Dishonesty may be more widespread in the animal kingdom than previously thought. A team of Australian ecologists has discovered that some male fiddler crabs “lie” about their fighting ability by growing claws that look strong and powerful but are in fact weak and puny.

Yes, the authors say, the study is the first direct evidence that crabs “bluff” about their fighting ability and they detail it in Functional Ecology.

A high proportion of people are not using condoms when they have sex with a new partner, according to a new study of heterosexual partnerships among British men and women - but it's not teenagers, it's people in their 30s, 40s and in partnerships where there is an age difference of five or more years.  Among those groups, condom use is particularly low.

The research, published online in the International Journal of Epidemiology today, looks at all heterosexual relationships experienced in the previous 12 months by 11,161 men and women interviewed for the second British National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal 2). [1]

A third-year undergraduate student, Hayley Frend, at The University of Nottingham has had her research into the sex life of the pond snail published in the peer-reviewed journal Royal Society Journal Biology Letters. 

With a grant of £1,500 from the Nuffield Foundation, Frend, who is a student in the School of Biology,  has shown that just like humans the pond snail is genetically programmed to use the left or right handed side of its brain to perform different tasks. 

DUBLIN, Ireland and WASHINGTON, November 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- New product designed to open the mobile Web opportunity to small businesses around the world

dotMobi, the company behind the .mobi Internet domain designed to help consumers find Web content that works on mobile phones, today announced the channel release of Instant Mobilizer(TM), a patent-pending service created to help small and medium businesses around the world reach their customers quickly and affordably through the mobile Web.

LONDON, November 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Six-month revenue from continuing operations up 12.0% to $87.3 million (+15.0% at constant exchange rates) - Six-month EBITDA from continuing operations up 5.1% to $33.4 million (+8.6% at constant exchange rates) - Six-month EPS from continuing operations up 150% to $0.35

Cascal N.V. (NYSE: HOO) (the Company), a leading provider of water and wastewater services in seven countries, today announced unaudited financial results for the six months and the second quarter ended September 30, 2008. Cascal N.V. results are presented in U.S. dollars.

Year-to-date Fiscal 2009 Results

MONTREAL, Canada, November 11 /PRNewswire/ -- XMT Liquidations Inc. (XMT), the court-appointed liquidator of 6356095 Canada Inc. (formerly known as Excapsa Software Inc., Excapsa), today announced that Excapsa had completed a settlement with Blast Off Limited (Blast Off), the owner of the Ultimatebet online gaming sites. Pursuant to the settlement, which was approved by the holders of more than two-thirds of Excapsa's outstanding shares and by the Ontario courts, Excapsa paid US $15 million to Blast Off in return for a full and final release of all claims relating to the allegations of cheating on the Ultimatebet websites. In addition, Excapsa acquired an ownership interest in all gaming software owned by Blast Off and its subsidiaries.

NEW YORK, November 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- After a brief hiccup, the exquisite Spoylt Lingerie Brand is releasing their first collection since Fall 2006 this November

Spoylt, the exclusive lingerie brand, designed by women for women is delighted to announce the launch of its new Tantalize collection. Along with the release of Tantalize, Spoylt will also reveal a pristine new website (www.spoylt.com) from which the new collection will be available for purchase.

TEL AVIV, Israel and LOS GATOS, California, November 11 /PRNewswire/ --

Clal Energy, the energy arm of IDB, Israel's largest and most diversified holding group, has reached a strategic agreement with Tigo Energy (http://www.tigoenergy.com), the solar company whose unique technology significantly increases efficiency in photovoltaic solar installations. The IDB Group has initiatives in the telecommunications, industry, technology, retail, insurance and real estate sectors; which include highly visible brands in each segment. Clal Energy's cooperation with Tigo is proof of confidence in the company's technology and vision.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, November 11 /PRNewswire/ --

AVG is actively working to remedy the problem some users are experiencing related to the most recent update to commercial and free versions of AVG 7.5 and AVG 8.0 in some languages. A number of users who installed the update mistakenly received a warning that the Windows system file user32.dll product version 5.1.2600.3099 was infected with a Trojan virus and were prompted to delete a file essential to the operation of Windows XP.

The problem only affects users of the Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish language versions of Windows XP.

AVG is taking these steps to assist users in remedying the problem:

Canadian researchers have created a new protein patterning technique that's enabled them to reproduce complex cellular environments and a miniature version of a masterpiece painting. According to a new study published in the journal Lab on a Chip, scientists from Université de Montréal, the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Centre, McGill University and the Montreal Neurological Institute have developed a laser technology that can mimic the protein patterns that surround cells in vivo and that could lead to great advances in neuroscience.