African airspace now protected by comprehensive lightning and weather detection network

GERMANTOWN, Md. -Tuesday 26 March 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Earth Networks today announced it has completed a new aviation early weather warning system for The Agency for the Safety of Air Navigation in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA). The announcement was made at the 6th annual InterMET Asia conference in Singapore.

Designed for air traffic management and airport operations professionals to issue alerts on severe weather and lightning threats that have the potential to affect air and land operations including ground crews, fueling, and aircraft, the newly operational global aviation early warning system includes:

Real-time lightning detection powered by the Earth Networks Total Lightning Network, featuring over 1,700 sensors in more than 100 countries
On-the-ground weather monitoring via the Earth Networks Weather Network
Sferic Maps, a web- ... Read more »

NEW YORK -Saturday 30 March 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- BCW (Burson Cohn & Wolfe), a leading global communications agency, today introduced a strategic consulting unit that will help companies in the emerging cannabis and hemp space gain market entry, navigate policy and regulation challenges, identify and engage the cannabis consumer and communicate product benefits, all on a global scale. BCW’s end-to-end holistic offering includes experts in research, data and analytics, federal policy and grassroots engagement.

The launch of BCW’s cannabis consulting unit comes as the global legal marijuana market is expected to reach USD $146.4 billion by end of 2025, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. The U.S. legal marijuana market size was estimated at USD $7.06 billion in 2016 and is expected to develop at a compound annual growth rate of 24.9 percent from 2017 to 2025. Estimates from New Frontier Data’s Hemp Business Journ ... Read more »

Annual study analyzes thousands of video campaigns for key trends, including surges in personalization and engagement

NEW YORK -Saturday 30 March 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Innovid, the world’s leading connected tv and video advertising platform, today announced the release of its annual Global Video Benchmarks report. The latest study reveals another year of significant growth in the Internet-enabled television space, also known as Connected TV (CTV), along with an increase in data-driven personalized video campaigns and short-form mobile video. The year-long study analyzes thousands of video campaigns with billions of impressions across 340+ top global companies, providing a critical snapshot of the state of video advertising in 2018, along with insights and analysis designed for the top television marketers. As with past installments, the report also compares the performance of standard pre-roll video to interactive video across devices and channe ... Read more »

GSMA Report Shows That By June 2018 Uganda Had Nearly 10 Million Mobile Internet Connections With Mobile Money Being the Main Driver of Financial Inclusion

KAMPALA, Uganda -Saturday 30 March 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Government of Uganda, through the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and National Guidance, in partnership with the GSMA, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), UK Department for International Development (DFID) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), held a high-level round table on mobile-enabled digital transformation in Uganda. The event, graced by the Rt.Hon. First Deputy Prime Minister Moses Ali drew the participation of ministers, leaders from mobile network operators – Airtel Uganda, Africell, MTN Uganda and Uganda Telecom - as well as development partners, who discussed how Uganda could advance the national and global sustainable development agenda th ... Read more »

FUKUOKA, Japan -Saturday 30 March 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- JIUN Corporation (Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture) started providing its cloud-based medical image management system “SonicDICOM PACS Cloud Beta” on March 28, 2019. By simply registering an account online, you can start using PACS in a few minutes. You can also store images up to 3 GB for free in the cloud-based PACS service.

URL: https://sonicdicom.com/cloud/

Outline of SonicDICOM PACS Cloud
This service enables you to store medical images in the cloud and, simply by accessing a URL from a PC or tablet, to view them from anywhere in the world.
By making use of this service, it is easy to share medical images with other medical facilities.
In addition, as there is no need to install a server in a medical facility, no costs are incurred for purchasing, updating, or managing server equipment, so the system can be operated with low initial cost.