STOCKHOLM, Sweden and TORONTO, Canada, January 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- GuestLogix Allows Passengers on Thirty-Minute Flights to Benefit From its On-Board Full Retail Service Capability

The Skyways Group today entered into a multi-year agreement with Canadian company GuestLogix (TSX-V:GXI), for the provision of their Mobile Virtual Store(TM) on-board technology, that includes wireless POS devices and application service to assist Skyways' attendants with on-board sales transactions and enhance Skyways' in-flight service. The deal was secured in co-operation with Klarago AB, a Swedish airline caterer and wholly owned subsidiary of the Compass Group Plc (LSE:CPG.L).

SUNNYVALE, California, January 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Latest Chip Extends Market Reach with Support of Global Broadcast Standards

Telegent Systems, the company that makes television mobile with its high-performance single-chip mobile TV solutions, announced that it has now shipped five million units of its leading free-to-air mobile TV receiver. With volume production shipments beginning less than nine months ago, this dramatic ramp in demand underscores the importance of free and familiar content in driving consumer uptake of mobile TV. The company also announced availability of its latest chip, the industry's first single-chip CMOS mobile TV receiver delivering global support for free-to-air NTSC, PAL and SECAM TV and FM stereo broadcasts.

MANCHESTER, England, January 29 /PRNewswire/ -- School pupils are shunning school toilets which have become no go areas because they're either closed, dirty or unfit for purpose!

That's according to industry voice, the British Cleaning Council (BCC) which is throwing its weight behind the Bog Standard(i) campaign, which aims to promote better toilets for pupils.

Steve Wright, Chairman of the BCC said: "It's been brought to our attention that clean, safe, equipped and accessible toilets are becoming high on children's wish lists - but many UK schools are failing to provide this. Children are just as entitled as adults to clean toilet facilities - poor hygiene in loos can lead to increased infections such as bacterial diarrhoea and Hepatitis A."

BOSTON and TEL AVIV, Israel, January 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Disaster Recovery Management (DRM) Solution Finalist in Backup and Disaster Recovery Software Category

Continuity Software(TM), a leading provider of Disaster Recovery Management (DRM) solutions, today announced that its RecoverGuard(TM) software has been named a finalist for the SearchStorage.com and Storage magazine 2007 Storage Products of the Year Award, in the Backup and Disaster Recovery Software category. The finalists, chosen by the industry's leading analyst experts and the editors of SearchStorage.com and Storage magazine, were judged in the areas of innovation, performance, ease of integration, manageability and functionality.

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While California has basic tracking system architecture in place to allow the state’s educators to closely follow the progress of students from kindergarten to post-secondary education, officials must overcome political and financial barriers, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today.

The study shows that by developing such a data system -- known as a “student unit record” data system -- California policymakers and educators will be better equipped to create policies and adopt changes that decrease student dropout rates, encourage a smoother transition from secondary to post-secondary education and increase student retention in college.

Despite being the nation’s most populous state, California lags much of the country in tracking and the study finds that California would need to overcome a number of challenges to integrate a student unit record system, such as eliminating the protective mindset that each of the state’s four education segments has developed.

PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, January 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Patent and Trademark Researchers Have Instant Access to the World's Largest In-House Inventory

Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, today announced that research professionals can now order file histories directly through patent and trademark databases on Dialog(R), giving researchers the complete information on a patent or trademark in one place.

A group of the world's leading sequencing centers have announced plans to sequence 1000 human genomes. The cost of the first human genome project was about $3 billion; by comparison, the next 1000 will be a steal at possibly only $50 million dollars (and that's total cost, not per genome). But that's still a lot of money - why are we investing so much in sequencing genomes? It may be a lot up front, but the benefits, in terms of both economics and medical research, easily outweigh the cost of such a large project. By pooling sequencing resources and making large amounts of genome sequence data available up front, we can avoid inefficient and redundant sequencing efforts by groups of independent research groups trying discover gene variants involved in disease. In fact, it would probably be worthwhile to sequence 10,000 human genomes. With 1000 genomes, we're at least making a good start.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, January 29 /PRNewswire/ --

Concentric Medical, Inc. announced today that it has obtained regulatory clearance for its Merci(R) L4 and Merci L6 Retrievers in the European Union. These new Retrievers, released in the United States in 2007, join the existing Merci Retrievers(R) already on the market in Europe, and provide physicians with additional choices in their efforts to restore blood flow in ischemic stroke patients.

Prairie voles, aka Microtus ochrogaster, are common native rodents in the central U.S. and southern Canada. Because they mate for life and are relatively easy to study, the mouse-like creatures have been the subject of much research by scientists probing questions of monogamy and sexual faithfulness among mammals.

Steve Phelps, an assistant professor of zoology and one of the paper’s three authors, said many male voles pick a female partner and settle in a territory — often for life. A minority, however, shirks steady partners and home bases, instead ranging across other males’ turf and mating with other males’ females.

PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, January 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Latest Version Offers Most Complete Submission Linking Capabilities

Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, today announced the availability of InSight Publisher(R) 3.6. The latest version of InSight Publisher adds intuitive hyperlinking and cross-reference management to its enhanced functionality set. Since its release in 2006, InSight Publisher has been enabling pharmaceutical companies to create, manage and publish regulatory submissions in both paper and electronic format using a single software application.