Schools are set for a Star Trek make-over thanks to the development of the world's first interactive classroom by experts at Durham University.

Researchers at the Technology-Enhanced Learning Research Group (TEL) are designing new learning environments using interactive multi-touch desks that look and act like a large version of an Apple iPhone.

The team observed how students and teachers interact in classes and how Information Communications technology (ICT) could improve collaboration. They then set about designing an interactive classroom solution called 'SynergyNet' to reflect TEL's aims of achieving active student engagement and learning by sharing, problem-solving and creating.

WALTHAM, Massachusetts, September 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Lamictal Is Leading Single-Agent in First-, Second- and Third-Line Therapy, According to a New Report from Decision Resources

Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms focusing on pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that 52.3 percent of newly diagnosed bipolar disorder patients are prescribed antidepressant drugs first line.

LOS ANGELES, September 16 /PRNewswire/ --

Growing Generations, the largest U.S. based surrogacy agency, is coming to London, England in October to perform private consultations with prospective clients. The agency has successfully worked with 15 UK-based families who now have children, and an additional 12 who are going through the process. Growing Generations has clients from 20 other countries, including most of Europe.

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LONDON, September 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Orange Launches Mobile Broadband and Laptop Deal

- Three New Business Packages Launched to Serve Small and Medium Businesses

- Orange Teams up With Hewlett Packard

Orange today launches its new mobile broadband and laptop offer targeted specifically at the business market. Small and medium business customers can now sign up to a new Orange Business Everywhere mobile broadband package and come away with a laptop as well.

BASEL, Switzerland, September 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Avastin (bevacizumab) remains the only biologic to provide overall survival (OS) benefit when used as first-line treatment in combination with chemotherapy for patients with K-Ras wild type metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). Avastin's strong position was confirmed today following new data from a cetuximab (Erbitux) study presented at the 33rd Congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO). "K-Ras wild-type" describes the normal gene status seen in around 60% of colorectal cancer patients where the K-Ras oncogene has not mutated.

This confirmation of Avastin's survival benefit is important because overall survival is of key importance for patients with advanced colorectal cancer.

VIENNA, Austria, September 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Bankdata adopts Microsoft BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT to transform its payments processing.

LONDON, September 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Led by YouTube.com, Google Takes a 49 Percent Market Share

comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore Video Metrix service, indicating that more than 27.4 million U.K. Internet users (78 percent of the total U.K. Internet audience) viewed 3.2 billion videos online in June 2008. comScore Video Metrix, which was the first to market in the U.S. more than two years ago, has become the leading service for online video measurement and is the only service of its kind in the U.K.

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Google Sites Ranks as Most Popular Online Video Viewing Property

VIENNA, Austria, September 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Misys plc (FTSE: MSY.L), the global application software and services company, today announces a partnership with Dovetail to offer customers packaged payments solutions that are pre-integrated with their banking systems. The first such packaged solution is for SEPA Direct Debit. HCL, one of Misys' strategic partners, is providing its highly skilled resources to roll out Misys' solutions to modernise payments and messaging infrastructures.

VIENNA, Austria, September 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Joint Initiative to Create a European Solution

Today, at SIBOS, ICBPI Group (Italy), Isabel (Belgium) and Equens (the Netherlands) announced that they will be joining forces in e-invoicing. The main goal of the founding partners - ICBPI and Equens - for this international initiative is to establish an open, multi-party, cross-border European e-invoicing network. The network must gain practical experience and actively contribute to the development of a standardised European e-invoicing product with maximum customer reach. For this purpose, ICBPI and Equens will set up one of the first cross-border pilots for e-invoicing networks within Europe. Service provider Isabel will be the first participant in this pilot.

READING, England, September 16 /PRNewswire/ -- DediPower, one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers, has been selected by CNM Online to provide all their managed hosting requirements. Focusing on the heating, catering and washroom markets, CNM Online has experienced explosive growth over the last 2 years of over 200% p.a.