WALTHAM, Massachusetts, July 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- First Patient has been Enrolled for this Phase II clinical study of EyeGate's Lead Product EGP-437 Delivered by its Iontophoresis Technology that Non-Invasively Delivers Drug to the Eye

Just this once, anti-fishing organizations can fall back on capitalistic economics to make their case - with huge increases in fuel costs, it may be time to have government-run fisheries rather than spend more money on fuel subsidies currently given to fishing fleets.

In addition, it would actually save money to invest in re-training fishers, says University of British Columbia fisheries economist Rashid Sumaila, a 2008 Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation.

Dramatic fuel price increases over the past weeks have sparked large-scale protests by fishers around the world. In France, fishers set up blockades at several ports while Japanese squid fishing boats halted operations for two days. Similar events have taken place in Australia, Nigeria and the Philippines.

SAN JOSE, California, July 15 /PRNewswire/ --

PARIS, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that it has been awarded a Euro 32 million euro contract by Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (BTC), the main telecommunication services operator in Bulgaria - to provide GSM/EDGE solutions to Vivatel, BTC's GSM mobile subsidiary.

Alcatel-Lucent will replace half of Vivatel's current GSM Base Station Subsystem network equipment and will also provide a full range of services in conjunction with this contract including project management, network design, integration, testing, installation, and multi-vendor radio network planning and optimization. The contract runs through 2011.

University of Florida and Florida Institute of Technology engineering researchers have narrowed the search for the source of X-rays emitted by lightning, a feat that could one day help predict where lightning will strike.

"From a practical point of view, if we are going to ever be able to predict when and where lightning will strike, we need to first understand how lightning moves from one place to the other," said Joseph Dwyer, a professor in the department of physics and space sciences at FIT. "At present, we do not have a good handle on this. X-rays are giving us a close-up view of what is happening inside the lightning as it moves."

REDWOOD CITY, California, July 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Ingenuity provides state-of-the-art solution for Huntington's disease research by integrating internal knowledge and curated disease content through IPA

Ingenuity Systems, the leading provider of information solutions for life science researchers, and CHDI Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization focused on discovering and developing drugs to treat Huntington's disease, today announced a multi-year agreement for CHDI to use IPA as a platform to integrate Ingenuity-curated information relevant to Huntington's disease. CHDI researchers will be able to leverage this knowledge using the complete set of analysis tools and structured knowledge already available in IPA.

SEATTLE and ROME, July 15 /PRNewswire/ --

Expedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPE) today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Italy-based Venere Net ApA (http://www.venere.com) from Advent International and the founding partners. Venere.com has established relationships with approximately 29,000 hotels and bed and breakfast properties throughout Europe and the U.S. The transaction will result in the addition of more than 10,000 incremental hotel properties in Europe, the Middle East and Africa to Expedia, Inc.'s global hotel offering. Terms of the pending acquisition were not disclosed. Closing of the transaction is subject to competition approval in Germany.

SAN JOSE, California, July 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- In its Q2 2008 Web Security Trends Report, Finjan Outlines the Latest Developments in the Cybercrime Commercialization Economy

Finjan Inc., a leader in secure web gateway products, today announced the latest findings by its Malicious Code Research Center (MCRC). In its latest trends report for Q2 2008, the MCRC identifies and analyzes the latest Crimeware business operations, and provides a first-of-its-kind insider's look at the organizational structure of Cybercrime organizations. It all makes the cybercrime more successful and profitable than ever.

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LONDON, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Serco Games Research (SGR) has developed a new service that aims to help developers predict how their game in development is likely to score in game reviews, and offer recommendations on how to improve the score.

The SGR ScoreCheck, which follows a user-centred approach, assesses the game against a number of well-defined categories to predict the likely score, and can be used with prototypes at beta. SGR also provide recommendations for improvement based on an objective analysis by its consultants.

LONDON, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Finsbury Solutions, a leading supplier of spreadsheet management and compliance software to the financial services sector, today announced that leading global alternative asset manager Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) has implemented Finsbury Solutions' advanced Spreadsheet Workbench software system.

Spreadsheet Workbench is based on the latest Microsoft technologies, including SQL Server 2005 and SharePoint 2007, and provides auditability and control over business critical spreadsheets. The system provides finance, risk and audit departments with enhanced transparency and control over the financial reporting process in accordance with the latest financial legislation, such as Sarbanes-Oxley.