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Gostai Organizes the First Urbi Open Source Contest

Gostai opened its Urbi operating system for robotics to the community in May. To support this release and to stimulate the Urbi programming community, Gostai now organizes a free contest based on Urbi open source. - September 18, 2010 - Gostai

Online Microsoft SQL Server Backup and Restore Made Easy with myLittleBackup

myLittleTools, the leading provider of web-based applications for MS SQL Server administration, announces a very detailed review of myLittleBackup, its backup/restore solution for Shared SQL Server hosting. Anthony Wilco, president of the web hosting company InfuseWeb LLC, has written this review. - September 15, 2010 - myLittleTools

biggAIR Giant Daylight Screen (Ecran Geant) in Avignon

The JCI Avignon used a giant biggAIR daylight screen (Ecran Geant) for live transmission of the Radeaux Folies 2010. - September 13, 2010 - biggAIR GmbH

Béziers Mediterranean Publicises Geocaching Treasure-Trails

The Béziers Mediterranean Tourist Office treasure-trails; discover the region's highlights through 'Geocaching' hi-tech treasure hunting game played with a GPS. - September 12, 2010 - Béziers Mediterranean Tourist Office

biggAIR Giant Screens (Ecran Géant) Now Available in France

The german giant screen company biggAIR GmbH has successfully started it's operations in France with several installations of giant inflatable daylight screens. - September 11, 2010 - biggAIR GmbH

i-Jet Media Publishes Most Expensive Russian Social Game on Odnoklassniki; Europe to Follow

i-Jet Media launches the most expensive social game ever produced in Russia, Pet a Pet, which has been published in social network Odnoklassniki. It is known as "Zveriki" in Russian. The game was developed by the heavyweight Russian gaming company, Akella. Pet A Pet's first active day brought 45 thousand installations which made it one of the more quick-growing games in the profolio of i-Jet Media. The game gets over 200 new users every minute. The game uses a new monetization model. - September 09, 2010 - i-Jet Media

New Winter School on Emerging Nanotechnologies

Grenoble Ecole de Management is launching a new Winter School on Nanotechnology in collaboration with IEP - Grenoble, ESIEE-Univ Paris Est-LAST, FRIDA and supported by ANR-France*. - September 09, 2010 - Grenoble Ecole de Management

EntropySoft Content Hub Appliance Packages a Single Point of Access to Information and Document Transfer Features

Content Hub Appliance is a single platform that provides out-of-the-box connectivity for over 30 applications and comes with the ability to easily transfer documents. - September 09, 2010 - EntropySoft

Datamax-O’Neil Offers Extended Warranty Service Agreements for Its Entire Printer Portfolio

Value-Added Service Options and Warranty Programs Give Partners an Expanded Offering to End-User Customers - September 03, 2010 - Datamax-O'Neil

BKWine Makes "World’s Top Wine Tours" According to Travel and Leisure Magazine

BKWine has just been named one of the world’s best wine tour organisers by TravelAndLeisure.com. T+L singles out BKWine as the tour operator who is best for the traveller who wants to meet the winemakers and who wants to have a personal and unique experience. - August 25, 2010 - BKWine AB

American Gonzo: Panoz Goes Indie and Decides to Boycott iBookStore

Panoz proposes to embark with the Gonzies in a book in which style is inspired by indie artists like QT, Thompson and moviemakers from the seventies. - August 24, 2010 - Jiminy Panoz

The Urbi Robotic Software Platform Goes Open Source

Gostai opens its core technology to the community - August 20, 2010 - Gostai

EntropySoft Releases a New Microsoft Exchange Web Services Connector

The connector is able to connect to mailboxes and public folders, has read/write capacity and supports all item types exposed by web services: Calendar, Contact, DistributionList, Message, Post, Task etc. - August 18, 2010 - EntropySoft

Béziers Tourist Office Reveals Details of Feria

The Béziers Mediterranean tourist office has revealed the details of this year's Feria, a highpoint of the tourism year in the town Béziers, south of France. - August 08, 2010 - Béziers Mediterranean Tourist Office

EntropySoft Releases a New IBM Lotus Web Content Management Connector

The Lotus Web Content Management connector is able to connect to multiple content libraries, has read/write capacities and supports all item types. - August 04, 2010 - EntropySoft

Giant biggAIR Screen at the Chateau de Vincennes

A giant inflatable biggAIR daylight screen was installed at the Chateau de Vincennes for the arrival of the 15th rallye Paris-Cap Nord. - August 02, 2010 - biggAIR GmbH

Giant biggAIR Screen for the Inauguration of Repcet with Inflatable Big Screen Canvas with Name

For the inauguration of the Repcet system at the Crossmed center in La Garde (Var), France, one of the giant inflatable screens of biggAIR GmbH was used. - August 02, 2010 - biggAIR GmbH

VISIMMO 3D Presents “Interactive Virtual 3D Fair” – Trend of 2010

Online fairs are shaping the new generation of trade fairs. VISIMMO 3D, a specialist in web development and 3D engineering, now offers a brand-new service primarily targeted at organizers of fairs and professional events: the Interactive Virtual 3D Fair - an innovative complement or alternative to a traditional physical fair. - July 30, 2010 - VISIMMO 3D

Chocolah! Means the Eiffel Tower in Chocolate

Chocolah!, a private walking foodie tours company based in Paris, launches its 2-hour Chocolate Tour. - July 28, 2010 - Chocolah!

Datamax-O’Neil Conducts a Partner Conference for Its Europe-Middle East-Africa (EMEA) Partners

Conference gives Datamax-O’Neil an opportunity to show its partners how it has evolved into a stronger and more unified company. Datamax-O’Neil, part of Dover Corporation’s Product Identification Platform and global provider of label and receipt printing solutions, held its EMEA... - July 28, 2010 - Datamax-O'Neil

Grenoble Graduate School of Business Sets Up Base in the Heart of Egypt

Having expanded internationally to locations such as India, China, Russia, and more recently Saudi Arabia, Grenoble Graduate School of Business (GGSB) has opened a brand new recruitment office in Cairo, Egypt, to further expand its growing presence in the Middle East. - July 23, 2010 - Grenoble Ecole de Management

Oloneo® Launches PhotoEngine™ Beta 1

Photographers to Benefit from the Latest Advances in Computational Photography, with Image-Based Relighting & Full Real-Time High Dynamic Range (hdr) Re-Exposure. - July 15, 2010 - Oloneo SAS

DirectRooms.com – Moonlight Cinema in Paris starts on 4 August 2010

DirectRooms.com is pleased to announce that the Cinema au Clair de Lune starts on the 4th of August with Les Nuits De La Pleine Lune by Eric Rohmer filmed in 1984. Also featured is the ever popular classic La Bete Humaine by Jean Renoir from 1938 which will be shown on the 7th. - July 13, 2010 - DirectRooms.com

Grenoble: New Trading Floor and New Electives on the MSc Finance

Further to a new partnership with Bloomberg, Grenoble Ecole de Management has set up a trading floor on its campus, offering students real-life financial situations via Bloomberg’s financial software tools. - July 02, 2010 - Grenoble Ecole de Management

Grenoble Ecole de Management Has Become an Affiliate School and Member of the Microeconomics of Competitiveness’s Network of Harvard Business School’s Michael E. Porter

Thanks to this affiliation, Grenoble Ecole de Management has set up a lab centre for Strategy and Competitiveness within the school and is now entitled to deliver Harvard’s cutting edge Microeconomics of Competitiveness course created by Professor Porter. - July 02, 2010 - Grenoble Ecole de Management

New Global Executive MBA Program, 8 International Steps to New EMBA Made in Grenoble

Grenoble Graduate School of Business (GGSB) will be launching a new Executive multi-site MBA in January 2011. The programme will take place in eight locations by taking advantage of the GGSB off-site campuses and offices: Grenoble – Geneva – Moscow - London – New York – Singapore – New Delhi – and Beijing. - July 02, 2010 - Grenoble Ecole de Management

Grenoble Ecole de Management Invests in an iPad Laboratory, 50 Devices Tested for Their Value

In September 2010, 40 students will be selected to be part of an "innovation" laboratory at the heart of the school aimed at testing, amongst other innovations, the pedagogical advantages of the iPad. - July 02, 2010 - Grenoble Ecole de Management

UINT Receives the Award "l’electron d’or" of the Best French Start-Up 2010

The company UINT received the award "L’électron d’or" of the best French Start-up 2010 during ceremony awards at the FIEEC (Federation des Industries Electriques, Electroniques et de Communication), yesterday June 16th 2010. - June 23, 2010 - UINT

Open Doors at Notre-Dame International High School

Next June 25th 2010 is Open Day at Notre-Dame International High School. The school, which is part of the Nacel International School System (NISS) network, will officially open early September 2010. This Open Day will give parents and students the opportunity to visit this French-American boarding school and its facilities as well as meet with some of the school staff. - June 18, 2010 - Nacel International

Mr.G Launches a New Collection of Men's Luxury Cufflinks and Leather Footwear

Gilles Chavet, President and founder of Mr.G Paris, announces the launch of a new collection of leather footwear and porcelain cufflinks. - June 17, 2010 - Mr.G Paris

New Photos and Videos Sharing on Social Networks and Blogs with EzUbi

Most Social networks and Blogs users have accounts in various services. Managing photos and videos posting on all of them is a hard task. With this new feature, EzUbi users are able to centralize and manage the publication of their photos and videos on social networks and blogs. They can at any time from EzUbi post and delete the access to their photos and videos in social networks and blogs. - June 17, 2010 - EzUbi

ESII Sets for Future Customer Flow Management

ESII holds a VIP day for exchanging information on customer flow management of tomorrow, June 18, 2010, Montpellier - June 13, 2010 - ESII

Neo Telecoms Selects Ekinops’ Equipment for Ethernet Service Delivery in Europe

Neo Telecoms, an international service provider specializing in high-bandwidth telecom services, will use Ekinops’ Multi-Protocol, Multi-Rate ADM capabilities to provide infrastructure and customer premises equipment for its metro Ethernet service. - June 10, 2010 - Ekinops

EntropySoft Appliance Enables Document Sharing In-the-Cloud

The appliance manages document transfers between on-premises and cloud repositories. Organizations of all sizes can easily share documents with partners and customers in cloud repositories. - June 03, 2010 - EntropySoft

Recovery Point Chooses Ekinops 360 Scalable ROADM Solution to Differentiate Their Disaster Recovery Services

Ekinops is providing Recovery Point optical transport equipment to enhance its backup and disaster recovery service. - June 03, 2010 - Ekinops

BIOMIN Takes a Lead at Poultry Conference

As the main (Diamond) sponsor of the upcoming 13th European Poultry Conference in August, BIOMIN showcases its commitment to advancing poultry science and nutrition. - May 29, 2010 - BIOMIN Holding GmbH

City-Discovery.com Launches 10 Spring and Summer Activities in Paris

First in City Discovery's series of top 10 things to do in top destinations across the world, Paris leads the way with a selection of new and bestselling activities that are perfect for summer and spring. - May 27, 2010 - City Discovery

New Release of the Personal Media Center EzUbi

After having proposed EzUbi as the center of media sharing on social networks and blogs, the new release offer an enhanced ergonomics, photos editing with special effects, import, creation and sharing of web bookmarks as well as the possibility to import more files and bigger, in one upload. - May 23, 2010 - EzUbi

Shoopz Releases a New Version of Its Kameleoon Website

Shoopz has completely redesigned its website www.kameleoon.com. After a little over a year of faithful service, the old website was no longer entirely appropriate. With a refreshed and modernized design, the new site sports direct access to demonstrations, a better and clearer navigation, and... - May 22, 2010 - Shoopz S.A.R.L.

HUM4N to Highlight New Gaming Content Generation for SEO and Online Live Personalized Poker Coach Powered by Unique Artificial Intelligence

HUM4N Corp. today announced plans to showcase its recently released Adaptive Poker Coach v1.2 Software at the iGaming SuperShow in Prague. HUM4N is a leading global specialist in natural language generation and artificial intelligence. iGaming company HUM4N will highlight features of its natural... - May 20, 2010 - HUM4N

EntropySoft and QualiWare Announce Technology Partnership

EntropySoft’s Enterprise Content-Centric Connectors Extend the Reach of QualiWare Lifecycle Manager Modeling Suite. - May 20, 2010 - EntropySoft

Les 10 Visages de Mister X

The New Temporary Story by Novoceram at Designer's Days 2010. - May 20, 2010 - Novoceram

A New Website Simplifies the Task of Rotating PDF Documents with a Free Online Tool

A new service, RotatePDF.net, allows users to rotate a PDF document through a simple web interface, free of charge. - May 18, 2010 - RotatePDF.net

CamDirector for NETIA Radio-Assist 8 Automates Sophisticated Recording of Live In-Studio Video Programs

Enables Low-Cost Switching and Production of Richer Video and Audio Content for Web Streaming and Podcasts. - May 11, 2010 - NETIA

NETIA Introduced Manreo 2, Media Asset Management System

Next-Gen Version Incorporates New NETIA Workflow Engine to Support Efficiency, Reliability. Upgrades Hypercast Warehouse Advanced Archiving Features. - May 11, 2010 - NETIA

Caritats Medieval Festival, Béziers

14 & 15 May 2010 - The Caritats festival is an extravaganza, taking the whole town back to the days of knights and troubadours. There is a market with wine and local produce, a medieval pageant, parades, historical spectacles, traditional games, jousting, educational presentations, a medieval banquet, craft shows, etc. - May 05, 2010 - Béziers Mediterranean Tourist Office

San Francisco Family Shares Its Secrets in Savvy New Guidebook to Paris

"Paris, While We’re Young" -- a fresh approach to visiting Paris -- has just been published by an American family who has lived over the past two decades in France and San Francisco. Their advice to friends on how to best enjoy a visit to Paris is now available to everyone through this unique guidebook. - May 03, 2010 - Maureen B. Ebersole