SAN JOSE, California, April 27 /PRNewswire/ --

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today its AT88SA family of lowest cost, ultra low power, secure cryptographic authentication ICs. The first device in the family, the AT88SA102S, is a general purpose CryptoAuthentication(TM) (http://www.atmel.com/products/cryptoauthentication) IC designed to protect consumers from counterfeit electronic and medical consumables, such as batteries, ink cartridges, test strips, blood bags, breathing tubes, and others. They can be used to secure network transmissions such as satellite radio broadcasts or medical records or any other kind of logical data such as firmware or media.

LONDON, April 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- No More I've Changed by Mobile Number Emails Ever Again!

Telnic Limited (http://www.telnic.org), the registry operator for the new communications-focused top level domain .tel, today announced that its free plug-in application for Microsoft(R) Outlook(TM) is now available, enabling anyone with Outlook to have their address book updated dynamically.

The free Outlook application, which can be downloaded from http://telnic.org/community-applications.html or http://outlook.apps.telnic.tel, provides the ability to:

LONDON, April 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- President Clinton Supports Global Tribute to Inspire People to Mirror Mandela's Values

46664 and the Nelson Mandela Foundation are calling on people around the world to support the creation of an official Mandela Day, to be held annually on July 18, Mr Mandela's birthday. This celebration of Nelson Mandela's life will serve as a global call to action for people to recognise their individual power to make an imprint and help change the world around them for the better.

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LONDON, April 27 /PRNewswire/ --

The Healthcare Group at Frost Sullivan is pleased to announce its 2009 Quarterly Analyst Briefing Presentation on the Pharmaceutical CRM Market to be held on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 4 p.m. GMT.

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2008 has ushered in a variety of changes to the Pharmaceutical CRM market. The pharmaceutical industry is adopting a cautious approach, delaying and re-evaluating technology purchases until profits are more stable, however the demand for specific CRM tools and services will not cease to exist. All vendors are setting themselves to grasp this opportunity taking advantage of this new and promising market dynamics.

LONDON, April 27 /PRNewswire/ --

The Healthcare Group at Frost Sullivan is pleased to announce its 2009 Quarterly Analyst Briefing Presentation on the European High Acuity Monitoring Systems Markets to be held on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 3 p.m. GMT.

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SAN RAMON, California, April 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- World's leading low-power wireless networking standard adds new specification featuring seamless integration with global IT networks to portfolio

The ZigBee Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies creating standardized wireless solutions for use in energy management, commercial and consumer applications, today announced it will incorporate global IT standards from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) into its specification portfolio of low-power wireless networking standards. This move will expand the growing portfolio of successful ZigBee specifications and should further advance the rapid growth of Smart Grid applications that have widely adopted the proven ZigBee Smart Energy public application profile.

SUNNYVALE, California, April 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- Unique GeneXpert(R) System Capabilities Enable Powerful New TB Diagnostic Tool

Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) today announced the release of Xpert(R) MTB/RIF as a CE IVD Mark product under the European Directive on In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices. For the first time, European clinicians will have access to a rapid test that can simultaneously identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and resistance to rifampicin (RIF), a common first-line drug for treatment of the disease and a reliable surrogate marker of strains that are multidrug-resistant (MDR-TB).

The art of haiku poetry originated in Japan, with roots stretching back to the ninth-century or earlier. According to the US Census of 2000, people of pure Japanese descent make up 16.7% of the population of Hawaii. Residents of Hawaii annually consume nearly seven million cans of SPAM, or about six cans per capita.

If you do the math, it leads you inevitably to the work of Keola Beamer, the Hawaiian slack-key guitar player and leading advocate of SPAM haiku, who graciously contributed the following, deeply moving verses:

Silent, former pig
One communal awareness
Myriad pink bricks   

Twist, pull the sharp lid
Jerks and cuts me deeply but
Spam, aaah, my poultice

In mud you frolicked
Houston, Texas, hometown of both Roger Clemens and Walter Cronkite (and, errr, David Khoresh if we're being comprehensive) is a bellweather city for the US, says a researcher who happens to live in Houston - in that it is now more Democrats than Republicans and minorities are the majority.    According to the data, if this trend continues and it's really indicative of a nationwide trend as claimed, Houston (and therefore all of America) could be hispanic gay men by 2030.

HONG KONG, April 27 /PRNewswire/ --

NetDragon Websoft Inc., a leading game developer and operator in the PRC (NetDragon with its subsidiaries collectively known as the Group, stock code: 777) announced that The Warlords, the English version of Tou Ming Zhuang Online, entered its open beta testing on April 24. The Warlords is a 2.5 D MMORPG game jointly created by NetDragon and China Film Group, sharing the same story as the film titled The Warlords. It exhibits traditional Chinese martial arts through complicated stories set in the late Qing Dynasty.

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