LAS VEGAS, July 29 /PRNewswire/ --

FC2, Inc. has updated one of its services, FC2 Counter ( http://counter.fc2.com/ ) with more language options. The service is now available in French, German, Spanish, Russian and Korean.

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FC2 is making continuous efforts to make progress on multi-lingual application of its services following its success in FC2 Image Resizing Tool ( http://r.fc2.com/ ) and FC2 Blog ( http://blog.fc2.com/ ).

FC2 Counter is a well-known service among Japanese users, which enables users to easily display the number of visitors to their blogs for free.

LONDON and BOSTON, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- MetraTech Corp. (http://www.metratech.com/), the charging, billing, settlement and customer care product provider has a new white paper on enterprise billing that examines how both the operational environment and the complexity inherent within creating, managing and billing for services requires a different approach; leading to better customer relationships, greater visibility for customers and operations, combined within a strict and manageable auditing environment.

SYDNEY, LONDON and CHICAGO, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- ThoughtWorks is delighted to announce that Australian BT Financial Group's 'BT Super for Life' superannuation product (http://www.btsuperforlife.com.au), which was developed through a BT and ThoughtWorks' partnership, has been honoured in the global CIO 100 Awards this year.

The prestigious CIO 100 Awards honour 100 companies worldwide that are creating new business value by innovating with technology.

SAN JOSE, California, July 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- SAM9G45 ARM9-based Embedded MPU offers 480 Mbps EHCI-compliant HS-USB with on-chip PHy, Ethernet and SDIO for high-speed connectivity, plus LCD and Touch Sensing for intelligent UIs.

PARIS, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced the appointment of Victor Agnellini as Senior Vice President, Transformation.

Based in Paris, Agnellini will orchestrate the transformation initiatives being done throughout the company into a single global project. In this role Agnellini will work with company leaders to accelerate and drive alignment of the many transformation initiatives launched several months ago - ensuring that Alcatel-Lucent becomes more responsive, moves decision making closer to the customer, reduces complexity, and ultimately achieves profitable growth.

These company-wide transformation actions are grouped into three key areas:

HILVERSUM, The Netherlands, July 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Wireless, full-colour Controller features capacitive touch screen for state-of-the-art music control throughout your home

- Instant access to music anywhere in the world with a touch of a finger helps you search, find, play, and discover all the music you want

- Available beginning today for euro349 suggested retail price

Sonos, the leading developer of wireless multi-room music systems, today launched the Sonos Controller 200 (CR200). The new full-colour controller features an ultra-responsive touch screen display making it easy to quickly find and play all the music you want, in any room of the house, all with the touch of a finger.

ATLANTA, July 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Stonebranch solutions offer increased functionality for OS/400 5.3 through 6.1

Stonebranch(R), Inc. announced today a new release of Infitran(TM), Stonebranch's Intelligent File Transfer solution, and Indesca(TM), Stonebranch's Independent Scheduling Agents solution, for IBM(R) i operating systems. Stonebranch's Managed File Transfer and Job Scheduling solutions provide increased visibility, audit capabilities and central management of all file transfer and job scheduling processes.

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GUILDFORD, England, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- With the successful launch last night of the UK-DMC2 and Deimos-1 satellites, SSTL has expanded the capability of the world's only spaced-based disaster monitoring system, the Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC). The British built satellites were launched onboard a Dnepr rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 18:45 UTC on Wednesday, 29th July 2009.

Following confirmation of separation from the launch vehicle, ground stations in Guildford and Spain established contact with UK-DMC2 and Deimos-1 respectively and commissioning of the satellites is now progressing.

COALVILLE, England, July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Neustro, the business systems experts, specialising in ERP, CRM and data collection, have commissioned Californian artist Matt Gaulden to create a kinetic sculpture for the PPMA Show at the end of September 2009 at the NEC, Birmingham England. http://www.ppmashow.co.uk/page.cfm/Link=1/t=m/goSection=2

Neustro were appointed as a Value Added Partner by Shoplogix, a developer of Real-time Performance Management (RPM) solutions for sustainable Continuous Improvement, in April 2009. Director Martin Roberts was seeking a way to showcase the capability of Plantnode.

BOZEN, Italy, July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Robotics today announced that it has embarked in a joint venture with i.v.SOFT in order to market, implement, and support its I.V. Workflow Engine and related software automation modules to hospitals and infusion centers in North America. One of its software modules (OncoCube) has already been installed and is being currently utilized at the University of Colorado Hospital [Denver], in addition to all-digital and totally integrated I.V. installations at La Maddalena Cancer Center in Palermo and Campus Biomedico University General Hospital in Rome.