SHEFFIELD, England, March 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Addressing an Annual Global Market of Approximately 20 Million Units, Consumers in Both Residential and Business Sectors Could Drastically Reduce Their Annual Energy Costs and Carbon Footprint From Q3 2008 With Disenco 's Appliance

Disenco Energy plc today confirms commercial availability of its unique, micro-combined heat and power (m-CHP) appliance from Q3, 2008. The announcement follows evaluation of the performance of production units of its HomePowerPlant (HPP) appliance with engineering partners Prodrive and Enertek.

SAN MATEO, California, March 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Delivers Feature Packed Open Source Eclipse-Based IDE for Ruby on Rails

Aptana Inc. today announced the long anticipated availability of RadRails 1.0 for Aptana Studio, the popular Eclipse-based IDE for Ajax and Web developers who use scripting languages like Ruby, PHP, and JavaScript. RadRails 1.0, the first major release of the RadRails software since Aptana became home to the community project last year, provides unparalleled features for Ruby on Rails developers. The free, open source download for RadRails 1.0 can be found at http://www.aptana.com.

HOD HASHARON, Israel, March 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- First baseband processor optimized for handheld devices, offering a combination of ultra-low power consumption, smallest footprint and low cost

Altair Semiconductor (Altair), a fabless chip company developing the world's most advanced mobile WiMAX semiconductors for handheld devices, today announced the release of the ALT2150 mobile WiMAX baseband processor to leading handheld device and module manufacturers. The ALT2150, the world's smallest and most power-efficient mobile WiMAX processor, implements full WiMAX Forum(TM) Wave-2 physical (PHY) Layer and Media Access Control (MAC) functionality, and offers substantial performance enhancements beyond this profile.

INDIANAPOLIS and LONDON, March 12 /PRNewswire/ --

Today Eli Lilly and Company announced its four-year grant of US$4,384,000 to the World Health Organization (WHO) for scaling up its global capacity to manage multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) programs.

HELSINKI, Finland, March 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Prove-it Herpes Offers Considerable Cost Savings for Healthcare Industry by Identifying Eight Herpesviruses Simultaneously

The Finland-based biotechnology company Mobidiag today announced the new Prove-it(TM) Herpes test for the fast and reliable identification of herpesviruses. The microarray-based test takes less than three hours to complete and enables simultaneous identification of eight different human herpesviruses. Herpesviruses cause life-threatening central nervous system infections (CNSI), and rapid diagnosis improves likelihood of recovery. The new test is initially intended for research purposes, and Mobidiag plans to acquire European approval for use in clinical diagnostics later this year.

WINTER PARK, Florida, March 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Leveraging Highwinds' content delivery network, Virgin Media will provide lightning-fast access to newsgroup forums on thousands of topics

Highwinds Network Group, Inc., a multi-platform IP services and content distribution provider, today announced that its RollingThunder(TM) content delivery network has been selected by Virgin Media Inc., as the CDN infrastructure for Virgin Media's newly enhanced and expanded newsgroup service. Under an IP infrastructure hosting agreement, UK-based Virgin Media will tap the high-performance worldwide Highwinds CDN to provide lightning-fast, anytime anywhere access to its newsgroup forums covering thousands of topics.

Modern day logic and embedded systems are all around us. They are so ubiquitous and their design so efficient, say researchers at the RUNES (Reconfigurable Ubiquitous Networked Embedded Systems) project in Europe, that these miniature self-contained computers could be optimized to create on-the-fly wireless networks and assist in traffic control and even emergencies.

They use the example of a fire in a mountain tunnel. Ordinarily a tunnel full of smoke and fire would be a difficult situation because it would take time to pin down the location of the blaze and where people were trapped.

Wireless sensors, oblivious to smoke and heat, could make sense from chaos and route maps and instructions to firefighters through handheld terminals or helmet-mounted displays. But there's a caveat - because each system would need to be customized, the wireless networks basically have to be able to build themselves.

MADISON, New Jersey, March 12 /PRNewswire/ --

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth (NYSE: WYE), announced today that it would need to conduct additional clinical studies to address questions from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) regarding the risk-benefit profile of desvenlafaxine as a treatment for vasomotor symptoms. As a result, Wyeth voluntarily withdrew its application for European Marketing Authorisation for desvenlafaxine for the treatment of vasomotor symptoms (hot flashes) associated with menopause.

HOUSTON, March 12 /PRNewswire/ --

Endeavour International Corporation (Amex: END) (LSE: ENDV) today reported that discretionary cash flow in 2007 increased nearly ten-fold to US$113.0 million from US$10.7 million in 2006. Revenue for 2007 increased 225% to US$176.1 million compared to US$54.1 million in 2006, while adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (Adjusted EBITDA) increased to US$124.1 million in 2007 from US$9.2 million in 2006.

The productivity and biodiversity of an ecosystem is significantly affected by the rate at which organisms move between different parts of the ecosystem, according to new research. Ecologists and conservationists hope to use this knowledge to develop strategies to ensure that conservation areas are highly productive and rich in biodiversity.

The study in Nature(1) used a lab-based artificial ecosystem of communities of bacteria to examine what happens when the bacteria move around and evolve to live in different parts of the ecosystem over the course of hundreds of generations. The scientists measured the effect this dispersal of species has on the productivity and biodiversity of the ecosystem over all.