LONDON, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- ONSPEED, the brand leader in Internet acceleration and Tiscali, the broadband, telephone and media company, today announce a direct agreement to continue to provide ONSPEED's powerful Internet acceleration software to Tiscali's Internet customers. Tiscali will continue to offer the ONSPEED product, previously marketed as Tiscali Accelerator, as a value added service for narrowband customers to increase retention and customer satisfaction.

BERLIN, June 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- univadis(R) Users Gain Access to BMJ Learning Content for CME and CPD

STOCKHOLM, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Axelar AB today announced that the company recently has initiated a phase I/II clinical trial on cancer patients with its new anti-cancer drug AXL1717, an insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) receptor inhibitor. The phase I/II clinical trial is primarily designed to assess the safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of the drug. As a secondary objective, anti-cancer effects will be documented whenever possible and the study will be conducted in Sweden.

The preclinical research conducted on AXL1717 demonstrated favorable characteristics in potency, tolerability and pharmacokinetic properties, supporting the exploration of oral dosing in clinical trials.

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia, June 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Renewed Contract Realigns and Extends CSC's Relationship with Global Rail Leader

CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced today that it has renewed its information technology (IT) outsourcing agreement with Bombardier Transportation, an operating group of Bombardier Inc. The new seven-year, US$1.2 billion (euro 765 million) contract, which has an incremental value of approximately US$944 million (euro 610 million), is an extension and expansion of services that began under a 2002 contract that was valued at US$700 million over seven years.

LONDON, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Clinica - the world's leading news service for the medical technology industry - has learned that staff and visitors to London's Houses of Parliament have been at risk of exposure to high levels of asbestos contamination for significant periods during the last three years. This news comes despite warnings from experts hired to monitor the situation as well as Parliamentary assurances that the material discovered in 2005 was safely contained.

In addition, the news casts serious doubt on whether regulations introduced three decades ago to control asbestos contamination are working to eliminate risk of exposure to this extremely dangerous carcinogen.

REDWOOD CITY, California, June 17 /PRNewswire/ --

Ingenuity Systems, the leading provider of information solutions for life science researchers, today released IPA 6.3, the newest version of its pathway analysis and life sciences knowledge software. IPA now supports Affymetrix GeneChip(R) Exon Arrays and several new animal and plant species.

AMSTERDAM, June 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Dutch Start-Up to Provide Multi-Mousing Capabilities for the Monitoring & Security Industry

WunderWorks BV, a software company delivering multi-user and interaction solutions, announced today it will launch its cooperation with Barco's Monitoring & Security Division during Infocomm 2008 in Las Vegas on 18 June 2008.

WunderWorks is the world's market leader in multi-user on-location business solutions, enabling multiple users to work together on one screen with multiple mouse and keyboards in standard Windows environments or applications.

PARIS, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext: Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that it has been chosen by BT to supply its IP Service Router in an expanded role within BT's 21CN all-IP national rollout. Alcatel-Lucent is a preferred supplier to the 21CN project with the 7750 Service Router (SR) operational in many locations. The 7750 SR deployments will now be expanded in line with BT's announced customer-driven plans to extend its Ethernet services with additional points-of-presence in the metro elements of the network. The value of the contract has not been disclosed.

Mount Sinai researchers have discovered that polyphenolics derived from red grape seeds may be useful agents to prevent or treat Alzheimer's Disease(AD).

This new study explored the possibility of developing 'wine mimetic pills' that would replace the recommended beneficial glass of red wine a day for AD prevention.

Giulio Maria Pasinetti, senior author and Director of the NCCAM-NIH funded Center of Excellence for Research in Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Alzheimer's Disease at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and his collaborator Dr. Jun Wang of Mount Sinai, through a partnership between the Research Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Dr. Anil Shrikhande, the Director of the Polyphenolics Division of Constellation Brands, a producer of biologically active grape products, tested the hypothesis that certain molecules contained in red wine, in particular in red grape seeds currently being developed with the name of Meganatural AZ, might offset disease progression in mice genetically modified to develop Alzheimer' disease.

COPENHAGEN, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Milestone Systems, a leading developer of open platform IP video management software, announces the availability of XProtect Corporate version 2.0. Designed for large-scale applications, it supports unlimited numbers of cameras, servers and users, with central control and intuitive access clients that make big installations very easy to manage.