CTIA Wireless, LAS VEGAS, March 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- Supports Alcatel-Lucent's Application Enablement Strategy

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced its Rich Communications Manager, delivering the next generation of unified rich messaging through a single web portal to provide enhanced messaging and communications to fixed, mobile, and IP devices.

LONDON, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Misys plc (LSE: MSY.L), the global application software and services company, today announces that the Retail Banking Division of Societe Generale has selected Misys Almonde to reinforce its risk, margin simulation and monitoring capability.

Societe Generale chose the Misys Almonde Asset Liability Management (ALM) and Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP) solution to establish an integrated system that is able to both run simulations and report on FTP, internal margin and Risk Management.

PARIS and TALLINN, March 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- EFM Enabled Multiservice Router for Business Market

OneAccess Networks, a leader in multi service access routers, today announced that Elion, the largest Telecommunication and IT Provider in Estonia, has selected OneAccess as their CPE supplier for all new business customers on its SHDSL services. OneAccess will supply Elion with the ONE20D, its carrier grade SHDSLbis enabled multiservice access router.

The ONE20D features SHDSL.bis EFM technology with advanced router functionality. The simultaneous support for ATM and EFM based access networks allows for the smooth and non-disruptive migration from traditional ATM-based access networks to EFM.

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Hult International Business School (http://www.hult.edu/)announced today that it is seeing a massive increase in demand for its MBA programs (http://www.hult.edu/mba-program/index), particularly among international students. Year to date applications have increased 102% as students look to strengthen their resumes in order to better position themselves in the downturn. Over 2,500 applications arrived from September 2008 to February 2009.

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All regions are driving the increase in demand; however, applications have more than tripled from the Americas and Western Europe. Applications from Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe are up over 50%.

ST PETERSBURG, Russia, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The mobile arms race is over. It has left behind a kaleidoscope of services, just a few of which bring any noticeable revenue. Now a new epoch of effective business-critical VAS with a short payback period has begun. Bercut X-tones is one such solution.

In October 2006, the RBT service based on X-tones was launched by the MTS Belarus network, and gained immediate success. Within a year of commercial operation the penetration rate of the service reached 20%, which we are proud to consider a very high level of service consumption by our subscribers. These figures break all records on the CIS market.

LONDON, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- After three days, fifty presentations, eight live demos and the consumption of significant quantities of food and drink, the curtain came down on the STAR European Conference 2009. Held a short distance from CD-adapco's London headquarters, the conference defied the current economic situation by attracting a near record attendance of over 300 attendees, drawn from all sections of industry and from every discipline in the CAE world.

LONDON, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- ePulse is pleased to announce the launch of its strategic partner program aimed at sublicensing it's core technologies to Financial Institutions that want to reap the benefits of using own-branded tried and tested technologies and reduce product deployment risks, timeframes and costs.

LONDON, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- MirriAd , the embedded advertising specialist, today announces it has extended its global partnership reach with Endemol to exploit embedded advertising opportunities. The new deals follow MirriAd's joint venture with Endemol India and cover the Latin American and Hispanic markets, and Spain. They are expected to produce revenues approaching $1m in the first year.

Cicadas are nature’s candy—fat meaty bugs straight out of a Temple of Doom buffet.  Though most cicadas worldwide live typical insect lives, the Magicicada genus in the eastern US has a special power move to counterbalance its deliciousness: periodicity. 

I recently saw W D Hamilton’s 1970 paper “Geometry for the Selfish Herd” described as “a classic in its own right.” As a long-time bibliophile this made it irresistible, but I was also intrigued by the incongruity of “selfish herd” and of linking geometry to animals. I have to report that the paper certainly is a classic, for all the wrong reasons, but it contains a valuable message.

The introduction to the paper began with:
This paper presents an antithesis to the view that gregarious behaviour is evolved through benefits to the population or species. Following Galton (1871) and Williams (1964) gregarious behaviour is considered as a form of cover-seeking in which each animal tries to reduce its chance of being caught by a predator.