LONDON, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Organisations Grapple With Challenges of Managing Multi-Provider/ Multiple Outsourcing Efforts

Despite the fact organisations worldwide are deferring capital expenditures, outsourcing continues to be the number one tool chosen to drive organisational change, according to EquaTerra's Advisor and BPO/ITO Service Provider Pulse Survey 3Q08.* The findings show demand for outsourcing is outpacing business investments in areas such as hardware, software or other types of more discretionary project-based services.

CAEN, France, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- NXP Semiconductors Selects ATREG as its Agent in the Sale of their IPD Business and 150mm Fab in France

NXP Semiconductors, a global leader in the development and fabrication of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced it has retained ATREG, the semiconductor sales division of Colliers International, to sell its Integrated Passives Device business (IPD) and related operational 150mm semiconductor manufacturing facility in Caen, France.

SAN FRANCISCO, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that it has been named a winner of Hitwise's Top 10 Award for the quarter ending September 2008. During this period, http://www.blinkx.com ranked 7th Web site in the Hitwise Entertainment-Multimedia industry category.

Each quarter, Hitwise, the leading online competitive intelligence service, awards the 10 most popular Web sites in over 160 Hitwise categories. Top 10 Web site Awards are based on popularity according to the market share of user visits a Web site receives compared to other Web sites in their industry during a specific period. blinkx's high traffic earned it a top spot on Hitwise's list for Web sites of its kind.

UC San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key.

"We built our key duplication software system to show people that their keys are not inherently secret," said Stefan Savage, the computer science professor from UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering who led the student-run project. "Perhaps this was once a reasonable assumption, but advances in digital imaging and optics have made it easy to duplicate someone's keys from a distance without them even noticing."

We all experience memory errors from time to time and research has suggested that 'false' memories may be a result of having too many other things to remember or perhaps if too much time has passed.

In a new research report published online in The FASEB Journal, researchers describe a discovery that may allow some obese people avoid common obesity-related metabolic problems until they can lose weight: make a common antioxidant, melanin, in excess.  Melanin is a common antioxidant responsible for skin and eye color.

Most promising is that some of the antioxidant drugs that can mimic the melanin effect are FDA-approved and available. This availability would greatly speed the development of new treatments, should they prove effective in clinical trials.

NOVATO, California, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

Raptor Pharmaceuticals Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: RPTP), today announced that senior management will present a corporate overview and clinical pipeline updates at two upcoming healthcare investor conferences:

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A team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Scripps College, Princeton University, and the University of Iowa writing in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 
say appearance counts  when it comes to perception of politicians - but mostly if the appearance is negative.   This effect diminishes the more people know about a candidate.    So, voters who know little about John McCain coming up to election 2008 might be inclined to view him negatively when compared to a younger, more charismatic Barack Obama.

The natural world behaves a lot like the stock market, with periods of relative stability interspersed with dramatic swings in population size and competition between individuals and species.

While scholars may be a long way from predicting the ins and outs of the economy, University of Calgary biologist Edward McCauley and colleagues have uncovered fundamental rules that may govern population cycles in many natural systems. Their discovery is published today in the prestigious scientific journal Nature.

ATHENS, Greece, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Hiring Managers Share the Most Common Resume Mistakes and Offer Tips for Creating an Effective Resume

Is your resume more fact or fiction? While only 11 percent of workers in Greece admit they have lied on a resume, more than two-thirds (68 percent) of employers say they have caught a lie on a resume according to a new Kariera.gr survey of employers and workers in Greece. Of those employers who caught a lie, 42 percent automatically dismissed the applicant, 50 percent still considered the candidate, but did not hire him/her and only 7 percent went on to hire the candidate.

The most common lies Greek employers say they find on resumes include: