LONDON, June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Renaissance Learning, together with its AlphaSmart division, is proud to launch the 'STARS for Africa' fundraising event that is aiming to help pupils of all abilities in both the UK and Africa.

READING, England, June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Opsera Limited, the UK's leading provider of Open Source software and services, today announces the release of OpsMailmanager version 1.5.

OpsMailmanager automates the filing of email messages and attachments into Alfresco's Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software. Using the IMAP standard to work with all major email clients - including MS Outlook, Lotus Notes, Thunderbird and Novell Groupwise - OpsMailmanager improves your organisational efficiency, reduces information duplication and saves expensive storage space.

By storing emails alongside other documents, you can share, search and secure all your organisations' information in one place, and boost collaboration.

LONDON, June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Sir Paul McCartney, with his daughters Mary and Stella, is launching a new food campaign - MEAT FREE MONDAY - on Monday 15th June, which encourages people to help slow climate change by having one meat free day a week.

The campaign has already gathered an impressive list of supporters from the worlds of entertainment, politics and the environmental sciences including Chris Martin, Jeff Koons, Alec Baldwin, Woody Harrelson, Doris Day, Sheryl Crow, Kevin Spacey, Kelly Osbourne, Zac Goldsmith, Gillian Anderson, Jake and Dinos Chapman, David de Rothschild, Monty Don, Sam Taylor Wood, Sharleen Spiteri, John Frieda and Ricky Gervais.

UTRECHT, Netherlands, June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The largest worldwide investigation into connection, carried out in 14 countries among 10,000 respondents, indicates that strongly connected people have more enjoyment in their life and work. They are not only happier, but also more successful. Strongly connected people know better what they want in life, and also how they can achieve it. The investigation, carried out by intoconnection, proves that connection has an enormous positive influence on people's lives. intoconnection is therefore starting a worldwide campaign on 21 June to inspire people to connect themselves with others.

Great Britain trails behind on connection

ALTRINCHAM, England, June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Maxatec has signed an agreement with SAMMI Information Systems Co Ltd, Korea to distribute its range of SmarTerminal Computers in the UK.

Andrea Percival, director of Maxa Technologies (Maxatec) said: We are delighted to be working with SAMMI. This really is a strategic move for us as we have been looking to extend our range of mobile computing devices for a while and by signing up with SAMMI we can deliver a much broader offering to our network of resellers in the mobile market. We can link our 35 years of experience in the printer field to SAMMI's 30+ years in the computer and mobile communications industry.

WILMINGTON, Delaware and GALWAY, Ireland, June 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- New and existing investors complete a US$17.3 million Series C investment - Experienced medical device executive, Dr. Art Rosenthal, appointed as CEO - Aggressive launch of Sideguard(TM) Sidebranch stent in EU following recent CE Marking - Expansion of management team, RD and manufacturing capacity in Galway, Ireland

Cappella, Inc. (Cappella) announces today that it has completed a US$17.3 million Series C investment, led by new investors, Fountain Healthcare Partners and Mitsui Co. Venture Partners (MCVP). Enterprise Ireland also participated in this round alongside Cappella's existing investors, Polytechnos Partners and ACT Venture Capital.

WATERLOO, Ontario, June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- For 10 exciting days this October, Canada's Perimeter Institute's 10th anniversary science celebration Quantum to Cosmos: Ideas for the Future will take a global audience from the strange subatomic world to the outer frontiers of the universe.

Events will take place from October 15 to 25, 2009, commemorating the 10th anniversary of Perimeter Institute's creation and contributing to Canada's National Science Technology Week.

LONDON, June 15 /PRNewswire/ --

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UK HR Software company Vizual is taking the unprecedented step of giving away its HR.net Lite Human Resources software free of charge.

This is the first time that fully functioning HR software has been available as free software - and it's not time limited either. UK businesses typically pay from GBP300 to GBP1,000+ for this level of Human Resources software.

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consultancy, design and engineering company, announced the opening of the third large landfill gas (LFG) plant near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, named Novo Gramacho. The opening coincided with the celebration of the International Environmental Day. The new plant will consolidate the leading market position of Biogas, a company in which ARCADIS Logos holds 33%. In 2004, Biogas opened the Bandeirantes landfill gas project, followed by the Sao Joao project in 2007, both near Sao Paulo.

MANCHESTER, England, June 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- First Use of Biogas to Supply UK Gas Grid

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The people of Manchester will soon be contributing to a green energy revolution - just by flushing the loo!

In a UK first, United Utilities has teamed up with National Grid to convert a by-product of the wastewater treatment process into gas for injection into the local gas pipeline network and fuel for a fleet of sludge tankers. The ground-breaking initiative is centred on one of the country's largest wastewater treatment plants at Davyhulme in Manchester.

The scheme has been given the green light by winning funding from Defra, coming via WRAP (Waste Resources Action Programme).