NEW YORK, June 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- 680 million mobile Internet subscribers expected by 2012

Brazil, Russia, India and China-collectively known as BRIC -- represent the next great growth curve for both the mobile and interactive marketing industries. Home to over 40% of the world's population, the BRIC countries form the core of an emergent global middle class that will number over 1 billion people by 2015. eMarketer projects that the BRIC countries will account for over 1.7 billion mobile phone subscribers by 2012 and expects over 680 million subscribers to access the mobile Internet.

Mobile Usage Metrics for BRIC, 2012 (millions and % penetration) http://www.emarketer.com/images/chart_gifs/095001-096000/095344.gif

UTRECHT, the Netherlands, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- WatchMouse, a leader in website performance monitoring, monitored the most popular sports sites, belonging to each of the Euro 2008 nations. Combining the errors, speed (load time) and availability measurements, WatchMouse calculated a Site Availability Index (SPI) for each of the sites, to reveal that the nations with the best sports sites are France, Spain and the Netherlands. Sports enthusiasts in Turkey may be disappointed by confirmation that their nation's favorite sports site ranks as the worst, largely due to long load times.

SAN DIEGO, June 19 /PRNewswire/ --

With food prices going up, farmers are getting wealthy (or wealthier, in the case of the big conglomerates), right? Not outside the US, according to a study in Economic Development and Cultural Change by Marcel Fafchamps(1) and Ruth Vargas Hill(2).

In their new study for look to the long-time coffee producing nation of Uganda to attempt to answer the riddle of why higher prices don't 'trickle down' in other countries, even if they are modern liberalized economies.

Coffee is the world's largest agricultural commodity, and is also one of the world's most volatile. Large global coffee price fluctuations mean coffee has seen many periods of rapidly increasing prices. But new research shows that when global coffee prices rise, farmers do not see the same rise in the price they receive.

ROSEAU, Commonwealth of Dominica, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Neuftec Limited, the proprietor of the original nano-particulate cerium oxide fuel catalyst technology, which recently issued a claim against Oxonica Energy Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Oxonica PLC, for infringement of its European Patent in the High Court of Justice, has commented on a fundamental inaccuracy in Oxonica's AGM Statement issued by Dr Matthews (CEO) on 19 June 2008.

Dr Kevin Matthews stated in the recent Regulatory Announcement that:

"In 2007 Neuftec acknowledged that Envirox as supplied by Nyacol, Oxonica's strategic partner, does not fall within the claims of their granted patent, EP(UK) 1299 508."

TOKYO, June 19 /PRNewswire/ --

The 8th United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland has unanimously approved a resolution tabled by Japan, entitled "Elimination of Discrimination Against Persons Affected by Leprosy and their Family Members." 58 countries, including China, have co-sponsored the resolution. The resolution is the result of repeated appeals on the issue by Nippon Foundation Chairman Yohei Sasakawa.

LOS ANGELES, California, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Canopus BioPharma, Inc. (OTC: CBIA), has confirmed the efficacy of its oncology candidate, CB1400, as a tumor reducing agent and has also demonstrated the synergistic effect of this drug in combination with both cisplatin and cetuximab (Erbitux) in two mice lung cancer models.

Chairman of Canopus BioPharma, Dr. Patrick Prendergast, stated, "We at Canopus are encouraged with the discovery of this new use for CB1400 to increase efficacy and reduce toxicity issues associated with conventional chemotherapeutic agents."

When six day care centers imposed a fine on parents who picked their children up late, tardiness doubled and it stayed high even when the fine was removed.

How can it be that a financial penalty made the problem worse? Parents, it seems, stopped seeing lateness as an imposition on teachers, and instead saw it as something that could be purchased with no moral failing.

A basic tenet of economics is that people always behave selfishly, or as the 18th century philosopher economist David Hume put it, "every man ought to be supposed to be a knave."

Information gleaned from a Greenland ice core by an international science team shows that two huge Northern Hemisphere temperature spikes prior to the close of the last ice age some 11,500 years ago were tied to fundamental shifts in atmospheric circulation.

The ice core showed the Northern Hemisphere briefly emerged from the last ice age some 14,700 years ago with a 22-degree-Fahrenheit spike in just 50 years, then plunged back into icy conditions before abruptly warming again about 11,700 years ago. Startlingly, the Greenland ice core evidence showed that a massive "reorganization" of atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere coincided with each temperature spurt, with each reorganization taking just one or two years, said the study authors.

The new findings are expected to help scientists improve existing computer models for predicting future climate change as increasing anthropogenic greenhouse gases in the atmosphere drive up Earth's temperatures globally.

Firing someone? Do it on Friday because they would have the weekend off anyway and they are less likely to show up after two days with a rifle. Some things don't change.

But the 'Friday Effect' for publicly traded companies has diminished with the advent of instant news so they have little to gain from saving bad news until Fridays on the assumption that traders are distracted by the approaching weekend, says economist Leon Zolotoy in his research, for which he will be awarded a PhD at Tilburg University in the Netherlands on 25 June.

Zolotoy researched how international stock markets react to new information. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was introduced in July 2002, partly as a result of the corporate scandals involving Global Crossing, WorldCom, Enron and Tyco. The Act’s strict disclosure requirements were designed to restore investors’ and analysts’ confidence in the stock market.