LONDON, February 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- By Popular Demand - All Entries for the European Shared Services Excellence Awards May Now be Submitted Until 5pm GMT 7th March 2008

The application deadline for the European Shared Services Excellence Awards has just been extended by two weeks.

CRAWLEY, England, February 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Due to Ongoing Success, Unified Communications Specialist Expands Into New 20,000 sq ft Business-Centre Premises

Despite the predictions of economic doom in the media, ABS Network Solutions (ABSNet), IP platform and unified communication solutions provider, has announced a record 43% business growth during 2007. Due to its ever-expanding client base and the needs of its Northern operation, ABSNet is evolving its current managed, hosted and maintenance services portfolio to enhance the customer experience. Part of the expansion involves moving to a new facility in excess of 20,000 sq ft located near to Gatwick.

LONDON, February 7 /PRNewswire/ --

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Showtime A Dazzling New Fragrance by Kylie Minogue

The spotlights blaze, the music swells, there is electricity in the air ... the world is your stage. It's Showtime!

All the tingling excitement of showtime captured in a dazzling new fragrance that's the essence of fun and excitement. The exuberant, playful side of Kylie Minogue bursting onto the stage. A unique, vibrant, mesmerising distillation. An invitation to do your own thing in Kylie's inimitable, star-spangled style.

REDWOOD CITY, California and HOUSTON, February 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- New SimMobile(R) solution reinforces role of open source and standards in delivering mobile services for mass market

Funambol, the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, and Simdesk, the Software as a Service (SaaS) pioneer in messaging and collaboration, today announced a partnership to add push email and PIM synchronization to SimMobile, Simdesk's next generation mobile services platform that targets Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) and Prosumers.

STOCKHOLM, February 7 /PRNewswire/ -- TietoEnator launches a modularized Signaling Solution at the 2008 Mobile World Congress (former 3GSM World Congress) 11-14 February in Barcelona, Spain.

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The Gateway Platform from TietoEnator is a hardware and software turnkey platform solution for building signaling and/or media gateways. It allows fast and effective development of customer specific gateway solutions with carrier grade characteristics enabling inter-working between various types of telecom networks and nodes.

BOULDER, Colorado, February 7 /PRNewswire/ --

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imaging Technology international (iTi), a global designer and manufacturer of industrial inkjet systems, announces the release of the MDS 300, an ultra high precision digital system for materials deposition utilizing inkjet printhead technology. It is a highly capable system for research and pilot line production for applications in printed electronics, photovoltaics, polymers, displays, and life sciences.

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In most of western civilization, smoking rates have dropped. But in Spanish society cigarette use among women has gone up in the last 50 years.

A study carried out at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Granada has examined, both at a quantitative and a qualitative level, the reasons for the increase - and it's about men, they say.

According to the study, cigarettes have become very important for women in order to;

• face up to stress and anxiety
• control appetite and body weight
• facilitate interaction in social relations
• assert independence

In that sense, they are used as a tool to get closer to men and to get in touch with them in sexual and amorous interactions.

LONDON, February 7 /PRNewswire/ --

NeuStar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR) today announced that Vodafone has selected NeuStar as its principal partner in the rollout of mobile Instant Messaging solutions to Vodafone customers.

Vodafone has deployed NeuStar's mobile IM solutions including its Mobile Messaging Gateway and NeuStar Clients to roll out Microsoft Windows Live Messenger to customers in Portugal, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, France (via SFR), Germany and the UK. Additionally, NeuStar has also supported the launch of Yahoo! Messenger in Portugal.

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STOCKHOLM, February 7 /PRNewswire/ -- During the annual GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the patented, interactive TV device ippi is presented in the Swedish pavilion. Using mobile networks, the award winning product has the ability to convert two billion TVs worldwide into communication centres for videos, photos, voice messages and email.

The ippi has gained much interest among mobile operators all over the world. It has also been nominated for the European ICT Prize and in the prestigious Global Mobile Awards for the most innovative technology development. In October 2007 it also won the influential Swedish Embedded Price.

Transform TVs Into Communication Centres

Mount Sinai researchers have discovered that the release of blood stem cells from bone marrow is regulated by the brain through the cyclical human biological clock, via adrenergic signals transmitted by the sympathetic nervous system. These new findings, published online today on the website of the journal Nature, point out that the harvest of stem cells for transplantation may be improved by timing it at the peak of their release.

The study describes the mechanisms at the molecular levels in which signals from the biological clock in the brain are sent via the sympathetic—or "fight or flight" branch—of the nervous system, directly to bone marrow stem cell niches. Researchers, using mice as a model, were able to show the rhythmic release and peak of stem cells in circulation during the mouse’s resting period, and that changes in the light cycle or an experimental “jet lag” altered the release patterns. This is the first time a study has demonstrated that the brain regulates a stem cell niche.