LONDON, July 17 /PRNewswire/ --

Silence Therapeutics plc (London AIM: SLN), a leading European RNAi focused biotechnology company, announces that for personal reasons, Jeffery Vick has resigned as Group CEO and left the Company.

The Board of Directors has appointed Iain Ross, currently Non-Executive Chairman, full time Chairman and Group CEO with immediate effect. Jeremy Curnock Cook, a Non-Executive Director of the Company has been appointed Senior Independent Non-Executive Director.

LONDON, July 17 /PRNewswire/ --

On behalf of the Board of Silence Therapeutics plc, Jeremy Curnock Cook said:

PLEASANTON, California, July 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Recognized for game-changing technology and Enterprise Innovation

Spigit, a leader in enterprise social software, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the AO Global 250 Winners. Inclusion in the AO Global 250 signifies major developments in the creation of new business opportunities in the global technology industries. Spigit was selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team with assistance from KPMG's emerging business practice, KPMG VC Practice, who together surveyed more than 500 venture investors, investment bankers, and technology insiders.

MUNICH, Germany, July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- With ViralTickets amiando presents a world's first in the field of online event organisation: ViralTickets is the first event-promotion-system that combines powerful word-of-mouth marketing and recommendation management on the internet.

The ViralTickets system is easy-to-use without any extra charge: after buying tickets the participants receive a code which they can distribute to their friends and colleagues. ViralTickets offers a dual incentive: for every referred customer the participant gets a bonus and the newly referred customer receives a discount.

LONDON, July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Becoming a mum changes a woman's life irrevocably, and a new research report out today highlights a massive change which is often overlooked - how friendships alter to fit the new mum status.

The Friendship Report, commissioned by the leading Child Trust Fund provider, The Children's Mutual (http://www.thechildrensmutual.co.uk), found that women with children make eight more lifetime friends as a direct result of becoming a parent.

The report, conducted by the Consumer Analysis Group, found that if mums attended every parental group, from fertility clinic to primary school, they would make an average of 21 new friends along the way.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company Seeks To Prevent Unauthorized Use Of Its Patented On-Screen Advertising and Position-Based Screen Scrolling Technologies

BERLIN, Germany, July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The Future is bright. The Future is Blu.

You are invited to attend the Blu-ray Disc Association Press Conference at IFA 2008

2008 is Blu-ray's year. Already it is growing faster then DVD did in Europe and that speed of growth is increasing rapidly.

Join us for this important press conference and hear from leaders in the movie and music industries, Europe's premier retailers, CE equipment manufacturers and the BDA's leaders about the next steps in making the mainstream thoroughly Blu.

The Blu-ray Disc Association press conference will be hosted by Sony Europe in Hall 4 at the IFA Fairground, starting promptly at 17.00hrs on Thursday 28 August.

STAMFORD, Connecticut, July 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Disappointed in the announced sale price for E-ONE

- Asks Board to Reconsider Continuing James C. Janning as Chairman

Warren B. Kanders, a 6% stockholder of Federal Signal Corporation (NYSE: FSS), in a letter to the Board of Directors, reiterated his continued interest in being selected as Chief Executive Officer.

Responding to a statement by FSS's Chairman of the Board, James C. Janning, that Mr. Kanders did not really want to become CEO of FSS, Mr. Kanders stated:

OXFORD, England, July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Psion Teklogix, the mobile computing and wireless data collection solutions specialist, is pleased to announce that it has entered an alliance partnership with B2M Solutions. Leveraging the synergies between the two companies, the partnership will provide the market with a complete solution for managing mobile technology.

B2M Solutions specialises in the management of a mobile enterprise. Its mprodigy(TM) mobile management system provides the framework that pulls together an entire mobile infrastructure; maximising the productivity of the remote workforce and protecting the investment in a mobile estate.

I first came across the word synchrotron in connection with the Crab Nebula, as well explained here at Hyperphysics. However, the phenomenon is these days very much down-to-earth: last weekend I returned from our last ever session at the Daresbury Synchrotron, which is soon to be shut down (final public use Saturday 1st August 2008). It first came on-line for experiments in 1981: prior to that, intense X-ray and hard UV synchrotron radiation was obtained as a by-product through “parasitic” operation on particle storage rings. Among others, Reading’s own Keith Codling had shown that much more useful science was being obtained from the synchrotron radiation than from the particle experiments. As a result of their concerted effort, the first Second-Generation light source was built at Daresbury.

Reaching a finish line is an obstacle that does not begin or end with procrastination. A college dissertation, however, can be built on the foundations of such a behavior. Studies have proven that a small amount of pressure can actually stimulate comprehension and motivation, something that can be achieved through procrastination.

In a 2002 study by Jeffrey J. Walczyk, Kathryn E. Kelly, Scott D. Meche and Hillary Braud at Louisiana Tech University College called “Time Limitations Enhance Reading Comprehension,” students read passages under no time constraints, mild pressure, or under high-demand time limits. Results showed that the best reading comprehension was observed under mild time pressure. The idea can be further addressed by taking a closer look at procrastination.

With the idea encapsulated in the Parkinson’s Law stating that “Work Expands so as to fill the time available for its completion,” procrastination may be a realistic endeavor. Robert A. Harris, author of "Writing with Clarity and Style: A Guide to Rhetorical Devices for Contemporary Writers," associates the law with two factors. He addresses both in an article called “Human Factor Phenomena in Problem Solving.”