PRAGUE - Thursday, October 20th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Acrobits announces all its retail and corporate products are now integrated with iOS10’s outstanding new CallKit API. Acrobits Softphone, Groundwire and Cloud Softphone users can now make and receive VoIP calls as effortlessly as if they were using the native Phone application.

Acrobits is first out of the gate again, integrating the game-changing CallKit API for iOS10 users. After being the first one to allow 3G calls and developing their industry leading supporting for push notification for incoming events, Acrobits is now proud to announce to all its retail and corporate users that from September 20th they can reap the full benefits of the CallKit API from Apple.

Apple new CallKit API is a true game changer for the Mobile VoiP industry as it gives Mobile Voip users not only a calling experience similar to the native one, but also allows them to choose whichever service they would li ... Read more »

GSMA Report Proposes New Thinking on How Competition Policy Applies to the Digital Economy

BRUSSELS - Thursday, October 20th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The GSMA today launched the report “Resetting Competition Policy Frameworks for the Digital Ecosystem”. The global study, prepared for the GSMA by Competition Economists Group, provides a detailed analysis of the current principles and processes that govern today’s digital markets, and argues that policy makers should review and update their competition and regulatory frameworks to create an environment that will facilitate long-term, sustainable competition and encourage innovation.

“The global economy is undergoing a major transformation, and the rapid take-up of technologies including mobile communications, digital platforms, big data, cloud computing and social media are changing the nature of the products and services, and the ways people interact,” said Mats Granry ... Read more »

Learn about the benefits of using the latest innovations in fluid positioning and dispensing technology for applications specific to small, sophisticated devices.

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Thursday, October 20th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Nordson EFD, a Nordson company (NASDAQ: NDSN), the world’s leading precision fluid dispensing systems manufacturer, has just released a new guide, “Nordson EFD Solutions: Fluid Positioning & Precision Dispensing in Mobile Device and Wearables Manufacturing.” It features the innovative dispensing solutions available to help manufacturers meet growing consumer demand for thinner, lighter, and more sophisticated, yet durable electronic devices at lower costs.

The guide covers a number of applications common to the industry, including:

    Display applications such as bonding cover glass to LCDs and OLEDs
    Optical bonding and seal bonding with anisotrop ... Read more »

Representatives from du and ITWORX sign an MOU to deliver the intranet of tomorrow, today to improve employee engagement during GITEX Technology Week

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Thursday, October 20th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

Pioneering the new age of internal communications, du signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with ITWORX to launch du Business Hub and bring the intranet of tomorrow, to UAE enterprises today. The MoU was signed by Hany Fahmy Aly, Executive Vice President Enterprise Business, du, and Hefez Hamdy, CEO, ITWORX, during GITEX Technology Week 2016, the premier event in the field of information and communication technology in the region.

Powered by ITWORX HUB, the Office 365 intranet as a Service, du Business Hub is intuitive and modern, personalised and mobile to address the needs of employees who are accustomed to new integrated communication. In fact, du Business Hub encourages a community feel; it is intuitive and melds with employee day-t ... Read more »

 World-renowned architect and Tokyo Olympics 2020 designer Kengo Kuma to lead design of immersive coffee and retail experience 

TOKYO - Thursday, October 20th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

New location in Tokyo’s upscale Nakameguro District will be Starbucks fourth Roastery, globally

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Starbucks Coffee Company (NASDAQ: SBUX) today announced it will open a Starbucks Reserve Roastery, Japan, in 2018. Located in the Nakameguro district, an upscale neighborhood known for its exclusive boutiques and art galleries, the Roastery will be a one-of-a-kind retail environment. Designed in collaboration with Kengo Kuma, a world-renowned architect and founder of Kuma Lab at the University of Tokyo, this new location will give customers an immersive coffee environment unlike any other in the market.

Starbucks debut of its first Roastery in Seattle in 2014 was the most successful store opening in the company’s history and since then the com ... Read more »