ZURICH, Switzerland, October 27 /PRNewswire/ --

gategroup, the leading global provider of above-the-wing services to the airline industry, today announced a consolidation of two European operating divisions, the creation of a region focusing on the Middle East and South Asia, and the formation of a seven-member core Executive Board to focus on the group's operational and commercial priorities.

Two European divisions will be combined into a single Europe and Africa Region and a new region is being created as of Nov. 1, 2008, to cover the growing Middle East and South Asia markets.

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, October 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- POT-4 is the first complement inhibitor to be tested in AMD patients

Potentia Pharmaceuticals, a privately held biotechnology company developing medicines for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), announced today that the Company will be presenting its ASaP Phase I clinical data for its leading drug candidate, POT-4, during the Retina Subspecialty Day at the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA, on November 7, 2008.

I recently attended an NSF workshop on eChemistry: New Models for Scholarly Communication in Chemistry in Washington (Oct 23-24, 2008). The group consisted of about a dozen members, including publishers, social scientists, librarians and chemists. For background, this was the mandate:

WALTHAM, Massachusetts, October 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- Survey Finds Global Financial and Transportation Organizations Lagging in Implementing Application Security Requirements

What: Ounce Labs, the industry leader in static application security testing (SAST), today released the findings of an independent survey report by Quocirca Ltd. that examines application development outsourcing practices from 200 of the largest organizations in the UK and the U.S. One of the more surprising report findings reveals that financial and transportation organizations are lagging in implementing application security requirements in their outsourced development projects.

WOKING, England, October 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- SaaS Specialist Selected by Iconic Developer for Nakheel Tower

Nakheel, Dubai's leading property developer, has selected BIW Technologies (BIW) to deliver Software-as-a-Service applications to support design and construction of Nakheel Tower, part of the Nakheel Harbour Tower development. The Nakheel Tower, which will be over a kilometre high, is at the heart of a 10-year development in the Jebel Ali area of Dubai. BIW, who announced a corporate deal with Nakheel in March 2008, has been working with the project team since early 2007.

BOSTON, October 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- Virtually eliminates context switching and interrupt usage

ESC Boston, MA, Booth Number 801 -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today its latest family of 32 MIPS, picoPower(TM) 8/16-bit microcontroller that radically improves MCU performance by off-loading interrupts and data transfers to an on-chip event manager and DMA.

Atmel's AVR(R) XMEGA(TM) MCUs have several key benefits for the users:

-- Highest performance with the AVR 8/16-bit single cycle core and FLASH program memory

OXFORD, England, October 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- Opus Evolution Boosts Opus Energy's Turnover by 25% and 3,000 New Sites in Just 12 Months

Opus Energy, a leading independent supplier of electricity to UK businesses, is celebrating the success of its market-leading online energy purchasing system, which was launched just over 12 months ago but is already responsible for 25% of its turnover and has added over 3,000 sites through new customers.

ABU DHABI, UAE, October 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- TAQA to Announce Third Quarter Results on October 30

- Conference Call Details Below

The Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC, a publicly listed company on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX: TAQA), announced today that it will release its third quarter financial results for the period ending September 30, 2008 before markets open on Thursday October 30, 2008. In conjunction with the financial results release there is a scheduled conference call at 16:00 hrs (UAE time) on Thursday, October 30, 2008.

The conference call will be hosted by the Company's Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Peter Barker Homek, and Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Doug Fraser.

ROUSSET, France and BELLEVUE, Washington, October 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- From November 17 to November 21, 2008, in Dallas, TX, including free AT91SAM9261 evaluation kit.

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) and Adeneo announced today a Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Embedded CE(R) 6.0 Training Course in Dallas, TX from November 17 to November 21, 2008. This event is an excellent opportunity for electronic system manufacturers intending to develop an application based on Windows Embedded CE and one of Atmel's powerful AT91SAM9 Embedded MPUs based on the ARM926EJ-S(TM) processor.

'S-HERTOGENBOSCH, The Netherlands, October 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- Quintiq Selected Following Successful Scheduling Implementation of the Hot Mill

Quintiq, a leading provider of advanced planning and scheduling (APS) solutions, today announced that it has won a contract from the Novelis Rogerstone aluminum rolling mill in the United Kingdom to provide a supply chain scheduling solution for the plant's cold bay. This agreement follows the successful implementation in 2001 of a Quintiq Scheduling (APS) solution for the hot mill at Rogerstone.