LONDON, June 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- Software Released as Consultation Closes on the Financial Reporting Council's Review of UK Corporate Governance

An innovative software service for FTSE company chairmen, directors and company secretaries is launched today, aimed at helping UK companies raise corporate governance standards at a time when they have never been under such intense scrutiny.

The EnForm Corporate Indicator enables company boards to put good governance practice at the heart of board operations, improve communication among the board, management and stakeholders, and facilitate more productive board and committee evaluations.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, June 1 /PRNewswire/ --

MediaTek (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 2454), a worldwide leader in wireless and consumer electronics SoCs today announces three second generation IEEE 802.16e WiMAX chips. MT7110 series are fully compliant with, and provide more features and performance than WiMAX Forum Wave2 specifications. These chips are intended to revolutionalize the market and take the industry to the next level of mass market adoption.

Of the three high performance chips, MT7117/7119 are designed for WiMAX CPE, and MT7118 for handsets, USB dongles, and embedded devices.

All three are featured with two transmitters and two receivers with support for uplink and downlink MIMO and Beamforming with sounding.

GENEVA, June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Mrs. Lily Safra, President of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation, established by her husband Mr. Edmond J. Safra, will visit Israel this week, highlighting the Foundation's ongoing commitment to supporting charitable organizations across the world.

During the visit, The Edmond J. Safra Foundation and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem will announce the establishment of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, a US$130 million project - the most ambitious initiative of its kind in Israel's history and one of the most important in the world. It will be financed jointly by the Edmond J. Safra Foundation and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, June 1 /PRNewswire/ --

MediaTek (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 2454), a worldwide leader in wireless and consumer electronics SoCs today announces a new WiMAX Forum Wave2 chip, MT7118 for USB dongles, handsets, and other embedded devices. Announced at the same time is a prototype of low cost WiMAX and GSM EDGE dual mode phone, produced by a MediaTek handset partner. This is the first WiMAX phone design supported by a leading cellular chip vendor. This design is based on MediaTek WiMAX chip and world leading MediaTek EDGE baseband processor.

LONDON, June 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- Eden Project Implements Market Leading PC Power Management Solution to Reduce Costs

1E, a leading provider of Windows management software and services who specialize in reducing costs within the business environment, today announces that the Eden Project in Cornwall has licensed its PC power management software. The organisation is currently deploying NightWatchman and 1E WakeUp across its PC estate as well as the retail point-of-sale till sites, ensuring substantial savings throughout the organisation and a significant reduction in the carbon footprint of the project.

MELBOURNE, Australia, June 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- Effective Measure Extends its Lead in Online Privacy

Effective Measure today announced plans to roll out a new industry leading visitor opt out mechanism that promises a new benchmark in visitor privacy.

Under the new initiative, Effective Measure continues to be fully compliant with EU and US - EU Safe Harbor privacy principles, but will also allow the millions of anonymous users it measures throughout the world a greater deal of control, by offering a permanent visitor opt out mechanism.

Dr Roger Kermode, Chief Privacy Officer at Effective Measure, said that this new initiative reaffirms Effective Measure's relationship of trust with its customers and the anonymous users it measures throughout the world.

Sequence gaps in human chromosome 15 have been closed by the application of 454 technology. Researchers writing in Genome Biology have described a simple and scalable method for finishing non-structural gaps in genome assemblies. Manuel Garber worked with a team of researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts, USA, to develop an approach for closing class III gaps, those non-structural gaps that are refractory to clone-based approaches, using 454 sequencing.

We're somewhat lost in how to meet future carbon footprint goals.  Heck, Germany should have been able to just close a few Soviet-era East German factories and hit their Kyoto protocol targets but even they couldn't do it.   

The answer, as always, may be in nature.   Some parts of outer space are great at getting rid of excess carbon, including an unusual carbon-rich star that was part of a mystery stellar explosion recorded in 2006.

RESTON, Virginia, June 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- Revolutionary 'Panel-Centric Hybrid' Solution Bridges Panel-Based and Web Site Server-Based Measurement

"We were on a break," is just an excuse likely to get you yelled at today but a new study at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Gamboa, Panama says there may be some long-term value in it - at least if you are an ant.

Fungus-farming ants have cultivated the same fungal crops for 50 million years, they say.  Each young ant queen carries a bit of fungus garden with her when she flies away to mate and establish a new nest. Short breaks in the ants' relationship with the fungus during nest establishment may contribute to the stability of this long-term mutualism.