PHILADELPHIA, February 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Awards Confirm Elsevier's Leadership in Medical E-Products and Books in Clinical Medicine, Nursing and Allied Health

- Elsevier's Procedures Consult Named Top E-Product

Elsevier, the leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced that it has won four major awards from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP).

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA and LULEÅ, Sweden, February 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Oricane presents two applications for mobile phones; a contact database, and a caller id application. The contact database is capable of storing over 200 million name and number entries in a mobile phone. The caller id application translates an incoming phone number into a name, enabling the user to always see who is calling. Oricane's applications make it possible to carry an entire national telephone directory in a mobile phone.

The applications are built on Oricane's BioDEXTM mobile, a patented solution for compressing, storing and searching information in mobile phones and other small devices.

LONDON, February 17 /PRNewswire/ -- In this year of economic downturn and reduced consumer spending the Harvard Business Review, in its 2009 survey of ideas and trends that will have an impact on business, include social pressure and persuasion as important factors. These ideas, and more, come from the International bestselling book Yes! 50 Secrets from the Science of Persuasion.

Understanding persuasion research and how it can be easily and often costlessly applied by businesses can dramatically improve sales revenues, marketing success and even improve effectiveness in areas such as leadership and negotiation, says Steve Martin one of the book's authors. http://www.scienceofyes.com

Other research from the book shows

ELMSHORN, Germany, February 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Heatpipe-Cooling Technology With Vapor-Chamber / SX58H7 for the First Time With 500 Watt Power Supply

Shuttle Inc., the market leader in the Mini-PC segment and manufacturer of Multi-Form-Factor solutions today announces a new model for Intel Core i7 processors based on the socket 1366. The Shuttle XPC Barebone SX58H7 uses the high-performance Intel X58 Express chipset with ICH10R Southbridge.

This new flagship targets gamers and enthusiasts and thus spearheads Shuttle's squad of high-performance Mini-PCs. Its highly polished surfaces and high-quality finishes measure only 32.5 x 20.8 x 19 cm (LWH) in size.

NAIROBI, Kenya, February 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Agreement focuses on facilitating international collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Today the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Microsoft Corp signed a memorandum of understanding to work together on leveraging information and communication technology (ICT) solutions to help address today's complex environmental challenges. The signing took place during UNEP's 25th session of the Governing Council and Global Ministerial Environment Forum on the theme Globalization and the Environment, held at UNEP headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, and attended by more than 100 environment ministers.

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LONDON, February 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Frost Sullivan to Host Quarterly Analyst Briefing on Thursday, 26 February 2009

The Chemicals Group at Frost Sullivan is pleased to announce its 2009 Quarterly Analyst Briefing Presentation on Medical Trends Impacting the Chemicals and Materials Market to be held on Thursday, 26 February, 2009 at 3 p.m. GMT.

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Medical applications represent a strong market amidst the current challenging economic climate. There are growth opportunities for companies across the value chain for products such as medical devices, packaging and drug controlled release technologies.

DUBLIN, February 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Independent Survey Commissioned by Digital Realty Trust Indicates that Datacentre Projects for the Coming 12-24 Months Have Increased and Expanded in Scope Despite Economic Conditions

WALTHAM, Massachusetts and LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE, BRUSSELS, Belgium, February 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Leostream Connection Broker to Provide Vital Link in Initiative to Process and Archive Every Tax Form Submitted to the Belgian Government

Leostream(TM) Corporation, a leading developer of virtual hosted desktop software, announced today that I.R.I.S. (EURONEXT Brussels: IRI) has selected the Leostream Connection Broker for a virtual desktop solution to support a massive scanning and archiving project by Service Public Federal Finances (SPF Finances), the Belgian Public Federal Finance Administration. I.R.I.S. is a market leader in intelligent document management and optical character recognition.

SAN MATEO, California and PARIS, February 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Bizanga, provider of the world's leading email and message management platform, today announced that it has completed an $8 million funding round.

The lead investor was the venture team of the French investment company Credit Agricole Private Equity. Renaud Poulard, a partner in the firm will join Bizanga's board of directors. Seed round investor Galileo Partners also participated in the round. Bizanga was advised by Aelios Finance.

This investment caps a formidable 2008 for Bizanga with strong growth in Europe and new product developments.

LONDON, February 17 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report published today by Experian(R), the global information services company, reveals that 30% of UK organisations - despite the emphasis on customer retention in today's economic climate - have not profiled their contact data to understand who their most profitable customers are.

The free report 'Contact data management: the wise investor', examines organisations' attitudes to data quality and also provides strategic advice on how to prioritise contact data management projects and track return on investment.