The Emperor of TeasAIYA Launches Premium Tea Kimigayo as Xmas Edition HAMBURG, Germany, November 25 - Gyokuro Kimigayo is one of the most expensive teas worldwide. Starting Successful Conclusion of the Third India Week HamburgHAMBURG, Germany - Over the weekend at the end of India Week Hamburg 2009, about 260 German and Indian guests celebrated Diwali, the Indian Festival of Lights, at the Hamburg House. For ten days, the Hanseatic city was entirely dedicated to India. Many citizens of Hamburg and Indian guests attended approximately 30 events on Indian culture and on economic and political ties the Hanseatic city has with the Indian subcontinent. At the conclusion of India Week, the 7th South Asia Day takes place on November 14 at the University of Hamburg. Asklepios Clinics Hamburg Cooperate With the Internationally Leading Healthcare Company Bupa InternationalHAMBURG, Germany - - Asklepios Fosters Hamburg as a Location for Health Industry Asklepios fosters Hamburg as a location for health industry. Bupa International, the world’s leading expatriate health insurer, and Asklepios Clinics Hamburg GmbH have signed a cooperation contract which enables the many privately insured expatriate members of Bupa International to easily access medical care in the Hamburg Asklepios Clinics. Bupa International has been active worldwide for more than three decades and mainly insures company members and so-called expatriates, i.e. people living and working outside their home countries. Bupa International, based in the UK, is currently active in 190 countries and attends to more than 800,000 insured persons worldwide, among them also a large and increasing number of insured persons living and working in Germany with their families and insured with Bupa. Hamburg Further Strengthens its Relations With IndiaHAMBURG - From October 23 to November 1, the northern German economic metropolis Hamburg will host India Week for the third time. A program featuring some 30 events provides information on current areas of activity and developments in the Indian economy, politics and culture. It is all about opportunities and prospects for closer cooperation between Hamburg and India. Journal of Commerce Launches Conference To Discuss Recovery of Asia-Europe MarketHAMBURG - - Asia-Europe Container Shipping Conference - 8-9 December 2009, Crowne Plaza, Hamburg Real-time Updates Now Also Available for Maps: NAVIGON Announces Live Map Update ServicesHAMBURG - NAVIGON’s new Live Services demonstrate just how useful dynamic content can be for navigation devices. Real-time news including traffic conditions, free parking spaces or speed cameras, make navigation devices an even more precise and informative driving companion. Further Live Services are also waiting in the wings, including updated information about newly constructed roads, real-time information about road closures, and live POI updates. In the future (in conjunction with NAVTEQ) we will be able to witness continuous updates of map material stored on digital navigators. With FreshMaps Live, NAVIGON ensures that your navigation device’s maps are always fully up to date. BAT Stiftung Fur Zukunftsfragen (foundation for future studies) Publishes a new European SurveyHAMBURG - - Cross reference: Picture is distributed via EPA (European Pressphoto Agency) and can be downloaded free of charge under: IFA 2009: NAVIGON Takes an Innovative Direction With New Product PortfolioHAMBURG - - Picture is available via EPA (European Pressphoto Agency) and can be downloaded free of charge at: www.presseportal.de/pm/15250/navigon_ag/?keygroup=bild Real-time Precision: the Latest NAVIGON Live ServicesHAMBURG - Dynamic content, together with the increasing complexity of road traffic and the desire for reliable and congestion-free navigation, are playing an ever more important role. At the IFA exhibition, NAVIGON will bring access to up-to-date data into a new era with the new NAVIGON Live Services. With the new Live Services, drivers can access real-time information at any time via the NAVIGON Live Module, which includes details about the traffic situation, free parking spaces or specific destinations via Google Local Search. Renewable Energy: Garrad Hassan Joins Germanischer LloydHAMBURG, Germany and BRISTOL, England - Garrad Hassan (GH), based in Bristol (UK), is joining Germanischer Lloyd (GL) to form a fully integrated technical assurance and consulting company for renewable energy. EOS Five Nations Survey 2009HAMBURG, Germany - - European Payment Practices Companies in Switzerland and Germany benefit from their customers’ relatively high level of payment. This is one result from the EOS survey ‘European Payment Practices’: In cooperation with the independent market research institute Ipsos, the international EOS Group, a provider in the areas of information management, arrears management and receivables management, questioned 1200 companies in five European countries. Supermicro Displays Performance-Per-Watt Leadership at International SuperComputing (ISC) 2009HAMBURG, Germany - 2U Twin2 (”Twin Squared”), SuperBlade(R) and Other Innovative Servers Featuring Intel(R) Xeon(R) 5500 (Nehalem) Processors & Gold Level Power Supplies Supermicro Showcases World’s Densest and Greenest HPC Solutions at ISC ‘09HAMBURG - 1,440 Processor Cores per 42U Rack with 4-Way SuperBlade(R) Optimized for Six-Core AMD Opteron(TM) Processors, QDR InfiniBand, Gold Level Power Efficiency Supermicro and NVIDIA Smash 1U Server Performance Records at International SuperComputing (ISC) 2009HAMBURG, Germany - 2-Teraflop SuperServer 6016GT-TF-TM2 with Two Tesla GPUs plus a new 4U System that supports Four Tesla GPUs Destination Reached First: The NAVIGON MobileNavigator for the iPhone is Available Immediately From the App StoreHAMBURG - The iPhone is extremely multitalented - and is now becoming even more versatile. Because now iPhone users can also equip their device in Apple’s App Store with the MobileNavigator from NAVIGON. The navigation software transforms any iPhone 3G equipped with the new Apple OS 3.0 operating system and any iPhone 3G S into a complete navigation device with pathbreaking functions. Management Change at CoreMedia - Sören Stamer Hands Over to Gerrit KolbHAMBURG, Germany - Supervisory Board Appoints Gerrit Kolb as New CEO of CoreMedia AG Effective July 1 Online Hollywood Blockbuster Games Available at Bigpoint.comHAMBURG, Germany - Bigpoint.com is the Exclusive Publisher for Universal Pictures’ Online Games for Such hit Movies as “Wanted”, “The Fast and the Furious” and “The Terminator” NAVIGON Takes Off First: MobileNavigator Now Also Leads the Way on the iPhone Already in JuneHAMBURG, Germany - To Turn the iPhone 3G and the Forthcoming iPhone 3G S Into an Innovative Navigator, you Only Need Two “ingredients”: the New Apple OS 3.0 Operating System and the MobileNavigator From NAVIGON. By June iPhone Users Will be Able to Turn Their Phones Into a Handy, Convenient Navigation Device With the Professional Software From NAVIGON for the First Time Rene Hermes Appointed New Vice President Marketing at CoreMediaHAMBURG, Germany - CoreMedia, an international provider of people-centric(TM) content management software, has recently appointed Rene Hermes as Vice President Marketing. Mr. Hermes is bringing more than 15 years international marketing and business development experience to CoreMedia. He is responsible for all aspects of marketing including strategy, corporate communications, product marketing, channel management, and field marketing. “Aristotle Onassis Prize for the Protection of the Environment”HAMBURG, Germany - International Environmental Prize to be Awarded in Future in Hamburg City Mayor Ole von Beust, City Senator for the Environment Anja Hajduk and Foundation President Anthony S. Papadimitriou today announced the future awarding of “Aristotle Onassis Prize for the Protection of the Environment”, speaking at Hamburg City Hall. The prize is endowed by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation and is to be awarded in Hamburg every two years for “outstanding contributions towards protecting and improving the environment, including the long-term economical use of energy”. The first award will be in autumn 2010, and the prize may be given to individuals or organisations of all kinds, other than politicians or political parties. It is one of the highest-endowed environmental prizes in the world, carrying an award of EUR 250,000. Beatlemania on the Reeperbahn: The Beatles Return to HamburgHAMBURG, Germany - Indra, Top Ten, Kaiserkeller, Star Club - these were the clubs on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg / Germany, where in the early 1960s the young and just-formed Beatles honed their skills onstage daily, for up to nine hours at a time, and from where they went on to conquer the world. From May 29th the Beatles will once again have a home in Hamburg, in the place where it all began - on the Reeperbahn, just a guitar’s throw from the recently inaugurated Beatles Square and the venues in which they once performed. A unique project dedicated to the Liverpool band is opening its doors: BEATLEMANIA Hamburg. Stiftung Für Zukunftsfragen / Foundation For Future Studies Publishes new European Study: Why is the Number of Voters Going to the Polls Declining? Representative Face-to-Face Survey in 10 Countries With Over 12.000 CitizensHAMBURG, Germany - The three important reasons why less people are voting are: - Because they believe that election promises are not kept (60%) - Because they are basically dissatisfied with politicians and political parties (57%) - Because they do not believe that something can be improved by voting (49%) 500,000 YouTube Views in Two Weeks: Grabarz&Partner Infects the Internet With “Bontrust” AdvertisingHAMBURG, Germany - The fact that successful viral advertising doesn’t always have to come from the USA or England has been impressively demonstrated recently by the Hamburg ad agency Grabarz&Partner for its client Bontrust. Two weeks ago the agency uploaded a 75-second spot for the investment consulting firm on the video sharing website YouTube. The lavishly produced film shows a world that is completely made of banknotes, and in which the Abraham Lincoln immortalized on dollar bills falls head over heels in love with a female banknote and fathers children with her. Ending: “Make your money multiply with us.” Bigpoint.com Opens a Portal for External Game DevelopersHAMBURG, Germany - Developer Lounge Offers an Interface to Integrate External Browser Games - Bigpoint.com Expands its Portfolio and Takes on the Role of Publisher World’s Biggest Port Festival in HamburgHAMBURG, Germany - Hamburg / Germany Celebrated Last Weekend the 820th Birthday of its Port With More Than 1.2 Million Visitors Brightcove Partners With sevenload to Provide New Online Video Distribution & Monetization OpportunitiesHAMBURG - Brightcove customers gain access to one of the leading global social media networks for videos and Web TV content Discovery Networks Germany Launches Enhanced Online Video Experiences with BrightcoveHAMBURG - Discovery rolls out clips and full-length programming across its DMAX Web property Brightcove Inc., the leading online video platform, today announced that Discovery Networks Germany has chosen the Brightcove platform to publish and distribute advertising-supported long and short-form video content across its DMAX.de Web property. Building on its long standing relationship with Discovery Communications in the U.S., Brightcove will enable Discovery Germany to showcase promotional clips as well as full-length programming. Brightcove’s long-form capabilities will enable Discovery Germany to deliver archived episodes of past seasons of shows, new episodes of recently aired shows for catch-up TV purposes, as well as exclusive online premieres of selected new episodes prior to their television debut. First European Podcast Award Announces WinnersHAMBURG, Germany - Europe’s Top Podcasts Receive Accolades - With Photo Choosing from ten participating countries across Europe and over 750 nominations, a panel of judges awarded the inaugural European Podcast Award (www.european-podcast-award.eu/.)to five winners from Germany, England and Spain. The award seeks to promote audio podcasters across Europe and encourage the continuation of first-rate achievement in the burgeoning field. All this has been made possible with the exclusive support of Olympus Audio Systems. A video recording of the ceremony and information about the award is available online on the EPA blog at: blog.european-podcast-award.eu/. Crystal Cabin Award 2009 Hamburg: Boeing, Lufthansa-Technik, B/E Aerospace and Recaro are WinnersHAMBURG, Germany - The competition at this year’s Crystal Cabin Award for aircraft cabin interiors innovations had strong entries in six different categories from 51 renowned companies. Winners are: Boeing, Lufthansa-Technik, B/E Aerospace and Recaro Cremerlin(R) a World Novelty for the Cosmetics MarketHAMBURG, Germany - Cremer Care Replaces Petrolatum With Vegetable Alternative Vegetable based raw materials do play an increasing role in the cosmetics |
