Ten years ago, astronomers made the stunning discovery that the universe is expanding at a faster pace today than it did in the past.

“Explaining why the expansion of the Universe is currently accelerating is certainly the most fascinating question in modern cosmology,” says Luigi Guzzo, lead author of a paper in this week’s issue of Nature, in which the new results are presented. “We have been able to show that large surveys that measure the positions and velocities of distant galaxies provide us with a new powerful way to solve this mystery.”

“This implies that one of two very different possibilities must hold true,” explains Enzo Branchini, member of the team.

Scientists at University College London say they have established a link between changes in the temperature of the sea’s surface and increases in North Atlantic hurricane activity.

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, January 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- New service simplifies customer support and reduces total cost of ownership of Psion Teklogix' line of rugged mobile computers

LONDON, January 30 /PRNewswire/ --

Fiorano Software Ltd., a leading provider of business integration and SOA-ESB middleware solutions, today announced that LiquidityHub, a consortium of leading investment banks, selected FioranoMQ(R) as its messaging infrastructure for implementation of its trade messaging system.

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FioranoMQ(R) provides superior messaging technology for the LiquidityHub, a cluster of systems for on-line negotiation of trades with a requirement for sub-micro-second latency and consistent high-performance message exchanges.

AACHEN, Germany, January 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Deal Advances the Company's Groundbreaking Smart Shape Memory Polymer (BIO-SMP(TM)) Commercialization Program -

LONDON, January 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Alsbridge plc, the award winning advisors on outsourcing, shared services and offshoring are delighted to announce their expansion into France, with the opening of new offices in central Paris.

Jean-Paul Binot has been appointed Director and will be managing the French office whilst focusing on business development in France and the Benelux. Binot has a strong background in management consulting, having worked with both PwC and latterly Atos Origin in shared services and outsourcing.

PITTSBURGH, January 30 /PRNewswire/ --

Panopto, Inc. announced today the availability of CourseCast 1.5, the newest version of the lecture-capture technology developed and first implemented at Carnegie Mellon University. CourseCast 1.5 is available to qualified academic institutions free of charge through the Socrates Project.

CourseCast enables educators to capture, edit, index, archive and stream video and audio over the Internet. CourseCast gives students on-demand access to indexed lectures and course material, enabling them to experience or revisit entire lectures, or to focus on segments of their choice. CourseCast is easily deployed using standard PCs and peripherals, which substantially drives down the cost of lecture-capture deployment.

SAN JOSE, California, January 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- AT91SAM9R64 Integrates ARM926EJ-S with USB High Speed Device, 64k Byte SRAM configurable as TCM, 10 serial communication channels

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), announced today its AT91SAM9R64 ARM9-based microcontroller for high performance USB-enabled embedded control applications. Designed to boot from the USB port, SDCard or an external NAND Flash, the SAM9R64 offers the flexibility to reduce the number of memories for program and bulk data storage. In addition, the 32-bit microcontroller is optimized for space constrained applications, or intelligent USB High speed to SDIO, or SPI connectivity modules by being in a 10X10mm, 0.8mm ball pitch, BGA package.

CHICAGO, January 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- Facilitates Easy Understanding of Business Information by Everyday Business People

ADVIZOR Solutions(R) today released version 5.3 of its business analysis and reporting software suite. Built on world-class data visualization and in-memory-management, ADVIZOR empowers business people to understand and analyze information without relying on others to prepare or interpret the results.

HELSINKI, January 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Valimo Wireless, the leading mobile signature and identity solution vendor has launched its solution partner program and announces its first partner. The solution partner program accelerates the adoption of mobile signatures by offering mobile operators a wide selection of end-user applications that leverage Valimo's infrastructure. The program is aimed at software developers for user and transaction authentication, electronic document management, online and mobile banking, eCommerce and mCommerce. The possibilities are unlimited as mobile signatures allow people to legally sign what could not be signed before, anytime, and anywhere.