MUMBAI, India, September 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Partnership With Batelco Expands Global MPLS Network

Tata Communications, a leading provider of a new world of communications announced another key milestone in the global expansion of its MPLS network into the Middle East through a partnership with Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco). Batelco is Bahrain's leading integrated communications provider, providing end-to-end telecommunications solutions to retail and enterprise customers in the Middle East region. This partnership enables Tata Communications to offer MPLS (Multi Protocol Label Switching) VPN services into Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan and other locations within the region for its customers in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world.

KARLSRUHE, Germany, September 29 /PRNewswire/ -- RapidSolution Software AG has made the 5th generation Radiotracker web radio software public on the website http://audials.com. The absolutely unique MusicFinder, the reception quality, the user comfort and the number of web radios and output formats are just a few of the highlights that have been extended and enhanced.

Radiotracker focuses on the wishes of users

HSINCHU, Taiwan, September 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Next generation 28nm process provides first comprehensive manufacturing platform featuring both high-k metal gate and silicon oxynitride

TSMC, Ltd. (TSE: 2330) (NYSE: TSM) today announced it plans to deliver its 28nm process as a full node technology offering the option of both high-k metal gate (HKMG) and silicon oxynitride (SiON) material to support different customer applications and performance requirements. Initial production is expected in the first quarter of 2010.

LEEDS, England, September 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- With Photo

Masternaut Three X is celebrating having been named as one of the UK's fastest growing technology companies for the second year running. The Leeds-based vehicle tracking and mobile resource management company was ranked 43 in the 2008 Tech Track 100 league table that was recently published in the Sunday Times, up an impressive 20 places on their 2007 listing. The annual Sunday Times Tech Track 100, sponsored by Microsoft, Barclays Commercial and BDO Stoy Hayward, ranks Britain's fastest growing private technology companies based on sales growth over the last two years.

GENEVA, Switzerland, September 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Award Highlights Successful Global HR Approach During Company Integration

Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, announced today that it has won the prestigious "Human Capital Leadership Award" 2008 for "Strategic HR Leadership" by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). The division's Human Resources (HR) department was recognized for its critical leadership role during the integration of the former Serono with the Merck Ethicals pharmaceuticals division, and in driving the organization's performance and reputation while supporting strategic goals through superior employee relations.

LONDON, September 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Partnership to create a new forum for short films at the world's biggest communications industry event

The GSMA, the global trade group for the mobile industry, and Mofilm, a pioneer of short films for mobile and on-line distribution, today announced the first Global Mobile Film Festival at the Mobile World Congress in 2009, with an official 'call for films' to international film-makers today.

HATBORO, Pennsylvania and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, September 29 /PRNewswire/ --

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tuebingen, Germany, have reported the completion of the first genomes of wild strains of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana as part of the 1001 Genomes Project.

The entire genomes of two individuals of this species, one from Ireland, the other from Japan, have now been compared in great detail. They were found to be astonishingly different from each other, as Detlef Weigel and his colleagues write in Genome Research.

This study marks the starting point of the 1001 Genomes Project, in which a total of thousand and one individuals of the same species will be sequenced. The scientists aim at correlating the genetic differences between the different strains with variation in the speed of plant growth and their resistance against infectious germs. These strategies could then also be applied to crop plants or trees.