This is the most critical and challenging part of the company’s new business direction
 
LONDON, 30 September 2008 – The world’s foremost producers of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) personal protection garments and cross-contamination prevention equipment, Remploy Frontline, announced today that it is breaking new ground in the New NATO member region.  This is a significant announcement because the market there is considered relatively “closed” to outsiders, so many choose to look at other regions instead, such as the Americas and Asia. As part of its new business model, Remploy Frontline is including growth areas – such as the private toxic industrial chemical sector, personal flotation devices, and other military / performance textile and personal protection arenas – e.g. crowd control and body armour – in this new market entry strategy.

Local newspapers see new mobile opportunities

30 September 2008: Following the successful launch of its mobile websites in August, the Express & Star and Shropshire Star newspapers are planning to offer a range of new mobile content and services to their readers.

MNA Digital, the online arm of publishers Midland News Association, is working with mobile website specialist Wapple (http://wapple.net) to deliver a multimedia mix of news, information, sport and entertainment to complement print and online products. Amongst the ideas being explored are music and video downloads; job and property listings and alerts; and the development of branded mobile micro-sites for local football clubs and bands, for example. MNA Digital is also looking at introducing mobile advertising and sponsorship opportunities.       

MORRISTOWN, NJ—TM Forum standards adopters such as the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and NATO 3 now have a focused Program under the TM Forum called the "Defense Interest Group." Co-chaired by MITRE and QinetiQ, the Group already boasts more than 30 member companies that participate, support or sell into the Defense Industry.

The Defense Interest Group will foster a collaborative approach to the development of Military Unique Features, which are best practices, standards and guidelines unique to the Defense Industry. The foundation for these standards is the TM Forum's Transformation Framework, which comprises documents, toolkits specifications, guidelines and test criteria for building a “lifecycle” approach to development of management systems. 

Nottingham, UK - 29th September 2008 – Cubic® Transportation Systems, the world's leading turnkey solution provider of automated fare collection systems for public transport has awarded 360 Scheduling a contract to supply a real-time mobile workforce planning and scheduling system.

“We are delighted that Cubic has made the decision to select our real-time scheduling solution after a highly-competitive 12-month selection process,” said Laurent Othacéhé, CEO of 360 Scheduling.  “We worked hard to demonstrate to Cubic not only that our technology was a perfect fit to their requirements, but also that we are the partner of choice to integrate automated resource scheduling into their existing field service management system,” continued Othacéhé.