Innovation, Collaboration and Government Incentive Will Usher the European Mobile Industry Out of the Recession, Says Frost & Sullivan

September 28th, 2009 LONDON - The European Mobile Industry is on the road to recovery from the economic downturn. Innovation and collaboration are crucial, paving the way for future industry developments.

September 27th, 2009 LONDON - Frost & Sullivan held its prestigious 'Excellence in Best Practices Awards Banquet' on Thursday, September 24, 2009 at the Marriott Marble Arch, London. (LOGO: www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081117/FSLOGO) The Frost & Sullivan 'Excellence in Best Practices Awards Banquet' honours those companies whose diligence, perseverance, and dedication have enabled them to excel in the increasingly competitive global marketplace.

September 14th, 2009 LONDON - Frost & Sullivan will host its prestigious 'Excellence in Healthcare Awards Banquet' on Thursday, October 8, 2009, at the Guoman Charing Cross, London. (Logo: www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081117/FSLOGO) Frost & Sullivan's highly competitive awards recognise companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development.

September 2nd, 2009 LONDON - - Frost & Sullivan to Host Analyst Briefing on Automation Services Market during Recession, on Wednesday, 9 September 2009, at 16.00 BST Economic recession has trampled the growth of major control systems and automation products. However, automation services are expected to offer avenues of sustained growth.

August 11th, 2009 LONDON - - Frost & Sullivan to Host Analyst Briefing on European Online Collaboration Market on Thursday, 20 August 2009, at 15.00 BST Online collaboration is proving to be an effective way for businesses to save time and money on travel, while maintaining high level of productivity. The arising trend indicates that companies who discovered the advantages of online collaboration are unlikely to return to old ways of conducting business when the economic conditions improve.

July 28th, 2009 LONDON - - Frost & Sullivan to Host Analyst Briefing on European Pneumatic Actuators Market on Tuesday, 4 August 2009, at 14.00 BST European pneumatic manufacturers are finding sustainability and profitability increasingly difficult to maintain in competitive market conditions exacerbated by the global economic crisis. Plummeting demand in the framework of general market uncertainty forces participants to focus more on innovation and value addition.

July 8th, 2009 LONDON - The mobile communications markets in Eastern Europe are growing strongly from usage and revenues points of view. Defining these markets as emerging may no longer be accurate as they are demonstrating high growth and looking for new opportunities.

June 24th, 2009 LONDON - The UK defence industry remains insulated from global recession compared to other market verticals, with government defence spending fixed into long-term programmes and immune from short-term economic cycles. Unlike small low-spending countries whose defence budgets will be severely impacted, the UK will sustain spending levels over the long term.

May 18th, 2009 LONDON - By 2015 the European market for electric vehicles (EVs) could potentially grow to 480,000 units. Frost & Sullivan has revised this forecast from the prediction of 250,000 EVs by 2015 made last year due to changing supply dynamics.

May 17th, 2009 LONDON - Frost & Sullivan to Host Analyst Briefing on Visual Collaboration Market on Tuesday, 26 May 2009 at 15.00 GMT At a time of global warming and threatening pandemics - and after a number of false starts - videoconferencing is finally making good on its many earlier promises. (Logo: www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081117/FSLOGO) High quality pictures and sound, combined with new IP networks, can deliver an experience in-line with users' expectations and reliably replace many face-to-face meetings.

January 11th, 2009 LONDON - British actress Sadie Frost, who has moved on from her marriage with actor Jude Law, says she is too busy with work now to think of romance. According to mirror.co.uk, Frost just returned from a break with Law.

September 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Public Private Partnership (PPP) model is being looked at for some of the Innovation Universities that are to be set up by the Government (the 11th Five Year Plan proposes the establishment of 14 such universities aimed at world class standards). The Government is already in the process of involving a PPP model in school education, said Union Minister for Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal while meeting with Minister for Trade, Investment and Business of the United Kingdom, Lord Mervyn Davies.

June 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharti Airtel, one of India's leading telecom service providers, has been adjudged the best service provider in the Asia-Pacific region by telecom research and consultancy firm Frost and Sullivan. The company has bagged top honours for overall service quality and has been adjudged the service provider of the year in the "Best of the Best" category, Airtel said in a statement Tuesday.

August 22nd, 2009 TAIPEI - China Mobile Ltd, the world's largest mobile phone carrier, has decided to pick Taiwan's electronics giant Hon Hai Group as its supplier of electronic readers, a top company official said Saturday. "We have picked Hong Hai Group to make electronic readers for us and we believe the electronic reader market will be huge," said Wang Jianzhou, chairman of China Mobile, on the second day of his nine-day visit to Taiwan.

February 6th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - MobMe and Light Logics, two incubated companies based in Kerala's Technopark, have won national innovation awards, it was announced here Saturday. MobMe won the Nasscom Innovation Awards 2008 for the 'Most Innovative Start-up' and the Indian Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Parks and Business Incubators Association (ISBA) award for the 'Best Start-up ICT Company of 2008'.

April 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Department of Science and Technology (DST) Monday launched the India Innovation Initiative (i3) in collaboration with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and communication analyst Agilent Technologies. Under the initiative, DST will launch a nation-wide competition of technology-based ideas in which innovators above 18 years of age can participate.

June 8th, 2009 BANGALORE - India's biotechnology major Biocon Ltd. Monday announced the setting up of a cell for innovation management at Hyderabad's Indian School of Business (ISB) with a corpus of Rs.1 crore.

June 30th, 2009 LONDON - Some of the world's biggest mobile phone manufacturers have agreed to adopt a new universal standard of phone charger in an effort to be more environmentally friendly. Until now, most mobile phones have used proprietary chargers that will only work on one kind of device, leading to cupboards full of unwanted chargers in homes across the country.

August 31st, 2009 HYDERABAD - US aerospace major Lockheed Martin's India Innovation Growth Programme achieved another milestone Monday with the signing of 22 commercialization deals by the winners of this unique nation-wide initiative. The deals, signed at the Hyderabad Technology Expo included six inked with international companies, placing the winners on a global platform.

June 24th, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - Plans by South African mobile giant MTN and India's Bharti Airtel to form a huge network straddling Asia, Africa and the Middle East could be affected by Iran's blockage of mobile network signals in the wake of the ongoing strife there. Analysts estimate that MTN stood to lose at least a month's revenue in Iran, the company's third largest market, but the telecom giant declined to comment on its operations in that country.