LONDON, April 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Industry leaders participate in the telco industry's first ever Ethernet global interconnect demonstration

Light Reading has announced the latest details on the Global Interconnect demonstration and conference program at Ethernet Expo: Europe 2009, May 13-14 at ExCel Conference Centre in London. COLT, Tata Communications, and ntl:Telewest will be working together with leading vendors Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Creanord, Matisse Networks, Omnitron Systems, and Spirent to present the telco industry's first ever public demonstration of globally interconnected Carrier Ethernet services.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 23 /PRNewswire/ --

Mobile penetration in Egypt will reach 97 percent by year-end 2014 from 54 percent in 2008, driven by significant changes in its competitive landscape, according to a new report from Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com), the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network (www.lightreading.com).

ELMSHORN, Germany, April 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- X50 Model Series Only 3.6 cm Thin / Now Available in Europe

Shuttle Inc., the market leader in the Mini-PC segment and manufacturer of Multi-Form-Factor solutions, announces the availability of a new product generation. The All-in-One-PC X 5000TA is a blend of energy-saving technologies and an innovative operating design. Once again, Shuttle's customary design and its high-quality finish are reflected in the new All-in-One-PC.

The only 3.6 cm thin All-in-One-PC comes supplied with an Intel Atom 330 processor (2x 1.6 GHz), 1 GB DDR2 memory, a 160 GB hard disk and Windows Vista Home Basic. The X 5000TA's high-gloss finish together with the visual chrome elements break new ground.

SAN DIEGO, April 23 /PRNewswire/ --

Accumetrics, Inc. announces today an exclusive distribution agreement with ELITech UK Limited for distribution of the VerifyNow System in the United Kingdom. The distribution agreement marks the beginning of several new distribution channels for the Company as it expands its reach both in scope and geography. ELITech UK will concentrate its efforts on reaching customers in surgery suites and catheterization labs within UK hospitals and other medical centers.

SAN JOSE, California, April 23 /PRNewswire/ --

NXP Semiconductors announces the following TechOnline Webinar:

What: NXP Semiconductors Webinar When: Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 10:00am EDT (7:00am PDT, 14:00 GMT) Where: http://seminar2.techonline.com/registration/distrib.cgi?s=1369d=2958 How: Live over the Internet -- Simply log on to the web at the address above. Contact: Rebecca Samuel, Media Relations, NXP Semiconductors, +1-408-474-8769

NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands, April 23 /PRNewswire/ --

TNT Post, the national postal operator for The Netherlands, has selected BancTec as its new partner for Scanpost, a recent initiative to meet the increasing demand for digital receipt of incoming mail. Customers of Scanpost will receive same day delivery of their incoming mail, which is rapidly scanned, digitally sorted and processed, and then delivered directly to the required department or business process. As a result, incoming mail processing requires far less time, space and expense, while response to customer correspondence will be much faster.

BOULDER, Colorado, April 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Partnership with Email Encryption Leader ZixCorp will integrate award-winning technology into next release of Webroot(R) Email Security SaaS

Webroot, a leading Internet security provider for the consumer, enterprise and SMB markets, today announced a strategic partnership with Zix Corporation , (ZixCorp(R)), (Nasdaq: ZIXI) a leading provider of email encryption services. Webroot will embed the ZixCorp email encryption service into its next release of Webroot(R) Email Security SaaS to help organizations better protect employee and company data to meet compliance and data security requirements.

HAIFA, Israel, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Oil Refineries Ltd. (TASE: ORL.TA) (the Company or ORL), Israel's largest oil refiner, announced today that on April 23, 2009 it was notified by Maalot Standard and Poor's that the Company's debentures' credit rating, currently rated 'ilA', is being put under watchlist, with negative implications. A copy of Maalot's announcement will be made available on the Company's website, under investor relations, Company releases, within the next 24 hours.

DENVER, April 23 /PRNewswire/ --

Altira Group LLC, a pioneer and leader in venture capital and private equity funding for energy technology companies, today announced a pair of significant investments totaling US$17.5MM in the renewable energy sector.

Continuing to demonstrate its commitment to helping meet global energy demand, Altira made lead investments in two strategic companies, EPS Corp of Costa Mesa, CA and Lilliputian Systems, Inc. (LSI) of Wilmington, MA.

LONDON, April 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Research From the IT Job Board Confirms Public Sector is Growing in Popularity

More than two thirds (71 percent) of techies are happy working in their chosen sector, according to research(1) carried out by The IT Job Board, http://www.theitjobboard.co.uk.

For the 29 percent who are not content with the industry they work in, nearly half (49 percent) would prefer to work in software and IT services, and 30 percent advised that they would rather choose IT jobs in the public sector.