FALLS CHURCH, Virginia, March 23 /PRNewswire/ --

CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced today that it has signed a new information technology (IT) framework agreement with United Utilities, the largest operator of water and wastewater assets in the UK, serving approximately one in four people. The agreement has a base period of three years and two one-year options.

Under the terms of the framework, CSC has the opportunity to pursue contracts supporting United Utilities' IS Capital Programme 2008-2013. The contracts cover three service categories - infrastructure services, system integration and support for systems deployed.

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Venture Capital Fund Will Invest in Biotech Start-up Companies Focused on Merck Serono's Core Therapeutic Areas

AMSTERDAM, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier announced today that the Brazilian Federal Agency for the Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES) is expanding local research community access to Scopus(R), the company's flagship product and the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. CAPES, which assists the Brazilian Ministry of Education in the formulation of national policies related to post-graduate study, will be making Scopus available to 200 universities and research institutes in Brazil, up from 44 in 2007.

Prions first made their notorious media debut in the mid-1980’s when British cattle contracted Mad Cow disease. As a result, over 150 people in Europe were infected and died from the human form known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease—a fatal neurological disorder with similar symptoms as Mad Cow.

Although prions are infectious agents with a bad reputation, research suggests that prions also play a role in epigenetic regulation.  Recently, a Nature Cell Biology study conducted by molecular biologists at the University of Illinois at Chicago, discovered a new prion in yeast that raises further questions about the biological role of prions in gene regulation.

LONDON, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Telnic Limited (http://www.telnic.org), the registry operator for the new communications-focused .tel top level domain (TLD), today announced that it had submitted its free and open source My .tel iPhone application to the Apple App Store.

The arrival of My .tel means that, for the first time ever, anyone can edit and publish information on the Web under their own domain without needing web design skills or software or even a PC.

SHANGHAI, March 23 /PRNewswire/ --

Oxford Professional Training Ltd., a leading education and corporate training provider announced today that it had attracted strategic investment from The Aston Educational Group (http://www.astonschool.com ), an English language training organization with 60 English schools spread across 42 cities in China.

LUSTENAU, Austria and KRISTIANSAND, Norway, March 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- IDENTEC SOLUTIONS Further Reinforces its Stronghold on the Tunnel, Oil, Gas and Mining Industry With the Recent Acquisition of the Privately Held Tunnelcom

Norway based Tunnelcom is well noted for its Automatic Tagging System (ATS) - an electronic access, passage and safety system. Developed specifically for the isolated and challenging environments of tunnels and mines, Tunnelcom's solutions have been deployed all over the globe - most recently at the Norra Länken project in Stockholm.

PARIS, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Valeo's Board of Directors, which met on 20 March 2009, announces the departure of Thierry Morin who is leaving his post as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. This decision comes as a result of strategic differences and the will of the Board to change the Group's governance structure.

As from 20 March, Mr. Pascal Colombani will serve as acting Chairman of the Board and Mr. Jacques Aschenbroich, appointed as a Board Member, will assume the post of Chief Executive Officer.

LONDON, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- BIS Ltd is pleased to announce that they have been awarded COLT's UK Sales and Marketing Reseller for its Partner of the Year 2008 Awards.

Now in its third year, the Partner of the Year scheme is designed to recognise and reward COLT's top performing partners, both on a national and pan-European level.

We are delighted to have been commended by COLT for our activity, said David Pyemont, Chairman of BIS Ltd. Over the last 12 months we have increased our commitment to working with COLT as a result of their focus on supporting partners, he continued.

PARIS, March 23 /PRNewswire/ --

The MERIDIIST, the first luxury phone created by watchmaker TAG Heuer, enters a completely new dimension with the worldwide launch of its official website: www.tagheuer.com/meridiist.

The global launch of the website www.tagheuer.com/meridiist precedes BASELWORLD, the World Watch and Jewellery Show that starts March 26th 2009 and during which the most recent MERIDIIST collections are to be presented as a preview.

Truly representing the performance of the MERIDIIST, the website highlights the sleek design and key features of this exceptional luxury phone through images and animated content intended to reflect the TAG Heuer universe of luxury, sports and masculinity.