Vectone Increases its Value to Norwegian Customers With Free International Weekend Calls

June 29th, 2009 LONDON - Announcing Metronet - A service which allows you make low-cost local and international calls from your mobile phone. You can save up to 95% on mobile-phone calls - even when you're roaming.

June 22nd, 2009 LAKE FOREST, California - Panasonic Avionics Corporation (Panasonic), the world leader in state-of-the-art in-flight entertainment and communication (IFEC) systems, today announced that its Multiplexed Passenger Entertainment System (MPES) IFE system was installed on the 6,000th Boeing 737 to enter into service. The aircraft was delivered to International Lease Finance Corp and will be leased to Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA (Norwegian), the second largest airline in Scandinavia.

June 1st, 2009 NEWARK, New Jersey - Now European Organizations that are Running Lotus Notes Can Migrate Up To 5,000 Users to Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS Standard) In as Little as One Weekend Binary Tree announced today a collaborative partnership with Frontier Technology in the United Kingdom to offer Binary Tree's Weekend Express(TM) migration offering to the European market. Hosted at Frontier Technology's data center based in the UK, Weekend Express migrations will enable organizations in Europe that are running Lotus Notes to migrate up to 5,000 users to Microsoft Exchange Online and the Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS Standard) in as little as one weekend.

May 13th, 2009 HOUSTON - Endeavour International Corporation (Amex: END) (LSE: ENDV) today announced it has closed the sale of its Norwegian subsidiary, Endeavour Energy Norge AS, to VNG- Verbundnetz Gas AG, for the total consideration of USD $150 million. In conjunction with the closing, Endeavour paid down approximately US$27 million in debt, reducing total net debt to approximately US$50 million.

April 30th, 2009 LONDON - Chevron Europe, Eurasia and Middle East, an affiliate of Chevron Corporation, today announced that it has successfully bid for the exploration rights in nine blocks awarded in the 20th Norwegian Licensing Round. The blocks are located in the Outer Voring Basin in the Norwegian Sea, approximately 155 miles (250 kilometers) west of the coast of Kristiansund, in 3000 feet (1000 meters) of water.

April 29th, 2009 LONDON - Vectone, the international call specialist has launched the future of calling cards: ZeroZero. The first product of its kind in the UK, ZeroZero is a pre-paid, call routing gadget that gives users the option to make calling card rate, international calls from their mobile.

April 27th, 2009 NEWARK, New Jersey - New Offering Enables Organizations to Migrate To Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS Standard) From IBM Lotus Notes In As Little As One Weekend Binary Tree announced today Weekend Express migrations that enable organizations with up to 5,000 users to be migrated to Microsoft Exchange Online and the Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS Standard) from IBM Lotus Notes in as little as one weekend. The Weekend Express offering includes migrating email, calendars, contacts, and to-do's and also provides an option to maintain the functionality of mail-enabled Lotus Notes workflow applications to interoperate with Microsoft Outlook without requiring any application modifications.

April 26th, 2009 FORNEBU, Norway - Airline will begin outfitting its fleet with in-flight Wi-Fi from Row 44 later this year Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA, Europe's fifth largest low-cost carrier, announced today that it is equipping its entire fleet with high-speed in-flight broadband. The airline will use a satellite-based broadband solution from Row 44.

April 15th, 2009 TOKYO - Senior Norwegian politicians issued a strong call for the abolition of nuclear weapons at the opening of an exhibition linking nuclear abolition and human security attended by around 120 diplomats, scholars and activists at the Oslo City Hall Gallery on April 15. Former Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik and current Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store who chaired the 2007 Oslo Conference on Cluster Munitions, spoke at the launch of "From a Culture of Violence to a Culture of Peace: Transforming the Human Spirit," together with Norwegian United Nations Association President Helga Hjetland.

April 1st, 2009 LONDON - Vectone, the expanding European telecommunications group has announced it has made an offer for two subsidiaries of Nordisk Mobiltelefon, the Scandinavian telco group, which has recently gone into administration. The addition of Mobiltelefon MNO's in Ireland and Poland, if successful, will add to it's existing networks across Austria, Denmark, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Norway.

January 21st, 2009 OSLO - The Norwegian Foreign Ministry distanced itself Wednesday from an e-mail sent by a Norwegian diplomat comparing Israel's offensive in Gaza with events in World War II and the persecution of Jews. 'We have clearly stated that the content does not represent Norway's official view,' Foreign Ministry spokesman Haakon Svane told DPA.

December 27th, 2008 OSLO/STOCKHOLM - Norway and Sweden Saturday joined international calls for an end to the violence in the Gaza Strip and urged both Israel and Hamas to show restraint. Norwegian State Secretary Raymond Johansen 'deplored' that the ceasefire had ended.

May 12th, 2009 Rich Norwegian fined $109,000 for drunk drivingOSLO — A rich Norwegian has been ordered to pay a 700,000 kroner ($109,000) fine after driving his car 400 yards while drunk. Police stopped the 49-year-old man in October near the airport for southern Norway's Kristiansand.

January 29th, 2009 OSLO - Norwegian police officers Thursday staged a nationwide strike in protest against changes in regulations for working hours. The 90-minute strike was called by the Norwegian Police Federation.

June 12th, 2009 Utilities profit from lower electricity salesDuke Energy Co. reached a deal with environmental groups Friday that allow the power generator to charge customers more money even if they use less electricity.

September 1st, 2009 LONDON - A Norwegian man was slapped with an 800-pound fine after he informed police about being duped by a prostitute. The 28-year-old was charged under the country's new law that prohibits the purchase of sexual services.

July 27th, 2009 Verizon gives free Wi-Fi to Internet customersNEW YORK — Verizon is giving some of its home broadband customers free access to thousands of Wi-Fi hotspots in airports and other public places, taking a page from competitors that already offer wireless Internet access. The offer excludes Verizon Communications Inc.

May 12th, 2009 Norway: rich man fined $109,000 for drunk drivingOSLO — A rich Norwegian has been ordered to pay a 700,000 kroner ($109,000) fine after driving his car 400 yards (meters) while drunk. Police stopped the 49-year-old man in October near the airport for southern Norway's Kristiansand.

August 11th, 2009 Free weekend at Grand Teton, Yellowstone parksMOOSE, Wyo. — People will be able to view the geysers of Yellowstone and vistas of Grand Teton free of charge one more time this weekend.

July 28th, 2009 Norway, Morocco in row over track champion's kidsOSLO — The Norwegian ambassador to Morocco denied on Tuesday that he breached his diplomatic duties by helping the children of a Moroccan Olympic cross-country champion return with their mother to Norway. The custody dispute over the children of Khalid Skah, the Olympic 10,000-meter gold medalist in 1992, has triggered a diplomatic fight between the two countries.