BARCELONA, Spain and STUTTGART, Germany, February 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Picture is available via EPA (European Pressphoto Agency) and can be downloaded free of charge at: http://www.presseportal.de/pm/74445

Symbian specialist Liquid Air Lab today launched adtronic, the first purely ad-enabled mobile application store. The application store is available today and can be freely downloaded for NOKIA Smartphones from http://www.adtronic.mobi.

GENEVA, February 12 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of the Millennium Villages project, Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) and pan-African operator Zain have built a green-powered site in a remote village in northeastern Kenya. With the reliable and affordable mobile communication the site provides, the villagers of Dertu can make calls, access health services and education and improve their economic future.

Using a combination of wind and solar power addresses the two key deterrents to building telecommunication infrastructure in remote areas: operating costs and power supply reliability.

HENLEY-ON-THAMES, England, February 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Smarter Driving Techniques Can Save Drivers up to GBP250 Per Year on Fuel

Research by the Energy Saving Trust has found businesses are losing 8 days of every company driver's time per month due to the journeys they undertake for their business. For companies with a large number of drivers this will result in a significant loss of time throughout a year.

It also found that company car drivers are using their cars on average six times a week (some as many as 23 journeys per week) to travel as short a journey as under two miles.

LONDON, February 12 /PRNewswire/ --

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New research released by the American Heart Association* reveals that Hibiscus Sabdariffa has a beneficial effect on reducing high blood pressure.

Daily consumption of three cups of hibiscus tea, (made from 1.25g of hibiscus), an amount readily incorporated into the diet, lowers blood pressure in pre- and mildly hypertensive adults and may prove an effective component of the dietary changes recommended for people at risk of developing hypertension, comments Diane L. McKay, PhD, FACN from the Antioxidants Research Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Centre.

READING, England, February 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Verizon Mobility Solutions Seamlessly Integrated With Verizon Private IP to Optimize Workers' Productivity, Regardless of Location

BEST (Belgian Electronic Sorting Technology) has chosen solutions from Verizon Business to optimize the productivity of the company's mobile workers -- whether they are on the road, in the office or at home. Verizon Mobility Solutions offer secure, reliable and efficient access to business-critical applications, while Verizon Private IP links the company's global office sites.

COPENHAGEN - FTTH Council Europe Conference, February 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today highlighted its leading role in bringing to the market innovative technologies that have a proven, positive impact on green house gas emissions.

Two existing technologies - Alcatel-Lucent's distributed digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM) concept, as well as a series of passively cooled fiber-to-the-building (FTTB) DSLAMs - are now complemented by a whole new range of eco-sustainable indoor optical network terminals (ONTs), which are located at the customer's premise and convert optical signals back into electrical voice, video or data.

TEL AVIV, Israel, February 12 /PRNewswire/ -- RADWIN (http://www.radwin.com), a leading global provider of advanced wireless broadband solutions, today announced the latest addition to its RADWIN 2000 product portfolio. The new RADWIN 2000 solution provides up to 16 E1s/T1s native TDM service and native Ethernet, with aggregate throughput of 100 Mbps. RADWIN will showcase RADWIN 2000 at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain on February 16-19, in Hall 3.1 in hospitality suite 1HS84.

OTTAWA, Canada, February 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The Eclipse Foundation today announced the Gold Sponsors for EclipseCon 2009, which will take place March 23-26 in Santa Clara, Calif. Actuate, Blu Age, IBM, Red Hat, Sopera and Wind River have all agreed to act as the premier Gold Sponsors for the annual Eclipse community conference.

The support and leadership of these companies make EclipseCon a world-class conference, said Mike Milinkovich. These companies also demonstrate the diversity of the Eclipse community by offering solutions in a wide variety of markets, including business intelligence, modeling, enterprise Java development, SOA runtimes and embedded development.

LONDON, February 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Managed Web Hosting Provider Joins the Fight Against Illegal Online Content

Leading managed hosting company NTT Europe Online today announces its support for the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), to help combat illegal online material and raise awareness of the issue on Safer Internet Day.

NTT Europe Online is a global provider of managed hosting solutions to a range of internationally-renowned clients, including UEFA, Aviva and Nissan, and whose parent company NTT Communications' global network delivers a third of all web traffic across the world.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, February 12 /PRNewswire/ --

MediaTek, Inc. (TAIEX: 2454), the leading fabless semiconductors company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions, today announced that its first GSM/GPRS single chip, the MT6253, has been adopted in mobile phones on the GSM/GPRS network. Integrating all essential electronic components, including DBB, ABB, power management unit and RF transceiver onto a single chip, the MT6253 can further reduce the materials costs of a complete mobile phone. Equipped with strong peripheral supports including camera, high speed USB and Class D audio AMP, MediaTek's MT6253 is the most highly integrated chip in the market for mobile communication.