YENAGOA, Nigeria, November 5 /PRNewswire/ --

Leaders in the oil-rich state of Bayelsa will open state and local government budgets to unprecedented scrutiny with today's launch of the Bayelsa Expenditure and Income Transparency Initiative (BEITI).

Established with planning and technical advice from the Revenue Watch Institute, the BEITI will bring together executives from government ministries, officials from the state's House of Assembly, civil society groups and leaders from the oil and gas industry to audit state income from all sources. The Initiative will also monitor public expenditures at the state government level.

TEL-AVIV, Israel, November 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Demand for Carrier-Class, Cost-Effective Wireless Broadband Solutions Propel Growth

RADWIN (http://www.radwin.com), a leading global provider of advanced wireless broadband solutions, today announced that it has been ranked as the fifth fastest growing company on the 2008 Deloitte Israel Technology Fast 50, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Israel. Rankings are based on percentage of fiscal year revenue growth over five years.

LONDON, November 5 /PRNewswire/ -- ICIS pricing, the world's largest information provider for the chemical and oil industry, has enhanced its US and European biofuel price reports with new quotations to reflect the growing demand and trade flows of biofuel globally.

The new quotes reflect the diversity of a fast moving market which is driven by legislation, progress in technology, increased trade flows and demand.

GIBRALTAR, November 5 /PRNewswire/ -- MansionPoker.com (http://www.MansionPoker.com), once again confirms its reputation as one of the world's most exciting online poker rooms by giving away $22,600 worth of European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP) tickets over the next two weeks.

From Wednesday, November 5 2008 to Wednesday November 19 2008, MansionPoker.com members simply have to keep playing their favourite MansionPoker.com real money games earning as many Mansion Club Points (MCPs) as they can.

At the end of the promotional period, those points will be added up and the BIG MCP earners will be rewarded with free ECOOP tickets.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, November 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The Heidelberg Prostate Therapy Clinic opened the doors of its new facilities in the new Heidelberg Medical Centre (:medZ). The former health centre has been converted into a medical centre of excellence. The interior and exterior of the building have been adapted for the needs of patients, allowing individual consulting as well as ultra-modern and top-quality medical care. This conversion to an optimal environment for treatment applies not only to the architecture, which now allows handicap access, but is also true for the specially developed colour scheme and design in the area where the Prostate Therapy Clinic is now located.

HAGEN, Germany, November 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The world's largest mobile site building community peperonity.com now officially presents a completely refurbished version of its web presence to the public, making mobile social content available to the broad mass of fixed-line PC users even better.

By means of a clear menu structure, users can now navigate through the pages and content very easily. The current features and menu items from the mobile experience have been preserved in full, however were emphasised even more with new buttons. This makes the service more apt to the needs of the ever-growing mobile social networking area.

LONDON, November 5 /PRNewswire/ --

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deCarta, the leading supplier of software and services for the Location-Based Services (LBS) industry, today announced the appointment of Armin Fendrich as Vice President of Sales of EMEA (Europe, Middle East Africa). Fendrich will head up deCarta's operations throughout the EMEA region with an emphasis on increasing sales for LBS applications including personal navigation, mobile and fleet-tracking/MRM.

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HUDDERSFIELD, England, November 5 /PRNewswire/ -- See our latest offer where you can make a saving of over GBP450 where you receive a free Microsoft Server 2003 or Small Business Sever 2003 Software and double memory on selected IBM servers. You need to purchase a qualifying IBM System X Express server along with double the standard memory and a licence for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 and you get the memory and operating system absolutely free! All you need to do to claim is purchase one of the System X Servers listed add the required memory and software to your order and then complete and submit the claim form.

LONDON, November 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- UK Social Media Company Launches Mobile Portal and M-Store for Leading Chat Brand

LONDON, November 5 /PRNewswire/ --

4D Interactive, the UK social media company, has today announced the launch of a mobile web portal for Chatbox, its interactive chat and dating TV channel on Sky channel 877.

MIT engineers have outfitted cells with tiny “backpacks” that could allow them to deliver chemotherapy agents, diagnose tumors or become building blocks for tissue engineering. Michael Rubner, director of MIT’s Center for Materials Science and Engineering and senior author of a paper on the work that appeared online in Nano Letters on Nov. 5, said he believes this is the first time anyone has attached such a synthetic patch to a cell. 

The polymer backpacks allow researchers to use cells to ferry tiny cargoes and manipulate their movements using magnetic fields. Since each patch covers only a small portion of the cell surface, it does not interfere with the cell’s normal functions or prevent it from interacting with the external environment.