LONDON, July 1 /PRNewswire/ --

The Frost Sullivan 2009 European Gastroenterology Technology Implementation of the Year Award, is presented to Ireland-based Crospon for successfully using the impedance planimetry technique in its novel EndoFLIP(R) (endoluminal functional lumen imaging probe) imaging system.

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With EndoFLIP(R), Crospon has addressed the urgent need for a clinically acceptable diagnostic platform targeting gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), states Frost Sullivan Research Analyst Prasanna Vadhana Kannan. This integrated solution facilitates real-time imaging of the lower oesophageal sphincter in less than ten minutes.

CAMBRIDGE, England, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- According to independent consumer website Broadband Genie, downloading one television show via mobile broadband while abroad on holiday could cost more than the rest of the trip combined. As the summer holidays get into full swing, Broadband Genie is keen to remind travellers the cost of using mobile broadband dongles abroad can be incredibly expensive.

Many family holidays cost under GBP2,000 - less than the cost of downloading an episode of your favourite crime drama or sitcom outside of the EU. The stark reality is some mobile broadband habits you have at home equate to bank breakers once you leave the country.

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- MoBank Supported by Managed Hosting Platform From NTT Europe Online

LONDON, July 1 /PRNewswire/ --

NTT Europe Online is providing a bespoke hosting platform for a new mobile banking service, MoBank, which launches on 6th July 2009. MoBank - the brainchild of ex First Direct and Egg bankers, Steve Townend and Dominic Keen - is a brand new service that works with your existing bank account to let you buy and pay for items using your mobile phone.

DUSSELDORF, Germany, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Gerresheimer AG, a leading manu­facturer of glass and plastic products for the pharma life science industry, has sold its Technical Plastics operations, which are not part of the MDAX company's core business, to the FBH Group, Bad Soden, Germany. Through the sale of the Technical Plastics segment Gerresheimer has - as formerly announced - taken a further step in its focus on the core business of pharma life science, says Dr. Axel Herberg, CEO of Gerresheimer AG.

LONDON, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the challenging 'launch mission' set by New York Times best-selling author GP Taylor, the next in Renaissance Learning's 'Quest for Knowledge' has been devised by Young Samurai author Chris Bradford, and launches 1st July 2009.

This month's mission is set in Japan and draws on UK primary and secondary school pupils' creative skills and powers of deduction. The winner will receive an exclusive Young Samurai pack, which features some fantastic goodies - including a rare signed proof copy of Young Samurai: The Way of the Warrior.

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The list of locations around the world having experienced terrorist attacks on luxury hotels is growing fast: Netanya in Israel, Jakarta in Indonesia, Taba and Sharm al-Sheikh in Egypt, Sana'a in Yemen, Amman in Jordan, Islamabad in Pakistan, Mumbai in India in November 2008 and last month, Peshawar in Pakistan. Each of these events points to the same major vulnerability that exists in the high-end hotel sector, not just in global terrorism hot spots, but also closer to home, where possible copycat attacks have been predicted, and highlights the urgent need for major security improvements.

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- Establish International 'Center of Excellence' for Gas

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NEW YORK, July 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- New York-based Computer Generated Solutions, Inc. has been recognized for its leadership, strategic expansion, and growth in Romania over the past two years. CGS services include inbound customer support, outbound sales and marketing, and outsourced back-office processes.

On television, police technicians zoom in on a security camera video to read a license plate or capture the face of a hold-up artist but, in real life, enhancing this low-quality video to focus in on important clues hasn't been an easy task.

It just got a little easier.   Prof. Leonid Yaroslavsky of Tel Aviv University and colleagues have developed a new video "perfection tool" to help investigators enhance raw video images. Commissioned by a defense-related company to improve what the naked eye cannot see, the tool can be used with live video or with recordings, in color or black-and-white. 

The rain band near the equator that determines the supply of freshwater to nearly a billion people throughout the tropics and subtropics has been creeping north for more than 300 years,  according to research published in Nature Geoscience. 

If the band continues to migrate at just less than a mile (1.4 kilometers) a year, which is the average for all the years it has been moving north, then some Pacific islands near the equator – even those that currently enjoy abundant rainfall – may be drier within decades and starved of freshwater by midcentury or sooner.

Global warming?  Maybe.  But if it is, the arid event could happen even sooner than current projections.