LONDON, July 20 --

- Latest Survey From The IT Job Board Highlights Outsourcing Trends

Almost two thirds (64 percent) of companies have off-shored a portion of their
IT function in the last six months, according to the latest piece of research(1)
from The IT Job Board, http://www.theitjobboard.co.uk.

And 34 percent of the IT professionals surveyed stated that more than half (51
percent) of their IT department had already been off-shored; 79 percent said to
India.

When asked whether their companies were planning to off-shore in the next six
months, exactly half (50 percent) said they believed they would be. And, 75
percent thought the work would go to India.

WASHINGTON, July 21 --

- Clinical Research Organizations urge full funding for FDA to conduct foreign
safety inspections

Clinical trials conducted in the developing world meet the same safety, ethical
and quality standards as those conducted in the developed world. That is the
conclusion of a major report released today by the Association of Clinical
Research Organizations (ACRO). The report, commissioned against a backdrop of
declining participation rates in the United States and recent criticism of
international research by several academic journals, was developed for ACRO by
VOI Consulting, Inc, a Ft. Lauderdale-based life sciences advisory and
publishing company.

NEW YORK, July 20 --

- Newly Created Role to Drive Continued Expansion, Providing Products and
Expertise to Meet Emerging Needs of European Businesses

Wolters Kluwer’s Legal Technology Group today announced the appointment
of Scott Walker as managing director, U.K. In this newly created role, Walker
will lead the continued expansion of the CT TyMetrix and CT Summation product
lines, to the European market.

MONTREAL, July 21 --

VoiceAge Corporation announced today its initiative to create a patent pool of
essential AMR-WB/G.722.2 patents. Both Ericsson and Nokia, who are major
contributors to AMR-WB/G.722.2 Standards, foster the realization of this patent
pool in order to provide users with convenient, fair, reasonable and non
discriminatory access to a portfolio of essential worldwide patents under a
single license agreement.

LONDON, July 20 --

There has been a recent upsurge in Merger Acquisition (MA) activities in the
pharmaceutical and biotechnology space. While the economic downturn and related
credit crunch has had an impact, this alone cannot account for the recent MA
mania, which has including four mega MAs in the first half of 2009.

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The real intention behind these mergers remains a question, as past mergers
have not yielded substantial value addition in terms of RD productivity, says
Frost Sullivan Senior Research Analyst Ranjith Gopinathan.

DALLAS, NEW YORK, LONDON and MUMBAI, India, July 20 --

- Businesses Adopting BPO Transformational Strategies in the Office of Finance
can Achieve Improved, Cost-effective and Fully Compliant Financial Platforms
Globally

Last week, scientists announced the interim results of one of modern physiology’s most closely watched experiments: the effects of caloric restriction on the lifespan of non-human primates.

The report was maddeningly mixed.

Caloric restriction seemed to reduce the incidence of several diseases, but when it came to mortality—a somewhat important factor when it comes  to longevity— the data were  statistically not significant. We still do not know if caloric restriction works in primates, which, of course, we are.

A new impact on Jupiter is getting all the attention this week but it can happen here - and has.  Nanosized diamonds found just below the surface of Santa Rosa Island off the coast of Santa Barbara are evidence of a 'cosmic impact' approximately 12,900 years ago

The hypothesis by the researchers behind the study is that fragments of a comet struck across North America at that time.

Purdue University researchers have created magnetically responsive gold nanostars that gyrate when exposed to a rotating magnetic field and can scatter light to produce a pulsating or "twinkling" effect. This twinkling allows them to stand out more clearly from noisy backgrounds like those found in biological tissue.

Alexander Wei, a professor of chemistry, and Kenneth Ritchie, an associate professor of physics, led the team that created the new gyromagnetic imaging method.

'Sun power for soldiers' sounds like aging hipsters have taken over the military, right?   No, this is still manly; a special "conductive ink" that can be used to make printed organic photovoltaic solar cell panels on very thin, flexible surfaces using ink-jet printing.

The research was done by scientists at the Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (AFRL/RX), with Plextronics, Inc., and the Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center, both located in the City of Champions, Pittsburgh, PA.

The ready-to-use, technology captures sunlight and stores it as energy to power Global Positioning System components, portable communications, and other devices for U.S. soldiers.