BARCELONA, Spain, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Accenture to Work With Affinity Mobile to Drive Market Strategy

Affinity Mobile, LLC, a provider of mobile financial services, announced today the global commercial availability of their MADE platform. MADE enables secure mobile wallet, mobile money transfers and mobile payment capabilities to all sectors that engage in secure financial transactions such as mobile network operators, retail merchants and financial institutions. With MADE, mobile operators have the ability to deploy mobile financial services and offer these services to their customers.

BARCELONA, Spain, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Orange, L'Equipe, Boursier.com and Autonews are among new mobile publishers and operators to choose Microsoft's mobile ad platform.

Today at Mobile World Congress 2008, Microsoft Corp announced that several major European mobile publishers, including L'Equipe, Boursier.com and Autonews in France, are choosing Microsoft's mobile ad platform. In addition, Orange, a leading mobile operator in Spain, has chosen Microsoft as its ad serving partner for mobile display advertising in Spain.

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BARCELONA, Spain, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Glanceable MSN Direct content, including news, weather and stocks, can be accessed from the home screen of Windows Mobile devices.

Today at Mobile World Congress 2008, Microsoft Corp announced the availability of a technology preview for accessing MSN Direct content on Windows Mobile-based devices.

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ROUSSET, France and VELIZY, France, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), announced today that the recent Payment Card Industry (PCI) and EMV approvals of Thales' Artema S10 PIN Pad is the result of a long-term collaboration between the two companies. Thales' Artema S10 PIN pad, which combines high performance with high security, is powered by Atmel's AT91SO101, belonging to the AT91SO family of secure microcontrollers for highly secure systems such as card payment terminals.

SUNNYVALE, California, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Professional Programming Drives U.S. Growth for Largest Mobile Video Destination

Today mywaves, the largest mobile video destination, announced that its popular mobile video service has reached more than 18 million mobile phones around the world. This marks a dramatic increase in adoption, particularly in the U.S. where mywaves has seen a 70% increase in month-over-month usage since last fall. With more than 5 million monthly unique visitors seeking branded, professional programming to watch on their mobile phones, mywaves has quickly built one of the largest and most engaged mobile audiences.

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AUSTIN, Texas, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Development language supports Introspection, delivering on the most requested enhancement from users

REAL Software, maker of REALbasic, a cross-platform development environment for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux developers, has begun shipping REALbasic 2008 Release 1. The latest version includes introspection, which has been most highly requested feature from the user community in recent years.

"Adding introspection to our object-oriented language provides developers with a powerful tool," stated Geoff Perlman, President and CEO of REAL Software. "With this new capability our users will be more productive and their applications will be more dynamic and adaptable."

MELBOURNE, Australia, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

There is a growing popularity amongst British men and women to travel to Malaysia for surgery holidays. The decision to travel overseas is increasing at an enormous rate - leading operator Gorgeous Getaways witnessed an increase in popularity with British clients by over 200% in 2007.

The reasons for travelling to Malaysia for surgery include: 1. Price (up to 75% less than at home), 2. Quality (accredited private hospitals) 3. Service and after care (complete after care and assistance including nursing).

Privacy and getting a 5 star holiday included in the price is also an important factor.

GENEVA, Switzerland, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- First Quarter Target Agreed

Acrongenomics, Inc. (OTCBB:AGNM), the Geneva based technology development group have agreed with Molecular Vision and The Imperial Venture Fund a time line for the full acquisition of Molecular Vision. Following the initial acquisition of 10.9% of the shares of Molecular Vision announced earlier this month, it has now been agreed by all parties that the full acquisition of Molecular Vision will be completed before the end of Q1 2008.

(Publicado no jornal O Primeiro de Janeiro a 24/01/2008)
A formação paleontológica desperta frequentemente as questões que abordo.
Não foi o caso desta vez.
Estava eu em frente ao espelho, a preparar-me para a árdua e sisífica tarefa que pesa na vida de qualquer homem, o barbear, quando olhando existencialmente para as lâminas de corte me ocorreu o seguinte: “Mas estes tipos não param de aumentar o número de lâminas? Não haverá limite?”

(Publicado no jornal O Primeiro de Janeiro a 01/11/2007)
Apesar de muito desejada, a hibernação não passa de um desejo inatingível pelos humanos. Já demos por nós, várias vezes e em alturas de maior cansaço, a cobiçar dormir por vários dias. Desligar e apenas descansar. Passar pelas brasas de forma longa e continuada.
Mas a hibernação é muito mais do que um simples dormir.