REDWOOD SHORES, California and LONDON, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Merced Systems Assumes Leadership Position in the Sales and Service Performance Management Market, Providing Analytic Applications to Critical Customer-Facing Operations

SAN DIEGO, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

ChemDiv announced today the continuation of multi-year collaboration with Schering Plough Corporation. In the framework of this collaboration ChemDiv will provide Schering Plough with a set of chemical libraries that will be produced through parallel synthesis based on the customer selected templates. In accordance with the agreement teams of ChemDiv and Schering Plough scientists will work closely to develop exclusive small molecule libraries enhancing Schering Plough's global drug discovery effort. Further details and financial terms were not disclosed.

HOUSTON and OSLO, Norway, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Collaboration Improves Productivity and Data Quality for Offshore Seismic Operations

ION Geophysical Corporation (NYSE: IO) and Fugro-Geoteam announced today their ongoing collaboration to deploy state-of-the-art streamer acquisition technologies. As a company committed to providing a technical edge to its oil & gas company customers, Fugro has begun to outfit its modern seismic fleet with three advanced technologies from ION's Intelligent Acquisition(TM) [IA] portfolio:

OTTAWA, Canada, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Bridgewater to Deploy Integrated Solution to Help Verizon Wireless Manage Data Services Delivery

Bridgewater Systems (TSX: BWC) today announced that it has been awarded a three-year contract to supply Verizon Wireless with a fully integrated subscriber data management and service control solution for its award-winning network. The agreement will result in an initial value of approximately CND$30 million.

The integrated solution combines Bridgewater's carrier-grade software with third-party hardware and software, and services to provide the performance, capacity, scalability and resiliency needed to support data services delivery. Bridgewater expects to begin delivering the solution in the fourth quarter of 2008.

SAN JOSE, California, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Solution Provides More Flexibility, Less Costly Option

CALGARY, Canada, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company Achieves Important Milestone in Development of Next Generation Cardiovascular Drug

LOS ANGELES, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

The release of a World Health Organization/UNAIDS/UNICEF report on Monday documents appreciable global progress in the effort to deliver lifesaving antiretroviral treatment (ARVs) to people living with HIV/AIDS in developing countries; however, it also underscores the crucial need to maintain a focus on scaling up and providing lifesaving antiretroviral treatment in programs like PEPFAR (the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) notes AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF).

TUCSON, Arizona, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

You can lose 6.8 kg (15 lbs), 68 kg (150 lbs) and more, or even gain weight if you are below your ideal weight according to a new weight management system designed by Michael Dow, a new author.

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Dow says anyone can learn to manage their weight with this diet. It's described in The Pen and Paper Diet and available at http://stores.lulu.com/thepenandpaperdiet.

"The Pen and Paper Diet is based on the known fact that your body requires a certain amount of calories to maintain a certain weight. If a person consumes excess calories, then fat is produced and a person's weight increases," says Dow.

Cameron Alexander and George Pasparakis at the University of Nottingham have been able to facilitate a conversation between bacterial cells and artificial polymer vesicles by way of sugar groups on the vesicle surface.

For an organism to develop and function, the individual cells must exchange information, or communicate, with each other. Is it possible to learn their language and "talk to" the cells?

Apparently so. In the journal Angewandte Chemie Alexander and Pasparakis report that this first communication occurred by way of sugar groups on the vesicle surface. The vesicles subsequently transfer information to the cells—in the form of dye molecules.

LONDON, June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- With the increased size in datacentres, a direct repercussion on ordinary power consumption can easily be predicted*. Additionally unnecessary hardware upgrades means old plastic harmfully entering into the environment as waste. To counter this impact, IT administrators need to find sustainability solutions in both energy consumption and solid waste.