BEAVERTON, Oregon, December 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Full HD Rear-Projection Display Delivers Outstanding Video Wall Performance; Offers Cost-Effective Installation and Maintenance

Planar Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLNR), a worldwide leader in specialty display solutions, today announced availability of the Clarity(TM) Margay II, a unique 50-inch high-resolution rear-projection display ideal for public venue video walls and space-constrained control rooms. Delivering outstanding visual performance and ease of maintenance through advanced features and exclusive Planar technology, the Margay II supports the company's strategy to deliver display solutions that meet the specific demands of digital signage and control room applications.

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany, December 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- German Market Leader Establishes a Fully Integrated Platform for Its On-Trade and Off- Trade Distribution Channels

CAS AG, the leading global provider of demand side management solutions for the consumer products industry, today announced that the Radeberger Group, Germany's leading brewer with a market share of 15%, has extended its long-standing partnership with CAS.

HELSINKI and STOCKHOLM, December 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Flander and Endevo Join Forces to Drive Software Based Innovation for Nordic Industry

Software testing and development company Flander today announced that it has acquired Endevo, the Swedish expert company in Quality Assurance and Software Development. The combined company will become the Nordic leader in Quality Assurance and one of the leading development companies for embedded SW systems. Endevo has 80 professionals working in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmoe. Through the acquisition, Flander will have 500 employees in Finland, Sweden and China and a turnover of 30 million euro in 2008.

LONDON, December 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Charity Invests in Managed Hosting Platform for Secure and Reliable Online Fundraising Presence

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity has selected NTT Europe Online to provide a managed hosting platform for its charity website. The site is the portal for all the hospital's fundraising events and new campaigns, as well as providing a gateway for online donations. The charity will work with NTT Europe Online's team to create a foundation for future developments.

LONDON, December 16 /PRNewswire/ -- An influential panel of dental stakeholders meeting in Westminster this week were unanimous in their view that the recession will significantly impact the attraction and retention of overseas dentists who have been seen as one answer to the access problems for NHS dentistry.

The panel also agreed that while the new dental reforms had put the power to plan health services into the hands of local NHS Trusts, this had resulted in a patchwork system which no longer justified the title of a National Health Service for dentistry.

LONDON, December 16 /PRNewswire/ -- CMPMedica, a global healthcare information provider that is a division of United Business Media Limited, has signed a worldwide agreement to supply iSOFT, one of the world's largest providers of healthcare IT solutions, with comprehensive evidence-based drug information. CMPMedica's information solution will power iSOFT's fully integrated suite of decision support tools. These tools enable healthcare professionals to make better informed decisions at the point of care and thus improve patient outcomes.

Found in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, 30 Doradus is one of the largest massive star forming regions close to the Milky Way. Enormous stars in 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, are producing intense radiation and searing winds of multimillion-degree gas that carve out gigantic bubbles in the surrounding cooler gas and dust. 

Other massive stars have raced through their evolution and exploded catastrophically as supernovae, expanding these bubbles into X-ray- brightened superbubbles. They leave behind pulsars as beacons of their former lives and expanding supernova remnants that trigger the collapse of giant clouds of dust and gas to form new generations of stars. 
On its opening day, the London Millennium Bridge experienced unexpected swaying due to the large number of people crossing it. A new study finally explains the Millennium Bridge 'wobble' by concluding that humans did not walk the way engineers would have preferred.

It has generally been thought the Millennium Bridge 'wobble' was due to pedestrians synchronizing their footsteps with the bridge motion. However, this is not supported by measurements of the phenomenon on other bridges.
"This article says most people die in bed.  I figure if I stay out of bed, I'm safe." - Get Shorty

A map of natural hazard mortality in the United States has been produced and is featured in the  International Journal of Health Geographics.  It gives a county-level representation of the likelihood of dying as the result of natural events such as floods, earthquakes or extreme weather.

GENEVA, December 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Every product made by a luxury goods manufacturer - a watch, handbag, piece of jewellery, etc. - would be accompanied and sold with a smart device, such as a SmartCard, containing the encrypted full details of the product, ie registration number, bar code, date and place of manufacture, etc. Manufacturers, sales outlets and purchasers would then be able to use the SmartCard to verify instantly via the Internet the authenticity of the product using WISeKey-developed technology - namely, WISeAuthentic(c) (for which the patent is pending).