LONDON, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Survey From IT Outsourcing Consultancy and Multi Sourcing Advisors, PA Consulting Group, Confirms That the Risks Associated With Multi Sourcing Strategies for Managed IT Sourcing Contracts is Poorly Understood and Significant in Value

Summary of PA Consulting Group survey results http://tinyurl.com/PAG-ITS

NEW YORK, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

-- Free Access to a Favorite Magazine Offered to Sony's VAIO PC Users, Preserving Long-form Format, Layout and E-commerce Without Leaving Desktop --

LUTON, England, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- News Release for the Medical Media

Preliminary results from a double-blind, randomised, multicentre trial among 660 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) show that budesonide/formoterol (Symbicort(R): AstraZeneca) plus tiotropium (Spiriva(TM): Boehringer Ingelheim Limited) significantly improves disease control and patients' quality of life (1,2).

To view the Multimedia News Release, please click: http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/astrazeneca/38533/

The study known as CLIMB, compared 12 weeks treatment with budesonide/formoterol (400/12 mcg one inhalation twice-daily) plus tiotropium (18 micro g one inhalation once daily) vs. tiotropium alone plus placebo.

KEMSING, England, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Price of Blood Glucose Test Strips to the NHS to be cut by 50%

- My Lords, I Cannot say why They are so Expensive (Baroness Thornton House of Lords June 23 2008)

- NHS Spends 10% of Annual Budget on Treating Diabetes

Living with diabetes involves keeping a close eye on blood glucose levels. This is done by putting a drop of blood onto a small but expensive device called a test strip. A dramatic price reduction by Ambe Medical Group could herald a big change in diabetes management and NHS strategy.

DUBAI, UAE, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- 10% Discount on June Courses

Pinnacle PR Training is offering a 10% discount on its courses taking place in Dubai and London in June. These include its popular five-day Foundations in PR course in Dubai and its 10-day Intensive PR Seminar in London.

Pinnacle PR Training is the world's largest specialised international PR training company with training centres in Dubai, London and Brussels. The company runs more than 100 different types of communications training courses and has more than 80 international PR trainers.

LONDON, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Clearpace, the data archive store specialist, http://www.clearpace.com is today launching a cloud-based archive service for structured data - RainStor.

RainStor http://www.rainstor.com allows users to instantly retire legacy applications and archive structured data to the cloud while keeping data secure and instantly accessible. Using Rainstor, organisations can eliminate the layers of cost associated with managing legacy applications: no more software licenses, servers, storage or data centre costs, and the expensive resources needed to keep legacy applications running can be redeployed.

WALTHAM, Massachusetts, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- ABSNet Loan Provides Performance Metrics on US Non-Agency MBS Transactions

Lewtan Technologies, Inc., provider of ABSNet, the industry's leading source for asset-backed securities surveillance data, analytics, software, and content for the global securitisation industry, today announced the unveiling of a new product called ABSNet Loan. ABSNet Loan provides valuable key performance metrics and predictive variables on the mortgages and home equity loans that back US non-agency MBS and home equity transactions.

LONDON, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- It's time to move beyond the Lehman Sisters would have survived argument, which suggested that if women had been in charge, the banks would not have fallen into crisis in 2008, says Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, CEO of the consultancy 20-first, author and publisher of the new business website, http://www.WOMEN-omics.com.

Yes, women do have a right to be angry. The leadership teams of the banks that failed to judge the risks they were taking properly are dominated by men, she says.

But, she says, the most important question for all those concerned about the future robustness of the financial sector is what is the risk of not having a more equal gender balance on the top teams of the banks?

Pulsars are superdense neutron stars, the remnants left after massive stars have exploded as supernovae. Their powerful magnetic fields generate lighthouse-like beams of light and radio waves that sweep around as the star rotates. Most rotate a few to tens of times a second, slowing down over thousands of years.

The Mars rover, Opportunity, surveyed the rim and interior of Victoria Crater on the Red Planet from September 2006 through August 2008. Key findings from that work, reported in the May 22 edition of Science, reinforce and expand what researchers learned from Opportunity's exploration of two smaller craters after landing on Mars in 2004.