MELBOURNE, Australia, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

There is a growing popularity amongst British men and women to travel to Malaysia for surgery holidays. The decision to travel overseas is increasing at an enormous rate - leading operator Gorgeous Getaways witnessed an increase in popularity with British clients by over 200% in 2007.

The reasons for travelling to Malaysia for surgery include: 1. Price (up to 75% less than at home), 2. Quality (accredited private hospitals) 3. Service and after care (complete after care and assistance including nursing).

Privacy and getting a 5 star holiday included in the price is also an important factor.

GENEVA, Switzerland, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- First Quarter Target Agreed

Acrongenomics, Inc. (OTCBB:AGNM), the Geneva based technology development group have agreed with Molecular Vision and The Imperial Venture Fund a time line for the full acquisition of Molecular Vision. Following the initial acquisition of 10.9% of the shares of Molecular Vision announced earlier this month, it has now been agreed by all parties that the full acquisition of Molecular Vision will be completed before the end of Q1 2008.

(Publicado no jornal O Primeiro de Janeiro a 24/01/2008)
A formação paleontológica desperta frequentemente as questões que abordo.
Não foi o caso desta vez.
Estava eu em frente ao espelho, a preparar-me para a árdua e sisífica tarefa que pesa na vida de qualquer homem, o barbear, quando olhando existencialmente para as lâminas de corte me ocorreu o seguinte: “Mas estes tipos não param de aumentar o número de lâminas? Não haverá limite?”

(Publicado no jornal O Primeiro de Janeiro a 01/11/2007)
Apesar de muito desejada, a hibernação não passa de um desejo inatingível pelos humanos. Já demos por nós, várias vezes e em alturas de maior cansaço, a cobiçar dormir por vários dias. Desligar e apenas descansar. Passar pelas brasas de forma longa e continuada.
Mas a hibernação é muito mais do que um simples dormir.

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- International Cooperation Can Save Lives and Billions of Dollars

On, February 11, representatives from more than 150 countries will begin negotiations here on an historic international treaty to combat illicit trade in tobacco products - a massive global problem that undermines efforts to reduce tobacco use and save lives, helps fund organized crime and terrorist organizations, and costs governments billions in revenue.

The Framework Convention Alliance (FCA), an international alliance of more than 300 non-governmental organizations, urges countries to negotiate a strong treaty that can help reduce tobacco use and its devastating health and financial consequences around the world.

BARCELONA, Spain, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

Mobile World Congress -- OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OVTI), the world's largest supplier of CMOS image sensors, today claimed a mobile handset industry first with the introduction of the OV3642, a 1/4-inch, 3 megapixel CameraChip(TM) sensor with TrueFocus(TM) technology embedded on-chip. The fully integrated OV3642 is built with OmniVision's new OmniPixel3-HS(TM) technology which delivers double the sensitivity (960mV/Lux-sec) of other manufacturers' 1/4" 3 megapixel SOC sensors, offering best in class low light performance.

CAMBRIDGE, England and TARRYTOWN, New York, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Optimization for NEON Media Processing Extensions Halves Required Clock Cycles for Video Decode

BARCELONA, Spain, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Brazil's leading Web applications provider delivers next-generation mobile services to service providers

Simdesk Technologies today announced that Inova, Brazil's leading Web applications service provider, has integrated the SimMobile next-generation mobile services platform into its Velop messaging and collaboration solution. Inova partnered with Simdesk to bring true mobility to the Velop service it provides to Brazil's market-leading fixed and mobile telecommunications service providers, cable operators and internet service providers (ISPs).

CAMBRIDGE, England, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- All-in-One Development Tool Enables Software Design Before Silicon

ARM (LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY) today announced at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, the launch of the RealView(R) Development Suite 3.1 Professional tools that brings together four key technologies and supports the latest ARM(R) technology-based processors that power the mobile world. RealView Development Suite 3.1 Professional is designed to support the latest high-performance ARM processors, such as the Cortex(TM)-A8 processor, and includes vectorizing compilation for the NEON(TM) media processing engine which can increase the performance of multimedia applications by more than 200 percent from standard C code.

BARCELONA, Spain, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --