GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- International Cooperation Can Save Lives and Billions of Dollars

On, February 11, representatives from more than 150 countries will begin negotiations here on an historic international treaty to combat illicit trade in tobacco products - a massive global problem that undermines efforts to reduce tobacco use and save lives, helps fund organized crime and terrorist organizations, and costs governments billions in revenue.

The Framework Convention Alliance (FCA), an international alliance of more than 300 non-governmental organizations, urges countries to negotiate a strong treaty that can help reduce tobacco use and its devastating health and financial consequences around the world.

BARCELONA, Spain, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

Mobile World Congress -- OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OVTI), the world's largest supplier of CMOS image sensors, today claimed a mobile handset industry first with the introduction of the OV3642, a 1/4-inch, 3 megapixel CameraChip(TM) sensor with TrueFocus(TM) technology embedded on-chip. The fully integrated OV3642 is built with OmniVision's new OmniPixel3-HS(TM) technology which delivers double the sensitivity (960mV/Lux-sec) of other manufacturers' 1/4" 3 megapixel SOC sensors, offering best in class low light performance.

CAMBRIDGE, England and TARRYTOWN, New York, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Optimization for NEON Media Processing Extensions Halves Required Clock Cycles for Video Decode

BARCELONA, Spain, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Brazil's leading Web applications provider delivers next-generation mobile services to service providers

Simdesk Technologies today announced that Inova, Brazil's leading Web applications service provider, has integrated the SimMobile next-generation mobile services platform into its Velop messaging and collaboration solution. Inova partnered with Simdesk to bring true mobility to the Velop service it provides to Brazil's market-leading fixed and mobile telecommunications service providers, cable operators and internet service providers (ISPs).

CAMBRIDGE, England, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- All-in-One Development Tool Enables Software Design Before Silicon

ARM (LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY) today announced at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, the launch of the RealView(R) Development Suite 3.1 Professional tools that brings together four key technologies and supports the latest ARM(R) technology-based processors that power the mobile world. RealView Development Suite 3.1 Professional is designed to support the latest high-performance ARM processors, such as the Cortex(TM)-A8 processor, and includes vectorizing compilation for the NEON(TM) media processing engine which can increase the performance of multimedia applications by more than 200 percent from standard C code.

BARCELONA, Spain, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --