Rice University computer engineers have created a way to design integrated circuits that can contain many multiple 'selves.'

The chips can assume one identify or a subset of identities at a time, depending on the user's needs. New research shows that multiple "personalities" in an integrated circuit can be even a more powerful security mechanism that can be used for a variety of digital rights management tasks as well as for circuit optimization and customization without sacrificing the related power, delay and area metrics.

The technology is being unveiled today at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Anaheim and could be used for enhanced device security, content provisioning, application metering, device optimization and more.

In a bid to control greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change, the European Union has been operating the world's first system to limit and to trade carbon dioxide. Despite its hasty adoption and somewhat rocky beginning three years ago, the EU "cap-and-trade" system has operated well and has had little or no negative impact on the overall EU economy, according to an MIT analysis.

The MIT results provide both encouragement and guidance to policy makers working to design a carbon dioxide (CO2)-trading scheme for the United States and for the world. A key finding may be that everything does not have to be perfectly in place to start up similar systems.

"This important public policy experiment is not perfect, but it is far more than any other nation or set of nations has done to control greenhouse-gas emissions-and it works surprisingly well," said A. Denny Ellerman, senior lecturer in the MIT Sloan School of Management, who performed the analysis with Paul L. Joskow, the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor in the Department of Economics.

A Phase III multi-center clinical trial of HBOC-201, a hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier, manufactured by Biopure Corporation, was relatively safe in patients under 80 years old who have a moderate need for transfusion, up to the equivalent of three units of regular blood, says a study published in the June edition of the Journal of Trauma.

This study is the first Phase III trial to compare a blood substitute to regular blood and was conducted at 46 sites in the United States, Europe and South Africa.

The six-week study involved 688 patients, ages 18 and older, undergoing elective orthopedic surgery, since these procedures often have a high need for blood transfusions. Patients initially received either one unit of blood, which is about a pint, or received an equivalent one unit or 65 grams of HBOC-201.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Spb Software House, the leading Windows Mobile applications vendor, releases Spb Backup 2.0 - a tool for making reserve copies of personal data and system settings for Windows Mobile phones. Spb Backup safeguards from data loss, eliminates the pain of reinstalling applications after a hard reset, a ROM or device upgrade, and delivers a flawless restore experience. The choice of ASUS and Gigabyte, Spb Backup became the best-sold backup utility for Pocket PC in 2007. The new Spb Backup 2.0 is smarter, twice as fast, and makes moving data between Windows Mobile phones as easy as unpacking an archive.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Genmab A/S (OMX: GEN) announced today a Phase I/II study to evaluate a subcutaneous route of administration of ofatumumab (HuMax-CD20(R)) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients, stable on methotrexate will be initiated soon. The study, which will consist of two parts and include approximately 70 patients, will be conducted by GlaxoSmithKline.

"The addition of a subcutaneous method of administrating ofatumumab is a great addition to the ofatumumab development program. We hope this will in future prove to be an advantage to RA patients, who would potentially be able to administer ofatumumab on an outpatient basis," said Lisa N. Drakeman, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Genmab.

SAN MATEO, California, June 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Version 3.5 Enables High Performance, Multi-Stage Filtering to Counter Spam Attacks

Bizanga, the global company behind the most scalable and full-featured email and message processing platform, today announced the release of version 3.5 of its platform, the Intelligent Message Processor(R) (IMP).

ABBOTSFORD, Canada, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- ICS Copper Systems Ltd. (ICX:TSX.V) is pleased to announce that the Company has obtained approval from the Environmental Council of Zambia for its Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). This is a significant milestone in advancing the Mokambo property.

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pennsylvania, June 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Study of the project management profession to be focus of 13-16 July, 2008 event in Warsaw, Poland

Academicians, scholars and project management professionals from throughout the world will gather in Warsaw, Poland, on 13-16 July 2008 to hear the preliminary findings of a three year-long research study on the "Value of Project Management." Commissioned by the Project Management Institute and conducted by researchers at Athabasca University in Canada, the study will look at more than 60 case studies from a globally dispersed array of industries and will provide benchmarks for organizations to calculate the return on investment for their implementation of standardized project management programs.

WASHINGTON, June 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Jonathan Zittrain of Oxford University Delivers Keynote

CALGARY, Canada, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Addax Petroleum Corporation (TSX: AXC and LSE: AXC) ("Addax Petroleum" or the "Corporation") today made the following announcement.