MANILA, Philippines, March 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Advanced SMS Features Provide Filipinos With Market Leading Personalisation and Flexibility

Acision, the world's leading messaging company, and Sun Cellular, the fastest-growing mobile network provider in the Philippines, have partnered to come up with the world's most advanced SMS services using Acision Message Plus. As part of Acision Text Suite, the first open text architecture, Acision Message Plus provides Sun Cellular's mobile subscribers with personalised message management functionality, enabling them to block SMS spam, set up automatic replies and automatically copy or forward messages to another mobile number or email address - all from their handset.

LONDON, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- I-Media - a DAS Holding company - has launched an ambitious multi-platform publication in the UAE. The new publication includes an Arabic language financial daily newspaper and a breaking news Web site - alrroya.com. This was made possible through the Publish live technology from KnowledgeView.

The project was launched in a record 5 months, thanks to close cooperation between the I-media team and KnowledgeView's consultants and engineers. Publishing activities are conducted from two newsrooms in Dubai and Abu Dhabi that are linked over a secure Web, forming a single virtual newsroom. The two newsrooms were designed by KnowledgeView's architects to comply with Convergent Newsroom mode of work.

PARIS, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- - WCC's ELISE Software has Been Selected to Transform the Process of Matching Candidates With Job Offers.

WCC Smart Search Match, a leading provider of high-performance search and match software, announced today that the French Public Employment Service, Pole Emploi, implemented the ELISE Smart Search and Match platform throughout its organization on 7 February, both for visitors to its website at http://www.pole-emploi.fr and its consultants/agents.

This success has been made possible by using WCC's ELISE software, which optimally supports the process of matching candidates with job offers.

UMEA, Sweden, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Konftel AB, Europe's leading conference phones manufacturer, announced today that it will start delivering IP conference phones to the German company snom technology AG.

This order has a certain prestige - snom is a market leader in IP telephony, comments Peter Renkel, CEO at Konftel.

On the CeBIT Show a week ago, snom launched its snom MeetingPoint - a SIP-based conference phone as the first result of the partnership which began in July 2008.

LONDON, March 17 /PRNewswire/ --

While insulin syringes are the oldest delivery method available, they are currently experiencing a decline in use in Europe. Several factors have contributed to this trend, the most important being the high acceptance and popularity of insulin pens.

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New analysis from Frost Sullivan (http://www.medicaldevices.frost.com), European Insulin Delivery Devices Market, finds that the market earned revenues of $1,112.8 million in 2007 and estimates this to reach $1,895.0 million in 2014.

LONDON, March 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Slovenian Client Expands Ventyx Leadership in Global Nuclear Market

Ventyx(R), the world's largest private software provider to the energy and utility industry, today announced that Nuklearna elektrarna Krsko d.o.o. (NEK) has selected the Ventyx Shift Operations Management System (eSOMS) software solution to enhance the efficiency, productivity and safety of the utility's operation and maintenance activities at its Krsko Nuclear Power Plant. The new license with NEK marks the continuing expansion of Ventyx's customer base in the nuclear industry, where the company owns unparalleled market share and deep domain expertise unmatched in the enterprise software market.

MARSEILLE, France, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Wind energy can replace a large proportion of the polluting and finite fuels we currently rely on, explained Andris Piebalgs, EU Energy Commissioner, at the opening session of the European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition (EWEC) organised by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) this morning. It makes good sense to invest in indigenous sources of power which hedge against unpredictable fossil fuel prices and in which Europe has a real competitive advantage.

BERLIN, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- In October 2009, the European College of Liberal Arts - in Berlin, Germany - will launch the first Bachelor of Arts in Value Studies worldwide, an interdisciplinary programme that represents a new form of liberal education.

MILPITAS, California, March 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Recognition Underscores Adaptec Channel Leadership in Unified Serial(R) (SATA/SAS) RAID Solutions

Adaptec, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADPT), a global leader in storage solutions, today announced that it was named one of the Top 20 Strategic Storage Vendors by ChannelWeb, the industry leader in technology sales information, and that it has been named Best Channel Vendor in the storage category by Business Solutions, a leading technology magazine focused on growth strategies for the IT channel. Adaptec was the only RAID controller vendor to earn either of these awards.

DUBAI, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- After the 2002 surge in oil prices, most oil-exporting countries started setting up dedicated investment funds exclusively for the oil surplus they had earned. They were further encouraged when in 2006, the price of oil increased from an average of $28 per barrel to $80 per barrel.

Consequently, the gross domestic product (GDP) of the petro-states increased manifold and created substantial liquidity and large-scale opportunities for overseas investments. In fact, the funds of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) alone accounted for more than half the assets held by Sovereign Wealth Funds globally.