NEWBURY, England, January 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Cognito, the Mobile Workforce Management specialist, today announced that it has closed its financial year with a record signing of 4,100 subscribers, the most successful year in the company's history. The company's success has continued into the new financial year, with the addition of a further 1,600 users so far taking the total number of subscribers beyond 20,000.

Cognito has also achieved Microsoft Gold Partnership status and has been elevated to a Motorola PartnerSelect Premier Solution Partner. Its success was also reflected in a number of key customer wins and extended deployments across a spectrum of industry sectors including ao, Alpha Heating, GSH Group, Lorne Stewart and Scottish Borders Housing Association.

LONDON, January 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- 70% Agree That the Industry is Failing to Take Full Advantage of Market Opportunities

A recent broadcast industry poll conducted by AmberFin reveals that poor picture quality remains a major barrier to content adoption on new viewing devices, such as a mobile phone and PC. Furthermore, 70% of experts surveyed agreed the industry is failing to capitalize on the new market opportunities offered by the Internet, VoD and mobile due to the quality and cost issues associated with repurposing and delivering high volumes of content across multiple viewing devices.

LONDON, January 27 /PRNewswire/ --

Changing the Way Africa Pays

The Business Phone today announces above forecast sales of over 750,000 transactions on its payment and ticketing system, Paystream, making its Paystream terminals the fastest growing payment network of its type in East Africa.

The partnership with Kenyan businesses is expected to see a roll out of over 6000 terminals over the next 12 months.

The Paystream terminals went live on 4 October 2008 and are soon due to carry the Company's full range of Paystream payment applications which will mean each terminal will handle mobile phone top-up, money transfer, utility bill payments and instant-win lottery cards.

Sam Ndegwa, CEO of Business Phone Africa, said:

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- Recruitment expert offers tips for job seekers looking to maximize their visibility in front of employers

Having trouble finding a new job? Your strategy may not be in-line with employers. Twenty-five per cent of employers say that over the past year they have broadened the list of places they look for candidates to reach more job seekers, according to a new survey by CareerBuilder.co.uk. In hopes of getting new talent in the door quicker, nearly one-in-five (19 per cent) of employers say they have shortened the time from initial meeting to offer, and 5 per cent have removed steps from the application process.

ATHENS, Greece, January 27 /PRNewswire/ --

Employees may be feeling more loyal to their own career goals instead of their employers, as 21% do not feel loyal to their current employer and 22% said they are likely to leave their current position to change jobs in a year or less. This is according to kariera.gr's latest survey of workers and employers in Greece.

Plants' ability to sprout upward using their own woody tissues has long been considered one of the characteristics separating the land kind from aquatic plants, which rely on water to support them.

LONDON, January 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Acision, the world's leading messaging company, today announces the appointment of Tony Morrish as senior vice president and general manager for Europe, Russia and Africa. In this role, Morrish will take responsibility for managing Acision's business and revenue growth across the region.

A newly developed mathematical model that figures out the best strategy to win the popular board game CLUE© could some day help robot mine sweepers navigate strange surroundings to find hidden explosives.

At the simplest level, both activities are governed by the same principles, according to the Duke University scientists who developed the new algorithm. A player, or robot, must move through an unknown space searching for clues. In the case of CLUE©, players move a pawn around the board and enter rooms seeking information about the killer and murder weapon before moving on to the next room seeking more information.

Toxic nuclear waste is stored at sites around the U.S.  and debate surrounds the construction of a large-scale geological storage site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, which critics maintain is costly and dangerous. The storage capacity of Yucca Mountain, which is would open by 2020, is set at 77,000 tons. The amount of nuclear waste generated by the U.S. is expected to exceed this amount by 2010.

A new invention could drastically decrease the need for any additional or expanded geological repositories, say physicists at The University of Texas at Austin who have designed a new system that, when fully developed, would use fusion to eliminate most of the transuranic waste produced by nuclear power plants.

If you have a 401K, you've seen what happens when confidence abandons the stock market.   If people didn't trust financial leaders and institutions before, they certainly do not now.   Paola Sapienza (Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University) and Luigi Zingales (Un iversity of Chicago Booth School of Business) have created the Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index and they have published the first set of results today.   They say their research shows just how deep America's declining trust runs and how strongly it contributes to the country's financial problems.

The results do not speak well for confidence that more government programs are the solution.