WILMINGTON, Delaware, June 4 /PRNewswire/ --

DuPont Titanium Technologies today announced a price increase for all DuPont(TM) Ti-Pure(R) titanium dioxide grades sold in Europe, Middle East and Africa regions. Effective July 1, or as permitted by contract, prices for all DuPont titanium dioxide grades will increase by 50 Euros per tonne in all Euro markets and by US$200 per tonne in the Middle East, Sub-Sahara Africa and Eastern European markets. The increase will be implemented in two increments: US$100 per tonne effective July 1, and US$100 per tonne effective October 1, 2008.

MANCHESTER, England, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Nostalgia has never been hotter and the latest 'must have' gift harps back to the good old days of boy meets girl, vinyl and tape cassettes.

MIXA(TM) is a 1GB USB memory stick, masquerading as a tape cassette, which allows anyone to design their own version and give the gift of music and memories to friends, family or that special someone, creating a unique gift for any occasion.

The thing that makes MIXA(TM) so special is that people can design it completely with the recipient in mind, from the sleeve design to the content itself which could simply be favourite music tracks - just like back in the 80's - as well as photographs, video clips or any other digital stuff.

BOXBOROUGH, Massachusetts, June 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- X-Series Platform Enables Delivery of 'In-the-Cloud' Virtualised Firewall Services to Enterprise Customers

Crossbeam Systems, Inc., a leading provider of next-generation security platforms for high-performance networks, today announced that BT has deployed Crossbeam's X-Series Next Generation Security Platform to help protect its internal network as well as deliver a new generation of "in-the-cloud" virtualised firewall security services to enterprise customers.

ISTANBUL, Turkey, June 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Experts report on progress and explore promise of rotavirus vaccines

Over 350 of the world's leading scientific experts, policymakers and leading public health professionals from 67 countries convened today during the 8th International Rotavirus Symposium in Istanbul, Turkey, to present new data about rotavirus -- a disease which causes acute diarrhea and often leads to death among young children.

"Regardless of where they live, virtually all children become infected with rotavirus by the age of three. Yet, 90 percent of child deaths due to rotavirus occur in the world's poorest countries," said Dr. Ciro de Quadros, of the Sabin Vaccine Institute.

Many scientists have expressed the belief that if they only had a chance to explain the facts, they could convince intelligent educated people (at least) of the validity of a neo-Darwinian approach to understanding life. As the following email exchange suggests, this conventional assumption is wrong. Not all people - even intelligent ones - have minds that operate according to the same principles of rationality.

The following email conversation took place between me and a reader of an article called "Life 2.0" that I published in Newsweek International about synthetic life.   The reader - a young earth creationist - was only upset by what I wrote in the very first paragraph of a rather long article.  The email exchange that followed is instructive to those of us who want to convince our fellow citizens of the legitimacy of modern science  and its implications for understanding life and the universe as a whole. 

PARIS, June 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Alcatel-Lucent has Already Announced the Deployment of More Than 50 TPSDA Networks

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext: Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced several new enhancements to its Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture (TPSDA) which pave the way for new, sophisticated and innovative multimedia services. Going beyond the initial, mass-market solution requirements for IPTV, voice and Internet services, the new architecture enhancements now enable consumers and business partners to choose the quality of experience they want, for the content they care about and at a price they are prepared to pay.

A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University and Newcastle University in the United Kingdom have found seismic signals from a giant river of ice in Antarctica that makes California's earthquake problem seem trivial.

Douglas A. Wiens, Ph.D., Washington University professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts&Sciences, and colleagues combined seismological and global positioning system (GPS) analyses to reveal two bursts of seismic waves from an ice stream in Antarctica every day - and each one equivalent to a magnitude seven earthquake.

The ice stream is essentially a giant glacier 60 miles wide and one-half mile thick. The data show that the river of ice moves about 18 inches within ten minutes, remains still for 12 hours, then moves another eighteen inches. Each time it moves, it gives off seismic waves that are recorded at seismographs all around Antarctica, and even as far away as Australia.

BERLIN, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Axxonis Pharma AG today announces the submission of a marketing authorisation application to the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) for Nenad(R) (lisuride transdermal patch as add-on therapy for Parkinson's Disease and for Restless Legs Syndrome, and subcutaneous (sc) lisuride infusion for advanced Parkinson's Disease)

AUSTIN, Texas, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Ringdale, Inc., a technology leader in network enhancing connectivity solutions, today announced the integration of fax receiving functionality with the document routing engine of FollowMe(R) to provide enhanced workflow capabilities.

NEW YORK, June 4 /PRNewswire/ --

Liquidnet today announced BATS Trading Inc. (BATS) has become its 22nd Streaming Liquidity Partner (SLP). This liquidity alliance enables Liquidnet's nearly 500 Member firms, via Liquidnet H2O(TM), unique access to approximately 700 million additional shares of liquidity per day(1). BATS has integrated the ability to cross with Liquidnet H2O via its new Dark Scan order type and joins Liquidnet H2O's growing list of Streaming Liquidity Partners (SLPs) who include some of the industry's leading brokerages, exchanges and ECNs.