HELSINKI, March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, and the city of Helsinki are launching an international competition for building a sustainable and innovative block in the Western Harbor of Helsinki. This competition is a search for teams that can provide an architecture of solutions.

The project to build up a harbor area almost in the middle of Helsinki is very innovative in the sense that we are genuinely combining different aspects of urban, environmental, social, and business innovation. We aim to prove that national and international sustainability targets can be reached cost-effectively through high quality architectural solutions that are robust and reproduceable, says Marco Steinberg, Director of Strategic Design in Sitra.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 31 /PRNewswire/ --

WeatherBill (www.weatherbill.com), announced today the release of WeatherBill White Label, a complete technology solution that powers branded third party weather insurance and weather derivative programs with a turnkey white label platform. The platform automates weather coverage pricing, transaction processing, and risk management functions, and provides fully automated client, broker, and internal sales applications.

NEW YORK, March 31 /PRNewswire/ --

- Financial Services Firm Improves Performance and Availability with End-to-End Visibility of Business Transactions

OpTier(R), the leader in Business Transaction Management(TM) (BTM) (http://www.optier.com/) for enterprise, today announced that Morgan Stanley (http://www.morganstanley.com/ )(NYSE: MS) has deployed OpTier's CoreFirst(R) technology on one of its institutional fixed income trading platforms.

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 31 /PRNewswire/ --

- Reduce Need to Expand Bandwidth

- Increase ROI on Existing Network Infrastructure

- Reduce CapEx/OpEx

Allot Communications Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALLT), a leader in IP service optimization and revenue generation solutions based on deep packet inspection (DPI), today announced the launch of the Allot NetEnforcer(R) AC-10000. Built for service provider and large enterprise networks, the AC-10000 will enable network managers to reduce CapEx and OpEx by maximizing network utilization and guarantee user/subscriber QoE through the improved management of bandwidth intensive applications.

HSIN-CHU, Taiwan, R.O.C., March 31 /PRNewswire/ --

- Ideal for power sensitive, automotive and analog applications

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. (TSE: 2330; NYSE: TSM) today announced that it has qualified its new 0.18-micron embedded flash (embFlash) process technology family that targets a wide range of applications. The new family includes a baseline 1.8 to 5 volt standard process, an ultra-low leakage process, and specific automotive-qualified embedded Flash IP.

AMSTERDAM, March 31 /PRNewswire/ --

- Thinking Outside the Box Yields web 3.0, Nonlinear and Smartphone Applications

ORLANDO, Florida, March 31 /PRNewswire/ --

The World Heart Federation, Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (TSE: 4568) and Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) announced today that they have partnered to improve cardiovascular health internationally. The organizations made the announcement at the 58th Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology in Orlando, Florida.

An estimated 17.5 million people died from cardiovascular disease in 2005, representing 30 percent of all global deaths, making it a significant public health concern.(1)

NEU-ISENBURG, Germany, March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- S-882Z is the part number of a new Charge Pump IC, introduced by Seiko Instruments, which distinguishes itself by physical set-up from traditional integrated circuits. It is completely built in SOI (Silicon On Insulator) technology, guarantying its functionality from lowest input voltages.

MINNEAPOLIS, March 31 /PRNewswire/ --

- New MultiModem iCell Combines IP and GPIO capabilities for Mission Critical Applications

LONDON, March 31 /PRNewswire/ --

Planalytics Inc. announced today that Hozelock Limited, a market leading garden watering, spraying and aquatics manufacture, has licensed its Business Weather Intelligence(R) platform. Hozelock will use Planalytics weather-driven demand (WDD) analyses for its product categories to isolate, measure and plan for weather's affect on sales across the UK.

Customer Service is at the heart of the Hozelock business. The Planalytics solution will help us to understand how much the weather will affect our end consumers, and as a result we can better support our retail customers through the volatile British summer, commented Peter Rush, Managing Director for Hozelock.

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