HAINAN, China, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

Addintools Technology Ltd. announced today the launch of Ribbon Customizer. It is the first developer to research the Classic Menu, and they have spent almost one year in developing Ribbon Customizer for Office 2007.

ESPOO, Finland, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

Elcoteq SE (HEL: ELQAV), a leading electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company in the communications technology field, will introduce its electronics manufacturing programs and services at GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009. The event is being held February 16-19, 2009, at the Fira de Barcelona Montjuic, Barcelona, Spain. Mobile World Congress is the world's largest conference for the mobile industry with a leading-edge exhibition. The Elcoteq EMS Lounge is located in Hall 1 at F01.

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CAMBRIDGE, England, February 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Horse Chestnut Bleeding Canker, caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. aesculi, is common across Europe. It is a vascular disease, spread through ground water and its control has, until recently, been considered impossible as the bacteria spreads through a tree's cambium layer. Consequently, any treatment must travel around the cambium, kill the bacteria and have no effect upon the tree or wildlife. Spraying and root injection and removal of cankers would result in damage to the tree.

HOUSTON, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

Endeavour International Corporation (Amex: END) (LSE: ENDV) will participate in the Oil and Gas Investment Symposium Small Cap Conference hosted by Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) on February 18, 2009 in Palm Beach, Florida.

J. Michael Kirksey, executive vice president and chief financial officer, is scheduled to speak on the company's business strategies and operational plans at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time and 9:30 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time. A copy of the presentation will be available by accessing Endeavour's Internet home page at http://www.endeavourcorp.com.

IRVINE, California, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Pricing and European retail strategy to be announced.

Fisker Automotive, the new American manufacturer of premium green automobiles, will unveil its Karma and Karma S luxury plug-in hybrid cars for the first time on European soil at the Geneva Motor Show on March 3, 2009. The 408 horsepower, 100mpg Karma saloon will appear in the production trim customers will receive when deliveries begin the end of this year. The Karma S hardtop convertible coupe concept is scheduled for production in 2011. A European retail network strategy, along with vehicle options and pricing, will also be announced.

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A York University research team has tracked the migration of songbirds,  the most common type of bird in our skies, by outfitting them with tiny geolocator backpacks – a world first and interesting because they are too small for conventional satellite tracking.    They now say we have underestimated the flight performance of songbirds dramatically.

Adaptation is one of the driving forces behind evolution, along with selection and the appearance of new species, say a group of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München researchers, but they say that the interpretation familiar since Darwin - these processes increase the "fitness" of the species overall, since, of two competing species, only the fittest would survive - is actually a case of the fittest being the 'weakest'  most often.

University of Leicester biologist Dr David Harper has conducted research for over 25 years at Lake Naivasha in Kenya and says today that your cheap boyfriend's (unless you are are the cheap boyfriend, in which case he means you) cut-price Valentine roses which are exported for sale to the UK are 'bleeding that country dry.'

Harper claimed that cheap roses grown by companies that had no concern for the environment were having a devastating effect on the ecology of Lake Naivasha - the center of Kenya's horticultural industry.  Instead, he urged UK shoppers to buy Fair Trade roses produced by companies that  he says are environmentally conscientious and had a transparent supply chain.

Are you smarter than a pigeon?   We don't mean smarter as in able to figure out why it's $14  a day for lousy internet access in a hotel or $14 to see an old movie in your hotel room or the hospitality industry's general preference for the number 14, we mean practical social smarts, like meeting the opposite sex.    Animals have "social smarts" too, it turns out, with a range of behaviors that can enhance species survival, according to studies being presented here in Chicago at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting. 

Evolution shouldn't leave out social behavior, it seems.

Neandertals were the closest relatives of currently living humans. They lived in Europe and parts of Asia until they became extinct about 30,000 years ago. For more than a hundred years, paleontologists and anthropologists have been striving to uncover their evolutionary relationship to modern humans.