LONDON, December 9 /PRNewswire/ --

Platts -- The 13 members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) pumped an average 31.38 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil in November, according to a Platts survey of OPEC and oil industry officials just released. This is a decline of 880,000 from the October level of 32.26 million b/d.

Excluding Indonesia, which will leave OPEC at the end of this year, and Iraq, production from the 11 members bound by output agreements fell by 950,000 b/d to 28.16 million b/d from 29.11 million b/d, the survey showed.

As we watch TV, listen to the radio or flip through the pages of a magazine, most of us ignore the relentless onslaught of advertising. But are we in fact being persuaded and influenced by the glossy pages of that magazine or that 30 second commercial? The prevalence of advertising on consumer preference has long been debated by communication and psychology professors alike, none of whom can agree to the meanings of their research, which have all yielded vague and inconclusive results. A new area of study has suggested that human response to advertising is based on our cognitive efficiency instead of marketing manipulation.

Lockheed Martin has just delivered the most recent upgrade of the military's cargo backbone, the C-5M Super Galaxy, to the U.S. Air Force at Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Robins AFB, Georgia. The aircraft contains a host of upgrades and modernizations intended to help its keep its status as the dominant cargo plane of the U.S. Military.

BRUSSELS, Belgium, December 9 /PRNewswire/ --

After a decade of successful economic partnership, Locatech and CrossGap will merge into Jonckers Translation Engineering. The three companies are the founding members of LCJ EEIG, a Microsoft Premier Vendor.

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BETH HALEVY, Israel, December 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Yoggie Picks up the Bronze Behind Apple iPhone 3G and Nintendo Wii Fit

BETH HALEVY, Israel, December 9 /PRNewswire/ --

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BETH HALEVY, Israel, December 9 /PRNewswire/ --

Yoggie Security System's(TM) mini security marvel - Gatekeeper Pico - was featured as a top gadget in The Gadget Show's Gadget of the Year 2008.

The Gatekeeper Pico, which packs 12 security applications into a USB key for full internet protection wherever you connect, beat seven other finalists to be recognized by viewers as one of the hottest gadgets of 2008, right behind the Apple iPhone 3G and Nintendo's Wii Fit which came in first and second place.

ISTANBUL, Turkey, December 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- LMS Ensures Turkish Clients can Instantly Deliver Their News Releases to Critical Audiences Around the Globe

Legal Marketing Services Turkey (LMS), a multimedia public relations company is offering its customers a unique opportunity to reach a variety of critical audiences, including the news media, the investment community, government decision makers and millions of consumers.

The delivery of LMS customers' news releases will be supported by PR Newswire, the global leader in news distribution, through their Online Visibility Package (http://www.prnewswire.lmstr.com) service.

LONDON, December 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Unite Welcomes Level of Funding for Primary Care Trusts

Unite the Union has welcomed the funding levels for NHS primary care trusts (PCTs) for the next two years - but has warned it should not be 'frittered away on misguided excursions into privatisation'.

Unite, the largest union in the country, has constantly campaigned against the marketisation of the NHS in recent years, as it considers that it is detrimental to patient/client care, an ineffective use of resources, and leads to a worsening of pay and conditions for staff.

CAMBRIDGE, England, December 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company Furthers Commitment to Enabling the Mobile Web on its Processor Architecture

ARM ((LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMH)) today announced that it will participate in the Open Handset Alliance. ARM has been working with the open Android platform for some time and is committed to delivering a rich mobile experience based on the platform. As part of this relationship, ARM will contribute its ARMv6 and ARMv7 architecture-based OpenMax DL libraries and insight on the ARM(R) CPU and ARK Mali(TM) GPU architectures to the Android Open Source Project

LONDON, December 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the attack on Mumbai, constitutional lawyer and WW2 naval officer, William Dunmore, has updated the suggested UN Security Council Resolution in his Anti-Causal Plan For Rescuing The Young From The Dire Peril (see PRNewswire 10/11/08).

He reminds Council members that the Plan's world-wide UNESCO-Supported Anti-Causal 4th R Education is a necessary step to defeat terrorism, as required by Resolution 1373 (passed as a result of 9/11 seven years ago); and stresses that it would change universal conduct and transform society into a peaceful model, as called for in alarm and urgency by the (1993) UNESCO-Sponsored Montreal International Congress on Education.

AUSTIN, Texas, December 9 /PRNewswire/ --

REAL Software, creator of REALbasic, a cross-platform development environment for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux developers, began shipping REALbasic 2008 Release 5 today. This release continues with a focus on quality, adding over 100 improvements to REALbasic and a few new features, including both the ability to print source code in color and to duplicate methods, properties and constants. Additionally, users can now write their own tools to completely automate the building of their applications.