REDMOND, Washington, October 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Microsoft announces new rich Internet applications development and streaming media features; company outlines plans for supporting Windows, Mac and Linux tools for developing Silverlight applications.

Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Silverlight 2, one of the industry's most comprehensive and powerful solutions for the creation and delivery of applications and media experiences through a Web browser. Silverlight 2 delivers a wide range of new features and tools that enable designers and developers to better collaborate while creating more accessible, more discoverable and more secure user experiences.

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LONDON, October 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Unite, the UK's largest union, will ballot its members in Steria, a leading French IT firm, following the company's announcement of plans to make over 30 compulsory redundancies among Manchester IT staff supporting the company's Co-operative Financial Services (CFS) account.

The jobs are being lost among staff transferred under TUPE from CFS to Steria last year, and are the result of a decision made at the time of the transfer to cut costs by off-shoring work to India.

In today’s world, advances in science and medicine happen almost daily. Few of those discoveries prove to be a revolution in current scientific thought. This is one of those breakthroughs.

Recently, the Nobel Committee announced that it would award the Nobel Prize for Medicine/Physiology to German professor Harald zur Hausen, who discovered the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) was the cause of cervical cancer. According to the Committee, his discovery “went against current dogma,” when in the 70s and 80s he strove to prove that the papillomaviruses were the cause of cervical cancers. “He thus laid the foundations for better prevention and treatment of this form of cancer, which has become the third most common form to affect women,” says Professor Matthias Kleiner, President of the German Research Foundation.

“I am, of course, completely surprised and it is a great pleasure for me,” expressed zur Hausen in an interview with Adam Smith from nobelprize.org. He credits his dedication and personal conviction to his discovery, working in a direction thought to be completely wrong by many of his contemporaries. “I was an unwelcome and lonely voice,” notes zur Hausen.

ZURICH, Switzerland, October 13 /PRNewswire/ --

Barix AG, a pioneer in IP-based audio, intercom, control, and monitoring, announces the availability of the Annuncicom 100-CS, a custom Audio over IP intercom solution developed collaboratively with Crestron for residential control environments. Crestron Electronics, based in Rockleigh, New Jersey, is a leading manufacturer of advanced control and automation systems. Barix joined Crestron's Integrated Partner Program earlier this year.

SAN JOSE, California, October 13 /PRNewswire/ --

The Wafer Level Chip Scale Packaging (WLCSP) Forum today announced it will participate in the Fifth Annual International Wafer Level Packaging Conference in San Jose, California. Sponsored jointly by the SMTA and Chip Scale Review, the IWLPC explores cutting edge topics in wafer level packaging and IC/MEMS/MOEMS packaging, including 3D/Stacked/CSP/SiP/SoP and mixed technology packages. Forum Member companies will present original technical papers on WLCSP qualification and reliability issues.

SAN JOSE, California, October 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Royalty-free ISO/IEC 14443-B protocol for passive tags

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), today announced its Keen+ reference design for the development of secure, 13.56 MHz logic-based, passive RFID, close proximity applications.

The AT88SC-ADK2 Keen+ development kit includes Atmel's Crypto Evaluation Studio tool suite, an application development board, CryptoRF(R) samples in both tag and smart card form, a USB cable, and a quick start guide.

UPPSALA, Sweden and WAUKESHA, Wisconsin, October 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Radi Medical Systems AB and GE Healthcare announced today a development; marketing and sales initiative to integrate Radi Medical Systems AB (Radi) groundbreaking wireless PressureWire(R) Aeris and Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) technology into GE's Mac-Lab(R) IT hemodynamic recording system.

BELLEVUE, Washington, October 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Automated Tzunami Deployer Universal Migration Engine to Ensure Fast, Comprehensive Transition to Organized, Secure MOSS Data Structures

Tzunami Inc., a leading provider of SharePoint migration solutions, today announced that its Tzunami Deployer migration tool has been selected by one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world to migrate more than 1600 eRooms serving over 10,000 users worldwide to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS).

NEW YORK, October 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Online Application Extremely Popular in United Kingdom; Expansive U.K. User Base to Benefit from Premium Version

- Mangrove Venture Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners Provide Current Funding; Total Funding to Date US$8.5 Million

Designing and developing professional-looking web sites just got easier with the launch of the premium version of Wix, an online application that allows anyone to develop Flash-based web sites and content-without being a programmer or designer.

NAPA, California, October 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- US$16 Million Cash On Hand and No Debt

Senetek PLC (OTC Bulletin Board: SNKTY), a life sciences company engaged in the development of technologies that target the science of healthy aging, announced today that the company continues to maintain a strong, debt-free financial position. Current cash balances are in excess of US$16 Million; US$10 Million of which is invested in fully FDIC insured bank certificates of deposits and US$6 Million on deposit in a money market account with Columbia Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bank of America, one of the strongest and most stable financial institutions in the world.