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ATHENS, Greece, Feb, 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- inAccess was selected by the European Union to participate in the EU Gateway Programme for Environment and Energy-related technologies which took place from 4 - 8 February in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130219/CG62169) During EU Gateway, inAccess had the opportunity to present inSolar, its innovative and leading solar plants monitoring solution, to EPCs, plant developers, investors and other...
SYDNEY, Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sabre connected travel agents worldwide will now be able to make bookings for Jetstar Japan (GK) - Japan's low cost carrier. The carrier recently signed a global distribution system (GDS) agreement with Sabre Travel Network to provide worldwide access to its fares and schedules. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130205/LA54136LOGO) "Adding the ability to distribute through well-established global distribution systems such as Sabre...
NEW YORK, Feb. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM), operator of Open, Transparent and Connected financial marketplaces, today announced that Kinbasha Gaming International, Inc. (OTCQX: KNBA), an owner and operator of retail gaming centers in Japan, has chosen to trade on OTCQX(R), the qualified OTC marketplace with the highest financial standards and third-party sponsorship. Kinbasha is the first SEC-reporting company with a majority of its operations in...
FREMONT, Calif., Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (OTCBB: WGBS) announced today a co-marketing agreement with QIAGEN KK - a subsidiary of QIAGEN N.V.- for the joint promotion of certain products in Japan in the areas of genomics platforms such as Next-Gen sequencing (NGS) and qPCR. With the joint offering, customers will be able to seamlessly plan and execute complex research projects involving molecular biomarker discovery with NGS, where WaferGen's...
Tokyo, Feb 19, 2013 - (JCN Newswire) - NTT DOCOMO, INC., Japan's leading mobile operator and provider of integrated services centered on mobility, announced today that it has developed Japan's first base station antenna that supports five frequency bands, including the newly allocated 700MHz band for LTE mobile telecommunications.The company will soon begin installing 700MHz-compatible base stations in preparation for the new spectrum, which will become available...
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. and BERLIN, Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) and Bayer HealthCare today announced that they have initiated a new Phase 3 trial (named VIVID EAST-DME) to evaluate the efficacy and safety of EYLEA(®) (aflibercept) Injection in the treatment of Diabetic Macular Edema (DME) in Russia, China, and other Asian countries. The companies are extending their global development program for EYLEA in DME after promising results in the...
TOKYO, Feb. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Excite Japan Co., Ltd. announced today that it has launched the English optimized version of Android app "Japanese Translation" for Japanese learning users worldwide. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130218/HK60371 ) "Japanese Translation", which has been downloaded 1.7 million times in Japan, is one of the most popular translation app in the country for its high quality English-Japanese and Japanese-English translation. In...
TOKYO, Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the analytic data solutions company (Teradata Japan, Minato-ku, Tokyo; Yukihiko Yoshikawa, President), today announced that Yahoo Japan Corporation (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO, Manabu Miyasaka) has renewed and updated its analytical data systems with the Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse Platform 6690, Teradata's latest high-end model, for its data warehouse (DWH), the largest DWH analytics...
HONOLULU, Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Hawaiian Airlines will add its fifth Japan gateway in June with the launch of new service three times a week to Sendai, Japan, starting June 25, pending Japan government approval. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20040827/LAF044LOGO) The new flights will be the first scheduled service between Sendai and Hawai'i since another carrier left the market in 2004, and among the first new services to be introduced at Sendai Airport since it...
Physicians can confirm if all of tumor is resected without moving patient WINNIPEG, Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - IMRIS Inc. (NASDAQ: IMRS; TSX: IM) ("IMRIS" or the "Company") today announced neurosurgeons at University of Tsukuba Hospital in Ibaraki, Japan, have performed initial tumor removal cases using its VISIUS(®) Surgical Theatre. The intraoperative MRI system is the only one of its kind in Japan that allows for high quality image scanning during an operation without...
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The Sega Saturn is a 32-bit video game console produced by Sega as the fifth generation in a line of game consoles. It was released in Japan on November 22, 1994, North American on May 11, 1995 and on July 8, 1995 in Europe. In the United States only 2 million units were sold compared to over 6 million in Japan. The system was discontinued on August 10, 1998. Its successor was the Dreamcast. The original unit was going to have a single central processor, but the PlayStation’s...
The Nintendo 64 (N64) is a game console produce and sold by Nintendo. It was released in June 1996 in Japan; September 1996 in North America; March 1997 in Europe and Australia; September 1997 in France; and December 1997 in Brazil. The N64 was the third generation home game console from Nintendo and the last to use ROM cartridges. The N64 was discontinued worldwide by the end of 2003. Its successor was the Nintendo Game Cube released in 2001. Worldwide sales for the N64 reached 32.93...
The Nintendo GameCube (NGC in Japan, GCN in North America) is a video game console produced by Nintendo and released on September 14, 2001 in Japan, November 14, 2001 in North America, May 3, 2002 in Europe, and May 17, 2002 in Australia. It is the sixth generation game console produced by Nintendo that uses optical discs as the primary storage, and uses miniDVDs instead of full sized DVDs. The GameCube was the first Nintendo console to support online play outside of Japan using a modem...
The Dreamcast is a video game console released by Sega in November 1998 in Japan, September 1999 in North America, October 1999 in Europe, and November 1999 in Australia. In the first 24 hours of release 225,132 units were sold and a total of 500,000 in the first two weeks. On January 31, 2001, Sega announced it would discontinue the production of the Dreamcast in March 2001 and concentrate solely on software. Even though the console production was discontinued, Sega of Japan still...
Image Caption: Sony's PlayStation 3 gaming console. Credit: Sony The PlayStation 3 (PS3) released on November 11, 2006 in Japan and November 17, 2006 in North America. It was released globally in March 2007. The PS3 is a game console manufactured by Sony Computer Entertainment and uses Blu-ray Disc as its primary storage. Within the first 24 hours of release 81,639 units were sold in Japan. As of January 2013, over 77 million units worldwide have been sold. The original PS3 was offered...
