BARCELONA, Spain and WESTFORD, Massachusetts, February 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Industry Leader Expands Mobility Solutions Designed to Improve Network Performance and Reduce Costs

Today at Mobile World Congress (Booth #2E58 & 2E66) in Barcelona, Spain, Sonus Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: SONS), a leading supplier of service provider IP-voice infrastructure solutions, showcased its Centralized Call Routing Database. Demonstrating its commitment to wireless operators around the globe, Sonus Networks' Centralized Call Routing Database answers wireless network operators demands for advanced IP solutions that drive network efficiency and streamline the rollout of network expansions.

EDINBURGH, February 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Aircraft Medical ("Aircraft") announces that it has filed a Revocation Action against Verathon challenging the validity of its European Patent No. 1307131 (the '131 patent). It is expected that the counter claim in the Edinburgh Court of Session action will result in the restriction or revocation of Verathon's patent. Aircraft has also lodged defences at the Court of Session challenging Verathon to set out the basis for its claim that Aircraft infringes the current '131 patent. Even with serious questions regarding its validity, Verathon's '131 patent does not even describe Aircraft's products.

BARCELONA, Spain, February 12 /PRNewswire/ --

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS -- NeuStar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR) today announced that it is working with leading Instant Messaging (IM) provider ICQ to bring increased levels of interconnection to mobile Instant Messaging users.

Mobile network operators that wish to provide their mobile IM communities with access to ICQ's 28 million IM users worldwide will now be able to connect their mobile IM users to ICQ's users through NeuStar's market-leading Interconnect services, as well as via NeuStar's industry-leading Mobile Messaging Gateway (MMG) services.

BARCELONA, February 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Pelephone to Support Advanced Broadband and Roaming Services Over 1XEVDO and UMTS Networks Simultaneously Using AAA Service Controller

Bridgewater Systems (TSX:BWC) announced today that Israeli mobile operator Pelephone is deploying its AAA Service Controller as part of their 1xEV-DO and UMTS networks. This best of breed network access control solution will allow Pelephone to deliver a range of IP applications across a growing subscriber base and improve support for data roaming services.

BARCELONA, Spain, and WARREN, New Jersey, February 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- New AWT6155 Quad-Band Polar EDGE Power Amplifier Delivers Full Power Output in Polar EDGE Mode with a Smaller Footprint

ANADIGICS, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANAD), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions in the broadband wireless and wireline communications markets, today announced its new AWT6155 quad-band polar EDGE power amplifier (PA) module for 3G wireless handsets and equipment. ANADIGICS made the announcement this morning at the Mobile World Congress 2008 which is being held February 11-14 at the Fira de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (ANADIGICS: Hall 2, Stand C19).

LONDON, February 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- More than one-in-five end up marrying co-workers they dated -

With Valentine's Day just around the corner, it appears love is in the air and the workplace is not immune. Nearly four-in-ten (39 per cent) workers say they have dated a co-worker at some time during their careers, with 16 per cent admitting to doing so two or more times, according to CareerBuilder.co.uk's office romance survey of more than 500 workers. More than one-in-five (21 per cent) workers said they went on to marry the person they dated at work.

Comparing age groups, workers 18-24 were most likely (49 per cent) to say they have dated a co-worker during their careers, while workers 35-44 were least likely (35 per cent) to say they have done so.

BASKING RIDGE, New Jersey, February 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- End-to-End Management Solution Enhances Network Performance; Allows Customers to Focus on Core Business

Verizon Business' managed local area network (LAN) service is now available in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, in addition to the United States.

Verizon Managed LAN services enable customers to fully or partially outsource the management of their corporate networks. The managed service provides a seamless environment between the corporate headquarters' network and its extended network that connects partners, customers, remote employees and suppliers.

TOKYO, February 12 /PRNewswire/ --

Acrodea brings its OpenKODE implementations to the market; and offers free Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X desktop versions to the developer community.

Acrodea announced the availability of its OpenKODE implementations for immediate use and licensing on February 11th 2008, at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain.

Acrodea has been a key member in the OpenKODE Working Group of the Khronos Group to create the OpenKODE 1.0 Specification - a lightweight operating system and hardware abstraction layer that enables full source code portability of demanding multimedia applications between different mobile platforms and operating systems.

FREMONT, California, February 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company delivers 12 percent quarter over quarter revenue growth

ActivIdentity Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTI), a global leader in digital identity assurance, today announced its financial results for its fiscal first quarter ended December 31, 2007.

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Revenue for the quarter ended December 31, 2007 was US$15.4 million, compared to US$13.8 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2007, representing quarter-over-quarter revenue growth of 12%.

I asked a friend of mine why she was a good boss. “I was nurturing,” she said. A big study of managers reached essentially the same conclusion: Good managers don’t try to make employees fit a pre-established box, the manager’s preconception about how to do the job. A good manager tries to encourage, to bring out, whatever strengths the employee already has. This wasn’t a philosophy or value judgment, it was what the data showed. The “good” managers were defined as the more productive ones — something like that. (My post about this.)

The reason for the study, as Veblen might say, was the need for it. Most managers failed to act this way. I posted a few days ago about a similar tendency among scientists: When faced with new data, a tendency to focus on what’s wrong with it and ignore what’s right about it. To pay far more attention to limitations than strengths. Here are two examples: