HELSINKI, October 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Finland-based Sesca Mobile Software Oy, a leading developer of customized software for the mobile telecommunications industry, has launched iDial Mobile Community for mobile phone users. Users can download and install a free, mobile-operator independent iDial Mobile application to their compatible mobile handsets from http://www.my.idial.fi website. Users who are registered to the website can create mobile communities and communicate within the community by using iDial Mobile application's rich communications tools.

Timo Hannay recently gave a talk "Scientific Researchers and Web 2.0: Social Not Working?", which is reproduced in this Nascent blog post. This is a sobering review of the state of social software in science and he lists several roadblocks to its widespread adoption. It is important to counterbalance the almost unavoidable hype that emerges from the enthusiasm of those energized by a movement. However, it can be a tricky endeavor to attempt to define success or failure, especially within systems that are evolving rapidly.

CAMBRIDGE, England, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- RealView Development Suite 4.0 Professional Enables Developers to Realize the Full Potential of Their ARM Processor-Based Devices, Including the Cortex-A9 MPCore Multicore Processor

CAMBRIDGE, England, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --

CAMBRIDGE, England, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Updated ARM DDR and DDR2 Memory Controllers Offer DDR PHY (DFI) Interface Support

ARM (LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMH) today announced the ARM(R) PrimeCell(R) low-power DDR2 (LPDDR2) dynamic memory controller (PL342), which provides a high-performance interface to LPDDR2 memory systems that provide more than twice the bandwidth of LPDDR memory systems and deliver significant power savings over standard DDR2 memory.

CHICAGO, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- UniKix Integration with isCOBOL APS to Enhance Legacy Application Modernization and Integration Capabilities

Clerity Solutions, Inc., a leading full-service provider of mainframe migration and modernization solutions, today announced that it is adding the isCOBOL Application Platform Suite (isCOBOL APS) from Veryant to the list of COBOL platforms supported by its UniKix rehosting technology suite.

TEANECK, New Jersey and BUDAPEST, Hungary, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --

Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading provider of global consulting, technology and business process services, announced today the opening of its delivery center in Budapest, Hungary.

The new center will support Cognizant's European customers with near-shore services in a similar time zone, leverage techno-functional and multilingual capabilities available in the region to service the IT and business process outsourcing (BPO) needs of Global 2000 companies, and provide a base with deep local insights for Cognizant to service customers in Central and Eastern Europe.

CAMBRIDGE, England, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- ARM Active Assist Offers ARM Partners Targeted Onsite Expert Advice to Help Teams Better Optimize ARM Subsystem Designs

There's no love lost between open access PLoS (Public Library of Science) and print journals. Nature doesn't think much of PLoS, for example, and PLoS says they created the company to make science less insular so it isn't any surprise that that a new PLoS essay by Neal Young, John Ioannidis and Omar Al-Ubaydli claims that the current system of publishing medical and scientific research provides "a distorted view of the reality of scientific data that are generated in the laboratory and clinic."

They apply shade-tree-mechanic economics principles to support their idea of the distortion. There is an "extreme imbalance," they say, between the abundance of supply (science laboratories and clinical investigations) and the limited venues for publication (journals with sufficiently high impact to be valuable to the authors - let's come back to that part later). Scientific information, they say, is an economic commodity and the 'consumers' are other scientists, patients, funding agencies, etc.

The result of the imbalance, they note accurately, is that only a small proportion of all research studies are chosen for publication in the best journals, and these results are unrepresentative of scientists' overall work.

NEW YORK, October 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Asset Control, a world-wide leader in financial data management solutions, today announced that eSecLending, a leading full-service securities lending agent, has chosen Asset Control's AC Plus financial and reference data management software following a rigorous search and selection process.

eSecLending will use AC Plus to support the company's efforts to further increase automation in their securities lending programs which rely on complete and accurate securities data including ratings, end of day prices and corporate actions. AC Plus will help eSecLending in cleansing data and managing exceptions, while supporting increasing volumes and breadth of data.

AMSTERDAM, October 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier announced today that its flagship product Scopus, the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, was chosen by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). An international government forum for the discussion of policy issues, the OECD selected Scopus to enhance the research performance analysis it conducts for its member countries as well as non-member countries in the process of economic development.