PARIS, December 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Altran Foundation for Innovation launches its 2008 Award to get onto the issue of reducing CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. Today, climate warming is accepted as a major issue by the international community and we have no choice but to try and tackle it, and tackle it quickly.

As we know, global warming is due to rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere, and many now accept that this increase is caused by our own day-to-day activities.

What if technological innovation were the solution?

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- Siperian MDM Hub allows Force.com and Salesforce users to obtain reliable, unified views of their customers, enabling better decision making and faster time to value

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A major challenge in sending faxes directly to the desktop is designing a fax server to understand the various phone systems' (i.e., PBXs) codes for where to send the fax. PBXs vary in the way those codes (i.e., DTMF digits) are presented, and it is up to the fax server to adapt to them. Multi-Tech(R) Systems, Inc., a leading data communications and telecommunications echnology company based in suburban Minneapolis produces a line of FaxFinder(R) fax servers that, so far, have been interfaced to over 40 PBX models.

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- Actionable BI Now Available for Microsoft Dynamics NAV Users

Dexton, a Dutch software company with more than 15 years of experience in complex integration processes, has integrated Microsoft Dynamics NAV into their Agile System Environment (ASE). This integration enables Actionable BI for Microsoft Dynamics NAV users.

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- IntelliJ IDEA's Legendary Intelligence and Productivity Now Available in Full for Groovy and Ruby Developers

JetBrains(R), the creator of intelligent, productivity-enhancing tools for software developers, is proud to announce the final availability of JetGroovy Plugin 1.0 for Groovy and Grails developers and Ruby plugin 1.0 for productive Ruby development.

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LONDON, December 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Ibuyeco Car Insurance a Green Choice for Drivers as UK Car Industry Fails to Meet Environmental Targets on Carbon Emissions

UK targets for CO2 reduction, set for 2008 by the EU in 1998 will not be met. Ibuyeco car insurance, one of the first schemes of its kind in this country means consumers no longer need rely on the car industry to tackle the issue by allowing drivers to use their own initiative and make a practical contribution to help tackle global climate change through carbon offsetting.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, December 17 /PRNewswire/ --

A new report from Rider Research, publisher of The Online Reporter, predicts that the market for entertainment content on mobile media devices such as Apple's iPhones and iPods will exceed that of content delivered over broadband to the home.

The potential size of the market for entertainment videos and music on multimedia mobile phones and other portable devices is staggering. Several billion consumers worldwide are predicted within a few years to be carrying in their pocket or purse a handheld device that is capable of wirelessly receiving and playing video and audio entertainment.

Adult humans possess some mathematical abilities that are unmatched by any other member of the animal kingdom but there is increasing evidence that the ability to count sets of objects nonverbally is a capacity that humans share with other animal species.

In PLoS Biology, Elizabeth Brannon and Jessica Cantlon discuss how humans and nonhuman animals share a capacity for nonverbal arithmetic. The researchers tested monkeys and college students on a nonverbal arithmetic task in which they had to add the numerical values of two sets of dots together and choose a stimulus from two options that reflected the arithmetic sum of the two sets.

MIT scientists have found a way to induce cells to form parallel tube-like structures that could one day serve as tiny engineered blood vessels.

The researchers found that they can control the cells' development by growing them on a surface with nano-scale patterning. A paper on the work was posted in Advanced Materials.

Engineered blood vessels could one day be transplanted into tissues such as the kidneys, liver, heart or any other organs that require large amounts of vascular tissue, which moves nutrients, gases and waste to and from cells.

"We are very excited about this work,” said Robert Langer, MIT Institute Professor and an author of the paper.