilities and low power consumption, the transceivers are ideal for use in a wide variety of high performance storage and networking systems.

eASIC support for SRIS allows data ... Read more »

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Tuesday, August 11th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

Grandweld Shipyards has signed 4 new contracts to design, build and deliver four 42m Crew Boats for Global Marine.

The contract was signed in July 2015 between Mr.Jamal Abki, Grandweld General Manager, and Mr.Shahram Nazemi, Global Marine Managing Director.

The vessel features a crew seating capacity of 69 persons, 104 sqm loading area for over 85 Tons of deck cargo, and achieves a speed in excess of 25 knots. The vessel will be additionally equipped with high end Navigational equipment according to the customer requirements.

Grandweld is pleased to receive repeat orders from Global Marine for these classes of vessels.

About Grandweld Shipyards:

Grandweld is a fully integrated shipyard providing ship building, ship repair, and engineering solutions to serve the offshore and marine industry around the world. Established in 1984, Grandweld has developed as one of the r ... Read more »

RICHMOND, Va - Tuesday, August 11th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

    Afton Chemical achieved RC14001® and ISO 14001 certification from BSI
    Certification recognizes Afton Chemical’s readiness to improve company performance in key areas: community awareness and emergency response; security; distribution; employee health and safety; resource management; and process and product safety

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Afton Chemical Corporation, a global leader in petroleum additives, has earned RC14001 and ISO 14001 certification for all US operations from British Standards Institute (BSI).

Responsible Care® was created to enable leading chemical companies to achieve even higher standards of performance and generate greater value for their businesses. Afton Chemical, as a member of the American Chemistry Council and founding member of the Responsible Care initiative, made a commitment to achieve RC14001 certification.

”W ... Read more »

BBC paper reports theoretical and practical investigations

LONDON - Tuesday, August 11th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- The IBC2015 Conference Prize is to be awarded to Andrew Cotton and Tim Borer of BBC Research & Development for their paper 'A display independent high dynamic range television system’. The paper will be given in the IBC Conference in a session starting at 14:00 on Friday 11 September.

Drawn from the technical papers section, the IBC Conference Prize is awarded by the team of peer reviewers to the contribution which both advances the industry’s knowledge and does so in the most clear and informative way. The BBC paper looks at how high dynamic range (HDR) video can be delivered and displayed while remaining compatible with conventional systems.

“This year’s winner describes a novel solution that could fundamentally influence how we perceive tomorrow’s ultra-high definition video,” sai ... Read more »