ANDOVER, Massachusetts, November 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Wireless Industry Veteran to Lead Product Expansion and Revenue Growth at Industry's Leading Innovator for Mobile Social Marketing and Discovery

envIO networks today announced that Manish Jha, a seasoned veteran of the mobile content industry, has joined the company as its President and Chief Executive Officer.

What is the latest recipe for anti-matter?  Take a gold sample the size of the head of a push pin, shoot a laser through it, and suddenly more than 100 billion particles of anti-matter appear.  The anti-matter, also known as positrons, shoots out of the target in a cone-shaped plasma "jet."

This new ability to create a large number of positrons in a small laboratory opens the door to several fresh avenues of anti-matter research, including an understanding of the physics underlying various astrophysical phenomena such as black holes and gamma ray bursts.  Anti-matter research also could reveal why more matter than anti-matter survived the Big Bang at the start of the universe.

HAMBURG, Germany, November 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Nanosonics (ASX:NAN; FSE:OQS) has formally appointed its first exclusive distributors in Europe located in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France and Scandinavia.

According to Nanosonics' Director and CEO David Radford, this represents the achievement of another key milestone in the commercialisation of the company's launch product, the Trophon EPR, scheduled for March 2009.

The Trophon EPR is an environmentally friendly device specifically designed to disinfect intracavity and surface ultrasound transducers. The product represents Nanosonics' first commercial application of one of its core technologies, the NanoNebulant(TM) technology.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, November 17 /PRNewswire/ --

The fragile South African valve and actuator market is starting to find its feet. Manufacturers need to position themselves to reap the maximum benefits from the diffuse increase in demand.

New analysis from Frost Sullivan (http://www.industrialautomation.frost.com), South African Valves and Actuators Market, finds that the market earned revenues of $265.5 million in 2007 and estimates this to reach $668.4 million in 2014.

WALTHAM, Massachusetts, November 17 /PRNewswire/ --

According to Millennium Research Group's (MRG's) Europe II Markets for Peripheral Vascular Devices report, covering Spain, Switzerland, Benelux, and Nordic countries, health care reforms have limited the adoption of covered stents in peripheral vascular applications.

While covered stent penetration is nearly 15% in the US, these devices account for less than 5% of stents placed in Europe II because physicians often cannot justify the price premium commanded by these devices.

ROME, November 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Global Survey Reveals Need for Intense Public Education and Action -

World COPD Day 2008 features new patient and health professional initiatives that address the misconceptions and lack of awareness surrounding chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). These misconceptions -- revealed in a global survey, the International COPD Coalition (ICC) Report -- include poor public awareness that smoking is the main cause of COPD, a failure to diagnosis COPD in its early stages, when medication can be used to prevent further lung deterioration, and a mistaken belief that initial COPD symptoms, like coughing and shortness of breath, are a normal consequence of aging.

LONDON, November 17 /PRNewswire/ --

Increasing oil price and growing concerns over energy security are helping accelerate the development and commercialization of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). Federal and local governments have been proactively funding fuel cell technology and in the medium term, there would be rigorous developments in fuel cell technology, standardization of production and storage of hydrogen, and ramping up of the mammoth task of building hydrogen infrastructure.

New analysis from Frost Sullivan (http://www.automotive.frost.com), Strategic Analysis of Global Market for Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles, finds that the global market for fuel cell electric vehicles is expected to be around 120,000 vehicles by 2015.

LONDON, November 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Trial by 60 Millions de Consommateurs - French Equivalent of top Consumer mag Which?

Now with consumer confidence in expensive face creams running high, French consumer bible 60 Millions De Consommateurs has burst the bubble on the benefits of anti-wrinkle day creams with their latest comprehensive testing.

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NIVEA Visage DNAge - the cheapest product in the trial - was proven to be the second most effective product out of the 12 products trialled. It came second beaten by only 0.5 points but costs almost half the price of the overall winner and ten times less than others tested!

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, November 17 /PRNewswire/ --

Significant potential exists for additional crop production in Southern Africa based on land availability. However, growing crops for biofuel feedstock will only be realised if there is concerted effort from key stakeholders to address the food shortages in the region.

New analysis from Frost Sullivan (http://www.chemicals.frost.com), Opportunities for Biofuel Feedstock Production in Southern Africa, finds that the market is still in its development stage. Expansion of the agricultural sector to include crop production for biofuels has been hampered by the absence of coherent biofuel policies, a lack of resources dedicated to the agricultural sector, declining agricultural production and climate change.

Researchers dated remains from four multiple burials discovered in Germany in 2005 and found that the 4,600-year-old graves contained groups of adults and children buried facing each other – an unusual practice in Neolithic culture.  One of the graves was found to contain a female, a male and two children. Using DNA analysis, the researchers established that the group consisted of a mother, father and their two sons aged 8-9 and 4-5 years: the oldest molecular genetic evidence of a nuclear family in the world (so far).

The burials, discovered and excavated at Eulau, Saxony-Anhalt, were also unusual for the great care taken in the treatment of the dead. The remains of thirteen individuals were found in total, all of whom had been interned simultaneously.