ROME, February 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- TIBCO ActiveMatrix(TM) Platform-Independent Approach Delivers Up to 49 Percent Greater Productivity Compared to Oracle, IBM, and BEA

PARIS, February 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has signed a global services agreement with NCR Corporation to provide standardized welcome center, help desk and network operations center services to distribution channels and enterprise customers. This expands its North America level one services agreement with NCR Corporation to bring a complete set of services from parts logistics, onsite first line maintenance and deployment, to remote services. The deal couples NCR, with its worldwide presence and ability to supply onsite and remote services, with Alcatel-Lucent's network integration and service provider expertise to give Alcatel-Lucent one of the broadest service offerings in the industry.

BUDAPEST, Hungary, February 19 /PRNewswire/ -- ChemAxon, a software solutions provider for cheminformatics today announced the launch of version 5 of their cheminformatics toolkits, Marvin & JChem. The release sees major improvement in Marvin user friendliness, Markush enumeration and core development in JChem search, clustering and Oracle Cartridge performance.

LONDON, February 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Research Reveals the Impact Learning Platforms are Having on Decisions Regarding Content Purchases Within Schools

Over three quarters of ICT advisors in Local Authorities stated that it was very important that the content they purchased or schools' purchased was compatible with learning platforms used, according to new research from Shift Media.

The uptake of learning platforms continues apace in schools across England and Wales. Their implementation is certainly having an impact on the type of content which will be purchased by schools and local authorities, says Shift Media director Jane Powell.

SAN JOSE, California, February 19 /PRNewswire/ --

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) and SEGGER Microcontroller, a leading manufacturer of middleware for embedded systems, announced today the availability of the real time operating system (OS) embOS for the AVR(R)32 microcontrollers.

The modern AVR32 architecture from Atmel is specially crafted to meet RTOS requirements with its fast multilevel interrupt controller, memory protection unit and the support for nested interrupts. Having an outstanding energy efficiency of 1.08 DMIPS/MHz and delivering up to 83 Dhrystone MIPS (DMIPS) performance at 66 MHz running from embedded flash the UC3 parts are among the highest performance flash microcontrollers in the market today.

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, February 19 /PRNewswire/ --

Pinnacle Biologics, a private, full-service pharmaceutical and biotech solutions company, today announced it has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with MedImmune for Ethyol(R) (amifostine). The agreement, which is scheduled to take effect on June 1, 2008, grants Pinnacle Biologics exclusive Ethyol marketing authorization, certain licenses and distribution rights in Western Europe, Turkey and Israel. Additional terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

BERLIN, February 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Introduction of New European Environmental Communication Programme - 'Product, Process and Planet'

While studying towards his doctorate of philosophy, Anders Jørgensen discovered a previously undescribed species of parasite that infects farmed fish and produces serious disease.

Single-celled parasites of the genus Spironucleus are known to produce serious illness in farmed and aquarium fish. In farmed salmon, these parasites create foul-smelling, puss-filled abscesses in muscles and internal organs. After the first outbreaks of this disease were described in farmed salmon in the late 1980’s, it was assumed that the cause was Spironucleus barkhanus, which is a fairly common parasite in the intestine of wild grayling and Arctic char. In these fish species, however, the parasite is benign.

As oceans warm and become more acidic, ocean creatures are undergoing severe stress and entire food webs are at risk, according to scientists at a press briefing this morning at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston.

Gretchen Hofmann, associate professor of biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has just returned from a research mission to Antarctica where she collected pteropods, tiny marine snails the size of a lentil, that she refers to as the “potato chip” of the oceans because they are eaten widely by so many species. The National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs funded the expedition.

Farmers, food suppliers, policy-makers, business leaders and environmentalists are joining forces to confront the threat of the ‘forgotten greenhouse gas’ by taking part in an influential new forum at the University of East Anglia (UEA).

Launched on February 22, the Nitrous Oxide Focus Group will engage with many influential organisations including the National Farmers Union, Marks & Spencer, British Sugar, Defra, the Country Land and Business Association and Unilever.