LONDON, June 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Film and Broadcast Industries Must Capitalise on Opportunities for Archived Media Content

Newly-formed digital media expert AmberFin, home of the Emmy award-winning iCR software that digitises new and archived content, today predicts that the film and broadcast industry could be losing out on valuable new revenue streams through failing to make the best use of existing archived content.

The boom in consumer demand for high-quality content on multiple platforms means that content owners now need to be prepared to repurpose content for devices ranging from internet to VoD, TV and small screen devices. By not doing so they are missing out on new opportunities for increasing revenues.

PARIS, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that Sunrise, the second largest telecommunications provider in Switzerland, is outsourcing the operation of its mobile, fixed and data networks to Alcatel-Lucent as of August 1, 2008. By entrusting Alcatel-Lucent with its network, Sunrise will be able to ensure the long-term high quality deployment and management of the network as well as significantly save operational costs. The contract includes the transfer of 290 employees. The value of the agreement is approximately 340 million euros over 7 years, depending on the final scope of the project.

LONDON, June 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Premier Electronics in China, Part of the Global Premier Farnell Group, Will be Donating a Portion of its web Sales to aid in Relief Efforts While Employees Worldwide Raise Additional Funds Which the Company will Match

Premier Farnell plc (LSE:pfl), the leading multi-channel, high service distributor supporting millions of engineers and purchasing professionals globally, has launched a global campaign to raise funds to help survivors of the 12th of May earthquake in China.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, June 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- 115 Embassies and Consulates in 95 Countries Unite Under Verizon Private IP

The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has chosen Verizon Business to consolidate its global communications over a single IP network. Through its fully managed Verizon Private IP solution, the company will provide a secure, centralised communications infrastructure for the ministry's employees around the world, helping to reduce administration and provide cost efficiencies. The ministry has also deployed video conferencing over the network, enabling employees to collaborate from wherever they are based.

LONDON, June 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Alderney Licensees to Join the Leading Skill Games Network

MILPITAS, California, June 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Pre-integrated and best-in-class software tools help deliver faster and more accurate cluster deployment

Appro (http://www.appro.com), a leading provider of high-performance enterprise computing systems today announced that Xtreme-X1 Supercomputer is Intel Cluster Ready Certified. The Intel(R) Cluster Ready certification solution uses an automated and systematic diagnostic tool methodology to enable Independent Software Vendor (ISV) applications to run across certified cluster platforms providing an outstanding out-of-the-box experience.

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LEUVEN, Belgium and LUND, Sweden, June 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Approval Also Received to Start Second Repeat-Dose Phase I Study in Patients With Advanced Cancer

ThromboGenics NV (Euronext Brussels: THR) and co-development partner BioInvent International AB (Nordic Exchange: BINV) today reported that the results from the first Phase l study of novel anti-cancer agent TB-403 showed that it is safe and well tolerated, with pharmacokinetic properties enabling it to be developed for the treatment of cancer. The companies also announced that they have received approval from the regulatory authorities in Denmark to initiate a second repeat-dose Phase I clinical trial of TB-403 in patients with advanced solid tumors.

A new study by Yan Zhang at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Management seeks to determine why CEOs leave the job after a short period. Of the 204 company leaders Zhang studied from 1993 to 1998, 55 (27 percent) left their jobs within three years.

Is it an alarming statistic? Not really. According to the 2005 Hudson report (1), 36 percent of employees expect to leave within three years, though most of them are likely unhappy with pay and benefits, something CEOs don't share.

Zhang doesn't factor in competition from other companies and the specific nature of Sarbanes-Oxley that make competition for risk-takers more prevalent, namely that signing a company document in today's business climate can send you to jail.

Getting an accurate picture of information and people is difficult. If you start counting people in China today, by the time you finish there are a lot more. Ditto with information. So you may get only a snapshot accurate to milliseconds.

But researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have announced a new study to quantify the amounts and kinds of information being produced worldwide by businesses and consumers alike.

The “How Much Information?” study will be completed by a multi-disciplinary, multi-university faculty team supported by corporate and foundation sponsorship. The program will be undertaken at the Global Information Industry Center (GIIC) at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS), with support from the Jacobs School of Engineering and the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Disinfectants are routinely used on hard surfaces in hospitals to kill bacteria, with antimicrobial containing wipes increasingly being employed for this purpose.

A study by the University's Welsh School of Pharmacy looked into the ability of antimicrobial-surface wipes to remove, kill and prevent the spread of such infections as MRSA. They found that current protocols utilized by hospital staff have the potential to spread pathogens, particularly due to the ineffectiveness of wipes to actually kill bacteria.

The team, led by microbiologist Dr Jean-Yves Maillard is now calling for a 'one wipe – one application – per surface' approach to infection control in healthcare environments.