LONDON, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- FIS Software is pleased to announce that Columbian Financial Group (CFG) in Binghamton, NY has selected ALIS as its strategic policy administration platform. CFG will utilise ALIS to support its new business initiatives as well as its in-force policies. ALIS will administer the insurer's complete product offering including participating and non-participating whole life, pre-need, final expense, universal life, annuities and worksite.

BASINGSTOKE, England and PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY, TSX: SHQ), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announces the release on March 25, 2008, of ordinary shares of 5 pence in the capital of Shire plc ("Shares") in connection with the Shire Long Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP").

In accordance with the rules of the LTIP, the following Shares were released:

Name of PDMR Number of Shares Released Mr M Emmens 75,408 Mr A Russell 46,634 Ms T May 30,746 Mr J Rus 23,365 Ms A Graham 18,843

OXFORD, England, March 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- Safety-Engineered Catheter Specially Designed to Help Minimize Risk of Transmitting Bloodborne Pathogens

BD Medical, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), today announced that the BD Venflon(TM) Pro Safety IV Catheter earned a "red dot: best of the best" product design award in the prestigious international competition, that included more than 3,203 submissions from 51 countries, sponsored by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany.

LAS VEGAS, March 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company Initiates Litigation to Prohibit Team Gordon from Associating Itself with Vanguard Trademarks -

Vanguard Integrity Professionals, Inc. announced today that on Jan. 30, 2008 it terminated its sponsorship of Team Gordon, Inc. for the 2008, 2009 and 2010 Dakar Rallies.

On Jan. 4, 2008, the Dakar Rally 2008 was cancelled by the Amaury Sport Organization (ASO) due to threats of terrorist attacks by al Qaeda against the Rally and its participants.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina, March 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- Wireless carriers can now fully embrace Wi-Fi connected devices with smartphones offering high-speed data connections to laptops, and other internet devices

TapRoot Systems Inc., a leading developer of software for the smartphone market, today announced its WalkingHotSpot(TM) solution for wireless carriers.

TapRoot's patent-pending software transforms a Wi-Fi enabled smartphone into a hotspot providing access to 3G data networks. The solution is the first in a series of products allowing wireless subscribers to enhance their smartphones for internet connectivity.

LONDON, March 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- British Businesses are Losing GBP250 a Second in Costs and Payouts for Needless Accidents in the Workplace

Millions of British men and women are at risk at work today because of a lack of safety training, the biggest survey ever carried out by the British Safety Council (BSC) has revealed. BSC bosses were shocked to find that half of all employers (51%) had not even bothered to offer training, despite the fact that they could be saving billions of pounds in payouts and costs. One worker is still being killed every working day and one person is injured almost every minute(1).

LONDON, March 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Partnership With MSN Provides Customers With Expanded Selection on MSN Shopping UK

PriceGrabber.co.uk(TM), a part of Experian(R), today announced a relationship with MSN Shopping in the United Kingdom to deliver an increased selection of products to consumers via MSN's shopping channel.

Hundreds of thousands of product offers and deals supplied by PriceGrabber.co.uk will enhance the overall shopping experience for MSN Shopping users in categories such as appliances, clothing, consumer electronics, health & beauty, and cameras. PriceGrabber.co.uk also will provide product reviews and merchant ratings to enable the user to find the right product, at the right price, from the right seller.

AUSTIN, Texas, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Ringdale, Inc., a technology leader in network enhancing connectivity solutions, is now shipping the ModuLAN(R) DocuSender(TM) appliance to distribution channel partners worldwide.

DocuSender is a unique business solution that allows hard copy documents to be scanned directly from a USB scanner to an e-mail address or fax line. When a document is sent as an e-mail, each page of the document is scanned as an image and arrives in the e-mail inbox as separate GIF file attachments.

Ringdale's ModuLAN devices are aimed at organizations moving toward a paperless office. DocuSender compliments the ModuLAN FaxReceiver(TM), which converts incoming faxes into e-mails and sends them directly to an inbox without using a PC.

ARNHEM, The Netherlands, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consultancy, design and engineering company, today announced that it has signed a three-year global contract to provide environmental consultancy services to Akzo Nobel - a leading global paint and chemical company. The work related to this contract will be performed in at least 12 countries in Europe, North- and South America as well as Asia. Under this contract, ARCADIS will become one of only two selected global environmental consultants to Akzo Nobel.

LOS ANGELES, March 26 /PRNewswire/ --

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