Los Angeles (ots) - Cross-reference: photo was sent via satellite and is available at http://www.presseportal.de/galerie.htx?type=obs - GM Advanced Design has won the Los Angeles Auto Show's Design Challenge for the second year in a row. This year's winning entry is a two-dimensional rendering of a 2015 concept that addresses environmental sustainability. Called the HUMMER 02, this design proves that daily use of a ...
St. Gallen (ots) - His Excellency Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, today accepted the Max Schmidheiny Foundation Freedom Prize in person. At a formal ceremony at the University of St. Gallen attended by several hundred guests from business and politics as well as students, Prof. Dr. ...
Medienfachverlag Oberauer GmbH
Dusseldorf/Frankfurt/Zurich/Salzburg (ots) - In this year Europe's best newspapers come from Belgium, Norway, Finland, Portugal and Spain. 287 newspapers from 26 countries participated in the eighth European Newspaper Award. As the four main newspaper genres such as national paper, regional paper, local paper and weekly differ considerably, they are awarded by the jury separately so that four chief awards can be ...
Luzern (ots) - During a media convention of the city of Luzern and the organization "Rose d'Or", the new concept for the renowned international competition for TV entertainment with its long tradition was presented. Freddy Burger, the new owner of the market rights and an entrepreneur in the entertainment and restaurant industry, and the designated festival director ...
Zurich (ots) - Prionics, the world leader in BSE and prion testing, has been recognized for its contribution to animal health and food safety. After being awarded with the European Biotech Award 2004, the nomination for the Animal Pharm Industry Awards honors the achievements of the Swiss biotech company in ...
The New 7 Wonders of the World
Touring the world - from Athens on Sept. 5, 2006 to New York on Mar. 6, 2007 Zurich/Switzerland (ots) - Over the next seven months, the New7Wonders World Tour, featuring a huge hot-air balloon and a high-tech airship, will visit the 21 finalist monuments, allowing them to showcase their cultural significance. During the ceremony, an official certificate will be presented to each candidate. On July 7, 2007 - ...
Zurich (ots) - UPC Broadband, parent company of Cablecom in Switzerland, has reached the million threshold for telephony customers within its European footprint. This success of doubling the number of telephony customers over the last 18 months is mainly driven by the accelerated growth of UPC's VoIP (Voice over IP) based Digital Telephony service. In Switzerland ...
Burscheid, Germany/Prague, Czech Republic (ots) - Johnson Controls has been recognized by the World Diversity Leadership Council as winner of the global Corporate Diversity Innovation award. Johnson Controls is being honored with the award based on its supplier diversity joint-venture program and for excellence ...
The New 7 Wonders of the World
Zurich (ots) - The Chairman of a panel of leading architectural experts has announced the 21 world's landmark sites which will take part in the final stage of the race to become one of the New 7 Wonders of the World. The official New7Wonders finalist candidates are: 01 Acropolis, Athens, Greece 02 Alhambra, Granada, Spain 03 Angkor, Cambodia 04 ...
New York (ots) - In the presence of top energy executives from around the world, Platts announced Gazpromexport as the winner of the prestigious "Downstream Business of the Year" prize at this year's Global Energy Awards. The honor recognizes outstanding performance in oil refining, oil, LPG, or natural gas transportation and distribution, marketing, and trading. ...
- Indication: The overview of the Bilanz rating can be seen under: http://www.presseportal.ch/fr/ - Lausanne (ots) - Orange has received the best ratings in the mobile communications sector for the third consecutive time in the new telecommunications survey, which is drawn up each year by the business magazine Bilanz. Orange can also look back on a ...
Option and Swisscom Mobile to market seamless handover technology internationally Cannes/Berne (ots) - Mobile Unlimited from Swisscom Mobile has won the GSMA Award for Best Enterprise Application. The Mobile Unlimited service enables fast, uninterrupted mobile Internet access at all times. Other mobile providers will be offered licences for the Mobile Unlimited technology under the name Unlimited Connection by ...
LAKES, FL (ots) - Calypso Wireless (OTC: CLYW) has positioned the company to tackle the challenges of the dynamic wireless communication industry by integrating its patented ASNAP (Automatic Switching of Network Access Points) within the Wi-Fi and Cellular networks, for the benefit of users and carriers worldwide. "Calypso is working hard to facilitate communications, truly a basic human need, by improving wireless ...
Zurich (ots) - The Swiss-based company Prionics AG has won the most highly acclaimed European Biotech Award, the European Biotechnica Award for Excellence in Biotech Business. The award was handed over yesterday at the Biotechnica Business Forum in Berlin by the German Federal Minister of Economic Affairs, Wolfgang Clement. The international jury awarded the Biotech prize for Prionics' excellent track record both ...
St. Gall (ots) - In line with the concept: "Entrepreneurship and risk" the Max Schmidheiny Foundation is placing its commitment to a stronger relationship between business, politics and society at the centre of its activities. Accordingly, it will establish an initiative that will reinforce the dialogue between ...
Toronto (ots) - Syndesis has been recognized for "Best Customer Success Story" at the fourth annual Billing and OSS World Excellence Awards. This award was presented to Syndesis based on its deployment of Syndesis® NetProvision, Syndesis® NetDiscover and Syndesis® NetOptimizer at a Tier 1 North American service provider. "We are extremely proud of this ...
Toronto (ots) - A Tier 1 South American service provider has selected and deployed Syndesis' award-winning, automated network upload and synchronization solution, the software vendor reported today. With the Syndesis® NetDiscover-based solution, the Tier 1 provider has automated physical and logical network ...
Frankfurt/Main, Germany (ots) - CargoCity Frankfurt (the name of Frankfurt Airport's cargo metropolis) has been selected "Cargo Airport of the Year", "Best Cargo Airport in the World" and, for the third time, "Number One Air Cargo Hub in Europe" by the London-based publication Air Cargo News. With approximately 100'000 readers worldwide, Air Cargo News (ACN) is a ...
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK (ots) - Danware, the world's leading provider of high quality remote control software for professional users, today announced that NetOp Remote Control has been named finalist for the 2004 Well-Connected Award by CMP Media LLC's Network Computing. To be considered, all finalists are the technology solutions recommended by Network Computing in ...
GFI FAXmaker for Networks/SMTP 11 Singled Out for Its Technological Excellence and Vision London (ots) - GFI announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC)'s Communications Solutions Magazine has named GFI FAXmaker for Networks/SMTP 11 as a Product of the Year winner for 2003. Communications Solutions is a premier Web publication and newsletter in ...
London (ots) - Joining an Exclusive Club, Amadeus Certifies Outtask's Cliqbook Travel Management Solution Outtask, Inc., a leading provider of corporate travel and expense management solutions, awarded certification of Cliqbook, Outtask's travel management solution, as an Amadeus Compliant ...
Bonn, Germany (ots) - Second International Conference on Early Warning opened by German Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Heads of UN Agencies and Programmes Bringing together international organizations, governments, scientists, mayors, and a variety of representatives from civil society, the Second International ...
St. Gallen (ots) - Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, is the recipient of the 2003 Max Schmidheiny Foundation Freedom Prize. At the 33rd ISC-Symposium, an audience of more than 800 guests from all over the world were gathered in the great hall of the University of St. Gallen to hear Prof. Dr. Peter Gomez, President of the University and the new Chairman of the Max Schmidheiny Foundation, praise the ...
WOODBURY, NY (ots) - Harman Kardon, a division of Harman International Industries, Incorporated (NYSE: HAR), and a leader in audio/video home entertainment system solutions, today announced that it has signed on as a sponsor of key dates of Sir Paul McCartney's upcoming "Back in the World 2003" tour. Paul McCartney's World Tour, which began in April of last ...
San Francisco, CA (ots) - Visa Emerges as Most Trusted Credit Card Brand in RecentInternational Study Visa has been selected "the most trusted credit card brand" in international research conducted by Reader's Digest magazine, polling subscribers spanning Europe, Canada and Brazil. Across Europe, the survey revealed that Visa is considered by consumers to be the most trusted credit card brand in 17 of ...
Zurich (ots) - sunrise has been awarded Gold Certification status by Cisco for the quality of its network services. The award acknowledges the efforts the provider has made in the area of data communication solutions for business customers. Cisco awards Gold Certification status every year - their most important partner certification. sunrise's award emphasizes that the telecommunications provider is capable of ...
Travel And Tourism Industry Leaders Honored At Prestigious Annual Event SAN FRANCISCO, CA (ots) - For the fifth consecutive year, the World Travel Awards, the prestigious awards ceremony that acknowledges significant achievements in all areas of the travel and tourism industry, has named Visa the "World's ...
Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt
Osnabrueck, Germany (ots) - DBU honours international commitment and development of biological products - Awarding ceremony on 27 October in Magdeburg The new prizewinners of the German Environmental Award have been nominated. Presented by Federal President Johannes Rau the Executive Director of the ...
Corine Internationaler Buchpreis
Cross-reference: picture is available at: www.newsaktuell.ch/d/galerie.htx?type=obs Munich (ots) - This year's prestigious CORINE will be awarded to eight well-known authors at a major TV gala hosted by Désirée Nosbusch at the Munich Cuvilliés Theatre on November 6th, 2002. Brazilian writer Paul Coelho will receive the Best Fiction CORINE for his bestseller "O Alquimista" (Published by Diogenes, Zurich/ Switzerland). UN Special Envoy Waris Dirie will receive the ...
St. Gallen (ots) - On Saturday, May 25, in St. Gallen, Ruud Lubbers, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, was presented with the Max Schmidheiny Foundation's Freedom Prize for the year 2002. The presentation took place at the 32nd ISC-Symposiums in the great hall of the University of St. Gallen. An audience of more than 800 guests from all over the world ...