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Munich, Germany – MESSRING constructed two new sled test facilities for Takata in Brazil and Romania. The international OEM of passenger protection systems commissioned two compact impact simulators (CIS), including extensive data acquisition systems and lighting technology. With the CIS, vehicle components such as seat belts and airbags can be tested with high precision and reproducible results.

The national rounds of Global Rockstar, the world’s largest online music competition, ended on 1 December 2015, at 10:00 am, in 151 participating countries. The national champions, who will now compete in the global finale for the title of "Global Rockstar 2015", have now been chosen. On 15 December 2015, we will finally find out who will take the grand title, as well as the prize of USD 25,000 in cash and professional musical equipment worth a further USD 25,000.

The Swiss Cloud server provider SecureRack has just launched its new website and is granting its partners a number of concessions. The three products vDatacenter, Dedicated Server and Dedicated Backup can now be tested free of charge and without incurring any obligation.

RWE successfully demonstrates its new Lemonbeat communication protocol as a universal language for IoT devices - at the annual W3C meeting in Japan. - 100 experts from around the world watch the live demo of Lemonbeat - Lemonbeat impresses experts with error-free operation and arouses great interest - Live demo at W3C meeting an important step towards standardisationa

France‘s ski area La Plagne and the French region Les 3 Vallées have received top votes from European ski holiday enthusiasts. The third rank goes to Sölden in Austria. These are the results from a customer survey, undertaken by the ski holiday tour operator <a href="http://www.snowtrex.ie/">SnowTrex</a> during the past five ski seasons. Around 40,000 customers from eight different nations took part in the survey.

Cooperation with Wolf Composite Solutions / Fulfilling latest US NCAP regulations

Munich/New York. Following commissions by Jenny Holzer (1999), Olafur Eliasson (2007) and Jeff Koons (2010), the BMW Art Car series will now be continued. On the occasion of the series’ 40th anniversary, a jury of museum directors and curators chose two renowned artists to design one car each. Chinese artist Cao Fei (1978) and American artist John Baldessari (1931) will be the youngest and the oldest artist represented in the collection respectively. On November 19, Ian Robertson, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, announced the collaboration at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Both artists will create a BMW M6 GT3 in the coming year. The newly-designed vehicles will then be presented in museums in 2017, while also having to prove themselves on the racetrack.

- In 1951 BORGWARD-Werke made direct injection fit for series production, - Customers benefited from up to 30 per cent lower petrol consumption, - Close cooperation with experts at Bosch.

DERMALOG, the biometrics innovation leader, has invented the first in the world combined scanner which scans both passports and fingerprints on the same scanning surface. Until now two different scanners were required: one for passports and one for fingerprints. Now one scanner can capture both on the same surface. This innovation is an ideal solution for electronic gates, kiosks, border control and national registration. DERMALOG is showing the new combined scanner, called VF1, at the CARTES exhibition in Paris from 17th until 19th September 2015.