News & Announcements

London, UK – May 21st, 2013. Following Microsoft’s decision to discontinue its Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) last year, KEMP Technologies has announced the availability of its new Edge Security Pack for the KEMP LoadMaster range of load balancer and application delivery controllers. The Edge Security Pack (ESP) provides additional security features to fill the gap left by TMG and to help companies protect business-critical, web-facing applications from unauthorised access. ESP integrates the most-widely used features found in TMG into the load balancer, including end-point Pre-Authorisation, Single Sign-On across multiple virtual services and Persistent Logging to track who is accessing virtual services and when.

London, UK – May 20th, 2013 Christie’s, the world’s leading art business, has selected multi award-winning learning and development agency NKD Learning to help them refresh the exceptional client experience that they deliver at 53 offices in 32 countries around the world. After a competitive pitch process that involved many of the world’s best learning and development agencies, Christie’s selected NKD Learning to partner on the design of its global client experience programme; aimed at maximizing the organisation’s delivery of a world class, premium service culture across its global teams.

London, United Kingdom, May 15, 2013 – geneOnyx™, a provider of over-the-counter cloud-based genetic analytics services for cosmetics and skincare applications, today announces that it has received leading global analyst firm Frost & Sullivan’s 2013 European New Product Innovation Award in Personalized Cosmeceuticals. The prestigious award was formally made at Frost & Sullivan’s 2013 European Growth, Innovation & Leadership Awards Banquet held in London on 14 May.

Cambridge, UK – May 15th 2013. Organised by Cambridge Wireless, the conference will be focussing on ‘The Internet of Things (Did you really say 50 billion devices?)’; exploring how everything is set to be connected, the impact this will have on the physical world and the opportunities for business. The Start-Up Zone will be a thriving hot spot at the conference, bursting with small tech companies showcasing their innovation and ideas. With only two demo tables remaining, the Start-Up Zone is proving to be very popular. Companies interested in having a demo table within the Start-Up Zone should contact Clare Kettle on 01223 422367.

Beijing/Cambridge, UK, May 14th, 2013: AsiaInfo-Linkage (NASDAQ: ASIA), Asia’s leading supplier of BSS systems, has helped China Mobile to victory in the TM Forum’s Annual Excellence Awards, with its work for the operator winning acclaim from the judges and taking the top prize in the Operational Excellence category. The prestigious award win was announced at a gala ceremony held on May 13th as part of TM Forum’s Management World 2013 conference in Nice, France.

London, UK – May 14th, 2013. More than 600 global business executives from over 30 countries are expected to attend this summer’s Localization World 2013 conference in London, June 12-14. The conference, which features eight tracks related to “Know-How for Global Success,” has a special focus on localization in a shifting global economy. Localization World brings together delegates who are engaged in the business of adapting products, services and communications to an international language or culture so as to appear native to that particular region. Speakers at the conference include representatives from Adobe Systems Inc., Autodesk Inc., Caterpillar, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Zynga and many others including well-known analyst groups. The conference, produced by MultiLingual Computing, Inc. and The Localization Institute, will be held at the Novotel London West.

Beijing/Cambridge, UK, May 13th 2013: Offering customers the ability to personalise their mobile data experience through true Real-Time Self Service (RTSS) can protect mobile operators from declining revenues and emerging competitive challenges, according to a new whitepaper from AsiaInfo-Linkage (NASDAQ: ASIA), Asia’s leading supplier of BSS systems. The full “Real-Time Self Service” whitepaper is available to download now from the AsiaInfo-Linkage website: http://www.asiainfo-linkage.com/insights/index.html

Cambridge, UK – May 10th, 2013. Today’s launch of Discovering Start-Ups 2013 marks the start of this year’s search for the most innovative wireless technologies and entrepreneurs from across the UK. Run by Cambridge Wireless and Silicon South West – two of the UK’s leading industry networks – the free-to-enter Discovering Start-Ups competition will give 15 finalists the unique opportunity to pitch their ideas, technologies and business plans to 20 leading wireless industry investors and experts. This year, the line-up of judges includes senior executives from companies including BT, Google, Orange Labs, Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung and Vodafone Ventures as well as investors such as Cambridge Angels and NESTA.

May 10th, 2013. Formed from the security screening divisions of Hantec Systems and External Quality Management Ltd, National Security Screening Agency is an alliance of over 40 years of experience in the security sector that recognises the enhanced value of a separate and dedicated screening service. Directors and security specialists Paul Wallis and Andy Galloway are delighted to be uniting their expertise and invite you to check out their own credentials at IFSEC International at the NEC Birmingham from Monday 13 to Thursday 16 May, where they will be available to discuss the benefits to your business of outsourcing your security screening. They will show you the measurable benefits of outsourcing this recruitment necessity, so that you don’t have to divert valuable resources away from your core business activities. You also have the assurance that all relevant legislation, such as the Data Protection Act, BS 7858, Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, ACPO Policy, NSI/SSAIB Regulations, etc. are being fully complied with leaving you with absolute peace of mind that compliance is being maintained.

May 9th, 2013. hibu plc (“hibu”), formerly Yell Group plc, today announces a new online store to help small and medium-sized businesses fight back against large enterprises in the battle for mobile and online customers. The move recognises that SMEs need help to take advantage of online growth in retail and services and aims to help them compete. At the new hibu business store, a business can create a website or online shop that is fully optimised for mobile and start selling and advertising to prospects in the space of 10 minutes.