REDWOOD CITY, California, DHAKA, Bangladesh and BANGALORE, India, August 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Initiative Will Deliver Affordable Banking Services to the World's Poorest People

Obopay, Inc., the pioneering service provider for payments via mobile phones, and Grameen Solutions, the company globally recognized for promoting economic and social development through information and communications technology, today announced a unique, first-of-its-kind alliance to use mobile technology to deliver banking services to a billion of the world's poorest people by 2018.

HARTFORD, Connecticut, August 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Comprehensive Portfolio of Benefit Products and Programmes Available in September

Aetna (NYSE: AET) announced today that its international health and group business, Aetna Global Benefits (AGB), will begin offering products and programmes to European Union-based multinational corporations and their employees on international assignments. Available in September, this robust portfolio demonstrates Aetna's commitment to deliver world-class benefits solutions to multinational employers and international assignees. This offering also represents the first integrated product solution between AGB and Goodhealth Worldwide since the recent acquisition.

LONDON, August 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Twitter, the micro blogging site has become the latest target for cyber criminals, intent on stealing data (http://www.tinyurl.com/5rzu28). Social networks are beginning to prove a fertile environment for hackers.

According to antiviral firm, Kaspersky, a fake, malicious Twitter profile has been spotted. It announces a link to pornographic video but instead downloads a fake version of Adobe Flash, which installs programs capable of stealing data.

The attack is believed to be the first to target Twitter.

The language, the servers used to download the Trojans and email addresses used to collect the stolen data point to a Brazilian creator.

The fake profile has a name that means "pretty rabbit" in Portuguese.

ELMSHORN, Germany, August 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Extension of the Basic Product Range With the Shuttle Barebone K48

Shuttle Inc., the market leader in the mini-PC segment and the manufacturer of Multi-Form-Factor solutions presents its second Mini-PC Barebone for users of simple applications. For everyday use Office, the internet and email do not require an oversized specification that delivers maximum performance. A processor from the entry-level segment, suitable memory and hard disk saves investment costs and energy.

LONDON, August 6 /PRNewswire/ -- According to ComScore's latest internet usage figures, three in every four searches from the UK uses Google.

This is the first time Google has gone over the 75 per cent mark and highlights the lack of competition for the search leader in this country. Indeed, the second place was occupied by eBay not Yahoo, MSN, AOL or, the new kids on the block, Ciul and WikiSearch.

eBay, took a 5.5 per cent market share. Yahoo took 4.3pc. MSN took 3.4pc. AOL overtook Facebook, however, many commentators are suggesting this is due to the acquisition of Bebo.

The figures - from June - also show 31 million UK internet users conducted at least one search. A total of 3.9 billion searches were undertaken.

LONDON, August 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Product Simplifies the Management of Business Device Fleets

- Update, Secure and Support Employee Devices Remotely

Orange UK today announced the launch of its Device Management service, the first product of its kind that enables businesses to effectively manage their employees' mobile devices in-house, without having to bring them into the office or contact customer services.

PHILADELPHIA, August 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Shunra Virtual Enterprise integrates with VMware deployments creating 'network aware' virtualized testing environments for a comprehensive application lifecycle performance solution

Shunra Software (www.shunra.com), the world's leading provider of network emulation and application performance testing solutions, today announced it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. The VMware TAP program helps technology vendors integrate their products with VMware virtualization software and deliver timely, joint solutions to mutual customers.

A strange, metal brew lies buried deep within Jupiter and Saturn, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and in London.

The study, published in this week's online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, demonstrates that metallic helium is less rare than was previously thought and is produced under the kinds of conditions present at the centers of giant, gaseous planets, mixing with metal hydrogen and forming a liquid metal alloy.

BELFAST, August 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Titanic Quarter Ltd announced today that Redstone plc has been granted exclusive rights to develop an advanced 'fibre to the home' infrastructure for the GBP5.5bn (EUR7bn) regeneration scheme in Belfast.

All future residential and business occupants of Titanic Quarter will have access to fully fibred high-speed and high quality Telecoms, Internet, IP Television and a range of innovative services.

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, August 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- MediaCatalyst Captures the Soul of the new Yamaha VMAX 2009 Motorbike, to be Seen, Heard and Experienced Exclusively Online, http://www.new-vmax.com

Amsterdam-based interactive agency MediaCatalyst has created a rich media site where visitors can experience in sound and sight the rush of Yamaha's legendary motorbike the VMAX 2009, available exclusively online in limited edition at http://www.new-vmax.com.

1985 saw the birth of Yamaha's first VMAX, a beast of a muscle bike and reigning Quarter Mile King that acquired instant cult status. 2009 witnesses its rebirth: nearly a decade in the making by Yamaha's dedicated team, the new VMAX 2009 is poised to push the asphalt and burn rubber once again.