LONDON, September 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Gulfsands Petroleum plc, the oil and gas production, exploration and development company with activities in Syria, Iraq, and USA, announced that stabilized oil production through the Khurbet East Early Production Facility ("EPF") now exceeds 11,500 barrels of 25.7 degree API oil per day (bopd), with production from three vertical and two horizontal wells.

GENEVA, Switzerland, September 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Innovative Formulation of Metformin Allows a Rapid Dissolution and may Contribute to Better Adherence to Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes

Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, announced today that Glucophage(R) Powder for Oral Solution in Sachet (metformin hydrochloride in 500mg, 850mg and 1000mg strengths) has received a positive opinion recommending approval for the first-line treatment of type 2 diabetes through a Decentralized Procedure (DCP) with France as the Reference Member State. Applications for marketing authorizations were filed in the 15 Member States involved in the DCP.

LONDON, September 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Online News Distributor, Feedzilla.com is branching out into Consumer Education to provide readers with vital before-you-buy information on a wide range of products. Until today, Feedzilla, has specialized in supplying free news and video widgets, or "feeds", for clients to download and place on their websites and blogs according to specific areas of interest. Feedzilla's expansion into consumer information means increased access to countless articles from every possible angle that can, and will, effect consumer decisions and purchasing habits.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, September 10 /PRNewswire/ --

Limelight Networks, Inc., (Nasdaq: LLNW) today announced that M6 Web, the Internet division of Metropole Television Group, has selected the company to stream live and on-demand content using Adobe(R) Flash(R) Media Server 3 software. Limelight and M6 Web worked together earlier this year to make the Euro2008 soccer tournament available online throughout France.

SAN JOSE, California, September 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Finjan's Web Security Survey Confirms the Cybercrime Threat of Data-Stealing Crimeware to Organizations as a Major Business Risk

Finjan Inc., a leading provider of secure web gateway solutions for the enterprise market, today announced the findings of its Web security survey of 1387 IT/Security professionals conducted during July 2008. The results reveal that an overwhelming number of respondents perceive cybercrime as a major business risk, specifically the possibility of their sensitive information such as customer, patient, and employee data being stolen by crimeware.

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BASKING RIDGE, New Jersey, September 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- 87 Percent of Investor Relations Professionals Believe Communications Technology Helps Organizations Achieve Business and Environmental Goals

Eighty-seven percent of investor relations professionals say they believe companies can improve long-term shareholder value through better carbon management -- reducing emissions that affect the environment -- and that communications technologies can help companies achieve their overall corporate social responsibility goals.

AUSTIN, Texas, September 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Michael Dumigan Named Managing Director of New Operation

HC&B Healthcare Communications, one of the nation's top 25 independent healthcare marketing firms, has opened an office in London, deepening its commitment to providing integrated global resources to a growing base of international clients. The new office will be headed by industry veteran Michael Dumigan, who joins the agency as managing director.

It sounds like common sense to say the level of nutrients in soil determines how many different kinds of plants and trees can thrive in an ecosystem, but it's only now that mathematicians have modelled all the different possible relationships between nutrients and biodiversity in lab-based experimental ecosystems.

Writing in Nature, they found that although nutrient availability definitely has an impact on biodiversity, the precise relationship between the two depends on which species are present in the ecosystem. This means that in some cases low levels of nutrients can lead to high levels of biodiversity.

Contrary to the national "carbon budgets" as outlined in the Kyoto Protocol, a new analysis in Nature suggests that old growth forests are "carbon sinks" and they continue to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and mitigate climate change for centuries.

Old growth forests around the world are not protected by international treaties and have been considered of no significance in the Kyoto Protocol. That perspective was largely based on findings of a single study from the late 1960s and these scientists now say it needs to be changed.

An analysis of 519 different plot studies found that about 15 percent of the forest land in the Northern Hemisphere is unmanaged primary forests with large amounts of old growth, and that rather than being irrelevant to the Earth's carbon budget, they may account for as much as 10 percent of the global net uptake of carbon dioxide.

LONDON, September 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB), the professional and regulatory body for pharmacists, is successfully deploying mvision's unique managed video conferencing service to enable them to hold regular internal face-to-face meetings. Video conferencing is also being used by the disciplinary committees for dialling in witnesses unable to attend in person.

RPSGB previously had Polycom systems all connected to ISDN running over their existing network. They were struggling to make video conferencing an easy-to-use and reliable communication tool. Martin Bagley, AV Support Manager for RPSGB, found setting up meetings stressful as he could never guarantee that they would work.