OSAKA, Japan. - Friday, September 12th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) Panasonic Corporation was named again in 2014 to the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI World), one of the world's renowned socially responsible investment (SRI) indexes. This is the tenth consecutive year that the company was named to DJSI World since 2005.

DJSI World is a stock index created by S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC in the US and RobecoSAM AG in Switzerland, which evaluate the sustainability of companies in terms of the economy, environment, and society. Each year, about 2,500 of the world's largest companies are evaluated, and only the top 10 percent of these companies are named to DJSI World. This year there were 319 companies named to the index.

Panasonic has been lauded for its environmental management, climate strategy, operational eco-efficiency and other environmental initiatives in the Leisure Equipment & Products and Consumer Electronics Industry, whic ... Read more »

Service Providers and Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Select VidiPath™ Brand to Identify Products

AMSTERDAM - Friday, September 12th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

News Highlights:

    Subscribers will be encouraged to look for new brand name, VidiPath, when shopping for retail devices that deliver service providers’ full viewing experience on many different screens in home.
    Previously identified as CVP-2, Guidelines were developed through a close collaboration between service providers and consumer electronics (CE) product manufacturers.
    More than 15 companies have already begun pre-testing their products to prepare for Certification.

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(BUSINESS WIRE)-- IBC (Hall 14, Booth L22) - The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA®) today launched the VidiPath Certification program for retail CE products supporting the organization’s subscription TV content-viewing Gui ... Read more »

App providers keep 100 percent with “All the Revenue is Yours” offer

SAN RAMON, Calif - Wednesday, September 10th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

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(BUSINESS WIRE)-- More than 4,000 smart TV application developers are working with the Smart TV Alliance Common Developer Portal, which launched in June, to build smart TV apps in a single, integrated process for multi-manufacturer publication. The portal simplifies the development and testing process and triggers publication across multiple TV manufacturers, allowing smart TV apps to reach more devices and users faster.

The first apps launched from the Common Developer Portal include AOL On, Anixe Mediathek, Baeble Music, Innovation TV and Lifeshow Player. They will be available for LG, TP Vision (for Philips), Toshiba and Panasonic smart TVs. Apps under development in the portal include video on demand, news, gaming, social networking and more.

A new “All the Revenue is Yours” of ... Read more »

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LONDON. - Thursday, September 11th 2014

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IBC today announces that registration for IBC Content Everywhere MENA is now open. The event will take place in Dubai on 20-22 January 2015 at the Madinat Jumeirah. Pioneering an entirely new way to do business and with unprecedented networking opportunities to penetrate the region, IBC Content Everywhere MENA will provide a unique forum for the vibrant media sector of the Middle East and North Africa to interact with technology companies and service providers dedicated to opening up global opportunities for online content distribution – ‘content everywhere’.

By the end of the first quarter of 2013, 284 million mobile subscribers in the Middle East represented mobile growth nearly twice that in Western Europe and North America combined and mobile penetration of 109% now exceeds USA, APAC and the global average. Following forecasts that Middle East mobile data t ... Read more »

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C - Friday, September 12th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) Recognizing the critical role that emerging biopharmaceutical companies play in the global marketplace, Quintiles today expanded its solution set with the launch of the Quintiles Emerging Biopharma Solution – a new offering designed to meet the unique clinical development needs and goals of these companies.

“Emerging biopharmaceutical companies have been important Quintiles customers throughout our 30+ year history, and we understand the unique challenges they face,” said Paula Brown Stafford, president of Clinical Development at Quintiles. “This new offering focuses squarely on those challenges – combining an operational model designed to meet these customers’ needs with access to Quintiles’ global infrastructure, integrated technology and therapeutic expertise. It is a combination we believe will help provide superior delivery and improv ... Read more »

Contributes to performance improvement of smartphones by using new generation “TaRF6” process

TOKYO. - Thursday, September 11th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced that it has developed SP12T[1] RF antenna switch ICs for smartphones supporting LTE-Advanced that achieve the lowest-level insertion loss[2,4] and RF distortion[3,4] in the industry. Sample shipment starts from today.

With the spread of mobile communications, the number of RF bands and data speed rates is increasing dramatically. Requirements for antenna switch ICs, which are used in the RF circuits of mobile devices, are leaning towards multi-port and improvements to RF performance, including insertion loss and linearity. In addition, in order to meet the drastic growth of high data rate mobile communication devices in emerging markets, it is necessary to achieve these RF performance improvements in a cost-effective method.

In res ... Read more »

SSDM2014TOKYO - Thursday, September 11th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced the development of Tunneling Field Effect Transistors (TFET) that utilize a new operating principle for ultra-low power MCU. This principle has been applied to the development of two different TFET using a CMOS platform compatible process. By applying each TFET into some circuit blocks, it is possible to achieve significant power reductions in MCUs.

Toshiba presented the TFETs on September 9th and 10th in three presentations at the 2014 Solid State Devices and Materials (SSDM) in Tsukuba, Japan. Two presentations were based on joint research with the Collaborative Research Team Green Nanoelectronics Center (GNC) at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).

Rapid demand growth for wireless and mobile devices is driving demand for ultra-low power consumption of LSI. In this situation, innovative devices ... Read more »

LONDON. - Friday, September 12th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) Smartmatic, the world’s leading provider of voting technology and services, presented its holistic approach to election administration during the 23rd Annual Conference and General Assembly Meeting of the Association of European Election Officials (ACEEEO).

Commenting on Smartmatic’s model, CEO Antonio Mugica said, “An election requires more than good technology to be transparent and efficient. Administrators must couple technology with services and project management methodologies to guarantee success. Since 2004 we’ve integrated these three elements in the solutions we’ve provided, with great results.”

The ACEEEO meeting, held on 4-6 September 2014 in Bucharest, Romania, gathered over 150 participants from around the world who exchanged ideas on two planned topics: “Participation of women in electoral process and public life” and “Planni ... Read more »

Artificial intelligence-based video analytics software company to demonstrate award-winning AISight platform at upcoming transit conference in response to increased demand among mass transit agencies

HOUSTON. - Thursday, September 11th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

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(BUSINESS WIRE) Behavioral Recognition Systems, Inc. (BRS Labs), creator of AISight®, the artificial intelligence-based analytics solution that teaches itself to recognize and alert on unexpected patterns within massive volumes of data, will demonstrate the transit industry’s leading intelligent video analytics solution at the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA) Meeting and EXPO October 13th -15th in Houston, Texas.

More Americans used mass transit in 2013 than in any year since 1956. As these numbers continue to grow, the difficulty inherent in keeping passengers in transit safe will grow as well. In fact, the global intelligent video analy ... Read more »

Teradek decoders will be integrated with Sony’s wireless camera adapter for low latency, high definition, point-to-point video transmission over the Internet

AMSTERDAM - Friday, September 12th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

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(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Teradek, a manufacturer of professional wireless video products, today announced collaboration with Sony Corporation (NYSE: SNE) to integrate Sony’s wireless camera adapter (CBK-WA100 and CBK-WA101) with Teradek’s T-Rax and Slice H.264 decoders. The integration offers broadcasters a powerful point-to-point MPEG-2 solution for HD live video transmission from the field to TV stations or ENG trucks.

“We’re very excited to be collaborating with Sony to create a truly versatile solution for news crews broadcasting from the field,” said Nicol Verheem, CEO of Teradek. “Since Teradek products are cost effective and support almost every video transport protocol, it was an obvious choic ... Read more »