Archive for January 2013
Frost & Sullivan: As Mobile Operators Look to Enhance Customer Experience, Demand for Wi-Fi Test Equipment Intensifies Globally
– The need to monitor data traffic and performance fuels market
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Jan. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — With mobile operators increasingly turn to Wi-Fi to flawlessly offload Internet data traffic, Wi-Fi test equipment has become vital to enhance user experience and lower the risk of losing smartphone customers. This rise in demand for testing will lead to the development of innovative solutions, ensuring the steady growth of the global Wi-Fi test equipment market.
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.testandmeasurement.frost.com), Analysis of the Global Wi-Fi Test Equipment Market, finds that the market earned revenues of more than $190.1 million in 2012 and estimates this to reach $442.6 million in 2018.
If you are interested in more information on this research, please send an email to Jeannette Garcia, Corporate Communications, at jeannette.garcia@frost.com, with your full name, company name, job title, telephone number, company email address, company website, city, state and country.
Affordable, unlicensed and pervasive Wi-Fi technology has emerged as the most popular solution to handle excessive Internet traffic. Its transformation from a convenience service to a scalable and reliable network service necessitates frequent testing.
“The ability for Wi-Fi test systems to identify high-demand service areas and improve customer experience by enhancing network capacity and performance, while lowering data delivery costs has accelerated their adoption,” saidFrost & Sullivan Measurement & Instrumentation Program Manager Olga Yashkova-Shapiro.
The use of Wi-Fi in companies, small offices, hospitals within mission-critical devices such as new medical, smart meter, and home automation applications, has made the rigorous testing of Wi-Fi more crucial. Regulatory bodies are establishing standard testing protocols to ensure seamless operation and improved security between Wi-Fi and cellular networks, offering added opportunities for test equipment vendors.
However, the increasing complexities of these standards, along with rapidly developing technologies, also pose a challenge to equipment suppliers. Continuous innovation and upgrades are vital to ensure high-quality products. As such, integrated, end-to-end test solutions are expected to become popular.
“Test equipment manufacturers must offer cost-effective, software-based, or software-designed solutions that will eliminate the need for multiple tools,” noted Yashkova-Shapiro. “Providing greater mobility through roaming test instruments for performance-sensitive applications such as voice and video will boost uptake.”
Vendors need to educate end users about the need to identify a potential network problem before it occurs to promote the adoption of Wi-Fi testing.
Analysis of the Global Wi-Fi Test Equipment Market is part of the Test & Measurement Growth Partnership Service program. Frost & Sullivan’s related research services include: Global Long-term Evolution (LTE) Test Equipment Market, Global Customer Experience Monitoring Market, Global Wireless Test Equipment Market, and Mobile Backhaul and Wireless Core Test Equipment Market. All research services included in subscriptions provide detailed market opportunities and industry trends evaluated following extensive interviews with market participants.
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Analysis of the Global Wi-Fi Test Equipment Market
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Frost & Sullivan Commends Entrust for Expertly Maintaining the Balance between Value and Trust in the High-Assurance SSL Certificate Market
– Entrust offers a flexible and robust management platform that is suitable for small to large enterprise customers
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Based on its recent analysis of the secure sockets layer (SSL) certificate market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Entrust with the 2013 North America Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Leadership. Entrust offers only high-assurance digital certificates and accompanying solutions that provide strong security and trust services.
Entrust is dedicated to offering only high assurance certificates, Organization Validation and Extended Validation, and its public root is ubiquitous on more than 99.9 percent of desktop and mobile browsers. Entrust’s organization certificates are also provided as unified communications multi-domain and wildcard certificates.
Entrust Certificate Services offers organization and extended validation SSL certificates in multi-form factors, such as wildcard certificates with Subject Alternative Name (SAN) capabilities, as well as SSL certificates such as elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) hybrid SSL certificates. These certificates are compatible on most up-to-date browsers and highly effective when server-load performance is critical and have the added advantage of being provided in the strongest and best performing encryption levels available in SHA-1, SHA-2 and ECC.
“Its Certificate Management Service (CMS) and Discovery solutions facilitate certificate management and mitigate the consequences of hitherto inefficient processes or documentation,” said Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Richard Martinez. “CMS gives users the choice of unit-based or concurrent license certificate models, while Discovery allows them to scan internal networks for certificates of all types, regardless of the issuing certification authority.”
Entrust Discovery also offers a centralized portal in which customers can manage the entire life cycle of all their certificates. It aids the pre-verification of all their certificates so that they can be issued in minutes and sold through Entrust’s partners and resellers worldwide. In 2012, Entrust updated Discovery to include certificate chain validation e-mail alerts, automated graphic-based reports, and enabled organizations to delegate responsibilities.
Also in 2012, Entrust updated their CMS platform with new features, including a buyer role and the ability to create unlimited custom views. CMS features a self-service portal that allows customers to create permissions for read-only users, provides access to a portal application from which they can request certificates or new clients, and allows certificate activity viewing. In addition, CMS has approval-override capabilities that enable administrators to modify and approve certificate requests instead of simply declining them.
With bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives gaining currency, Entrust also will expand its offering of mobile device certificates in the coming months — seamlessly from the cloud as a managed service — as an easy, cost-effective solution that will help organizations balance security and leverage the BYOD policy.
Entrust maintains a strong focus on the enterprise, government and financial services market, but its continued dedication to high-assurance services is popularizing its security and service offerings outside its strongholds. Its ongoing efforts to improve its SSL certificate offerings have helped it maintain its second ranking in high-assurance certificate issuance and sales, and most importantly, in the overall market share.
“Acknowledging its customers’ trust, Entrust’s SSL certificates are backed by extensive validation and identity vetting, as well as encryption of the data transmission channel,” noted Martinez. “It also provides customers with dedicated account managers, unlimited certificate re-issues and server licenses, and certificate exchanges. These efforts have translated to account renewals of more than 98 percent and high satisfaction ratings on SSL certification authority review websites.”
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Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry.
About Entrust
A trusted provider of identity-based security solutions, Entrust secures governments, enterprises and financial institutions in more than 5,000 organizations spanning 85 countries. Entrust’s award-winning software authentication platforms manage today’s most secure identity credentials, addressing customer pain points for cloud and mobile security, physical and logical access, citizen eID initiatives, certificate management and SSL. For more information about Entrust products and services, call +1-888-690-2424, email entrust@entrust.com or visit www.entrust.com.
For further information: Lindsey Lockhart, Media Relations, +1-972-728-0374, lindsey.lockhart@entrust.com
About Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, works in collaboration with clients to leverage visionary innovation that addresses the global challenges and related growth opportunities that will make or break today’s market participants.
Our “Growth Partnership” supports clients by addressing these opportunities and incorporating two key elements driving visionary innovation: The Integrated Value Proposition and The Partnership Infrastructure.
- The Integrated Value Proposition provides support to our clients throughout all phases of their journey to visionary innovation including: research, analysis, strategy, vision, innovation and implementation.
- The Partnership Infrastructure is entirely unique as it constructs the foundation upon which visionary innovation becomes possible. This includes our 360 degree research, comprehensive industry coverage, career best practices as well as our global footprint of more than 40 offices.
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Air China’s Beijing-New York Service Gets Major Boost with Upgrade to Boeing 777-300ER and Expanded Frequency
— The Big Apple joins other Air China North America gateways with fleet upgrade and expanded capacity-
NEW YORK /PRNewswire/ — A special double treat awaits China and Asia-bound travelers from New York on March 31, 2013 when Air China, China’s exclusive national flag carrier, upgrades its aircraft to the state of the art Boeing 777-300ER and increase its frequency from 7 to 11 per week for its nonstop New York-Beijing flights.
“Adding new flights is a response to a consistently growing passenger demand for more convenient nonstop services between New York and Beijing. Business or leisure travelers bound for Beijing or onward to domestic Chinese cities and other destinations in Asia such as Hong Kong, Vietnam, India, the Philippines, Thailand and many others, stand to benefit the most from Air China’s increased capacity and convenient connecting flights,” Mr. Yuelong Zhou, Air China’s General Manager in New York, said.
Air China is the only airline with nonstop service between New York and Beijing. It is also the only airline with first class cabin between these two cities. Current daily flights between New York and Beijing are CA 982 and CA 981.
The additional outbound flight, CA 990, departs from John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at 2:50 AM, arriving in Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK) at 2:20 PM local time the next day. Inbound, CA 989 leaves Beijing at 9:00 AM also on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, arriving in New York at 10:20 AM local time on the same day.
As the largest long-range twin-engine jetliner, the B777-300ER is cleaner and greener. It also brings twin-engine efficiency and reliability to the long-range market and delivers better fuel performance.
“Operating the New York-Beijing flight with the new ‘triple seven’ provides Air China with a significant advantage in the highly competitive New York market. It shows our commitment to provide air travelers with the best product from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Beijing. I’m sure our guests will appreciate the features of the energy-efficient Boeing 777-300ER,” Mr. Zhou commented.
The ‘triple seven’ has a wider cabin than any competing aircraft. It is designed for maximum passenger comfort and convenience. Air China’s Forbidden Pavilion (first class) features eight luxury suites, 41 full-flat bed seats in the Capital Pavilion (business class) and 259 economy seats with individual monitors and in-seat audio-video on demand (AVOD).
Designed for maximum passenger comfort, the interior of Air China’s B777-300ER feature ten mood lighting variations in the Forbidden and Capital Pavilions, each timed to complement the different phases of a flight—from boarding through meal service, sleeping and pre-arrival. The ambient lighting recreates the sunset, night and sunrise to reflect the various services associated with each phase and create a totally relaxing environment.
Today’s announcement follows last week’s approval granted to Air China by the U.S. Department of Transportation to start four weekly nonstop services between Houston and Beijing on July 11, 2013 using the B777-300ER. Houston is Air China’s fifth gateway in North America in addition to New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Vancouver. The Los Angeles-Beijing service, operated with the B777-300ER, will resume its double daily flights on March 31, 2013. Vancouver-Beijing is scheduled to increase from 7 to 11 flights per week on May 17, 2013. A bigger B747-400 full passenger aircraft will be used for the San Francisco-Beijing daily operation beginning March 31, 2013.
About Air China
Air China is the world’s largest airline by market capitalization, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Air China holds the controlling shares for Shenzhen Airlines, Air Macau, Dalian Airlines, Beijing Airlines, Shandong Airlines and 29.9% of Cathay Pacific Airways, making it the airline’s largest shareholder after the Swire Group. It operates a fleet of 432 Airbus and Boeing aircraft. Its robust network of 289 routes extends throughout Asia, the Middle East, Europe, South and North America from its main hub at Beijing Capital International Airport where it offers unrivaled connections to cities within China and beyond. As a Star Alliance member, Air China has within its reach 1,356 destination in 193 countries.
Visit http://www.airchina.us/ or call Air China’s North America Call Center at 800-882-8122 for more information.
Source: Air China
Digicel Submits Expression Of Interest In Myanmar
YANGON, Myanmar /PRNewswire/ — With current mobile penetration well below 10% in Myanmar, Digicel is interested in rolling out a world-class mobile telecommunications network and has submitted an expression of interest to the Government of Myanmar.
Digicel has been successful in driving mobile penetration in a number of underserved countries across the globe, most notably in Haiti where mobile penetration was just 5% prior to Digicel’s 2006 launch and now stands at approximately 50%.
Digicel is already one year into a two year sponsorship of the Myanmar Football Federation and recently made a commitment to Special Olympics Myanmar which will see Digicel supporting all of the organisation’s preparations and fund raising activities as it readies its athletes for the World Summer Games in Los Angeles in 2015. This is the first time in its history that Special Olympics Myanmar has received corporate support and is an extension of Digicel’s commitment to support the organisation in all of the markets where Digicel operates.
Digicel Group CEO, Colm Delves, comments, “Digicel is known across the globe for being much more than a telecommunications company. Wherever we do business, we ensure that the people of that country benefit from our presence and significant investments in infrastructure. There is so much potential in Myanmar and, by offering first class and first world communications services that enable the people of Myanmar to achieve extraordinary things in their day to day lives – and supporting individuals and communities – we can help them as they affect positive change.”
ABOUT DIGICEL
After 11 years of operation, Digicel Group Limited has over 13 million customers across its 31 markets in the Caribbean, Central America and the Pacific. Total investment to date stands at over US$4.5 billion worldwide. The company is renowned for delivering best value, best service and best network.
Digicel is the lead sponsor of Caribbean, Central American and Pacific sports teams, including the Special Olympics teams throughout these regions. Digicel sponsors the West Indies cricket team and is also the title sponsor of the Digicel Caribbean Cup. In the Pacific, Digicel is the proud sponsor of several national rugby teams and also sponsors the Vanuatu cricket team.
Digicel also runs a host of community-based initiatives across its markets and has set up Digicel Foundations in Jamaica, Haiti and Papua New Guinea which focus on educational, cultural and social development programmes.
Visit http://www.digicelgroup.com for more information.
Source: Digicel Group
Swissclear Global’s New Airtime Recharge Service Connects Families and Friends around the World: 70 Countries, 200 Mobile Operators, 3 Billion People
Fast secure and convenient way to transfer airtime to prepaid users
SINGAPORE, Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Swissclear Global( http://www.swissclearglobal.com ), a Singapore-based service provider, today announced the launch of its airtime recharge offering. The service is simple and easy to use. Customers can log on to http://www.swissclearglobal.com and simply type the recipient’s phone number, pick a payment method and complete the transaction. Top-up is almost instant! For convenience, a wide variety of denominations are offered, ranging from US$5 to US$50. Users can recharge their own mobile or send airtime to loved ones from the convenience of their home or a nearby retail outlet.
“Between 70 to 90 percent of mobile subscriptions in emerging markets are prepaid. In a time where more people are traveling or moving away from home, there is a greater need to stay connected. Swissclear Global offers travelers and overseas workers the ability to communicate with family and friends wherever they are, with no service charges added on, making lower denomination transactions affordable,” says Sandy Agarwal, Founder & CEO of Swissclear Global.
Headquartered in Singapore, Swissclear Global has a global customer base. “The platform gives consumers in the United States the same ability to transfer airtime to Mexico or Brazil, as a customer in Singapore who would like to gift airtime to India,” said Agarwal. “We are very proud to have established our Company in Singapore where we have a ready local customer base and environment that will allow us to compete globally.”
In emerging markets alone, sales for prepaid airtime crossed US$460 billion in 2011. Swissclear Global has extended its strategy to address the gap in markets where cash is used for the majority of transactions. It has created an extensive network of agents allowing consumers to walk into a corner-store, and pay cash to recharge their loved ones’ accounts in real-time. In Singapore, Swissclear Global has tied up with AXS and Nets, creating a vast network of kiosk terminals. Plans for other markets such as India, the Middle East and the United States are in the pipeline.
“The benefits of the service to customers are savings on service fees, greater convenience and fast transaction times,” said Agarwal. “Consumers in emerging economies should have access to the same levels of service as more developed markets.”
“Customer security is of paramount importance to us at Swissclear,” emphasized Agarwal. “We needed a robust solution that could detect fraud quickly, help us make confident decisions promptly, and increase process efficiency without impacting customers’ experience. CyberSource Decision Manager empowers us with access to world＆s largest fraud detection radar, bringing insight from over 60 billion global transactions processed annually, as well as advanced online fraud detection technologies.”
“We are delighted to partner with Swissclear,” said Steve Warner, Senior Business Leader, CyberSource. “Enabling businesses across the globe to transform their vision into results through increased security and reduced payment risk, is of the utmost importance to CyberSource. We provide an environment which builds confidence and encourages online purchases in a secure, reliable, and convenient manner benefiting merchants and consumers alike.”
About Swissclear Global Pte Ltd
Swissclear Global provides fast, reliable and secured ways to stay connected with friends and family and pay for digital services. Customers can pay phone bills across 200 mobile carriers in over 70 countries and buy gaming credits for over 1,000 online games and entertainment products such as video-on-demand services. Swissclear Global adds convenience and empowers customers to pay for services by either using cash or credit cards. With over one million retail outlets in five countries, customers can “walk around the corner” to pay for services or transact using their desktop or mobile device. Swissclear Global is headquartered in Singapore with offices in India and the United Arab Emirates. More information can be found at http://www.swissclearglobal.com.
About CyberSource
CyberSource, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Visa Inc. [NYSE: V], is a payment management company. Over 370,000 businesses worldwide use CyberSource( http://www.cybersource.com/mea ) and Authorize.Net brand solutions to process online payments, streamline fraud management, and simplify payment security. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and maintains offices throughout the world, with regional headquarters in Singapore (Asia Pacific); Tokyo (Japan), Miami/Sao Paulo (Latin America and the Caribbean), and Reading, U.K. (Europe/Middle East/Africa). CyberSource operates in Europe under agreement with Visa Europe. For more information, please visit http://www.cybersource.com/mea.
SOURCE﹛Swissclear Global Pte Ltd
Air China to Commence Chengdu-Frankfurt Nonstop Service
— The 10-hour flight makes Chengdu more accessible to the world
BEIJING /PRNewswire/ — Air China Limited (hereinafter referred to as “Air China”) will commence nonstop Chengdu-Frankfurt service on May 19, 2013. The new service will cement Chengdu’s position as southwestern China’s air transportation hub and offer a faster and more economic option for travelers between southwestern China and Europe.
Chengdu, the capital of a province widely known as China’s breadbasket, is a southwestern Chinese city with huge growth potential. Recent years have seen a continuous uptick in the number of outbound travelers from Chengdu and other southwestern neighboring cities like Lhasa, Kunming and Xi’an who leave China via Chengdu. Currently, passengers who travel between Chengdu and other southwestern regions and Germany have to transfer in Beijing, Shanghai or Hong Kong, and the whole journey takes at least 15 hours. The opening of the new Chengdu-Frankfurt nonstop service will make Chengdu the third Mainland China city with direct air links to Frankfurt. The whole flight takes just 10 hours, which represents a significant cut in travel time. This faster service will be another driver of the fast growth in tourism and economy of southwestern China.
Chengdu is Air China’s important regional hub of operations in southwestern China and is served by Air China’s over 62 domestic, international and regional routes. It is part of the carrier’s world-spanning route network alongside Beijing which is the main hub and Shanghai which is an international gateway. Frankfurt is Europe’s second largest air transportation hub and the German gateway to the world. It is served by over 260 air routes. It is also home to Star Alliance Headquarters and Air China Europe Regional Headquarters. With the new Chengdu-Frankfurt service, it is not only easier to travel between the two cities and the two countries, but also to benefit from the extensive network of the Star Alliance — with the Star Alliance, Air China’s passengers can easily access 1356 destinations in 193 countries and regions.
The three-times weekly service, CA431/432, will be operated with an Airbus A330-200 on Tuesday, Friday and Sunday. The flight time is approximately 10 hours. The flight leaves Chengdu at 01:30 and arrives in Frankfurt at 06:10 on the same day. The return flight is expected to take off from Frankfurt at 14:00 and arrive at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport at 05:40 the next day. Such flight schedules are meant to make it easier for passengers to access their connecting flights in Frankfurt and Chengdu after arrival. The A330-200 features personal AVOD in all classes of service and lie-flat seats in the Business Class.
About Air China :
China’s only national flag carrier, Air China also offers special flights to state leaders on their official visit to foreign countries. It is a Star Alliance member carrier. It owns a fleet of 432 passenger aircraft and freighters of mainly Boeing and Airbus families (including those of the carriers which Air China has a majority stake in) and operates more than 280 routes serving 30 countries and regions. Banking on the strong route network of the Star Alliance, Air China can take passengers to 1,356 destinations in 193 countries. Air China appeals very much to business travelers. The membership of PhoenixMiles, Air China’s customer loyalty program, has exceeded 25 million. For more, head to Air China’s official website http://www.airchina.com.
Source: Air China
Case Zeltiq – CLINIPRO: The Court Upholds Clinipro – LipoCryo Claim
BARCELONA, Spain/PRNewswire/ — CLINIPRO, a Spanish company that manufactures medical-aesthetical devices, announces that the Barcelona Trade Court No. 5 has dictated a resolution, dated January 25th, 2013, fully disregarding the lawsuit promoted by Zeltiq Aesthetics Inc. (Nasdaq: ZLTQ) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) against CLINIPRO, for alleged infringements of patents and disloyal competence acts. The matter has been carried out by the SOL MUNTANOLA & ASOCIADOS office, which CLINIPRO put in charge of the legal management.
The sentence states that the patents of the plaintiffs are annulated, due to the lack of inventive activity (the procedure patent) and to the lack of new items (the device patent), so that the presented claim is refused. Moreover, the sentence denies the disloyal acts existence, also a part of the claim, among other reasons, because Zeltiq and MGH cannot appropriate themselves of the name that describes the cold-application technique used to reduce fat (cryolipolysis). The sentence imposes on Zeltiq and MGH the payment of the costs incurred, although CLINIPRO is considering the possibility of requesting, also, the damages and prejudices caused.
We must recall that, due to the claim presented by MGH and Zeltiq against CLINIPRO for copyrights violation, a preliminary order was dictated on May 5th, 2012, where cautionary measures were taken against marketing LipoCryo in Spain. Later, those measures were declared without effect by means of a sentence dated June 25th, 2012, the court accepting the deposit of a substitutive caution. Now, by this new sentence, the caution measures have been immediately cancelled.
SOL MUNTANOLA ABOGADOS, in charge of defending CLINIPRO in this matter, expressed their satisfaction: “The sentence is clear and to the point, so that there is no doubt about the lawfulness of Lipocryo,” has said Mario Sol, the firm’s founding partner and one of the lawyers that was in charge of this case.
About CLINIPRO
Clinipro is a company with presence in over 40 countries and its vision is to remain being the benchmark and the effective, secure and non-invasive alternative to surgical treatments of aesthetic medicine. Always aimed at offering the latest technology and staying ahead of market trends to provide the most innovative technologies. Clinipro, with 20 years of industry experience, has professional technicians and highly qualified physicians that support their brands results such as LipoCryo and Mesostar, among others, which contribute to people’s physical well being through safe and effective procedures.
More information
Fermín San Martín
fsanmartin@clinipro.net
+34-935-903-108
Source: Clinipro S.L
Now Playing: High Quality Audio Comes To Sony Entertainment Network’s Music Unlimited Service
— 320kbps AAC Streaming Playback Now Available for PlayStation 3, Android Smartphones and Tablets, and PCs
FOSTER CITY, Calif./PRNewswire/ — Sony Network Entertainment International today announced that the company’s Music Unlimited service now offers users the ability to listen to high quality audio through the service’s PC (Windows® and Mac OS®), Sony Xperia™ and other Android™ smartphones and tablets, Sony Android Walkman®, and PlayStation®3 (PS3™) computer entertainment system applications. By turning on the high quality streaming option in Music Unlimited’s settings menu, songs will playback in pristine 320 kbps AAC high fidelity audio.
Sony Entertainment Network’s Music Unlimited service is a cloud-based digital music service that hosts a global catalog of over 18 million licensed songs(1) and is available on a wide range of Sony and non-Sony connected devices including any personal computer (including Windows and Mac OS), iOS devices including iPhone® and iPod touch®, Android devices including Sony Xperia smartphones and tablets, as well as the PS3, PlayStation®Vita, and connected Sony BRAVIA HDTVs as well as various Sony home audio and video devices.
The new feature, which is now live on the PS3, Android smartphone and tablet, Android Walkman, and web apps, will be added to other devices compatible with the Music Unlimited service later this year.
Additional information about Sony Entertainment Network can be found by visiting: blog.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com, http://www.facebook.com/sonyentertainment, and http://www.twitter.com/sonyentnet.
(1) Number of tracks available from this catalog varies by country and may be less.
Source: Sony Network Entertainment International
UNIQLO Congratulates Novak Djokovic and Shingo Kuniedaon Winning Titles at the 2013 Australian Open
TOKYO /PRNewswire/ — UNIQLO today congratulates Novak Djokovic*, the World Ranking No. 1 singles men’s tennis player, and Shingo Kunieda**, the World Ranking No. 1 wheelchair singles tennis male player, on winning the Men’s Singles Title and the Men’s Wheelchair Singles Title respectively at the 2013 Australian Open Tennis Championships. These recent victories mark the third consecutive time Djokovic has won the singles title at the Australian Open, and the sixth time Kunieda has won the wheelchair singles title at the same tournament.
Commenting on Novak Djokovic and Shingo Kunieda’s victories, Tadashi Yanai, Chairman, President & CEO of leading global Japanese retailer Fast Retailing, said, “I extend my heartfelt congratulations to Novak Djokovic and Shingo Kunieda on winning their respective titles at the 2013 Australian Open Tennis Championships. All of us at Fast Retailing and UNIQLO are proud of our association with these exceptional athletes. Not only do they work hard to continuously improve their form and physical condition while promoting the sport widely, but they also serve as excellent role models for young people all around the world. We wish both of them continued success in 2013.”
Novak Djokovic Wins Men’s Singles Title at 2013 Australian Open Championships
Shingo Kunieda Wins Men’s Wheelchair Singles Title at 2013 Australian Open Championships
Novak Djokovic said, “I am still overwhelmed with excitement and joy at winning the 2013 Australian Open. It’s incredible and very thrilling for me to have won it three times in a row. And congratulations to Shingo Kunieda on winning two titles at this tournament. What a nice concidence for the two of us to win at the same tournament.” He added, “My UNIQLO match wear no doubt helped me to win my third consecutive Australian Open title. I felt light and comfortable in my movements on the court.”
Shingo Kunieda said, “I am very happy to have won both the singles and doubles titles at the Australian Open this year, which is a great way for me to start my 2013 tennis season. I am also pleased that Novak Djokovic has won his singles title, and I would like to congratulate him on his victory. I will work hard and do my best to continue to win my matches with my UNIQLO tennis wear, and to maintain my world number one ranking.”
*Novak Djokovic has won the Men’s Singles Title at the Australian Open Tennis Championships three times consecutively from 2011. UNIQLO is a sponsor of Novak Djokovic since 2012.
**Shingo Kunieda has won the Men’s Wheelchair Singles Title at the Australian Open Tennis Championships five times consecutively from 2007 and again in 2013. He has won the Men’s Wheelchair Doubles Title at the Australian Open six times, during the same years as his singles title. UNIQLO is a sponsor of Shingo Kunieda since 2009.
Source: UNIQLO
Life Technologies to Help Identify up to 20,000 Human Remains Found in Libya’s Mass Graves
Humanitarian project will set up infrastructure, provide expert training, validate and process samples
GLASGOW, UK. — Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced it will provide a complete laboratory solution to identify an estimated 20,000 human remains found in various mass graves in Libya following the uprising of 2011 and to address missing persons cases from the 42-year regime of Muammar Gaddafi. This identification work is expected to take several years.
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Life Technologies, a leader in forensic DNA technologies, will provide the infrastructure, including the expertise, training, and the forensic instruments and materials to validate the workflow and process DNA samples through its Dubai-based distributor Integrated Gulf Biosystems (IGB).
“It is our hope that many families will find the answers to what happened to their loved ones,” said Peter Silvester, President, Life Technologies, Europe, Middle East & Africa. “By providing the laboratory setup and forensic expertise we will help train Libyan scientists in the very latest instruments, technology and protocols to enable them in their work and help promote reconciliation in Libya.”
Life Technologies will create two separate DNA lines – one geared toward reference samples and the second focusing on processing samples from human remains. Fifty-thousand samples will be processed per year. Human remains samples will be processed using PrepFiler® BTA chemistry optimized to isolate DNA from bones and teeth in combination with AmpFlSTR® NGM SElect™ PCR Amplification Kit and MiniFiler™ Kit, designed for heavily degraded samples. Reference samples will be processed using direct amplification technology combining Copan NUCLEIC-CARD™ with NGM SElect™ Express.
The laboratory will utilise the latest generation of genetic analysers and ancillary equipment and will be functionally validated under the quality assurance standards and guidelines required by the ASCLAD-LAB, SWGDAM and ISO 17025. Some training of Libyan scientists will take place in the United States under the direction and supervision of Dr. Arthur Eisenberg, a world renowned forensic scientist, leading up to the lab’s opening in Tripoli.
“The University of North Texas Health Science Center, with its extensive experience in the identification of missing persons and human decedents, is extremely pleased to partner with Life Technologies in the training of the Libyan forensic scientists to help them complete their mission,” said Dr. Eisenberg, Director of the UNT Center for Human Identification.
The humanitarian project is funded in part by Repsol, a Spanish-based oil company which donated to the Libyan government through its foundation, $2.5 million in 2012 to help establish a state-of-the-art laboratory to identify and generate profiles from human remains and references from associated relatives of missing people.
AmpFlSTR® NGM SElect™ PCR Amplification Kit, Copan NUCLEIC-CARD™, MiniFiler™ Kit and NGM SElect™ Express are for forensic and paternity use only. PrepFiler® BTA is for research use only, not for use in diagnostic procedures.
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