IRVINE, California, May 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Extending the Ability to Build Enterprise and Web Applications, Quickly and Easily

-- Full Support for Omnis Studio on Windows Vista and Mac OS X "Leopard" -- Native Access for the Open-source PostgreSQL Database -- Greater Provision for Unicode and Foreign Character Sets -- Now Provides Access to Microsoft .NET Functionality -- Enhancements to the Omnis Version Control System (VCS)

SARATOGA, California, May 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- U.K. Hospital Streamlines Workflow and Improves Availability of IV Pumps

Ekahau Inc., a leading provider of Wi-Fi-based Real Time Location Systems (RTLS), today announced that Siemens, one of the world's largest suppliers to the healthcare industry, and Airedale NHS Trust in West Yorkshire, England, are deploying a pioneering real time location system (RTLS) based on Ekahau technology, which is designed to streamline the workflow and improve availability of intravenous (IV) pumps throughout the hospital.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company expands European and Asian footprint and extends suite of IPTV solutions into mobile video

KIT digital, Inc. (formerly ROO Group) (OTC Bulletin Board: RGRP), a global provider of IPTV enablement technology and video-centric interactive marketing solutions, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Stockholm-based Kamera Content AB. The acquisition, which abides by the terms and conditions of the previously announced Letter of Intent between the companies, significantly expands the European and Asian presence of KIT digital, while adding market-leading mobile video capabilities to its product offerings.

The human body is home to a diverse range of microorganisms, estimated to outnumber human cells in a healthy adult by ten fold. The importance of characterizing human microbiota for understanding health and disease is highlighted by the recent launch of the Human Microbiome Project by the National Institutes of Health. This report describes the investigation of healthy human skin for microbiota diversity and establishes the basis for determining a core microbiome.

The Human Microbiome Project aims to characterize the microbial communities of several regions of the body, including skin, where determining the core microbiome is essential to understanding and developing new treatments for skin conditions and diseases such as acne and atopic dermatitis (eczema).

In this study, researchers led by Dr. Julie Segre of the National Human Genome Research Institute have generated a diversity profile of human skin microbiota by sequencing 16S rRNA, a component of the prokaryotic ribosome, isolated from a specific region of skin. “We focused this study on the inner elbow to inform future clinical studies of the extremely common inflammatory skin disorder atopic dermatitis, which affects this area of the skin and is associated with Staphylococcus infections,” explains Segre.

LONDON, May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Misys plc (FTSE: MSY.L) today announced an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with IBM (NYSE: IBM), under which Misys will embed IBM DB2 data server, IBM Global Naming Recognition (GNR) and IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) software in a selection of its banking solutions. The collaboration will help banks speed up implementations whilst reducing complexities.

Under the agreement, Misys will invest resources to deliver versions of Misys Trade Portal, Misys Trade Innovation, Misys Message Manager and Misys BankFusion Universal Banking, which will be pre-integrated and optimized with DB2 and WAS. In addition, IBM's GNR software will be integrated into Misys BankFusion Universal Banking.

SAN JOSE, California, May 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- High-Speed Dual Channel Delay Line IC Features Just 5ps/Step Signal Delays, Runs At 3.2Gpbs

Micrel Inc. (Nasdaq: MCRL), an industry leader in analog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, today launched the dual channel SY89297U delay line IC. The second generation device can be serially programmed to provide just 5ns of delay per channel while running up to 3.2Gbps/1.6GHz. The delay is very linear and monotonic, providing precise delay for high-speed applications. The IC is currently available in volume with pricing starting at US$9.23 for 1K quantities. In addition, samples can now be ordered directly from the Micrel website at: http://www.micrel.com/ProductList.do

MANCHESTER, England, May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The launch of The Co-operative Insurance Sexy Green Car Show at the Eden Project in Cornwall today, (22 May) will see leading eco-insurer urge the rest of the motor insurance industry to take action and give more consideration in the claims process to repairing rather than replacing plastic components such as bumpers and bonnets following an accident.

By focussing more on the repair of parts, carbon emissions are reduced as less demand means a reduction in the amount of parts produced in factories, fewer parts are transported across the world and a smaller amount of damaged parts are transported to waste sites.

In investigating the intricacies of the body’s biological rhythms, scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have discovered the existence of a “food-related clock” which can supercede the “light-based” master clock that serves as the body’s primary timekeeper.

The findings, which appear in the May 23 issue of Science, help explain how animals adapt their circadian rhythms in order to avoid starvation, and suggest that by adjusting eating schedules, humans too can better cope with changes in time zones and nighttime schedules that leave them feeling groggy and jet-lagged.

“For a small mammal, finding food on a daily basis is a critical mission,” explains the study’s senior author Clifford Saper, MD, PhD, Chairman of the Department of Neurology at BIDMC and James Jackson Putnam Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. “Even a few days of starvation is a common threat in natural environments and may result in the animal’s death.”

It isn't just people. Marine bacteria also organize into professions or lifestyle groups that partition many resources rather than competing for them. Microbes with one lifestyle, such as free-floating cells, flourish in proximity with closely related microbes that may spend life attached to zooplankton or algae.

This new information about microbial groups and the methodology behind it could change the way scientists approach the classification of microbes by making it possible to determine on a large scale, relatively speaking, the genetic basis for ecological niches. Microbes drive almost all chemical reactions in the ocean; it’s important to identify the specific professions held by different groups.

“This is the first method to accurately differentiate the ecological niche or profession among large groups of microbes in the ocean,” said Professor Martin Polz, a microbiologist in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He and colleague Professor Eric Alm, a computational biologist, published a paper describing their research in the May 23 issue of Science.

TREVIGNANO, Italy, May 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Finjan's Vital Security(TM) Product Suite, Using Active Real-Time Content Inspection Technology, Prevents Malicious Content From Entering Lotto's Corporate Networks to Steal Valuable Data

Lotto Sport Italia, a leading Italian sportswear company, has deployed Finjan's award-winning Secure Web Gateway to secure its infrastructure and data at its headquarters in Tevignano, Italy, soon to be followed at its four other branches. As well as protecting its corporate network and data, Lotto Sport Italia is also minimizing loss of productivity due to Crimeware attacks.