LONDON, May 11 /PRNewswire/ --

The turbulent pharmaceutical industry is demanding cheaper and innovative customer relationship management (CRM) solutions that will enable greater flexibility. CRM segments such as marketing automation, customer analytics and closed loop marketing will attract higher investments from pharmaceutical companies in the future. Management of key opinion leaders is another investment priority for pharmaceutical companies.

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LONDON, May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Empty offices and deserted restaurants are a real possibility if the Swine Flu virus successfully mutates, warns the Economist Intelligence Unit. The public has been suffering from gloom fatigue with constant bad news over the recession. As a result, the threat of this flu outbreak has been ignored. But this is highly dangerous and the pandemic could surge later in the year with dire results. Two of the EIU's top analysts look at the economic and medical implications if the virus takes hold.

The programme is available now on http://w3.cantos.com/economist.

CAMBRIDGE, England, May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Data released today by Cambridge-based broadband comparison website Broadband Genie has revealed the depressing truth that the average consumer is getting less than half of the advertised 'up to' speed they think they are paying for. The data also shows long term broadband subscribers are even confused about what package they are on. As ISPs upgrade customers to faster services, while advertising all kinds of other new packages, the message simply isn't getting across.

OTTAWA, May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Arnold Van Ginkel is owed a debt of gratitude by the Canadian pork industry for putting the health of the industry first and the interests of his own farm second.

Van Ginkel's herd was placed under a CFIA quarantine April 28, 2009 after he voluntarily reported influenza-like symptoms in his herd coupled with the fact that a worker in his barn had recently visited Mexico and had suffered flu-like symptoms. It was later determined that the livestock had been infected with the H1N1 Influenza A virus.

No matter what you read in the various published strategy guides and online chat rooms about pot odds, implied odds, reverse-implied odds and pot equity, there is no mathematically definite strategy for poker played in casinos. Because the best poker is unpredictable and in casinos you are likely to experience the best poker, all decisions are eventually somewhat intuitive. (Like the stock market, you can’t figure out Dan Harrington—if you could, you could beat him. Note: you can’t.)

FRANKFURT, Germany, May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- AVEVA is proud to announce the amalgamation of its industry-leading Information Management Solution into a single brand -- AVEVA NET. Complementing the existing AVEVA Plant and AVEVA Marine brands, AVEVA NET provides an integrated environment for managing the digital asset and ensuring its consistency across the complete lifecycle of the physical asset.

Utilising a common Digital Information Hub, AVEVA NET delivers a web-based, collaborative information management environment for both data and documents, supporting both the Engineer/Procure/Construct and the Operate/Maintain/Revamp phases of a plant.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 11 /PRNewswire/ --

Africa's healthcare markets are starting to feel the effects of the global economic slowdown. Pressures from the global environment have led to rising health costs and constrained healthcare resources.

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Countries that have been hardest hit are those whose economies are largely driven by commodity exports, says Frost Sullivan (http://www.healthcare.frost.com) healthcare analyst Ishe Zingoni. In some countries, plunging commodity prices have led to mine closures and mass lay-offs. Medical aid schemes, which cater mostly for the mining sector, are consequently facing dwindling membership bases.

LONDON, May 11 /PRNewswire/ --

More than 60 percent of European consumers are extremely interested in location-based vehicle-centric services like eCall, bCall, stolen vehicle tracking and real-time traffic information. However, they clearly indicate that the current price of such systems is more than they are willing to pay.

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Manufacturers could still turn this market into a significant revenue stream though, with the aid of some clever business modeling, like the one used by TomTom for the HD Traffic service.

LONDON, May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- AlphaSmart, a division of Renaissance Learning, is pleased to announce some significant and important updates for its NEO and NEO 2 writing tools.

'Text2Speech' utilises NEO's in-built infrared facility to allow writers to hear what they have written, letter by letter, word by word or sentence by sentence through headphones or speakers. The software can be customised for students of all levels by selecting settings for automatic read-back, volume and speed. Like all AlphaSmart products, 'Text2Speech' has a massive battery life of over 30,000 words from just two AA batteries.

BIRMINGHAM, England, May 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Two-tiered Project Also Involves Implementing Situator at Larnaka International Airport, now Under Construction

Orsus(R), the pioneer and innovator in the field of Situation Management, a comprehensive and unique approach that coordinates the interaction between people, alerting sources and responses, announced it has partnered with Israeli-based systems integrator Orad to implement Situator at two airports in the Republic of Cyprus, Paphos and Larnaka International Airports.