PARIS, November 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that it has been awarded a USD 48 million contract by Vietnam Mobile Telecom Services Company to expand and enhance the wireless communications services available through its Mobifone mobile network.

CARDIFF, Wales, November 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Real-World Test Results Show Need to Manage Voice Quality

Epitiro, the broadband communications authority, today released the Femtocell Deployment Guide to assist cellular operators with a successful rollout of the forthcoming in-home communications technology.

LONDON, November 25 /PRNewswire/ --

LONDON, November 25 /PRNewswire/ --

Mobile advertising could become a strong source of revenues for the mobile industry. The European mobile industry has extensively explored the use of advertising recently as a sustainable business model for mobile content, mobile messaging and other services. Despite being in the initial stage, these models have galvanised the industry. The level of confidence of the mobile communications and advertising industries in the potential of mobile advertising is very high.

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TEANECK, New Jersey and CHENNAI, India, November 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Touchstone Center marks a milestone in furthering Cognizant's development and innovation agenda in support of SAP(R) solutions

Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading provider of global consulting, technology and business process services, announced the inauguration of the Touchstone Center at its facility in Bangalore. The center was inaugurated by Dr. Peter Zencke, Executive Board member of SAP AG.

READING, England, November 25 /PRNewswire/ -- DediPower, one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers, has been selected by Jancis Robinson to provide managed hosting services for http://www.jancisrobinson.com. As one of a handful of the most influential figures in the global wine writing scene, Jancis Robinson has been writing and broadcasting about wine for 30 years, and has been the Financial Times wine correspondent since 1989.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, November 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Cellectricon, a leading provider of automated screening solutions for drug discovery, today announced its collaboration with Harvard Medical School, the ICCB-Longwood Screening Facility (ICCB-L). Harvard Medical School (ICCB-L) will utilize the Cellaxess(R)HT system, the world's first system for high throughput transfection enabling reagent-free delivery of genetic material to a wide range of biologically relevant cell types.

We are excited about the collaboration with Cellectricon and the opportunity we have to evaluate Cellaxess(R)HT for genome-wide RNAi delivery to biologically relevant cell types, says Caroline Shamu, Director of ICCB-L.

GENEVA and LOS ANGELES, November 25 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 600 environmental officials along with five U.S. governors and regional representatives from Brazil, Canada, India, Indonesia and Mexico participated at the Global Climate Summit organized by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

WISekey presented by its advisory board member Mr. Mario Garnero, President of Brasilinvest a new initiative as part of an ongoing drive to boost internet awareness to reduce carbon offsets.

Scientists have detected an organic sugar molecule that is directly linked to the origin of life, in a region of our galaxy where habitable planets could exist.  The international team of researchers, including a researcher at University College London (UCL), used the IRAM radio telescope in France to detect the molecule in a massive star forming region of space, some 26000 light years from Earth.
 

The Secretariat of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has lost valuable ground by ignoring for years the contribution of long-term concurrent relationships to Africa's AIDS epidemic, claims says Helen Epstein, an independent consultant on public health in developing countries, ahead of World AIDS Day on British Medical Journal (www.bmj.com) today.