PARIS, April 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Moves EMEA Headquarters Into New Offices in Paris to Accommodate Growth

Bizanga, the global company behind the most scalable and full-featured email and message processing platform, today announced that it is expanding its EMEA headquarters to accommodate its growth in the region. With sustained demand from current and new customers, Bizanga is consolidating and expanding its currently distributed offices into one location in the historic heart of Paris.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Simbionix, the world's leading developer of medical simulation systems, today announced an agreement with Johnson Johnson LLC for distribution of Simbionix's simulators and related products.

Johnson Johnson LLC, a subsidiary of Johnson Johnson, operates in Russia, the Ukraine, and other CIS countries.

Johnson Johnson LLC will have exclusive rights to distribute Simbionix's line of advanced medical simulators in hospitals in Russia and the rest of the CIS.

ELMSHORN, Germany, April 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Dual-Core Processor Harmonises With Open Source Operating System on the Smallest Footprint

Shuttle Inc., the market leader in the Mini-PC sector and manufacturer of Multi-Form-Factor solutions, is now expanding its portfolio of Mini-PCs with Open Source operating systems. The latest offshoot is the X270V complete system based on the Shuttle Barebone X27D.

LONDON, April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Hundreds of thousands of travellers around the world already know about Home Exchange and its increasing popularity as a way to see the world and stay for free. What many people don't know is that Home Exchange is also an eco-friendly way to visit virtually anywhere in the world, as a local, not a tourist. Home Exchange doesn't increase the local population and has virtually no incremental impact on the environment.

AMSTERDAM, April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international design, consulting, engineering and management services company, today announced that it has won a major contract to provide project management services to the Brazilian mining company Vale (Companhia Vale do Rio Doce) for a large project in Sohar, Oman. The contract will be executed through a joint venture (on a 50/50 basis) with a local partner, W.J. Towell Co. The contract totals approximately US$ 24 million. Further financial details regarding the contract were not disclosed.

The ferroelectric materials found in today's "smart cards" used in subway, ATM and fuel cards soon may eliminate the time-consuming booting and rebooting of computer operating systems by providing an "instant-on" capability as well as preventing losses from power outages.

Researchers supported by a National Science Foundation (NSF) nanoscale interdisciplinary research team award and three Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers at Cornell University, Penn State University and Northwestern University recently added ferroelectric capability to material used in common computer transistors, a feat scientists tried to achieve for more than half a century.

New studies indicate the three drugs used to treat male impotence,  phosphodiesterase Type 5 inhibitors  Viagra, Levitra and Cialis also appear to work in females, albeit a little differently, and might be worth a second look to potentially help the 40 percent of women who report sexual dysfunction, researchers say.

In one of the first studies of the effect of the phosphodiesterase Type 5 inhibitors on the pudendal arteries that supply the penis, vagina and clitoris the blood needed to produce a satisfying sexual experience, Medical College of Georgia researchers showed the drugs relax the artery in male and female rats. 

If you're a man and have Lou Gehrig's Disease - Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) - there is good news if you drink caffeine.   Antioxidants, such as in coffee, can help.   The bad news is you still have ALS and there is no caffeine benefit for women found so far.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a fatal disease that damages key neurons in the brain and spinal cord. The disease causes progressive paralysis of voluntary muscles and often death within five years of symptoms. Although ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) was discovered over a century ago, neither the cause nor a cure have been found, but several mechanisms seem to play a role in its development, including oxidative stress.

According to lore (because apparently before the Internet, if it appeared in writing it had to be true) diarist Samual Pepes originally said, "Laughter is the best medicine."

On a science site, we are inclined to note that 'medicine is the best medicine' - but studies have shown that laughter can't hurt ... and it may help.

How many times have you had some pithy comment in prose be misinterpreted when you just know that if the other people could simply hear your voice or see your face they would know how brilliant you are?

It happens a lot and emoticons, along with their evil cousin ALL CAPITALIZATION AND !!! PUNCTUATION, were invented to try and close the communications gap.  

Now European researchers at the PASION project have developed a suite of tools to add non-verbal cues to email, phone calls, chats and other channels of electronic communication.   Digital communication hasn’t the richness of face-to-face conversation because it cannot communicate the non-verbal cues and contextual information that are so important to us all.