ATLANTA, December 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- US$67 Million Deal is the First Part of an Exclusive 10-Year Partnership for 14 Projects Worldwide

Fantastic Network Solutions (FNS), a global provider of IT solutions including voice, data and IP television, has signed a US$67 million agreement with Panama International Merchandise Mart (PIMM), the largest business marketplace in Latin America that brings together showrooms, merchants, offices, hotels, a convention center and a host of services to create a mini-city.

DUSSELDORF, Germany, December 15 /PRNewswire/ -- If you want to create a professional website, you don't necessarily need expertise in programming or graphic design any more: the website-generating solution Web To Date 5.0 does it all for you. The German software publisher Data Becker GmbH Co KG now released an English version of its successful content management system which allows the user to create high-quality websites in a short amount of time.

ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands, December 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Website of Year 2008: Winners are Revealed

ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands, December 15 /PRNewswire/ --

The winners of the 2008 edition of the Website of the Year awards -UK's most important people's choice award for websites- are revealed today on http://www.websiteoftheyear.co.uk.

This year, 223 websites were nominated over 18 categories. More than 1.500.000 votes were cast between November 3 and December 8.

Everyclick.com was chosen UK's Best Website of 2008 because of its content, navigation and design. Wayn.com was chosen by the public as UK's Most popular website of 2008 with more than 15.000 votes.

PLEASANTON, California, December 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Extra confidence and security with an innovative Roche solution

Roche announced today that its innovative dual-target HIV-1 test has received CE Mark certification, allowing it to be sold for clinical use in the European Union. The COBAS(R) AmpliPrep/COBAS(R) TaqMan(R) HIV-1 Test, v2.0 utilizes a unique design to simultaneously amplify and detect two separate regions of the HIV-1 genome. This approach provides reliable test results even when mutations are present. The test uses Roche's proprietary fully automated real-time PCR technology to quantify the amount of HIV-1 RNA in a patient's blood.

STOCKHOLM, December 15 /PRNewswire/ -- By 2013, Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), the world's leading provider of telecommunications equipment and services, anticipates that there will be some 6.5 billion mobile phone subscriptions in the world, compared to today's 3.7 billion. About 90 percent of growth is expected to come from developing markets where more than half of the population lives outside city limits. To build mobile networks in rural areas with no or unreliable power grid means that the power challenge must be solved.

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PARIS, December 15 /PRNewswire/ -- At the request of the French permanent delegation to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), momagri's representatives addressed the ambassadors of about thirty member nations in Rome on November 9, 2008 and presented strategic proposals for an international agriculture and food policy.

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LONDON, December 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Telnic Limited (http://www.telnic.org), the Registry Operator for the new .tel top level domain-driven directory service, announced today that it had received thousands of applications from leading brands for the new, mobile-optimized contacts directory on the internet within the first hours of opening registration period for trademark owners.

We're delighted to see applications from such a breadth of businesses and categories worldwide, said Khashayar Mahdavi, CEO of Telnic. Trademark owners have obviously got the message that .tel is a huge departure from .com-type domains that host web content and is instead an innovative platform for communications.

MILTON KEYNES, England, December 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Businesses are being warned to brace themselves for a sharp increase in fraud during the run-up to Christmas.

A combination of the credit crunch, redundancies and too much alcohol at the office party can push disgruntled workers, managers and even directors over the edge and into crime, according to leading forensic computing investigator Andrew Sheldon.

People do stupid things at Christmas, says Sheldon, MD of Evidence Talks Ltd. Loaded with drink, they might return to the office convinced they are uniquely skilled to steal from their employers without getting caught.

LONDON, December 15 /PRNewswire/ -- International property developer The Resort Group has selected BIW Technologies (BIW) to deliver Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications to support design and construction of two luxury resort developments - Tortuga and Dunas, worth a total of EUR100m (GBP82m) - on the island of Sal in the Cape Verde Islands. The web-based platform will support communications across a multinational team of consultants spread across the UK and Spain, as well as contractors working on the sub-tropical island in the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa.

LONDON, December 15 /PRNewswire/ -- BIS Ltd, a leading Data Centre and Managed Service Provider, has seen a huge surge in enquiries focussed on outsourcing server management. Historically, whilst BIS was recognised as a niche player in this market, we often saw deals going to 'big-name' competitors at the last hurdle. What we've seen over the last quarter is a huge surge in the take up of our managed services. New clients have told us that our extremely attractive pricing combined with reference customers praising our customer service caused them to take a much closer look at our offering, said David Pyemont, Chairman of BIS.

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