BARCELONA, Spain, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Product Brings the Power of a Local Guide to Mobile Devices

Mobile World Congress 2008 booth #1G45 -- NAVTEQ (NYSE: NVT), a leading global provider of digital maps for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions announces the global launch of NAVTEQ Discover Cities(TM) which is the first bundled digital map data and location content to bring the power of a local guide to mobile devices. The product is now available for major cities in Europe, with plans in place to expand to major Asian and Latin American cities later in the year in addition to multiple existing North American cities.

BARCELONA, Spain, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Solutions Enable Customizable Web-based, Print and Mobile Maps for Destinations, Events and Venues

Mobile World Congress 2008, booth #1G45 -- NAVTEQ Corporation, (NYSE: NVT), a leading global provider of digital map data for location-based solutions and vehicle navigation, announced today from Mobile World Congress 2008 that it is now offering its Map Network(R) maps and location content solutions in Europe. Destinations, events and venues throughout Europe can now partner with NAVTEQ to create and market accurate customized maps and dynamic event guides of their locations in web-based and print formats. Map Network maps and content solutions are also enabled for integration into mobile devices.

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- Konka Utilizes Telegent's TLG1100 to Deliver Live, Familiar Television Programming to Mobile Phones

Telegent Systems, the company that makes television mobile with its high-performance single-chip mobile TV solutions, and Konka Group, a leading Chinese manufacturer of mobile phones and television sets, announced that they have teamed to deliver mobile handsets with free-to-air TV. Konka's handsets are set to ship globally during the second quarter of 2008 and will allow consumers to receive the live, familiar television programming that they normally view at home while they are on the go.

A University of Alberta study recommends that workers on pig farms be monitored as part of influenza pandemic preparedness, after a child on a communal farm in Canada was diagnosed with swine flu in 2006.

Though the seven-month-old boy made a full recovery, health researchers were concerned because of evidence that the virus spread to other members of the multi-family community, who, fortunately, all demonstrated mild or no apparent illness. It has been known for a long time that avian and swine strains of flu can spread to humans, with avian strains appearing to be more dangerous than swine strains; as of late 2007, the avian flu had killed 194 people in 321 cases reported worldwide.

“What does the body of a professor share with a blob?” Neil Shubin answers this and other questions about the evolutionary history of our anatomy in Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into The 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Pantheon, 2008).

As an undergraduate student considering a research career in science, I once endured a 7 AM human anatomy course. In my semi-conscious state, breathing the slightly disturbing fumes of the preservative that the teaching assistant kept spraying on the cadavers, I was thinking, ‘this is morbidly fascinating, but really not that relevant to what scientists do today.’

If Neil Shubin had been teaching my anatomy course, I wouldn’t have struggled to get out of bed and make it to class on time. His book is a fun, compelling tour of the evolutionary history of the human body, filled with dozens of examples that nicely illustrate why our anatomy only makes real sense when it is understood in the context of evolution.

If you live in Pennsylvania, it's West Virginia. If you live in California, it's every 'red state' in the Union. No matter where you live, some nearby state is the butt of inbreeding jokes.

Well, those places you make fun of for having an evolutionary tree that's a straight line are also having the last laugh, it seems.

In a new paper, deCODE scientists establish 'a substantial and consistent positive correlation between the kinship of couples and the number of children and grandchildren they have.'

Counterintuitive? Sure, from an evolutionary perspective closely-related parents have a higher probability of having offspring homozygous for deleterious recessive mutations, but closer parental kinship can also decrease the likelihood of immunological incompatibility between mother and offspring, for example in rhesus factor blood type.

If you just got done reading our previous article, Digestive Reflex May Mean Artificial Sweeteners End Up Causing Weight Gain, it may seem confusing that we now have an article saying artificial sweeteners help with weight loss. Welcome to the world of neuroscience. We just report the data.

In this case, a recent review of scientific literature concluded that low-calorie (or no-calorie) sweeteners may be of help in resolving the obesity problem. Although they are not magic bullets, low-calorie sweeteners in beverages and foods can help people reduce their calorie (energy) intakes.

“Low-calorie sweeteners reduce the energy of most beverages to zero and lower the energy density of many foods,” said study co-author, Dr. Adam Drewnowski, Director, Center for Public Health Nutrition at the University of Washington. “Every dietary guideline these days tells us to bulk up, hydrate, and consume foods with fewer calories but more volume.”

If you want to lose weight, diet soft drinks are not the answer, according to findings in the February issue of Behavioral Neuroscience.

Psychologists at Purdue University’s Ingestive Behavior Research Center say the widespread use of no-calorie sweeteners may actually make it harder for people to control their intake and body weight.

The researchers reported that, relative to rats that ate yogurt sweetened with glucose (a simple sugar with 15 calories/teaspoon, the same as table sugar), rats given yogurt sweetened with zero-calorie saccharin later consumed more calories, gained more weight, put on more body fat, and didn’t make up for it by cutting back later, all at levels of statistical significance.

A single figure graces the pages of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work On the Origin of Species, first published in 1859. The figure in question depicts a tree-like sequence of branchings through time as hypothetical lineages diverge and new species arise. To be sure, the metaphor of a tree was important in Darwin's thinking about the history of life. He wrote in the Origin,

BARCELONA, Spain, February 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- First Windows Mobile phone from Sony Ericsson offers a premium consumer and business experience.

Today at Mobile World Congress 2008, Microsoft Corp announced that Sony Ericsson will deliver a new Windows Mobile phone XPERIA(TM) X1, which blends mobile web communication and multimedia entertainment, to meet consumer demand for a premium mobile experience for work and play.

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