PARIS, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Valeo's Combined Annual General Shareholders' Meeting (AGM) was held today under the chairmanship of Pascal Colombani, Chairman of Valeo. The AGM approved the 2008 accounts which were published on February 13, 2009.

The presentation of the Group's results for 2008 and the first quarter 2009 provided an opportunity for Jacques Aschenbroich, the new CEO of Valeo, to review the situation of the Group against the backdrop of the global automotive crisis. The company is fully mobilized to implement its operational efficiency action plans and confirms that it is on schedule with the deployment of its headcount adjustment program.

LONDON, June 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Clinical Data Presented at EHA Suggests That Omacetaxine May Provide a Useful Treatment Option for CML Patients Resistant to Multiple TKI Therapies

ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX:CXS) announced that positive, updated data from its phase 2/3 clinical trial study of omacetaxine in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients with resistance to multiple tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) was presented at the 14th Congress of the European Hematology Association (EHA) in Berlin, Germany on Saturday.

BRUSSELS, June 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Hands Up for Education!

- Education International is Working Hard to Persuade Governments Around the World of the Need to Invest in Education as a Positive Response to the Global Economic Crisis

To that end, EI has launched a new campaign and web site called Hands up for education: The smart strategy for economic recovery. It aims to assist EI's 400 member organisations in their efforts to ensure that funding for public education is enhanced, not cut, as governments struggle to cope with the impact of the crisis.

SAN MATEO, California and CAGLIARI, Italy, June 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Solution Provides Immediate Payback and Enhanced Capabilities

Bizanga, the global company behind the most scalable and full-featured email and message processing platform, today announced that Tiscali Italia S.p.A. (Italian Stock Market. Milan: TIS), the alternative telecommunication company, has deployed the Bizanga Intelligent Message Processor (IMP) platform to manage and secure its pan-European email and messaging platform.

At parties, some people are intimidated when I say I'm an astronomer (or, worse, astrophysicist).  They assume I'm a haughty ivory tower genius who laughs at little people like them.  It's so hard to reassure them that, no, I don't laugh, I merely chuckle.  But I do feel it's my duty to help make life easier for the non-astrophysicists out there.

So, say you're at a party and you meet a famous astronomer.  It doesn't matter which one, we're all famous (or at least published).  Here are 6 things not to say.

1. I'm an Aquarius, can you tell me my future?
2. I'm angry because Pluto isn't a planet anymore!
3. What will happen in 2012 when the Earth, sun and the center of our galaxy line up?

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 9 /PRNewswire/ --

The ongoing economic downturn will impact IPTV adoption and service revenue growth differently across Europe during the next year due to varied broadband penetration levels, the availability of cheaper alternatives, and telcos' response to competition, according to a new report from Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com), the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network (www.lightreading.com).

SAN DIEGO, June 9 /PRNewswire/ --

Accumetrics, Inc. announces today it has signed new distribution agreements for its VerifyNow(R) System in both Israel and Cyprus. Medtechnica, Ltd. will oversee distribution of all VerifyNow products in Israel, while Z.S. Curemed, Ltd. will be the sole distribution channel in Cyprus. These distribution agreements continue to expand Accumetrics' reach in both scope and geography, and add to the growing numbers of countries outside of the United States and Europe where physicians have access to the VerifyNow System.

REDWOOD CITY, California, June 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Qik now available on Nokia Nseries flagship device

Qik, the leading live mobile video streaming platform, today announced their latest cooperation with Nokia, the world's largest mobile device manufacturer. After months of rigorous testing of all mobile video applications, Nokia has selected Qik as a live mobile video application to be pre-loaded on the Nokia N97.

Qik allows anyone to easily stream live video from their handset, sharing their moments in real-time with whomever they choose. Users may Qik in private mode or share videos with specific viewers of their own selection, for the ultimate offering in user-determined sharing with friends and family or the entire world.

 “May you live in interesting times!” So goes the ancient Chinese curse, and times certainly must have been interesting for Alexander Ivanovich Oparin, who was 23 years old when he graduated from Moscow State University in 1917. Lenin and the Bolsheviks had just seized power, the Czar and his family were imprisoned, then assassinated a year later, and the war between Red and White Russia began.

LONDON, June 9 /PRNewswire/ --

The GSMA, the global trade association for the mobile communications industry, welcomes an initiative driven by the Finnish Ministry of Communications to develop a unified approach to the allocation of 'Digital Dividend' spectrum - the spectrum that will be freed up by the switchover from analogue to digital TV - in the Baltic Sea region. The Ministry today hosted a Baltic Sea Summit on the digital dividend in Helsinki attended by government delegations from all the Baltic Sea states, namely Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Sweden.