ATHENS, Greece, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --

Mac Optic is exhibiting at Defendory International 2008, Oct. 7 - 11 in Athens, Greece, at the Hellenikon Exhibition Center.

Following is a profile of the company: Company: Mac Optic S.A. Booth/Stand Number: 592 Media Relations Contact: Mr. Sakis Chatzivalasis Phone: +30-2310847787 Email: MACOPTIC@otenet.gr

Mac Optic Industry was established in 1995 it is NATO and National Secret codified, registered as free supplier of the Greek MOD and codified as free supplier by the NAMSA too.

SUNNYVALE, California, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- CE IVD Menu Expanded to Eight On-Demand Tests for Use on the GeneXpert(R) System

Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) today announced the release of Xpert(TM) vanA/vanB as a European CE IVD Mark product under the European Directive on In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices. The test delivers rapid detection of vanA and/or vanB genes, the genes most commonly associated with vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) -- one of the more serious healthcare acquired infections (HAIs) worldwide. The 45-minute test runs on Cepheid's GeneXpert(R) System, the world's leading HAI molecular platform, and is the first test developed and manufactured by Cepheid AB in Bromma, Sweden.

HELSINKI, October 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Finland-based Sesca Mobile Software Oy, a leading developer of customized software for the mobile telecommunications industry, has launched iDial Mobile Community for mobile phone users. Users can download and install a free, mobile-operator independent iDial Mobile application to their compatible mobile handsets from http://www.my.idial.fi website. Users who are registered to the website can create mobile communities and communicate within the community by using iDial Mobile application's rich communications tools.

Timo Hannay recently gave a talk "Scientific Researchers and Web 2.0: Social Not Working?", which is reproduced in this Nascent blog post. This is a sobering review of the state of social software in science and he lists several roadblocks to its widespread adoption. It is important to counterbalance the almost unavoidable hype that emerges from the enthusiasm of those energized by a movement. However, it can be a tricky endeavor to attempt to define success or failure, especially within systems that are evolving rapidly.

CAMBRIDGE, England, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- RealView Development Suite 4.0 Professional Enables Developers to Realize the Full Potential of Their ARM Processor-Based Devices, Including the Cortex-A9 MPCore Multicore Processor

CAMBRIDGE, England, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --

CAMBRIDGE, England, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Updated ARM DDR and DDR2 Memory Controllers Offer DDR PHY (DFI) Interface Support

ARM (LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMH) today announced the ARM(R) PrimeCell(R) low-power DDR2 (LPDDR2) dynamic memory controller (PL342), which provides a high-performance interface to LPDDR2 memory systems that provide more than twice the bandwidth of LPDDR memory systems and deliver significant power savings over standard DDR2 memory.

CHICAGO, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- UniKix Integration with isCOBOL APS to Enhance Legacy Application Modernization and Integration Capabilities

Clerity Solutions, Inc., a leading full-service provider of mainframe migration and modernization solutions, today announced that it is adding the isCOBOL Application Platform Suite (isCOBOL APS) from Veryant to the list of COBOL platforms supported by its UniKix rehosting technology suite.

TEANECK, New Jersey and BUDAPEST, Hungary, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --

Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading provider of global consulting, technology and business process services, announced today the opening of its delivery center in Budapest, Hungary.

The new center will support Cognizant's European customers with near-shore services in a similar time zone, leverage techno-functional and multilingual capabilities available in the region to service the IT and business process outsourcing (BPO) needs of Global 2000 companies, and provide a base with deep local insights for Cognizant to service customers in Central and Eastern Europe.

CAMBRIDGE, England, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- ARM Active Assist Offers ARM Partners Targeted Onsite Expert Advice to Help Teams Better Optimize ARM Subsystem Designs

There's no love lost between open access PLoS (Public Library of Science) and print journals. Nature doesn't think much of PLoS, for example, and PLoS says they created the company to make science less insular so it isn't any surprise that that a new PLoS essay by Neal Young, John Ioannidis and Omar Al-Ubaydli claims that the current system of publishing medical and scientific research provides "a distorted view of the reality of scientific data that are generated in the laboratory and clinic."

They apply shade-tree-mechanic economics principles to support their idea of the distortion. There is an "extreme imbalance," they say, between the abundance of supply (science laboratories and clinical investigations) and the limited venues for publication (journals with sufficiently high impact to be valuable to the authors - let's come back to that part later). Scientific information, they say, is an economic commodity and the 'consumers' are other scientists, patients, funding agencies, etc.

The result of the imbalance, they note accurately, is that only a small proportion of all research studies are chosen for publication in the best journals, and these results are unrepresentative of scientists' overall work.