SAN FRANCISCO and MANILA, Philippines, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Now 70 Million Friendster Users Worldwide Can Stay in Touch Anytime, Anywhere

Friendster, Inc. (http://www.friendster.com), the 8th largest website in the world and the #1 social network in Asia, today announced that its 70 million users and the over 1 billion Internet-ready mobile phone users globally can now stay in touch anywhere via Friendster's new mobile site, accessible at m.friendster.com from any web-enabled mobile device. The new mobile site is the first in a suite of forthcoming mobile offerings referred to as Friendster Mobile.

LONDON, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Gala Coral Joins the Leading Skill Games Network

GameAccount, a leading software developer and supplier to the regulated online gaming industry, has launched its suite of skill-based games for Gala Coral, Europe's largest integrated betting and gaming group. The multi-year deal enables Gala Coral's online customers to engage in playing GameAccount's market leading portfolio of head-to-head online games including Gin Rummy; Multiplayer Blackjack; and Backgammon. All GameAccount head-to-head games offer multi-table tournaments together with head-to-head cash games and are currently available for Gala Coral's customers via the single-wallet integrated websites Coralhead2head.co.uk, Galacasinohead2head.co.uk and Eurobethead2head.com.

BRISTOL, England, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Survey Offers Hope to Millions of Couples Seeking a Better Sex Life

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Women who fear they are sexually dysfunctional will be relieved by the preliminary results of a new study that demonstrates that effective pelvic floor exercises can help women improve their sex lives. The exercises take just 5 minutes a day but the results can be 'mind blowing'!

Over 80% of women who followed the simple PelvicToner exercise programme reported an improved sex life within 4 weeks - source: preliminary results from The 2008 Orgasm Survey (http://www.orgasmsurvey.co.uk). The 2008 Orgasm Survey aims to raise awareness of the sex benefits of a strong pelvic floor.

BARCELONA, Spain, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Free survey shows companies how they rank against their peers

- Provides a roadmap for achieving best-in-class performance

(Shared Service Week 2008) - APEX Analytix, a leading provider of services and software for accounts payable and shared services organisations, today announced plans to introduce its popular benchmark of accounts payable best practices in Europe.

The APEX Analytix benchmark helps companies determine how their accounts payable operations rank against their peers in the industry and provides them with a roadmap for achieving best-in-class performance. Participation is free and is typically limited to companies who process 250,000 or more invoices each year.

REDWOOD CITY, California, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --

Siminn, the leading provider of Fixed-line, DSL, Internet and Mobile services in Iceland, has selected the Ceon Product Control Center (PCC) product lifecycle management (PLM) software solution. Ceon PCC has been chosen to be the centralized product catalog to support order capture, product configuration, and fulfillment processes for all services delivered by Siminn.

Siminn will leverage PCC's standards-based capabilities to construct, manage, and deploy a layered product catalog that includes the full technical and commercial definition of products. PCC will be integrated with Siminn systems using the flexible integration facilities, and online product configuration and quote calculation support that PCC provides.

Each day we risk exposure to around 70,000 chemicals. In food packaging or even the air we breathe, contact with potentially-toxic substances could be affecting our health, including fertility.

The Reproductive Effects of Environmental Chemicals in Females Consortium (REEF) is one of the first studies tackling the effect of environmental chemicals on female mammals. REEF will receive a total of £2.4m in funding from the EU.

Dr Richard Lea and Dr Kevin Sinclair at The University of Nottingham will receive a £500,000 grant for their work researching how these chemicals impact on mammalian fertility. Dr Lea and Dr Sinclair will study the impact of low levels of environmental chemicals on sheep foetuses in the womb. The specific chemicals to be studied are found in human sewage sludge which is frequently spread on fields where sheep graze prior to entering the human food chain.

Titanium is the lightweight metal of choice for many applications and a non-melt consolidation process being developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory may make it cheap enough to bulletproof your Prius. Or a military vehicle, if you want to be predictable.

The new processing technique could reduce the amount of energy required and the cost to make titanium parts from powders by up to 50 percent, making it feasible to use titanium alloys for brake rotors, artificial joint replacements and armor for vehicles.

The lightweight titanium alloy also improves the operation of the door and increases mobility of the vehicle, making it even more useful to the military.

Researchers at the University of Illinois report this week that a plant compound found in abundance in celery and green peppers can disrupt a key component of the inflammatory response in the brain. The findings have implications for research on aging and diseases such as Alzheimer’s and multiple sclerosis.

Inflammation can be a blessing or a blight. It is a critical part of the body’s immune response that in normal circumstances reduces injury and promotes healing. When it goes awry, however, the inflammatory response can lead to serious physical and mental problems.

Inflammation plays a key role in many neurodegenerative diseases and also is implicated in the cognitive and behavioral impairments seen in aging.

Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist whose research is so broad that it covers science from the beginning of the universe to the end of the universe, will join Arizona State University in August to assume a leadership role in an emerging research and educational initiative on “origins.”

“Lawrence Krauss has been at the forefront of trying to unify particle physics and cosmology; of trying to use the universe itself as a laboratory to understand fundamental interactions, fundamental science and fundamental physics,” says ASU President Michael Crow. “His ability to address fundamental questions of life, of origins – Where did we come from? Why are we here? – and to seek an understanding of the long-term sustainability of life on Earth, will facilitate this new research and educational initiative at Arizona State University.”

NICE, France, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Participation in TM Forum Catalyst Projects reinforces Microsoft's commitment to accelerating deployment of services based on industry standards.