LONDON, June 10 /PRNewswire/ --

LONDON CALLING 2008 (19-20 June, Earls Court, London) is the UK's largest music industry trade exhibition and conference, in association with AIM, WIN and Impala. London Calling brings together 3,500 senior buyers and influencers from the music, mobile and digital industries, including major labels, operators, digital distributors, independent labels, artists, publishers, management, manufacturers, promoters, live agents and more. More UK music companies attend London Calling than any other global music trade event.

Book your delegate places now at www.londoncalling2008.com

To book your ticket, please contact Zak Newton on +44-(0)207-960-4341 or znewton@cmpi.biz

BERN, Switzerland, June 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Connecting ISDN phones to any VoIP system, the award-winning SmartNode S-DTA is the only two-call VoIP CPE on the market suitable for carrier-network deployment.

Patton-Inalp Networks -- creator of the SmartNode brand of industry-leading VoIP technology solutions -- announces their award-winning SmartNode Smart-Digital Telephone Adapter (S-DTA) is fully released and generally available.

NEW YORK, June 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Features Represent a Major Milestone in the Maturity of CEP Technology

StreamBase Systems, Inc. today announced the release of StreamBase version 6.0, the latest version of their award-winning complex event processing (CEP) software platform. StreamBase(R) version 6.0 is the first CEP platform to deliver critical features that enables enterprise-class development, testing, and deployment features. These features further advance StreamBase's lead as the easiest and most reliable environment to build, test, debug, profile, and provision CEP applications.

STOCKHOLM, June 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Experience a Football Game on TV Like you Were Playing Yourself

Never mind if you haven't been picked for the Euro 2008 football tournament - soon we'll all be able to play like football stars such as the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Fredrik Ljungberg.

Using a state-of-the-art visualisation technology developed by researchers at the Royal College of Technology in Stockholm, anyone will be able to pass as a football pro within a few years' time. You'll be able to squeeze past your opponents running down the pitch, or put yourself in the position of the opposing team - all at the same time as the game is being played live on your TV screen.

LONDON, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The Government has today (Tuesday 10 June) announced a new National Strategy for Carers, which promises to double the amount spent on respite care over two years.

Reacting to the news, Chris Evans of the MS Society has responsibility for the charity's four respite centres and said that any new investment in respite care was always welcome but also urged caution.

He added: "The strategy is a step forward for carers and an extra GBP150million investment in respite care sounds good, but comes with the assumption that the current system is working well.

NEW YORK and LONDON, June 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- 78 Percent of Respondents State They are Re-Evaluating Data Management Technology to Manage Complex Products More Effectively

IRVINE, California and LONDON, June 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- TCB to Localize Application Jukebox for Japanese Enterprise Market

Endeavors Technologies, the pioneer in application streaming and virtualization technology, and its parent company, Tadpole Technology plc, today announced a distribution agreement with TCB Technologies. Under the agreement, TCB will serve as a primary enterprise distribution partner for Endeavors in Japan and will also translate Application Jukebox for the Japanese market.

FRIMLEY, England, June 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Andreas J. Goss has Been Appointed Chief Executive of Siemens in the UK and North West Europe.

Andreas J. Goss, who has been Chief Financial Officer in the UK since April 2006, will take on the role with immediate effect. Andreas J. Goss first joined Siemens in 1985 and held a number of management assignments within Siemens in the USA and Germany before his position as CFO of Siemens plc in the UK. Besides his role at Siemens, Goss is also a member of the Economic Affairs Committee of the Confederation of British Industry.

Horst J. Kayser, the current chief executive, is leaving Siemens to pursue a new career as chief executive at KUKA AG, Augsburg (Germany).

LONDON, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Unite the union today urged oil giants Shell to stop sitting on its hands and act to avert the four day strike by tanker drivers set to begin this Friday, June 13th, 2008.

Unite assistant general secretary Len McCluskey said today (Tuesday): "Only Shell sets the terms of this contract and only it can solve this dispute. This is one of the most profitable companies on earth and it now needs to provide the financial flexibility to avert this dispute.

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- As increasing numbers of consumers look for fuel-efficient, low emission vehicle options, a test fleet of Ford Escape plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) is making its way on the road today. Powered by lithium-ion batteries from Johnson Controls-Saft, the demonstration fleet will examine the future of PHEVs as part of a complete vehicle, home and grid energy system. The fleet is the result of an ongoing collaboration among Ford, Johnson Controls-Saft, Southern California Edison (SCE) and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).