CALGARY, Canada, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Addax Petroleum Corporation (TSX: AXC and LSE: AXC) (Addax Petroleum or the Corporation) will host a management presentation to financial analysts and investors on Monday, March 23, 2009 in London, U.K. and on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 in Toronto, Canada. The Corporation's senior management team, including Mr. Jean Claude Gandur, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. James Pearce, Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Michael Ebsary, Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Jeff Schrull, General Manager Exploration, and Mr. Henry Legarre, Technical Manager Middle East will discuss the Corporation's most recent operating results and expectations regarding future operations.

MOSCOW, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- During the 14th International Salon of Ophthalmologic Optics held at Expocentre (Moscow) prizes were handed to the nominees of the Second National Optical Award Grand Prix MSOO.

In 2008 opticians and consumers of optical products got their first opportunity to choose the aces of the aces. A popular optical Internet project Ochki.Net together with Expocentre, the largest exhibition organization of Russia, announced the foundation of the National Optical Award (Grand Prix MSOO).

PARIS, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced the 8661 Directory Server, a high-performance service enablement platform for the creation of personalized Web 2.0 and communications services over wireline and mobile networks - all while enhancing service quality and reducing time to market.

LONDON, March 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Truly global business networking on show at EMEA's premier Carrier Ethernet event

Businesses under pressure to upgrade their communications within limited budgets will enjoy a unique opportunity at Ethernet Expo: Europe 2009, May 13-14 at ExCel Conference Centre in London. For the first time in a public demonstration, attendees will see globally interconnected Carrier Ethernet services delivering high-bandwidth business applications directly from the show floor to sites around the world. At the same time, the Vendor Showcase will present a closeup view of the latest technology and customer premises equipment enabling the demonstration and available now for enhanced enterprise communications.

LONDON, March 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- BBC Sites Lead Traditional TV Broadcaster Market with 55 Million Videos Viewed

comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released January 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, indicating that the total U.K. online video viewing audience has grown 10 percent during the past year to 29.6 million unique viewers age 15 and older.

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Google is U.K.'s Most Popular Online Video Property

COLOGNE, Germany, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Whether for doctor hopping or medical tourism, Europe is becoming increasingly important for health care. As a result, the German doctors' portal DocCheck is now cooperating with the European Medical Association (EMA). The aim: to improve communication between doctors and patient care providers throughout Europe.

OTTAWA, Canada, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Maude Barlow, senior advisor on water to the President of the United Nations General Assembly and Council of Canadians chairperson, says the Harper government's goal of a seat on the UN Security Council should be denied until Canada formally recognizes water as a human right.

Ms. Barlow is currently in Istanbul for the week-long World Water Forum at which government ministers from 120 countries will discuss global water issues.

LONDON, March 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Expands Platform for the Entire Subscriber Base

Azercell Telekom, the largest mobile operator in Azerbaijan announced today its decision to expand its Celltick-operated idle screen broadcast channel to its entire customer base.

The service, called 'Simurq' which is powered by Celltick's LiveScreen Media platform was originally launched to a limited audience of 300,000. Based on the impressive ARPU figures, Azercell has nominated Celltick to manage the service for the entire user base in cooperation with Unimark, a leading content aggregator in Azerbaijan.

LONDON, March 17 /PRNewswire/ --

The mobile content market with the advent of the applications store has brought a new model of mobile content distribution. The applications store gives an opportunity to capitalize on direct relationships with consumers, linking them to the brand and offering an easy-to-use way of purchasing a variety of applications. It is like on a farmer's market, where people can purchase fresh products and homemade food eliminating the middleman and the additional costs associated with buying through an intermediary.

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LONDON, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Research has revealed that new mums are spending an astonishing FOUR hours looking for advice online every day. Whenever baby naps, mum is logging onto the internet to get find out more about feeding, sleeping, development, health and shopping.

And more often then not, they are consulting other mums for advice on their baby's well being.

The poll of 3,000 mums, conducted by parenting club Bounty revealed 43 minutes a day are spent talking to like-minded people in forums and chatrooms.

In fact, 36 per cent of those polled rate other mum's advice more highly than recommendations from health visitors and midwives and 39 per cent would prefer to conduct their own research online rather than asking their own mum for guidance.