MANCHESTER, England, September 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- British Company Aims to Hypnotise Millions of Smokers

The battle against tobacco goes high tech this week, with the launch of an exciting and innovative new virtual quit-smoking clinic.

http://www.NoSmokingAgain.com, the world's first online hypnotherapy clinic is the brainchild of Clinical hypnotherapist and dot com entrepreneur John Wesdorp. His service will allow smokers to log onto an online hypnotherapy clinic where instant hypnotherapy is available 24 hours a day. The therapy session takes less than one hour, is offered on a no-cure-no-pay basis, and costs just GBP25 - which is less than the average smoker spends on cigarettes in a week.

GENEVA, Switzerland, September 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Merck Serono Now Has Exclusive Worldwide Development and Commercialisation Rights to atacicept, Including in North America

Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and ZymoGenetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZGEN), Seattle, United States, today announced a restructuring of their partnership.

LONDON, September 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Ticketmaster, the world's leading live entertainment ticketing and marketing company, will be using their latest ticketing innovation, the Paperless Ticket, for the first time in Europe when Metallica launch their new album Death Magnetic live at The O2 in London on September 15.

Ticketmaster is constantly looking at the use of new technology in order to offer a more secure and safe ticketing experience for fans, clients and artists. Paperless ticketing allows quick and secure access to venues, while reducing the amount of paper used to print tickets, saving both time for fans and reducing the impact on the environment.

COPENHAGEN, September 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Seven of Sennheiser Communications' headsets have been certified and approved under the ergonomic and environmental label TCO'07. Sennheiser Communications' range of call centre and office headsets - the BW 900, SH 300, SH 330, SH 350, CC 510, CC 520 - and the Bluetooth headset VMX 100, have now earned the right to bear the Swedish quality label based on their usability, performance and low environmental impact. TCO specifically recognised Sennheiser's patented ActiveGard(TM), technology that protects the user's hearing from high-pitched sounds and sudden surges in sound level.

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In a commentary released today in the September 3rd issue of the medical journal JAMA, Dr. Arnold Relman, Professor of Medicine Emeritus at Harvard and former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, takes on the issue of industry support of medical education once again, and offers his suggestions for ending the medical profession's dependence on industry support. Should pharmaceutical companies be allowed to fund medical education? Should they be allowed to give doctors gifts? Should they even be allowed to pick up the tab for lunch? No, no, and no, says Dr. Relman, adding that if “busy physicians believe that detailing visits by industry representatives are worth their time and want them to continue, let them at least not accept the gifts, food, and other favors from industry, which make it appear as if physicians’ interest and brand loyalty are being purchased.”

FLORHAM PARK, New Jersey, September 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company Plans to Open Amsterdam Data Center to Meet European Demand

Global Crossing (Nasdaq: GLBC), a leading IP solutions provider, today revealed that it has broadened the scope of services offered in its London data center at Docklands by making available hosting managed services, such as monitoring, backup, security, server management and storage solutions, specifically Hitachi Data Systems data storage capabilities. The company also announced plans to expand its London facility and to open a new data center in Amsterdam.

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TEL-AVIV, Israel, September 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Wireless Link Complies With the Latest ETSI 4 Watt Standard for Europe - Enables Achieving Unsurpassed Distance & Range

RADWIN (http://www.radwin.com), a leading global provider of advanced wireless broadband solutions, today announced the release of its WinLink(TM) 1000 5.8 GHz High-Power solution which complies with the latest ETSI regulation [EN 302 502 V1.1.1] allowing 4 watt maximum radiated power (EIRP). WinLink(TM) 1000 5.8 GHz High-Power incorporates a Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) mechanism as defined by the new ETSI standard. RADWIN has already received orders by a number of major operators for this solution.

SOFIA, Bulgaria and NEWTON, Massachusetts and BOSTON, September 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Telerik, a leading vendor of software tools and components which allow developers to rapidly build cutting-edge web and desktop applications, today announced that it has received an investment from Summit Partners, a private equity and venture capital firm that has raised more than US$11 billion since inception. The investment will be used to fund both organic growth and acquisitions.

MUNICH, Germany, September 3 /PRNewswire/ --

A sub-analysis of the TRITON-TIMI 38 clinical trial showed that treatment with prasugrel compared with clopidogrel significantly reduced the risk of new or recurrent heart attacks (7.4 percent vs. 9.7 percent, p<0.0001), regardless of whether the events occurred around the time of an artery-opening procedure known as percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), or if they occurred spontaneously during the longer-term maintenance phase. The analysis was presented today at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in Munich, Germany.

MILPITAS, California, September 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Industry's First and Only RAID Controller-Based Power Management Solution for SATA and SAS Storage

To significantly increase the energy efficiency of disk-based storage, Adaptec Inc. (Nasdaq: ADPT), a global leader in storage solutions, today kicked off its Green Power initiative with the introduction of Adaptec Intelligent Power Management, a new capability that allows system OEMs, integrators and IT managers to easily custom-configure storage systems to reduce power consumption by up to 70 per cent without sacrificing performance. Intelligent Power Management is now integrated into all Adaptec's high-performance, award-winning Series 5 and Series 2 Unified Serial(TM) RAID controllers.