Madrid (ots) - 1 February 2007 - UNWTO and WISeKey announced an agreement today to expand the use of traveller identification and authentication technologies in the multibillion dollar tourism sector. This collaboration builds on the Public Private Partnership agreement signed by UNWTO and Microsoft in 2006. ...
UEFA - Union of European Football Associ
Nyon (ots) - Almost four million votes were cast by a record 390,000 individual uefa.com users and the resulting dream dozen includes four players who were also in last year's team as well as five newcomers. UEFA Champions League winners FC Barcelona have four players - summer recruit Gianluca Zambrotta, Carles Puyol, Ronaldinho and Samuel Eto'o - in the ...
Cologne (ots) - They kept millions of users waiting for more then a month, but today Skype (Ebay) finally announced their new "pricing strategy".... Voipbuster could not believe it: instead of lowering their prices they decided to put a sneaky new charge of 3,9 eurocents on all calls!! For almost all Skype users this means a price increase of over 50%! Time to switch, because Voipbuster, the biggest rival of Skype, announced today more new countries can be called ...
UEFA - Union of European Football Associ
Nyon (ots) - Voting opens today for the uefa.com users' Team of the Year 2006. The poll, now in its sixth year, gives the users of uefa.com, Europe's football website, the chance to select a team of players who made their mark in European football over the last 12 months. Sixty players and managers have been nominated for 12 positions, including coach, and the ...
Global Hotel Alliance launches fully interactive site with independent tailored packaging Zurich (ots) - IXeo Interactive Travel SA, the global tourism gateway, today announced that it has been chosen by the Global Hotel Alliance, the new hotel alliance for luxury hotels and resorts, to build and operate the company's website with complete dynamic packaging & tailored booking solution launched on the 27th October. ...
UEFA - Union of European Football Associ
UEFA Video Service provides live Internet coverage of UEFA Champions League matches in 96 countries. Nyon (ots) - The launch of the UEFA Video Service (UVS), has given Internet users in 96 countries access to live online matches from UEFA competitions. UVS has been developed by UEFA to enable its broadcast partners to extend their rights and provide live match coverage on the Internet. Over 20 broadcasters ...
The cooperation includes investment in WISeKey from MCI Events and the development and commercialization of a join WISekey E-Xhibition Secure Portal and E-Xhibition eCard to be used within the WISeKey's Global Network of Identity Providers in major world Exhibition destinations. Geneva, Switzerland and Nice, ...
Zurich (ots) - Teleclub and cablecom agreed to cooperate. The two companies will work together to promote and disseminate Teleclub's digital pay TV services. From June 2007, Teleclub's digital TV services will be available on cablecom's digital TV platform. The products will be promoted jointly. The services are available to the subscribers of both companies. Cablecom and Teleclub AG reached an agreement on 11th ...
Lustdorf (ots) - Swiss company Seitz Phototechnik AG expands the current boundaries in digital photography. With the new Seitz D3 scan back technology it is possible to scan 300 megabytes per second, making the Seitz D3 sensor 100x faster than any existing scan back. The new technology allows to create livelydigital images ranging from medium format, 6x17 panoramas ...
Zurich (ots) - An international Java technology conference that goes by the name "Jazoon" will be held from June 24-28 in Zurich's Hallenstadion. The conference organizers Sun Microsystems (Schweiz) AG, Netcetera and cR Kommunikation announced the event at a press conference today. Jazoon is aimed at the professional Java community, young professionals, as well as seasoned IT experts and managers. The conference ...
United Mobile Liechtenstein AG
- Cross-reference: A picture is available at http://www.presseportal.ch/de/story.htx?firmaid=100010546 - - Swiss mobile telephony provider United Mobile makes Sandra Romero its new calling card, via an eBay auction, for a soon to be launched ad campaign Kloten (ots) - In keeping with the motto "Auction your fame" the Swiss mobile telephony provider United Mobile advertised for models on eBay for the company's ...
Zurich (ots) - Cablecom is launching a unique offer for new customers who decide to subscribe for digital phone and hispeed internet before the end of June. Swiss customers and foreign citizens alike benefit from this special offer - they all get up to CHF 1,200.00 worth of free phone calls to a fixed network of ...
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 ...
Davos/Geneva (ots) - On 26 January 2006 the State of Geneva convened a CEO-level meeting on global security in new technologies at the ski resort of Davos on the occasion of the Annual Meeting 2006 of the World Economic Forum. At the event, Pierre Francois Unger, President of the State of Geneva announced that ...
Thalwil (ots) - u-blox AG, the leading Swiss provider of innovative GPS receiver technology, today announced the release of firmware 5.00 that features spectacular navigation, SuperSense weak signal performance and unmatched coverage in the most difficult urban canyons, even when the antenna is located inside vehicles with coated windows. "I am delighted to ...
Frankfurt, Vienna, Zurich (ots) - GeoPost is optimising its cash-flow forecasting and multi-banking connections with the help of technology from Kyriba. Kyriba, leading web-based cash-flow forecasting and multi-banking Application Service Provider (ASP) have today announced that GeoPost Group Treasury has chosen Kyriba platform for its cash-flow forecasting, ...
Zurich (ots) - cablecom has secured an order in Geneva worth CHF 20 million that involves modernization of three cable networks. For 25,000 households in Onex, Lancy and Carouge, the project will provide access to cablecom's triple play service, featuring digital television, broadband Internet and digital telephony. Under this multi-year contract, the three municipalities have commissioned cablecom to modernize ...
- Indication: A of permitted characters with their Unicode position can be downloaded for free as pdf: www.presseportal.ch/de/story.htx?firmaid=100004516 - Zurich (ots) - On 1 December 2005 at 8.00, the character "" will be making its debut in the internet - or, to be more precise, SWITCH will be permitting ...
Zurich (ots) - VIA NET.WORKS (Switzerland) Ltd., a company of Solution24 Ltd., and TIC Ltd. from Kriens/Luzern merge, becoming the biggest Full Service Internet and IT-Provider of Central Switzerland. The two companies will be known under their new name "TIC The Internet Company Ltd.". The name stands for one of the biggest independent Swiss Internet-Providers (ISP) with EUR 18 Mio. Revenue. "Over 12.000 ...
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) - As of 1 October 2005, it will be even easier than before to register a domain name via the internet. SWITCH, the registry for domain names ending in .ch and .li, has redesigned the "Internet Domains" section of its website in response to changing customer needs. Users will benefit not only from the new design but also from optimised processes and functions. The launch of this new website zone ...
A picture can be downloaded under: http://www.presseportal.ch/de/story.htx?firmaid=100008703 Interactive Maps to find that perfect vacation. New African supplier spices up Safari experience. Zurich (ots) - IXEO Interactive Travel SA, the global gateway for tourism, today announced new and improved features for the world's largest interactive tourism gateway, www.ixeo.com. The travel site, launched to the tourism ...
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 ...
Ecma standardises Universal 3D (U3D) - a file format which makes 3D data accessible to mainstream business applications. Geneva (ots) - ECMA-363 covers new usage models for 3D data, allowing interactive 3D graphics in mainstream business applications such as online promotion, marketing and sales. The standard defines a Universal 3D (U3D) file format which streamlines large, complex 3D CAD datasets. Consequently, U3D ...
Geneva (ots) - Synthesis Bank, the Swiss leader in online investment banking, has entered into a marketing agreement with Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the largest futures exchange in the United States with the broadest global distribution for trading futures electronically. This makes the electronic trading platform, Synthesis TradingFloor (www.tradingfloor.com), CME's only partner in Switzerland. In March ...