LEEDS, England, October 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Masternaut Three X is celebrating success at the Fleet Hero Awards 2008. The UK's leading vehicle tracking company was runner up to BMW in the fiercely contested industry supplier category for its CO2 reducing GreenerFleet solution. Fleet and fuel management company Arval who are part of the multinational BNP Paribas took third place. Organised by the Energy Saving Trust in partnership with Fleet News, The Guardian and The Observer, the awards recognise heroic leadership in reducing the environmental impact of vehicle fleets.

Sitting atop the Big Island of Hawaii is majestic Mauna Kea, Hawaii’s largest volcano and also the site of the latest test site for NASA’s new moon probe, Scarab. Its mission: lunar prospecting.

Although the inactive volcano may not seem to resemble the moon, Mauna Kea does provide a similar environment to field test the robot for a mission to the moon. Mauna Kea has rocky slopes and, due to its elevation, cold temperatures. Mauna Kea is a paradise to many a migrating astronomer and, with its 14,000-foot summit, is often covered in snow. NASA will field test Scarab at 9,000 feet, where it will encounter rain, fog and daily temperatures of 40 degrees.



The four-wheeled Scarab will travel to different sites and obtain geologic core samples by drilling; the samples will be tested by on-board instruments to determine a chemical analysis of the sample. This allows Scarab to evaluate the site for possible mining of materials.

WASHINGTON, October 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Emphasizes value of global collaboration on critical issues

The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) today announced it has elected Terrence C. "Terry" Morgan of Cisco Systems to the position of NCOIC chairman. Michael Curtis, of IBM, and Edgar Buckley, of Thales, will support Morgan as vice chairmen.

NEW YORK, October 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Site Becomes the Only Source of Consolidated, Searchable Access to Both FDA and EMEA Drug Approval Documents

NEW YORK, October 14 /PRNewswire/ --

PharmaPendium ( http://www.info.pharmapendium.com/ ), Elsevier's online resource for authoritative drug safety data, has significantly expanded its content offering with a new release containing the European Medicines Agency's (EMEA) European Public Assessment Reports (EPARs). The addition of this content makes PharmaPendium the only source of consolidated, searchable access to US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and EMEA drug approval documents on a single site, with a single search.

BILLERICA, Massachusetts, October 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- New version enables easier deployment of a wider variety of blazingly-fast "Teramarts(TM)" that work in conjunction with existing enterprise data warehouses

LONDON, October 14 /PRNewswire/ --

Endeavour International Corporation (Amex: END) (LSE: ENDV) today announced that the company and its partners have submitted for governmental approval a Field Development Plan (FDP) for the Columbus discovery in the Central North Sea in the United Kingdom.

LONDON, October 14 /PRNewswire/ -- VocaLink, the payment transaction specialist, today announced the appointment of Alan Scutt as UK Managing Director to strengthen the company's relationship with its UK customers and develop new business opportunities.

The move reinforces the company's commitment to expanding and strengthening its senior team with broad business and industry expertise. It follows the recent appointment of Paul Taylor to the new post of Managing Director for Europe.

LOS GATOS, California, October 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Ultra Low Power, Wi-Fi Sensor Networks Become Location Aware Through the Addition of Ekahau's Location Protocol to the Gainspan Embedded Software

GainSpan Corporation, a leading provider of embedded Wi-Fi single-chip solutions, and Ekahau, Inc., a leading provider of Wi-Fi-based Real Time Location Systems (RTLS) announced a strategic agreement.

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VAXJO, Sweden, October 14 /PRNewswire/ -- If half the world's forests were run like Sweden's, the entire greenhouse effect could be eliminated- this is the finding of researchers at Sweden's largest forest owner and woodpulp producer, Södra (1).

A radical overhaul of global forestry along Swedish lines would see carbon locked in a growing reserve of timber rather than remaining in the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide, which is responsible for the greenhouse effect.

HALF MOON BAY, California, October 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- First customer deployment of deCarta-enabled devices slated for late October 2008