ALTRINCHAM, England, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Maxatec has launched a new colourful option to its new range of electronic point of sale terminals, launched in Q4 2008. The new colour bezels on the POS terminal allow the customer to colour co-ordinate the POS terminals to suit the customer's environment. VFD display and the POS terminal back plate can also be colour co-ordinated.

If you're in the racism industry, an icy chill has gone down your spine in 2009, with an African-American president and both major political parties run by black people.    

As always, a psychologist will find an answer for how society can do those things and still be racist; it turns out you will be less biased against people of other races in your social group but you will still be prejudiced against people of other races you don't have beer with.    Likewise, if you voted for Obama he is not the black person you automatically dislike the way you automatically dislike all other black people.

DUBLIN, March 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- #1 Digital Word Game Now Available to an Even Broader Audience of Mobile Gamers

PopCap Games, the leading developer and publisher of casual games, today announced the launch of its hugely popular word game Bookworm(TM) for the iPhone(TM), available now from the App Store: http://www.apple.com/iphone/appstore/ Bookworm is the most popular digital word game of all time, and this new adaptation has been customized for Apple's highly successful smart device - containing nearly the entire volume of words from the Oxford English Dictionary, plus a host of new features found only in the iPhone version.

PARIS, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that it has been selected by China Unicom, a leading fixed and mobile service provider in China, to deploy 3G W-CDMA networks in 14 Chinese provinces. This major contract, secured through Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell (ASB), Alcatel-Lucent's flagship company in China, will enable the operator to provide its end users with new, advanced 3G mobile services including media streaming, ring back tones, video sharing and high-speed internet access.

Initial network deployments in the cities of Tianjin, Baoding, Wenzhou, Taizhou, Guiyang and Guilin are expected to be completed in May, 2009.

ATLANTA, March 23 /PRNewswire/ --

LONDON, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The radical restructuring plans for the blood transfusion service in England and Wales, which threatens about 170 jobs, should be halted, Unite the union said today (Monday, 23 March).

The current round of threatened job cuts is on top of a similar number that have disappeared from the National Blood Service in the last two years.

Unite's call comes as it emerged that the new 'super centre' in Bristol is deferring taking on blood processing work from the Birmingham centre which is to cease processing next month. It is understood that Bristol has had difficulty coping with work already transferred from Southampton and Plymouth.

BEIJING, March 23 /PRNewswire/ --

BioDuro and AstraZeneca announced today that they have expanded their research collaboration to optimize discovery research for Respiratory and Inflammation indications.

BioDuro will provide integrated research services in the areas of discovery chemistry, discovery biology, ADMET*, and DMPK** services, to help enhance internal drug discovery and shorten development timelines.

After a successful collaboration involving discovery chemistry, ADMET, and DMPK, AstraZeneca has expanded its collaboration with BioDuro to leverage the strengths of its team to help develop new therapeutics, said Lena Martensson Director of Strategic Planning and Business Development.

LONDON, March 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Leading Science and Technology Broadcaster Dr Adam Hart-Davis Lends Full Support to Campaign

A campaign begun by independent engineers in the letters page of Engineering Technology Magazine, and covered by a full investigation in the new issue, has led to calls for safety socket covers to be banned in the UK as an unnecessary drain on parents' resources and a potentially lethal addition to any home.

The potential dangers of using safety socket covers was originally highlighted by Peter M Munro in the May 2008 issue of Engineering Technology (ET) which led to the formation of FatallyFlawed - by a group of qualified engineers, doctors and child-care specialists - as a vehicle to campaign against plug-in socket covers.

LONDON, March 23 /PRNewswire/ --

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HELSINKI, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Wärtsilä has received another major order from Pakistan. The order was placed by Liberty Power Tech Ltd. which is an independent power producer (IPP). The value of the contract is approximately EUR 137 million. The total gross electrical power output of the power plant is 200 MWe and the plant will be located near Faisalabad some 200 km west from Lahore.

The power plant is due to be commissioned in December 2010 and it will supply electricity to the country's national grid. This order follows three other IPP projects signed by Wärtsilä in 2007 and 2008. Including these last four orders the total generating capacity delivered by Wärtsilä to Pakistan will exceed 1700 MWe.