ELMSHORN, Germany, August 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Market Leader Exhibits for the First Time at the World's Largest Consumer Electronics Fair

Shuttle Inc., the market leader in the Mini-PC segment and the manufacturer of Multi-Form-Factor solutions, is exhibiting its product range of innovative solutions for home users at this year's IFA Consumer Electronics Fair. A range of options for using digital content throughout the home will be presented.

"The IFA as an exhibition open to the general public is an ideal way of bringing Shuttle's latest innovations and technologies for every day use directly to consumers" said Tom Seiffert, Head of Marketing & PR at Shuttle Computer Handels GmbH.

SAN DIEGO, August 7 /PRNewswire/ --

ChemBridge Research Laboratories, Inc. (CRL) announced today that it has established an industry record in turn-around time for hit-to-lead follow-up libraries. Such ultra-fast hit-to-lead libraries are now produced in CRL's San Diego facilities in a matter of three to six days which enables critical acceleration of our clients' medicinal chemistry projects and sets a new industry benchmark. This state-of-the-art high-throughput chemistry technology was developed at CRL over the last seven years and refined in collaborations with Pfizer, Merck, AstraZeneca and others.

MUMBAI, India, August 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- DMA LIVE! Together With FTNet Will Provide International Market Connectivity and Access to Over 80% of Indian Brokerage and Institutional Market. - ANMI (Association of National Exchanges Members of India), Mr. G.N.Bajpai (former SEBI Chairman), Mr. Kiran Karnik (Former Chairman of NASSCOM) Together With Other Leading Industry Leaders Welcome the Announcement - Next-Generation Technology Innovation to Provide Unmatched Price / Value Competitive Advantage to India's Institutional Brokerage and buy Side Firms.

SAN MATEO, California, August 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Explosive Growth in Reseller, Distributor and Technology Partner Commitments Underpins Avistar's Turnaround Success and Product Expansion

LONDON, August 7 /PRNewswire/ -- VocaLink, the payment transaction specialist, announced today that its contract with Bacs Payments Schemes Limited (Bacs) to process the UK automated payments has been extended. The contract which ran to 2010 has been extended for a further five years to 2015.

Bacs is responsible for the Schemes behind the clearing and settlement of automated payments in the UK including Direct Debit and Bacs Direct Credit. VocaLink services and maintains the infrastructure network on behalf of Bacs, processing more than 5.5 billion automated payments a year on behalf of the Scheme.

LONDON, August 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Virtual International Mobile Network Operator, Morodo Ltd, continues to expand the device footprint of its popular MO-Call low-cost calling service. Customers can now use MO-Call in any one of more than 1,000 different mobiles, from over 30 different mobile manufacturers.

MO-Call offers low-cost international calling direct from a mobile phone, without the need to change mobile number, SIM or network. Used when traveling overseas, MO-Call also helps avoid roaming charges. Providing seamless connection of a low-cost call from a mobile phone, MO-Call offers savings of up to 90% over existing Mobile Network International Tariffs.

HAMBURG, Germany, August 7 /PRNewswire/ -- AVEVA (LSE:AVV), the leading supplier of engineering IT systems for the plant and marine industries today announced that Thyssen Krupp Marine Systems has extended its 25-year association with AVEVA by signing a new agreement that includes migration from the former Tribon system to the AVEVA Marine shipbuilding solution with all of its extended functional possibilities at the company shipyards in Kiel, Emden and Hamburg, Germany.

One of the TKMS companies, Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW), has been using Tribon (and its predecessor Steerbear) since 1983. The other German shipyards of the group first started using the software system in 1994.

Nihilist types, and even prevailing theoretical models, attempting to explain the formation of the solar system have assumed it to be average in every way but a new study by Northwestern University astronomers that used recent data from the 300 exoplanets discovered orbiting other stars turns that view on its head.

Our solar system is pretty special and if early conditions had been just slightly different planets could have been thrown into the sun or jettisoned into deep space.

LONDON, August 7 /PRNewswire/ --

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- Awards Private View 28 October 2008

September sees HEARD launch an 8 week showcase competition for young design graduates. The competition provides a great opportunity for new graduates to show the skills they have developed during their degree and for HEARD to champion their work in a commercial environment.

Six graduates will be selected every week to organise their own five-day showcase at Heard Gallery, London. A finalist will be chosen from each showcase and the winner will be announced at the Awards Private View on Thursday 28th October 2008.

DALLAS and JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, August 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Mining division launches its full e-Procurement functionality with African suppliers

Anglo Base Metals launched its full e-Procurement functionality at a formal event on 1 August 2008, in partnership with Quadrem Africa, a subsidiary of Quadrem International Ltd, a supply chain solutions company with one of the world's largest electronically connected supplier networks for private and public sectors.