Clear signs of growth and a return to profit Luterbach (ots) - The Schaffner Group increased its net sales by 14.8% to CHF 91.0 million in the first six months of fiscal 2005/2006 (first half 2004/2005: CHF 79.3 million) and achieved a net profit of CHF 0.8 million (CHF -1.5 million), despite extraordinary costs related to the divestment of its test systems activities. As a result of the divestment process and the ...
Alinghi relies on Phonak's innovative technology to ensure seamless communication during its bid to win the America's Cup again in 2007 Stäfa (ots) - Phonak Hearing Systems today announced that it will be Official Supplier of Alinghi in its bid to win the America's Cup for the second consecutive time. The 32nd America's Cup - the oldest trophy in sporting history and sailing's most prestigious award - will be held in ...
Micronas Semiconductor Holding AG
Acquisition complements Micronas' portfolio of state-of-the-art HD display products Zurich (ots) - Micronas (SWX Swiss Exchange: MASN, Frankfurt: MNSN, Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX) today announced the close of its purchase of all shares of fabless semiconductor company WISchip International Ltd. with operational headquarters in Santa Clara, CA. On October 26, 2005, Micronas had announced a definitive ...
Geneva/Brussels (ots) - The Microsoft event MERID (Microsoft European Research & Innovation Day) was designed to bring together politicians, companies, researchers, academics and policy makers in Brussels for a debate on the future of European research and development (R&D). Speakers included Carl Bildt, former ...
The image can be downloaded from www.u-blox.com/news/lea_4h.jpg Thalwil, Switzerland (ots) - u-blox AG, the leading Swiss provider of innovative GPS receiver technology, today announced the release of a new module, the LEA-4H. Powered by u-blox' new ANTARIS 4 positioning engine, and just 17 x 22 mm in size, the LEA-4H offers SuperSense indoor GPS functionality, ...
This project will form part of an ambitious "Plan of Action for Electronic Governance". The immediate objective of the "Secure Angola Project", which is planned to start in 2006, is the establishment of a "Public Key Infrastructure" (PKI); it will be headed by WISeKey and rely on the direct participation of ...
Tunis (ots) - As part of its support to the World Summit on Information Society, WISeKey in cooperation with Microsoft and the OISTE Foundation will be providing a Digital Identification Infrastructure designed to support a network of 20,000 Certification Authorities. Each of these Certification Authorities ...
Zurich (ots) - Nice Ventures has been sponsoring the Best Product Marketing Award 2005 to encourage European startup companies, who already boast excellent technology and engineering talent, to raise their equally important product marketing efforts to the same high level. The winner will obtain a comprehensive product marketing support package lasting an ...
Herisau/Pfäffikon (ots) - HUBER+SUHNER, a leading global supplier of components and systems for electrical and optical connectivity, is pleased to announce that Mr Guy Petignat will join the company as COO Fiberoptic + Cable Technology and member of the Executive Group Management as of January 1, 2006. Mr Petignat (47) is currently COO for Kaba Key + Ident ...
Frankfurt (ots) - Kyriba announces the expansion of its proprietary Global Bank Connectivity Hub. The Kyriba Connectivity Hub is capable of communicating with any financial institution world-wide, thereby enabling treasurers to have one unique access point of data exchange with any counterparty they transact with. As customers implement the Kyriba ASP Treasury Management platform to gain global access, visibility, ...
Zurich (ots) - VIA NET.WORKS (Switzerland) Ltd., a company of Solution24 AG, receives national WiMAX test licence by the Swiss authorities. VIA NET.WORKS will be carrying out WiMAX pilot operations in Zurich and Geneva. The planned area-wide covering of WiMAX will be supported by Chinese companies - VIA NET.WORKS is conducting negotiations with Chinese carriers ...
- Hinweis: A graphic can be downloaded under http://www.presseportal.ch - Frankfurt, Helsinki, Stockholm, Zurich (ots) - Two worlds co-exist within cash management of PSA Peugeot Citroën Group. Firstly, the industrial and commercial world that produces and sells cars, and secondly, the world of financing (over half the cars sold are purchased on ...
Exchange of electronic invoices across borders. Wallisellen (ots) - Deutsche Post, PayNet, and SAP want to form an international EBPP (Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment) network together. The cooperation's goal is to make the exchange of electronic invoices across borders possible for companies on the basis of a common technology. The international solution will be realized in the close cooperation between ...
Herisau /Pfäffikon (ots) - For the HUBER+SUHNER Group, a leading global supplier of components and systems for electrical and optical connectivity, the first six months of 2005 were characterized by solid execution in a business environment which was less buoyant than the corresponding period the year before. The operating result (EBIT) improved by 7% to 24.3 mCHF (22.7) and the Net Income of 24.3 mCHF (19.9) ...
Zurich (ots) - Cablecom digital phone and Cablecom hispeed Internet continue to be extremely successful products in the market and remain highly popular with customers. Now, customers who register for Cablecom digital phone and Cablecom hispeed Internet between September 1 and October 31 will receive an entire year of free phone calls anywhere within the Swiss fixed network-all for our basic monthly charge of only CHF ...
Herndon, VA / New Orleans, LA (ots) - u-blox America, Inc. and Axonn LLC today announced that Axonn has chosen u-blox GPS positioning technology for its AXTracker® asset tracking device. AXTracker®, one of the world's smallest, autonomous tracking units, will utilize u-blox's high-precision Antaris® GPS engine for accurate position and status reporting of containers, trailers, and other untethered mobile assets ...
- Indication: The picture can be downloaded on: www.presseportal.ch/fr/story.htx?firmaid=100003888 - Robert Bornträger has been named by the Telekurs Holding Ltd. Board of Directors as new CEO of Telekurs Services Ltd., effective August 1, 2005, and at the same time, has been made a Member of the Telekurs Group Executive Committee. Robert Bornträger, born in 1960, is Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Member of the extended Executive Committee of ...
Berne (ots) - The Board of Directors of the RUAG technology group has appointed Dr Myriam Meyer Stutz as CEO of RUAG Aerospace and elected her to the Executive Board. She will take up her new position and assume responsibility for the operational management of the company on 1 August 2005. 43-year-old Myriam Meyer comes from Turtmann (Canton of Valais). She is ...
Singapore (ots) - With widespread adoption of the new legal framework guaranteeing Asia Pacific (APAC)-wide recognition of electronic signatures, Microsoft Corporation and WISeKey today announced an unprecedented growth in the deployment of PKI (public key infrastructure framework), a jointly developed digital ...
Indication: A picture will be sent by Photopress through the Keystone satellite network (www.phootopress.ch) "Paparazzi" Offers Free Content and Chance to Meet Celebrities New Yord City / Biel (ots) - Swatch, the innovative, trend-setting watch brand from Swatch Group, the leading global watch ...
Next Phase of Data Warehouse Management Demands a Response to "Tera-flation" Through Intelligent Tiering of Data Warehouse Resources Boston, MA (ots) - SAND Technology (NASDAQ: SNDT), an innovator in analytic application infrastructure, today announced its Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) strategy for Data Warehousing at the DCI Business ...
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS and SAN FRANCISCO, CA (ots) - Trustive (http://www.trustive.com), one of the fastest growing Virtual WISPs world-wide, has successfully deployed Aramova's (http://www.aramova.com) CoreWorks Mobile Manager solution for allowing Trustive users to easily and seamlessly connect to ...
Montreal (ots) - SAND Technology (NASDAQ: SNDT), an innovator in Analytic Application Infrastructure, today announced the general release of the SAND Searchable Archive product. SAND Searchable Archive is a critical new technology that provides high data compression rates for very efficient data storage ...
Wi-Fi Alliance Delivers Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Interoperable Multimedia Features for TVs, DVD Players, Mobile Phones and Other Consumer Electronic Devices Austin, TX (ots) - The Wi-Fi Alliance today announced that it is now certifying a new capability that is expected set the stage for rapid adoption of Wi-Fi networking in consumer electronic devices such as DVD players and televisions. This new capability, called WMM (Wi-Fi Multimedia), is designed to improve the user ...
Austin, TX (ots) - The Wi-Fi Alliance announced today the first round of products that are Wi-Fi CERTIFIED for the WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access 2) capability. WPA2 builds on its predecessor, WPA, and is specifically designed to meet the most demanding enterprise security needs. The first WPA2 products are ...
Toronto (ots) - As the multi-service edge (MSE) market experiences significant growth, and as service providers look for the most cost effective ways to migrate revenue-generating services to these new edge networks, Syndesis is pleased to announce its provisioning, activation and discovery support for MSE platforms. The Syndesis solution is currently providing off-the-shelf support for numerous hardware devices ...
SUNNYVALE, CA (ots) - Platform Solutions, Inc. (PSI), a supplier of Intel®-Itanium® 2 based Plug Compatible Manufacture (PCM) servers for IBM® z/OS® mainframe applications today announced it has received its second round of financing. The round was led by Goldman Sachs and affiliates and included initial round investors Blueprint Ventures, Interwest Partners, ...
Extract from Article Published by Microsoft PressPass - The Journalist's Resource for Microsoft News - http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/ Paris (ots) - 16 August, 2004 -WISeKey Offers Federated Identity Solutions on the Windows Server 2003 Platform WISeKey develops applications for organizations that ...