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MUMBAI, India, July 10 /PRNewswire/ --

CMP India and CMP Information, The Netherlands, is once again organizing Fi India 2008, a two-day International Exhibition and Conference on Food Ingredients in Mumbai on October 3-4th, 2008. This is a part of the world-wide series of Fi Events held in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa.

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Fi India took place in Mumbai in September 2006 for the first time and was inaugurated by the Hon'ble Union Minister for Food Processing Industries, Mr Subodh Kant Sahai. Subsequently it was again organised in October 2007 and was inaugurated by the noted Food Scientist and the Chairman of CFTRI, Dr V Prakash.

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

- Company Also Extends Enterprise Mobility Services to Latin America

Verizon Business has launched a new Wi-Fi interface that makes it easier than ever to connect to more than 70,000 (and growing) Verizon-provided hot spots worldwide. The new interface, Verizon Wi-Fi Connect, is available as part of Verizon Enterprise Mobility services suite. In addition, the company also announced it has extended these services to Latin America.

STUTTGART, Germany, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The proportion of counterfeit products is reported recently from the European commission to be rapidly increasing. There are figures to back this up, showing that manufacturers of high-quality products, including those in the pharmaceutical industry, are among the worst hit. In addition to the harm caused to pharmaceutical manufacturers through damage to their image and loss of sales, the health risks for patients is of paramount importance here. Movianto GmbH together with identif GmbH have developed a solution: by adopting the DNA coding method the pharmaceutical products become secure.

LONDON, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- theprintspace has extended their groundbreaking 'DIY' photographic printing process to the web. theprintspace.com will be the first online service to incorporate an easy to use professional colour management process. The result - enabling accurate soft proofing of images by clients on their own systems using bespoke print profiles, meaning prints that are as accurate as possible - first time! The process is explained in easy-to-follow video tutorials filmed exclusively by theprintspace, making theprintspace.com the first specialist professional photographic printing lab to utilise the web 2.0 spirit of innovation to its full potential.

COPENHAGEN, July 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Milestone Systems, a Leading Global Manufacturer of IP Video Surveillance Software, Takes First External Investment From Leading European Venture Capital Firm.

Milestone Systems, a global developer of open platform IP video management software for surveillance systems, today announced US$27 (EUR17) million in growth stage funding from Index Ventures, one of Europe's top venture capital firms. This is the first ever external investment into Milestone, after nearly a decade in business, and marks the latest investment from Index Ventures' EUR400 million growth fund, which closed in January 2007.

BANNOCKBURN, Illinois, July 10 /PRNewswire/ --

Pinnacle Biologics, a private, full-service pharmaceutical and biotech solutions company today announced it has entered into an agreement with pharmexx to expand sales support activities in a number of countries in Western Europe. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Viren Grover, Vice-Chairman of Pinnacle Biologics Inc. stated, "We are pleased to conclude this agreement with pharmexx, which allows us a cost effective way to support our sales and marketing activities for Ethyol (R) in key European markets where we believe there is upside potential."

Japanese scientists have made a micro-sized sewing machine to sew long threads of DNA into shape. The work published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Lab on a Chip demonstrates a unique way to manipulate delicate DNA chains without breaking them.

Scientists can diagnose genetic disorders such as Down's syndrome by using gene markers, or "probes", which bind to only highly similar chains of DNA. Once bound, the probe's location can be easily detected by fluorescence, and this gives information about the gene problem.

Detecting these probes is often a slow and difficult process, however, as the chains become tightly coiled. The new method presented by Kyohei Terao from Kyoto University, and colleagues from The University of Tokyo, uses micron-sized hooks controlled by lasers to catch and straighten a DNA strand with excellent precision and care.

However much popular television chefs like Jamie Oliver or Gordon Ramsay might want to shake up our diets, culinary evolution dictates that our cultural cuisines remain little changed as generations move on, shows new research in the New Journal of Physics.

The research shows that three national cuisines - British, French and Brazilian – are affected by the founder effect which keeps idiosyncratic and nutritionally ambivalent, expensive and sometimes hard to transport ingredients in our diets.

Using the medieval cookery book, Pleyn Delit, and three authoritative cook books from Britain, France and Brazil, the New Penguin Cookery Book, Larousse Gastronomique and Dona Benta respectively, the researchers from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, compiled statistics which could be compared to see how time and distance effect the three different national cuisines.

The economic and psychological term known as “sunk-cost fallacy” is a bias that leads someone to make a decision based solely on a previous financial investment. For example, a baseball fan might attend every game of the season only because he already purchased the tickets. But not everyone would force themselves to brave the pouring rain for a single game in one season simply because they previously paid for the seats.

So who is more likely to commit or avoid the sunk-cost fallacy and why?