Friday, 14 April 2017

FREE BIG DATA ANALYTICS SEMINAR COMING TO A CITY NEAR YOU

KUALA LUMPUR, April 11 (Bernama) -- The country's leading geospatial solutions provider, Esri Malaysia, is bringing its highly anticipated roadshow of seminars - Directions LIVE - to five major Malaysian cities: Johor Bahru, Sarawak, Penang, Kota Kinabalu and Kuantan. The month-long roadshow will run from 25 April to 23 May.

This round of Directions LIVE - themed Build. Connect. Share. - will provide insight on how organisations can leverage Big Data Analytics, lightweight productivity apps and real-time GIS to achieve tangible results.
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Thursday, 13 April 2017

TOSHIBA EXPANDS LINE-UP OF ARM® CORTEX®-M-BASED MICROCONTROLLERS


TOKYO, April 13 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Toshiba Corporation's (TOKYO: 6502) Storage & Electronic Devices Solutions Company today announced the launch of “M3H group (2),” as the third product group in the TXZ™ Family of low-power, high-speed microcontrollers based on the ARM Cortex-M core. Sample shipments of the 24 products in the group will start in May with mass production scheduled to start in September.

Toshiba launched “M3H Group (1)” with 30 products for consumer and industrial device applications in May 2016, as the first product group of the TXZ family. October saw the start of sample shipments of 13 products from the second product group, "M4K Group," equipped with a vector engine.

TOSHIBA EXPANDS LINE-UP OF ARM® CORTEX®-M-BASED MICROCONTROLLERS

SPEEDCAST SECURES TWO SYSTEMS INTEGRATION CONTRACTS WITH LEADING FABRICATOR FOR OFFSHORE E&P ASSETS




SYDNEY, April 12 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Speedcast International Limited (ASX: SDA), the world’s most trusted provider of highly reliable, fully managed, remote communication and IT solutions, today announced it has won two new systems integration projects with a leading fabricator for the oil and gas industry.
 

In both contracts, Speedcast has been named telecoms systems integrator, responsible for all telecommunications components. Under the terms of the agreements, Speedcast will design, integrate, test and deliver the entire communications systems solution.

The first of these projects is in support of a new wellhead platform to be located offshore Brazil and the telecom package includes 14 systems. The second of these projects is for a new pipeline support platform to be located in the Gulf of Mexico and the telecom package includes 19 systems. These systems include elements such as wide-area and local-area networks, closed-circuit television (CCTV), company phone, public address and general alarm (PAGA), television receive-only (TVRO) and meteorological monitoring.

“Being awarded the telecommunications component for both of these projects is evidence of the great strides we are continuing to make in growing our systems integration business,” said Keith Johnson, EVP of Energy, Speedcast. “These wins not only position us well for ongoing and continued support of these projects, but also for future projects. Our global systems integration team offers our customers tremendous value by ensuring their communication system needs are designed, integrated and installed using an experienced, certified and trained global team.”

A.M. BEST WITHDRAWS CREDIT RATINGS OF BEA LIFE LIMITED

HONG KONG, April 13 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- A.M. Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a-” of BEA Life Limited (BEA Life) (Hong Kong). The outlook of these Credit Ratings (ratings) is stable. Concurrently, A.M. Best has withdrawn the ratings of BEA Life upon management’s request to no longer participate in A.M. Best’s interactive rating process.

The ratings reflect BEA Life’s adequate balance sheet strength, favorable operating performance and the benefits it receives from its strong affiliation with The Bank of East Asia.

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AXA AFFIN GENERAL INSURANCE (AAGI) BAGS THREE AWARDS AT ASIA RECRUITMENT AWARDS 2017

KUALA LUMPUR, April 12 (Bernama) -- AXA Affin General Insurance Berhad (AAGI) recently won three awards at the Asia Recruitment Awards 2017:

*Gold – Best Recruitment Evaluation Technique

*Silver – Best Diversity and Inclusion Strategy

*Bronze – Best Use of Digital Media

The Asia Recruitment Awards 2017 is organized by Human Resources Magazine, featuring the Top 25 organizations in Malaysia, and is the only regional recruitment awards to recognize and celebrate the best in talent acquisition within Asia. The ceremony was held at Aloft Kuala Lumpur on 31 March 2017, and was attended by 200 out-performing corporate Human Resource (HR) personnel from top companies in Malaysia.
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