WASHINGTON, October 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- Data presented at the joint annual meeting of ICAAC and IDSA

- Results suggest candidate vaccine may be as effective as Prevnar for the seven shared serotypes, and provide expanded coverage for six additional serotypes

- Wyeth on track to complete U.S. filing for pediatric use in the first quarter of 2009, with other pediatric global filings expected at the same time, or possibly earlier

LONDON, October 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- Unite Photo Opportunity:

LOCATION: Old Palace Yard/College Green, Westminster, SW1A. DATE: Tuesday 28th October, 2008. TIME: from 1.00pm.

Hundreds of union members will descend on Westminster tomorrow (Tuesday, 28th) to lobby Parliament to demand justice for asbestos victims and the restoration of compensation for victims of pleural plaques.

Unite believe thousands of seriously wronged workers have been plunged into compensation limbo by the House of Lords decision, in October 2007, which ended the right of asbestos victims suffering from this disease to compensation.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, October 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Saudi Research and Marketing Group (SRMG), the largest integrated publishing group in the Middle East, announced the establishment of a joint venture with Saudi Arabia's leading telecommunications company, Saudi Telecom (STC) and ALL ASIA NETWORKS plc (ASTRO), a leading cross-media operator with operations in Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and India.

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081027/325985 )

This new Content Joint Venture (CJV), which will be based in Dubai, creates the first Content Aggregator in the Middle East and North Africa Region.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, October 27 /PRNewswire/ --

A Canadian Navy destroyer just completed the first successful sea trials with a new-generation inertial navigation system (INS) and data distribution network supplied by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC).

The Iroquois-class destroyer, HMCS Athabaskan, is the first naval ship to go to sea with the MK49 ring-laser gyro navigator (RLGN) INS and Navigation Data Distribution System (NavDDS). The systems were developed by Northrop Grumman's Sperry Marine business unit.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands and NEW YORK, October 27 /PRNewswire/ --

Game Publisher Playlogic Entertainment, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: PLGC) today announces that its in-house studio, Playlogic Game Factory, continues its collaboration with SCEE London Studio's First Party development team, part of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited (SCEE).

Playlogic Game Factory recently completed the development on EyeToy(R) Pom Pom Party(c) for the PlayStation(R)2 which will be released this quarter.

Furthermore, the Playlogic Game Factory has been assisting SCEE London Studio with the development of the recently announced EyePet(TM). The collaboration on the development of this project will continue into 2009.

ZURICH, Switzerland, October 27 /PRNewswire/ --

gategroup, the leading global provider of above-the-wing services to the airline industry, today announced a consolidation of two European operating divisions, the creation of a region focusing on the Middle East and South Asia, and the formation of a seven-member core Executive Board to focus on the group's operational and commercial priorities.

Two European divisions will be combined into a single Europe and Africa Region and a new region is being created as of Nov. 1, 2008, to cover the growing Middle East and South Asia markets.

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, October 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- POT-4 is the first complement inhibitor to be tested in AMD patients

Potentia Pharmaceuticals, a privately held biotechnology company developing medicines for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), announced today that the Company will be presenting its ASaP Phase I clinical data for its leading drug candidate, POT-4, during the Retina Subspecialty Day at the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA, on November 7, 2008.

I recently attended an NSF workshop on eChemistry: New Models for Scholarly Communication in Chemistry in Washington (Oct 23-24, 2008). The group consisted of about a dozen members, including publishers, social scientists, librarians and chemists. For background, this was the mandate:

WALTHAM, Massachusetts, October 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- Survey Finds Global Financial and Transportation Organizations Lagging in Implementing Application Security Requirements

What: Ounce Labs, the industry leader in static application security testing (SAST), today released the findings of an independent survey report by Quocirca Ltd. that examines application development outsourcing practices from 200 of the largest organizations in the UK and the U.S. One of the more surprising report findings reveals that financial and transportation organizations are lagging in implementing application security requirements in their outsourced development projects.

WOKING, England, October 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- SaaS Specialist Selected by Iconic Developer for Nakheel Tower

Nakheel, Dubai's leading property developer, has selected BIW Technologies (BIW) to deliver Software-as-a-Service applications to support design and construction of Nakheel Tower, part of the Nakheel Harbour Tower development. The Nakheel Tower, which will be over a kilometre high, is at the heart of a 10-year development in the Jebel Ali area of Dubai. BIW, who announced a corporate deal with Nakheel in March 2008, has been working with the project team since early 2007.