DUBLIN, Ireland, October 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Shire Limited (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announces that following the approval by shareholders at the Annual General Meeting on September 24, 2008, the Company has changed its name to Shire plc with effect from today.

Shire plc's ticker symbols on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ and the ISIN numbers of the Company's Ordinary shares and American Depositary Shares will remain unchanged.

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HEERLEN, The Netherlands - Mondial de L'Automobile, October 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- World Première DuraCar, Mondial de L'Automobile 4-19 October

HEERLEN, The Netherlands - Mondial de L'Automobile, October 1 /PRNewswire/ --

It is a world-first for a Dutch automobile manufacturer to have a world première at the historic Paris fair. DuraCar introduces itself and its first type of the QUICC!, the QUICC! DiVa, at stand 426 in hall 3.

100 % Electric and Plastic

PHILADELPHIA, October 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- "Expert Consult" Title Regularly Integrates New Information Online so the Content is Always Current

Elsevier, the leading publisher of medical and scientific literature, announces the publication of the 40th edition of the most famous anatomical reference in the world, Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice (http://www.us.elsevierhealth.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780443066849) in September 2008.

STUTTGART and MUNICH, Germany, October 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Cellent Finance Solutions AG has presented the latest release of the SMARAGD product family at the ninth SMARAGD User Group Conference. Release 4.0 of the software for combating financial crime fulfills all provisions of the 3rd EU Money Laundering Directive and the German Supplementary Money Laundering Act (GwBekErgG).

ZURICH, Switzerland, October 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- Combined Capabilities Deliver a Winning Formula

Swiss-based Bühler, a global leader in food and chemical processing technology, has chosen the recently announced alliance of Swisscom and Verizon Business to deliver a new local-to-global data communications infrastructure. Swisscom will deliver advanced multiprotocol label switching (MPLS)-based communications across its Swiss network, while Verizon Business will deliver a seamless interconnection to its global IP network.

LISSE, The Netherlands, October 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- Inner Wellness at Work is the Next Big Thing

LISSE, The Netherlands, October 1 /PRNewswire/ --

Many organizations are recognizing the need to develop health and wellness initiatives for their employees. Exercise rooms, massages, diet and nutrition education are appearing frequently in the corporate environment.

What about the inner health and wellness of the employees and the body, mind and soul connection that facilitates excellent or poor performance at work?

DUBLIN, Ireland and WASHINGTON, October 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- Mobile development database from dotMobi will now include data from Sony Ericsson and Bango along with new enterprise support options

dotMobi, the company behind the .mobi Internet domain and mobiForge cross-platform mobile developer forum, today announced that the 2.0 version of DeviceAtlas - its award-winning mobile device database - is now available.

Small stretches of DNA with unknown utility harbor a big
secret, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, but they don't know what it is.

Those secrets are always the biggest. Individual laboratory animals appear to live happily when these genetic ciphers are
deleted so why these snippets have been highly conserved throughout evolution is the real mystery.

Small stretches of seemingly useless DNA harbor a big secret, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. There's one problem: We don't know what it is. Although individual laboratory animals appear to live happily when these genetic ciphers are deleted, these snippets have been highly conserved throughout evolution.

TORONTO, Canada, October 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- After the Past 2 Days it's all About Return on Information

- Xenos ES Enables Organisations to Reduce Reuse Recycle Structured and Unstructured Electronic Data and Documents

Xenos Group Inc. (TSX: XNS) today announced the launch of the Xenos Enterprise Server(TM), the product of a 25-year quest for an intelligent framework for electronic information infrastructure and management in the complex modern enterprise.

LONDON, October 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- A Live EDGE Energy Efficiency Conference will be Hosted Online on 15 October 2008

Premier Farnell plc (LSE:PFL), the leading multi-channel, high service distributor and its companies (Farnell, Newark, Premier Electronics, Farnell-Newark CPC, and MCM), today announced that design entries are now being accepted at http://www.Live-EDGE.com for the international design competition, Live EDGE - Electronic Design for the Global Environment. The competition invites electronic design engineers, students and hobbyists to design products utilizing electronic components, which will positively impact the environment.

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