TAIPEI, Taiwan, March 18 /PRNewswire/ --

esobi Inc., an innovative Internet information navigator, announced a new partnership with Acer Inc. that will preload eSobi News Center on Acer Aspire One netbooks starting in 2009. This worldwide cooperation will allow users to always stay up-to-date with the latest news online that can be easily organized in a handy personal folder to carry on the go.

LONDON, March 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- http://www.SurvivingTheCreditCrunch.org.uk Launches New Stress-Busting Page

We have all heard how confidence has been lost in the financial markets as a result of recent events in the global banking sector, but how is that affecting the confidence of the individuals who are having to live with the consequences? As the recession deepens we are finding many people are suffering from stress and loss of self-confidence.

Common themes and feelings include: - A sense of failure - Loss of control - Feelings of insecurity and foreboding - Defensive behaviour - Anxiety and stress levels increased - Loss of sleep - Weight gain (comfort eating) men and women - Increased alcohol consumption

DALLAS, March 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Global transactional content management platform delivers greater value to users

BancTec, a global provider of advanced, high-volume document and payment processing services and solutions, has released version 2.0 of CenterVision, its global platform for processing and managing multiple streams of in-bound information. The new release of CenterVision improves the platform's ability to provide end-to-end mail processing and control, with stronger Service Level Agreement (SLA) management, enhanced document tracking and resource utilization capabilities. Optimal customer access to information, expanded reporting and overall usability enhancements are also provided.

LONDON, March 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Pan-European Trading Platform Partners With AboveNet for Fast, Secure Connectivity in the UK

AboveNet Communications UK Ltd., a leading provider of fibre optic connectivity solutions for business and carriers, has completed a private managed Ethernet network for BATS Europe, the highly efficient, low latency multilateral trading facility based in London.

LONDON, March 18 /PRNewswire/ --

Martin Oxley, Managing Director Europe of BuzzBack Market Research, will participate in an Ideas Rush panel at Research 2009: The Annual Conference, March 24 and 25 at the Riverbank Park Plaza in London.

Oxley will be joining a panel of research experts for an Ideas Rush, a session focused on Big Ideas in a short-time format. The Ideas Rush is a series of high-energy sessions where each speaker presents one original idea, in five minutes, with the aid of only one slide. Oxley will speak on the subject Do You Think in Black and White? He will expand on why so much current research does not engage with people in an emotive and relevant way.

Half-biological and half-synthetic, an army of thousands of wrecking balls are contained within Dr. Metin Sitti's Carnegie Mellon laboratory.  Once incited, they keep moving to the death.  They run on sugar.  And they can all be taken down by penicillin. 

Sitti’s army is a cadre of Serratia marcensens bacteria-coated polystyrene microbeads, propelled by the bacteria’s innate restlessness.  To Sitti, recruiting bacteria to form the propulsion side of a microprojectile is more than a fun day in the lab.  These tiny living robots are the foundation for the future of biointegrated micromachines.

Professor Lynn Margulis is the biologist who had the incredible insight that the cells of modern organisms were originally formed by the symbiotic combination of prokaryotic cells and colonies of bacteria, and then had to battle for years to have this recognised by the science community.

The idea is so outlandish, but so significant, that it puts her right up there as one of the greats of biology.

LONDON, March 18 /PRNewswire/ --

Uncertainty around today's economy has left some workers feeling uneasy about their jobs. Career experts from CareerBuilder are offering tips to help workers make themselves indispensable at the office and to help them find a job if they have experienced a layoff.

The important thing is to be prepared and stay productive within your organization, said Tony Roy, Managing Director of CareerBuilder.co.uk. If you've experienced a layoff, don't get discouraged. It may take longer to find a job, but there are still organizations out there hiring.

To look at Matthew Houdek, you could never tell he was born with virtually no left ear.

A surgery at Loyola University Health System made it possible for Houdek to be fitted with a prosthetic ear that looks just like the real thing.

Ear-nose-throat surgeon Dr. Sam Marzo implanted three small metal screws in the side of Houdek's head. Each screw is fitted with a magnet, and magnetic attraction holds the prosthetic ear in place.

It takes only a few seconds for Houdek to put his prosthetic ear on in the morning and take it off when he showers or goes to bed. It doesn't fall off, and it's much more convenient than prosthetic ears that are attached with adhesive. 

Humans excel at recognizing faces, but how we do this has been an abiding mystery in neuroscience and psychology. In an effort to explain our success in this area, researchers are taking a closer look at how and why we fail. 

A new study from MIT looks at a particularly striking instance of failure: our impaired ability to recognize faces in photographic negatives. The study, which appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week, suggests that a large part of the answer might lie in the brain's reliance on a certain kind of image feature.