Vivotek and ImmerVision Sign New Agreement on Using Panomorph Optics

MONTREAL - Wednesday, November 6th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ImmerVision, the inventor of the 360-degree panomorph lens and worldwide expert in immersive optical technology, announced today that it has signed an agreement with Vivotek, a Taiwanese camera manufacturer, to officially settle a recent legal dispute.

This signed agreement confirms that Vivotek will adopt the Immervision Enables 360-degree video standard in the development of future 360-degree video products. These new panomorph cameras from Vivotek will be duly certified ImmerVision Enables so customers will benefit from the standard’s leading performance which provides undistorted, blind-spot-free views, heighten situational awareness and the ability to simply pair cameras with a growing list of compatible and certified video management systems.

“We understand that ImmerVision Enables panomorph lenses offer superior 360-degree technology compared to other options like fisheye, and so we are pleased to leverage ImmerVision’s leading standard to develop new cutting-edge 360-degree devices,” said Steve Ma, Executive Vice President at Vivotek.

“We are very happy to have signed an agreement with Vivotek. The company shows tremendous respect for an organization’s intellectual property,” said Alessandro Gasparini, CCO at ImmerVision. “We look forward to a promising collaboration on more panomorph opportunities.”

About ImmerVision Leading innovation in 360-degree panoramic imaging, ImmerVision licenses its patented panomorph optical and software technology to global lens producers, product manufacturers and software developers. Panomorph lenses are the only ones that can be adapted to any camera, any sensor, and any consumer, commercial and government market. ImmerVision Enables is the recognized standard for 360-degree solutions and applications. www.immervision.com

About Vivotek VIVOTEK INC., established in Taiwan in 2000, has quickly grown into a prestigious leading manufacturer in the network video surveillance industry. In 2006, VIVOTEK (TAIEX: 3454) was listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. VIVOTEK spun off its SoC division into a wholly-owned subsidiary in 2007, namely VATICS, which focuses on multimedia SoC development and sales. To keep pace with rapid sales growth, it established a US subsidiary in California in 2008 to offer sales, support and service.

Contacts
ImmerVision
Martine Guay, +1 514 985-4007 ext. 3025
martine.guay@immervision.com









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Toshiba Launches Small-Sized ESD Protection Diode Supporting High Speed Transmission Lines

TOKYO - Wednesday, November 6th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced that it has launched “DF4D7M2G”, a small-sized electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection diode that supports two lines of high speed data transmission. Mass production is scheduled to start in December.

ESD protection diodes are designed to absorb electrostatic discharge (ESD) energy from I/O ports.

The diode reduces terminal capacitance to 0.2pF (Typ.), enabling use for ESD protection in high speed interfaces, such as USB3.0 in mobile devices and low noise amplifiers in RF antennas. Adoption of small WCSP4 package reduces package size by 50% compared to equivalent products1, contributing to high density mounting.

Key Features of New Product

    Reduction of terminal capacitance enables use in high-speed transmission lines: Ct=0.2pF (typ.)
    Adoption of small packages allows high density mounting: WCSP4 (0.79×0.79mm, 0.4mm pitch)
    Compliant with electrostatic discharge immunity tests IEC61000-4-2: ±8kV (Contact), ±15kV (Air)

Applications

ESD protection for high-speed interfaces and RF antennas

Note: 1: Comparison with “DF6D7M1N“.

For more information about the product, please visit: http://www.semicon.toshiba.co.jp/info/lookup.jsp?pid=DF4D7M2G&lang=en

Customer Inquiries: Small Signal Device Sales and Marketing Department Tel: +81-3-3457-3411

Information in this document, including product prices and specifications, content of services and contact information, is current on the date of the announcement but is subject to change without prior notice.

About Toshiba

Toshiba is a world-leading diversified manufacturer, solutions provider and marketer of advanced electronic and electrical products and systems. Toshiba Group brings innovation and imagination to a wide range of businesses: digital products, including LCD TVs, notebook PCs, retail solutions and MFPs; electronic devices, including semiconductors, storage products and materials; industrial and social infrastructure systems, including power generation systems, smart community solutions, medical systems and escalators & elevators; and home appliances.

Toshiba was founded in 1875, and today operates a global network of more than 590 consolidated companies, with 206,000 employees worldwide and annual sales surpassing 5.8 trillion yen (US$61 billion). Visit Toshiba's web site at www.toshiba.co.jp/index.htm

Contacts

Media Inquiries:

Toshiba Corporation

Semiconductor & Storage Products Company

Takashi Mochizuki, +81-3-3457-4963

semicon-NR-mailbox@ml.toshiba.co.jp









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TransRe Receives License for Singapore Branch Office

Latest Addition To Regional Network, To Better Serve Local Insurers and Brokers

NEW YORK - Wednesday, November 6th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- TransRe today announced that it has received a license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore for its fifth office in the region, joining Hong Kong, Shanghai, Sydney and Tokyo.

Paul Bonny, TransRe’s President of Europe & Asia Pacific said, “Over the past 35 years we have built our global network of offices to better serve local insurers and brokers by combining local knowledge and relationships with global experience and insights. Asia’s insurance growth and market penetration continues at an incredible pace and Singapore is ideally positioned as a reinsurance center. I am confident our new office will help us build on our existing relationships in the region.”

Andy Taylor, TransRe’s Chief Underwriting Officer for Asia Pacific, said, “We are delighted to receive a branch license. Our industry is an important part of Singapore’s economy and I am pleased we are joining it. I look forward to supporting its growth by building our branch, our portfolio and our local team with Rob Saville.”

For all business enquiries, contact:
                 

Robert Saville, SVP and Branch Manager
         
                 

8 Marina View
         

T (65) 6407 1085
                 

Asia Square Tower 1, Level 07-04
         

rsaville@transre.com
                 

Singapore 018960
         
                             

About TransRe

TransRe is the brand name for Transatlantic Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries (including Transatlantic Reinsurance Company). TransRe, wholly owned by Alleghany Corporation (NYSE-Y), is a reinsurance organization headquartered in New York with operations worldwide. Since 1978, TransRe has been offering its clients the capacity, expertise and creativity necessary to structure programs across the full spectrum of property and casualty risks. Visit www.transre.com for additional information.

Contacts

TransRe

Thomas V. Cholnoky, 212-365-2292









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WOUNDCHEK Laboratories – Leaders and innovators in wound diagnostics split from Systagenix

ME Newswire / Business Wire

GARGRAVE, England - Tuesday, November 5th 2013

WOUNDCHEK™ Laboratories announced today that it has successfully completed the spin out of the diagnostics business from Systagenix and has signed a non-exclusive global distribution agreement with Kinetic Concepts, Inc. (KCI), the acquirers of the Systagenix advanced wound care business.

The newly formed WOUNDCHEK™ Laboratories business, owned by One Equity Partners LLC (OEP), is based principally in the United Kingdom and will continue to focus 100% on the development of novel wound diagnostics products to help improve therapeutic outcomes in wound care.

Jack Wilkens, CEO of WOUNDCHEK™ Laboratories, added: “Our vision is to provide clinicians with better, accurate, timely, actionable, and easy to access information, leading to improved therapeutic outcomes through point of care wound diagnostics. With the cost of ineffective wound care treatment estimated at $20-25 billion1 annually, wound diagnostics is expected to help deliver a significant reduction of the cost to healthcare systems associated with poor targeting of treatment, delayed healing, and avoidable complications.”

Current development efforts are centred on three critical questions, identified by clinical experts as the primary pieces of diagnostic information needed to direct treatment pathways in the majority of chronic wounds: ‘Does the wound have elevated protease activity?’, ‘Is there an active infection?’, and ‘Is there adequate tissue oxygenation?’.

WOUNDCHEK™ Protease Status, the world’s first point of care test to detect elevated protease activity (EPA) in chronic wounds, was launched in 2012 in Europe, the Middle East, and South Africa. The distribution agreement with KCI can allow customers continued access to this ground-breaking new wound diagnostic test that is already helping clinicians target appropriate therapies on the right wounds at the right time.

- ENDS -

1. Data based on savings calculated with the WOUNDCHEK economic model, UK version, with AQP VLU data inputs. – Nherera L. et al. Quantifying the economic value of diagnostics in wound care in the UK. Poster, EWMA 2013.

Disclaimer

WOUNDCHEK™ Protease Status is not currently cleared by FDA for sale within the US market.

Contacts

For more information:

VSPR

Vicky Stoakes, 07747 534 519

Vicky@vs-pr.com









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SingTel enters into Exclusive Partnership with PlayPhone for New Mobile Gaming Portal

 Direct channel for game developers to reach millions of customers in Asia

ME NewsWire/ Business Wire

SINGAPORE & SAN FRANCISCO - Tuesday, November 5th 2013

PlayPhone®, Inc., a global leader in mobile social gaming, today announced a partnership with Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (SingTel), Asia’s leading communications group, in which PlayPhone’s renowned mobile gaming network and social games stores will be available on SingTel’s new mobile gaming portal.

Branded WePlay, the mobile gaming portal will host what is essentially the world’s third App Store.  It allows game developers to instantly access PlayPhone’s global gaming network as well as  SingTel’s regional mobile customer base.

WePlay will launch first with SingTel in Singapore, followed by its regional associates. Together, they have close to 480 million mobile customers.

“With PlayPhone, we have a very strong partner in building a global community of mobile social gamers.  SingTel aims to bring exciting digital content and engaging mobile experience to our customers across Asia and we are keen to work with local and international developers to do so,” said Cheong Hai Thoo, SingTel’s Head of Multimedia, Group Digital L!fe.

He added: “WePlay will be preloaded on handsets in SingTel’s regional network, putting developers’ games in the hands of hundreds of millions of potentially new players.  We will also provide direct carrier billing and marketing support, and developers will be able to track how their games are performing on the platform.”

For game developers, the PlayPhone SDK offers additional advantages such as maximum social game discovery capabilities, including game recommendations, friend invites, leaderboards, achievements and brags, delivering extreme virality and exponential growth.

“SingTel is a huge win for PlayPhone and our family of developers and sets the stage for PlayPhone to establish a prevailing mobile gaming footprint in Asia,” said Anders Evju, CMO of PlayPhone. “Exposure to over half a billion potential players is unrivaled by other platforms. These numbers stimulate the entire gaming ecosystem.”

For more information on how to join the PlayPhone developer’s program, visit developer.playphone.com/weplay

For more information on PlayPhone, visit playphone.com, on Facebook visit http://www.facebook.com/playphonegames, or follow us on Twitter @playphone.

About SingTel

About PlayPhone

Contacts

PlayPhone, Inc.

Jeremy Crittenden, 408-891-5349

Jeremyc@playphone.com








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Valimo Digitally Signs Mobile ID Contract with Iceland’s National Identity Provider

VANTAA, Finland - Tuesday, November 5th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Valimo, the world leader in mobile identity authentication, has electronically signed a cooperation agreement with Iceland’s national certification authority Audkenni, for the delivery of Valimo’s Mobile ID technology. Audkenni is the national leading identity solutions provider for the banking sector, jointly owned by the country’s commercial banks and largest telecom operator. By the end of 2013, Valimo’s Mobile ID solution will enable all mobile users in Iceland to use strong authentication and legally-binding signatures that are essential to securing banking and eGovernment services.

Audkenni has been issuing Icelanders with certificates embedded in debit cards to securely access online services, notably in the eBanking and e-Government fields. Mobile ID will extend the existing nationwide electronic ID infrastructure to each and every citizen, via their mobile phone. This move will give Icelandic citizens another option for using those services with the same high level of assurance and with the convenience of mobility. Users will also get anytime anywhere secure access to new digital services offered by banks, governments and enterprises.

The Valimo solution enables a SIM-vendor agnostic approach that helps mobile operators to reduce time to market, in line with the GSMA Mobile Identity Group strategy to promote interoperable and federated Mobile ID solutions.

“Mobile ID will allow citizens to save on travel and time by enabling the digitization of procedures and their validation with a legally binding digital signature,” commented Haraldur Bjarnason, CEO of Audkenni. “With the security and convenience brought by Mobile ID we expect to double or triple the use of e-services in the first year.”

“This new deal is a major landmark for Valimo, and to demonstrate the legally-binding validity of digital solutions we even signed it electronically,” commented Yousaf Ghous, Managing Director of Valimo. “Valimo’s Mobile ID expertise acquired through 20 deployments in 10 countries will support mobile operators in Iceland in making secure and convenient financial, insurance and eGovernment services available to all of their subscribers.”

Valimo is your ID online. Valimo mobilizes digital IDs. Valimo Mobile ID allows mobile phone users to securely authenticate, digitally sign documents, and confirm transactions and payments, simply by entering the PIN code they have chosen. The multipurpose solution combines strong security and ease of use, enabling new mobile service concepts and more efficient processes. Valimo Mobile ID is used in a variety of services, throughout the world, including online banking, mobile payment, e- and m-commerce applications, and governmental services, along with enterprise identity and access management. The two-channel, three-factor authentication method based on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), combined with a third-party Certification Authority, produces a legally binding signature regardless of time and place. Valimo Mobile ID solutions are global market leaders in terms of installation base and number of active users. Founded in 2000, Valimo Wireless is headquartered in Finland and from February 2010 is part of Gemalto Group. For more information, please visit www.valimo.com.

Contacts
Valimo:
Christian Marc, +33 6 1905 1283
christian.marc@valimo.com









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EVault Offers Free EVault Endpoint Protection for New Windows Azure Customers Worldwide

Solution Provides Businesses Turnkey Data Protection for Laptops and Desktops

SAN FRANCISCO - Monday, November 4th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- EVault, Inc., a Seagate company (NASDAQ: STX), today announced that Windows Azure customers who sign a new Windows Azure Enterprise Agreement will receive one year of free EVault Endpoint Protection, a cloud-connected backup, recovery and data security solution for endpoint devices.

EVault’s offer is available to Microsoft Enterprise and Partner Group (EPG) customers signing a new Windows Azure Enterprise Agreement with an annual commitment of $50,000 USD or more and is valid now through June 30, 2014. The global promotion includes free unlimited device licensing, unlimited licensing for optional network caches, vault set-up, and 24/7 support from EVault’s team of data protection experts. EVault has been supporting cloud-connected backup and recovery services on Windows Azure since October 2010.

“While working with Microsoft, we’ve been able to provide organizations around the world flexible and cost-effective solutions that both protect critical information and scale over time to meet their unique needs,” said Terry Cunningham, president and general manager, EVault. “Our successful relationship has already benefited many joint customers, and we look forward to offering more of our cloud-connected services on the Windows Azure platform in this coming year.”

Distributed workforces depend on a variety of connections to be productive. For the organization, this increases the chance of data loss and diminishes corporate data visibility. EVault Endpoint Protection simplifies data recovery in case of employee turnover, equipment upgrades and the handling of lost devices, while providing businesses with efficient, centralized data recovery and data loss prevention controls. It automatically synchronizes data to the customer’s instance of Windows Azure.

“With this special offer, new Windows Azure customers gain additional protection by backing up the data that resides on endpoint devices connected to the Windows Azure cloud,” said Kim Akers, General Manager, Developer and Platform Evangelism, Microsoft Corp. “Our relationship with EVault helps us provide our customers with greater capacity and flexibility to mitigate a wide range of endpoint data protection risks.”

EVault provides onsite, cloud, and cloud-connected—or hybrid—data protection solutions to help organizations protect and access their business data. The company has led the industry in the move to hybrid storage models, with a uniquely integrated ecosystem of EVault® storage software, SaaS, managed services, and appliances that help ensure that customers maintain business continuity in multiplatform, multisite environments. EVault data protection, disaster recovery, and other storage services are optimized to perform in a distributed environment; supported by a secure, reliable cloud storage infrastructure; and backed by the highest-quality customer service.

Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud platform, is allowing developers to build the next generation of applications, spanning from the cloud to the enterprise data center. The platform combines cloud-based developer capabilities with storage, computational and networking infrastructure services, all hosted on Microsoft’s servers.

About EVault, A Seagate Company

More than 43,000 companies rely on EVault cloud-connected backup and recovery services. Delivered by a team of data recovery experts and using the very best cloud-connected technology, EVault solutions seamlessly integrate on-premise and online backup data protection for fast, local data access and ensured cloud disaster recovery. Optimized for distributed environments, EVault technology also powers the offerings of cloud services providers, data centers, telcos, ISVs, and many others. EVault is a Seagate company.

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Contacts

for EVault, Inc.

Darren Weiss, 1-415-625-8555

EVault@LaunchSquad.com









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