LONDON, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

A major Equality Reps' Conference of 400 delegates is being held today (29 October 2008) in London by Unite, the country's largest trade union.

The conference forms part of a two-year project to develop and train equality reps across the union. The project is receiving matched funding from the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.

Harriet Harman MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Minister for Equalities, is the keynote speaker at the conference, at which the union is launching its education programme and on-line networking for equality reps.

LONDON, October 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Eisai Limited, the licence holder of Aricept(R) (donepezil hydrochloride) and Pfizer Limited, its co-promotion partner, welcome the announcement by the House of Lords that they have refused the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)'s application for leave to appeal against the Court of Appeal verdict handed down earlier this year.

In May this year the Court of Appeal found in favour of Eisai, and ruled that the process by which NICE decided to restrict anti-dementia medicines for newly diagnosed patients with mild Alzheimer's disease was procedurally unfair and that it put stakeholders at a significant disadvantage in their ability to engage fully with the process.

OAKLAND, California, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

What else could you do with US$150,000? That's the sum the Republican National Committee famously spent on wardrobe and makeup for Gov. Sarah Palin.

Contrast that with a registered nurse who can be outfitted in scrubs for just US$10 for a hospital shift. The same US$150,000 would outfit 15,000 RNs in scrubs, notes Geri Jenkins, RN, co-president of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee which sponsored the site, http://www.DressLikePalin.com.

How disgraceful at a time when so many Americans are struggling to pay their medical bills or keep their homes, Jenkins noted.

Palin's Tahari skirt suit alone = 60 RN scrubs.

COLOGNE, Germany, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Young People From 192 Countries Meet on qeep to Chat, Play Games and get to Know Each Other.

- Page Views in the Mobile Community Climb Higher, and Higher.

qeep, the successful mobile community, is excited to celebrate its two year launch anniversary and has reached the half-million mark in users. Young people in 192 countries, everywhere from the USA to India and Greenland to South Africa, are using the network to keep up with their friends while on the-go and to find new chat friends. Currently between 4000 and 5000 new users are signing up each day giving qeep a monthly growth rate of 25 to 30 percent.

HOPKINTON, Massachusetts, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Prague to Play Host to Market's Premier Enterprise Content Management And Archiving User Conference

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, plans to welcome nearly 1,500 attendees at Momentum Europe 2008, which will be held November 10-13, 2008, at the Prague Congress Centre in Prague, Czech Republic. Momentum Europe 2008 is the market's largest gathering of customers, partners and industry experts in enterprise content management (ECM) and archiving outside of the Americas.

SAN FRANCISCO, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Focus on Cooperative Efforts to Protect Users' Online Experience

Focusing on the urgent problems of identifying and removing botnets from end-users systems and preventing other online exploitation, the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) initiated several new projects at its third meeting of the year. The new work represents important steps forward in cooperative industry efforts to protect end-users by addressing the safe mitigation of botnets, ISP migration to IPv6, detection and reporting of compromised hosts, Web messaging abuse and other outbound abuse. The progress of these projects and other ongoing work will be reviewed at the 15th MAAWG General Meeting on February 17-19 in San Francisco, Calif.

DUBLIN, Ireland and WASHINGTON, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- After two highly successful years, large and small companies continue to seek quality presence on mobile Web with .mobi

dotMobi, the company behind the .mobi Internet domain designed to help consumers find content that works on mobile phones, today announced that more than one million .mobi domains have been registered since its launch two years ago.

From October 2006, dotMobi has seen continued growth in the amount of registrants as companies pursue the increased visibility and targeted marketing the mobile Web offers. Mobile content consumption is steadily growing while the lack of consistency and navigation issues that previously hampered mass consumer adoption are lessening.

HOUSTON, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

Reduced transaction costs, faster cycle times and fewer errors are among the eCommerce benefits for upstream oil and gas suppliers and service providers in today's economy that will be highlighted at the 2008 International EU Autumn Meeting of PIDX, the American Petroleum Institute e-business standards development body for the oil and natural gas industry.

SINGAPORE, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Security Providers Join Forces to Deliver Consolidated Solution to Meet Latest IBTRM Requirements

Tata Communications, a leading provider of the new world of communications, announced the launch of the first Security Compliance Consortium to simplify the process of meeting compliance needs for the banking and finance sector. This initiative follows the new Internet Banking and Technology Risk Management (IBRTM) guidelines released by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in June 2008. The guidelines outline a set of best practices that mandate risk management processes and security controls for financial systems, including Internet banking.

GENEVA, October 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Earth Council Geneva was a major contributor this summer in an effort to clean marine debris from the shores of Alaska. Teaming with the Marine Conservation Alliance Foundation (financially backed by the US Federal government) ECG spearheaded a project focusing on the wild beaches of Shelikof Strait in south central Alaska. ECG Chairman, Reto Braun, enlisted the help of a local non-profit organization, Earth Tabs, and its vessel to retrieve derelict nets, lines, buoys and trash from the Alaskan coastline.