NEW YORK, March 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- New design gives audience an even bigger role in driving debate and discussion on what is by far the largest Website targeting the worldwide communications industry

Light Reading, the leading online publication for the telecom industry, has re-launched www.lightreading.com with improved multimedia navigation and social-networking features aimed at giving its audience a stronger voice on the world's most popular communications industry Website.

BILLERICA, Massachusetts, March 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Webinar attendees will learn how virtualizing analytic data marts will bring in a new era of economics and agility for data warehousing and business intelligence; MarketBridge customer case study featured

SAN JOSE, California, March 16 /PRNewswire/ --

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the AVR(R)32 ATEVK1105 Digital Audio Gateway kit, demonstrating digital audio streaming, decoding and playback. These audio capabilities serve the exploding market of audio accessories and peripherals that connects home and car Hi-Fi audio systems to the digital age. This includes the popular iPod(R) docking stations. The kit is based on the AVR high performance AT32UC3A 32-bit Flash microcontrollers and provides developers with a ready-to-use hardware/software platform and a variety of interfaces and evaluation capabilities to meet their audio systems requirements and get faster to market.

SAN JOSE, California and UPPSALA, Sweden, March 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Newly-released IAR Embedded Workbench Version 5.0 for ARM Provides Enhanced Support for AT91SAM Application Developers

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) and IAR Systems(R) AB announced today the result of their cooperation to enhance the support for Atmel's entire AT91SAM family of ARM(R)-based Flash microcontrollers and embedded microprocessors in the latest release of IAR Embedded Workbench(R). The product of intensive collaborative development between the two companies, this powerful toolkit simplifies and accelerates application development for Atmel's AT91SAM micros.

DUBLIN, March 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Announced Acquisition of EQUASYM(R) IR and XL (Methylphenidate Hydrochloride) for the Treatment of ADHD Provides Shire Entry to the European ADHD Market

LONDON, March 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Major Module Enhanced Within Misys Summit FT to Provide Improved Management of Counterparty Risk and Collateral on a Real-Time Basis

Misys (LSE: MSY), the global application software and services company, today announced its latest solution for collateral management - Misys Summit FT Collateral Management - to meet the needs of financial institutions looking to closely manage counterparty risk. The solution enables banks and investment managers to make better decisions on trade viability and the level of collateral required through real-time tracking and assessment of collateral levels, an essential service in current market conditions where collateral values can change quickly.

BRUSSELS, March 16 /PRNewswire/ --

At World Biofuels Markets (WBM) 09, the scene last year of mass protests against corn and soy based biofuels, PetroAlgae (OTC Bulletin Board: PALG) will this year help demonstrate the near-term commercial viability of algae-based biofuel. In contrast with corn and soy, algae does not compete with the food supply, actually consumes C02 (2.2 times its own weight), leaves no toxic waste during the harvesting process, is essentially carbon neutral and is 25x to 100x more productive than other crop feedstocks. PetroAlgae can replace the entire world's supply of diesel on a very small fraction of the Earth's landmass.

WHITE PLAINS, New York, March 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Offices in Europe Required to Satisfy Demand for Advanced SharePoint Search Solutions

BA-Insight, the global leader in Microsoft based information access technology, announced today that it has opened two offices in Europe to address the growing global demand for its Microsoft based enterprise search products. New offices have opened in London and Copenhagen.

SAN DIEGO, March 16 /PRNewswire/ --

Rayspan Corporation, the world's leading innovator of Metamaterial air interface solutions, is proud to announce that its Chief Technology Officer Dr. Maha Achour will give the IEEE Distinguished Lecture entitled The Road to 4G through Metamaterial Air Interface Technology: Long Term Evolution (LTE) and Beyond at the third European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2009). The company will also exhibit its latest WLAN and WWAN Metamaterial handset solutions.

Continued from Part 1, Why Not Try A Scientific Approach To Science Education?

In a traditional science class, the teacher stands at the front of the class lecturing to a largely passive group of students. Those students then go off and do back-of-the-chapter homework problems from the textbook and take exams that are similar to those exercises.