SUNNYVALE, California, September 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Founding Members Include Concentrix Solar, Emcore, ISFOC, Isofoton, and SolFocus

PARIS, September 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced a seven-year agreement with all-inclusive resort company Club Med. Under the agreement, Alcatel-Lucent and its global business partners will install and manage the company's telephony solution for hospitality, bringing improved communications that will help meet the increasingly high expectations of Club Med guests and employees, and differentiate the company in a highly competitive industry.

OXFORD, England, September 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Conference to Become Annual International Event Featuring the World's Leading Thinkers and Doers

Four years after its first European gathering, TED organizers today announced the return of the TEDGlobal Conference to Oxford, UK, on an annual basis.

TEDGlobal 2009, the inaugural annual conference, is titled "The Substance of Things Not Seen," and will feature more than 40 remarkable speakers presenting over the course of four days, from July 21-24, in Oxford.

MUMBAI, India, September 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Syngenta announced that yesterday it received the 2008 World Business and Development Award (WBDA) for the development and successful introduction of a new sugar beet that can be grown under tropical climate conditions and brings significant advantages to farmers, the environment, the sugar and ethanol industries and the economy.

AMSTERDAM, September 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Ibuildings Hires PHP Heavyweight Cal Evans as Director

In order to further encourage the use of the PHP programming language and to further enhance the quality of PHP programmers, Ibuildings will start a PHP Centre of Expertise this year. The centre will be lead by Cal Evans, a world-renowned PHP expert. He is, among many other things, the editor-in-chief of one of the most important portals for PHP developers. His transfer to Ibuildings caused quite a stir in the PHP community. In October Evans will move from his current residence in Nashville (Tennessee - US) to the Netherlands.

LONDON, September 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Tata Communications, a leading provider of the new world of communications, received two awards at the Global Telecoms Business 2008 Innovation Awards which took place earlier this month in London.

Tata Communications, which was recognized for its International wholesale network transformation for its Global IP Voice network and International network infrastructure transformation for the TGN-Intra Asia and TGN-Eurasia submarine cables, was selected by an exclusive judging panel based on the company's innovations worldwide.

BIRMINGHAM, England, September 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Ardent Solutions, a CRM and ERP consultancy, http://www.ardentsolutions.co.uk has been selected by Microsoft as the Microsoft Dynamics Partner of the Year for Europe, Middle East and Africa - EMEA. Originally singled out for recognition at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 in Houston, the European Microsoft Dynamics team has now presented Ardent Solutions with its accolade at its prestigious head office in Fort Dunlop, Birmingham.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, September 25 /PRNewswire/ --

Bytemobile, Inc., the global leader in mobile internet solutions for network operators, today announced the general availability of its WebGate(TM) Service, which provides a single service control point within the network for all wireless data traffic. This enables operators to deliver innovative new data services and applications to their customers while controlling data flow through intelligent service selection.

LONDON, September 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Secretary of State for Culture Calls for a Different Approach to the Internet That Brings Value Back to Content Creators

Britain's creators met with Andy Burnham, the Secretary of State for Culture on Monday at Labour's Conference to discuss the changing landscape brought about by the internet and digital use.

The Author's Licensing and Collecting Society and British Music Rights came together in support of giving both writers and musicians a fair reward where the use of their works has generated value.

PARIS, September 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Institute Launched as New Research Suggests Improved Patient Education May Play Key Role in Halting Escalating Disease in the EMEA Region

PARIS, September 25 /PRNewswire/ --

Experts have predicted that by 2025, the number of people with diabetes will have increased by 20 per cent within Europe, 80 percent within Eastern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern populations and 80 percent within the African patient population(1). Diabetes specialists and patients agree that improved education for healthcare professionals and patients could, however, reduce both the financial and personal impact of diabetes on our society.