WESTWOOD, Massachusetts, February 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Stories Reflect How Recovery System Helps Police Combat Vehicle Theft and Benefit Society

BEND, Oregon, February 6 /PRNewswire/ --

Vulcan Power Company today announced the G3 Power Plan, a preliminary plan for green grid transmission upgrades to deliver a "green gigawatt" (1,000 megawatts) of clean geothermal power to Los Angeles and Las Vegas from massive natural steam zones located in northwest Nevada. Maps and full article text can be found at http://www.G3Plan.com.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, February 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Microsoft and BT host workshop to help students from six countries turn their software applications into marketable products.

SAN JOSE, California, February 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Acquisition Expands and Strengthens Atmel's Proprietary Microcontroller Product Portfolio

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Quantum Research Group Ltd. ("Quantum"), the leading independent developer of capacitive sensing IP and solutions for user interfaces. The acquisition of Quantum provides Atmel with an immediate presence in touch sensing, one of the fastest growing markets for microcontrollers. The acquisition is expected to be accretive to Atmel's net income per share in the fourth quarter of 2008 and thereafter.

CAMBRIDGE, England, February 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- VectaStar Flexibility Enables WiMAX, CDMA & Enterprise Access Services on a Single, Multi-Frequency Platform

Moroccan telecommunications operator Wana has awarded Cambridge Broadband Networks a significant contract for the provision of its VectaStar transmission platform. Wana is using VectaStar to backhaul multiple services including corporate access and CDMA cellular traffic with WiMAX set to follow later in 2008. The network will operate on two frequency bands, 3.5 and 10.5 GHz, simultaneously.

A key reason for Wana selecting VectaStar was because of its cost effective deployment architecture for operators holding multiple frequency licenses.

CRAWLEY, England, February 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Capabilities for UMTS Location Test Solution (ULTS) Keep Spirent in the Forefront of LBS Testing

Spirent Communications plc (LSE: SPT), a global provider of performance analysis and service management solutions, today announced the availability of two important new capabilities for its market-leading UMTS Location Test Solution (ULTS): enhanced testing of Secure User Plane (SUPL) and WCDMA Signalling Conformance testing.

BARCELONA, Spain, February 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- iSkoot mobile software to be demonstrated with Cisco at Mobile World Congress

iSkoot, the leading provider of carrier-friendly mobile VoIP solutions, today announced the successful completion of iSkoot's integration and interoperability testing with the Cisco AS5000 Series Universal Gateway and the Cisco PGW 2200 Softswitch -- a carrier-class softswitch that performs signaling and call-control tasks to interconnect next-generation IP networks to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, February 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Mosby's Nursing Skills(TM), the online nursing skills and reference system from Elsevier, today announced the launch of Mosby's Nursing Skills-Pediatric Collection, the largest and most robust collection of pediatric-specific Web-based competencies, numbering over 320 topics. The product is Elsevier's latest to deliver evidence based medicine electronically to help healthcare institutions improve the quality of care.

At yesterday’s International Solid State Circuit Conference, Holst Centre - founded by the Belgian nanoelectronics research center IMEC and the Dutch research center TNO - presented a plastic 64-bit inductively-coupled passive RFID tag operating at 13.56MHz.

With a record 780bit/s data readout of 64 bits over 10cm, the device approaches item-level tagging requirements. The tag generates a 5-fold higher bit rate compared to state-of-the-art plastic RFID systems. The achievement paves the way for low-cost high-volume RFID tags to replace barcodes.

The RFID system consists of a low-cost inductive antenna, capacitor, plastic rectifier and plastic circuit, all on foil. The LC antenna resonates at 13.56MHz and powers up the organic rectifier with an AC voltage at this frequency.

LONDON, February 6 /PRNewswire/ -- NHS Choices (http://www.nhs.uk), the online 'front door' to the NHS, today launched a new interactive calculator to measure your body mass index (BMI).

Based on NHS accredited information, the BMI calculator (http://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/BMI.aspx) enables users to calculate in seconds what their BMI is and provides them with clinically approved guidance on maintaining or obtaining a healthy BMI. This interactive tool is the latest addition to the NHS Choices' extensive tool library.