HONG KONG, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

OrbusNeich today announced that data presented recently at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Interventional Cardiology demonstrate that the Genous Bio-engineered R stent has better outcomes when compared to drug-eluting stents.

Presented by Federico Piscione, M.D., the study's principal investigator and a professor with the Federico II University of Naples's Division of Cardiology, Department of Clinical Medicine and Cardiovascular Sciences, the data were generated following a study that involved 257 consecutive high-risk patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention with either the Genous stent or a TAXUS(R) and CYPHER(R) stent at the university's catheterization lab.

REDMOND, Washington, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

Microsoft Corp. today issued the following statement:

In the past week we have had the opportunity to discuss with Carl Icahn the prospects for a possible agreement between Microsoft and Yahoo!.

MILPITAS, California, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- UK Service Provider Taps JDSU Service Assurance Solutions to Support Wide-scale Deployment of Next Generation Network and Advanced IP/Broadband Services

JDSU today announced it has entered into a contract to provide service assurance test solutions to The Carphone Warehouse Networks (CPWN), one of the largest and most advanced telecom networks in the UK, and a wholly-owned division of the fixed line and broadband business of The Carphone Warehouse (CPW) Group plc. The JDSU service assurance system, NetComplete, will support the design, implementation and management of the Next Generation Network (NGN) for CPWN, covering both its residential and business customers via local loop unbundling.

CALGARY, Canada, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- 200 Million Barrels Produced From OML 123 Offshore Nigeria

Addax Petroleum Corporation (TSX: AXC and LSE: AXC) ("Addax Petroleum" or the "Corporation") announces today that the historic milestone of 200 million barrels of oil production from the Addax Petroleum operated Oil Mining Lease ("OML") 123 offshore Nigeria has been achieved. OML123, the Corporation's first Nigerian license and largest license by production and reserves volumes, is located in the shallow water offshore in the Niger Delta Basin, one of the most prolific petroleum basins in the world.

BARCELONA, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The winners of the Ferring Research Infertility and Gynaecology GrAnt (FRIGGA) are announced today at the European Society for Human Reproduction & Embryology Congress. The two winners of this new prize are the University Medical Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands and the Universitair Ziekenhuis (UZ) Brussel, Centre for Reproductive Medicine,Belgium.

The winning research institutions were selected for their outstanding proposals for fundamental research to help gain an increased understanding of the role of human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) in assisted reproduction.

SOUTHAMPTON, England, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- First of a new generation of capacitive touch sense ICs

Atmel(C) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the AT42QT2160 -- a touch controller IC combining touch key and touch slider functions in a single device. The AT42QT2160 can control up to 16 individual touch keys with a slider comprising between 2 and 8 of the touch key channels. In addition, the chip can also control up to 11 LEDs through a PWM output function that is controlled by the host, eliminating the need for an external LED controller.

LONDON, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

ICE Clear Europe(TM), a wholly-owned subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), today announced that it has reached consensus with LCH.Clearnet (LCH) on the technical issues to facilitate the movement of all ICE Futures Europe(TM) and ICE over-the-counter (OTC) trading positions from LCH to ICE Clear Europe. Under the technical framework, ICE expects the transition of clearing to ICE Clear Europe to occur during the month of August, with a specific transition date to be finalized in the coming days following consultation with clearing members.

The existing futures and OTC clearing arrangements between ICE and LCH will remain in effect until the transition is complete.

Millions of years of evolution have maximized the efficiency of how sea creatures move through water while humans have been trying to perfect streamlined designs for barely a century - but we're catching up.

Biologists and engineers from across the U.S. have been studying the flippers, fins and tails of whales and dolphins and discovered some features of their structure that contradict long-held engineering theories.

Dr. Frank Fish of West Chester University will talk about the impact these discoveries may have on traditional industrial designs on Tuesday 8th July at the Society for Experimental Biology's Annual Meeting in Marseille [Session A2].

HERTZLIA, Israel, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- All They Need is Just to Find Each Other

A new initiative by a web2.0 company comes to solve a long inherent problem in the advertisement market. Xywidgets which specializes in service oriented widgets, and that recently presented Bnarrator, a website narration widget, has opened http://www.Getadnet.com which is a meeting place between advertisers and ad networks.

The problem which Getadnet addresses is a communication barrier between the companies wishing to advertise their products or services, and the ad networks or the newer ad representative firms.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Are they a keeper or should you catch and release? A new dating test from PlentyofFish.com will tell.

Just like your mother always said, "There are plenty of fish in the sea." She was warning you against settling for an unsatisfying romance. Markus Frind, founder and CEO of the free dating site PlentyofFish.com, proves the point with 700,000 daily member logins, and millions of romances since the site was started in 2003.