PARIS, December 15 /PRNewswire/ -- At the request of the French permanent delegation to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), momagri's representatives addressed the ambassadors of about thirty member nations in Rome on November 9, 2008 and presented strategic proposals for an international agriculture and food policy.

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LONDON, December 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Telnic Limited (http://www.telnic.org), the Registry Operator for the new .tel top level domain-driven directory service, announced today that it had received thousands of applications from leading brands for the new, mobile-optimized contacts directory on the internet within the first hours of opening registration period for trademark owners.

We're delighted to see applications from such a breadth of businesses and categories worldwide, said Khashayar Mahdavi, CEO of Telnic. Trademark owners have obviously got the message that .tel is a huge departure from .com-type domains that host web content and is instead an innovative platform for communications.

MILTON KEYNES, England, December 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Businesses are being warned to brace themselves for a sharp increase in fraud during the run-up to Christmas.

A combination of the credit crunch, redundancies and too much alcohol at the office party can push disgruntled workers, managers and even directors over the edge and into crime, according to leading forensic computing investigator Andrew Sheldon.

People do stupid things at Christmas, says Sheldon, MD of Evidence Talks Ltd. Loaded with drink, they might return to the office convinced they are uniquely skilled to steal from their employers without getting caught.

LONDON, December 15 /PRNewswire/ -- International property developer The Resort Group has selected BIW Technologies (BIW) to deliver Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications to support design and construction of two luxury resort developments - Tortuga and Dunas, worth a total of EUR100m (GBP82m) - on the island of Sal in the Cape Verde Islands. The web-based platform will support communications across a multinational team of consultants spread across the UK and Spain, as well as contractors working on the sub-tropical island in the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa.

LONDON, December 15 /PRNewswire/ -- BIS Ltd, a leading Data Centre and Managed Service Provider, has seen a huge surge in enquiries focussed on outsourcing server management. Historically, whilst BIS was recognised as a niche player in this market, we often saw deals going to 'big-name' competitors at the last hurdle. What we've seen over the last quarter is a huge surge in the take up of our managed services. New clients have told us that our extremely attractive pricing combined with reference customers praising our customer service caused them to take a much closer look at our offering, said David Pyemont, Chairman of BIS.

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The closer scientists look at Saturn's small moon Enceladus, the more they find evidence of an active world. The most recent flybys of Enceladus made by NASA's Cassini spacecraft have provided new signs of ongoing changes on and around the moon. The latest high-resolution images of Enceladus show signs that the south polar surface changes over time.

CLS, a subsidiary of the French Space Agency (CNES), acting through its new radar applications division (formerly the BOOST Technologies Company), wants you to know they can use Envisat radar imagery to operationally observe oceans at high resolution so they're observing meteorological conditions in the track of the Vendee Globe solo round-the-world yacht race. 

Based on the trajectory and speed of the boats, CLS is acquiring data over the area skippers will be sailing into slightly ahead of their arrival time in order to monitor the metocean conditions.  

Researchers have figured out why a respiratory syncytial virus vaccine used in 1966 to inoculate children against the infection instead caused severe respiratory disease and effectively stopped efforts to make a better one. The findings in Nature Medicine could restart work on effective killed-virus vaccines not only for RSV but other respiratory viruses, researchers say. They also say the new findings debunk a popular theory that the 1966 vaccine was ineffective because the formalin used to inactivate the virus disrupted critical antigens, the substances that stimulate the production of protective antibodies.

POOLE, England, December 15 /PRNewswire/ -- As Microsoft plans to offer another public beta of IE8 at the start of 2009, Internet Explorer's Senior Product Manager, James Pratt, explains to Zeta how IE8's 'standards mode' will tackle web standards compliancy.

Microsoft wants to deliver the most secure and reliable version of Internet Explorer, Pratt says: Our goals are to create a faster, easier web browsing experience for the things users do every day on the web.

SILICON VALLEY, California, December 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Award Recognizes the 100 'Most Promising' Asian Companies Driving the Future of Technology

Red Herring has announced that ProGenTech Limited was a winner of the Red Herring 100 Award, a selection of the 100 most innovative private technology companies based in Asia.

The Red Herring editorial board diligently surveyed the entrepreneurial scene throughout Asia and identified the top 100 out of more than 1,000 closely evaluated companies that are leading the next wave of innovation.