LONDON, September 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- "Green is the New Mean", Says 51-Point Green Blueprint

Businesses were today given a blueprint for cutting costs by going green - and told that "green is the new mean". The 51-point plan is published the same week as a study showing that businesses that become greener can boost their value by up to 80%.

The e-Book You Can't Afford NOT To Be Green - 51 Ways Your Business Can Save Money AND The Planet (http://www.yudu.com/greenlibrary) is published by YUDU Media (http://www.yudu.com), whose website lets anyone publish, share, buy and sell e-Books and other digital documents.

ABERTILLERY, Wales, September 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Atraverda Limited, an advanced materials company, based in South Wales, UK, has appointed Michael Gilchrist as its chief executive officer to enhance its position as a leading global supplier of bi-polar lead acid battery technology.

Mr Gilchrist has over 30 years experience in managing global organisations in manufacturing and technology including as vice president of product and global strategy at Daramic, president and chief executive officer of Microporous Products and a variety of roles in manufacturing and business group management at PPG Industries.

VAASA, Finland, September 23 /PRNewswire/ -- UpCode Ltd and Yedioth Ahronoth, the biggest media company in Israel announces its partnership to turn all printed media into interactive media. Yedioth's initiative is designed to engage users through various services by scanning Ycodes powerd by UpCode with their mobile phones on print. The users can view mobile content on their devices, and access numerous applications and services. Several solutions have been integrated, and is not limited to hyperlinks in the codes but includes also advanced solutions like CRM and mobile payment solutions etc.

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LONDON, September 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Vagisil and the Wellbeing of Women aim to Provide Education for Women's Health

Results of a recent survey reveal symptoms of vaginal discomfort are being ignored by women. Nearly 50% of women suffer from vaginal discomfort and yet around half ignore it, whether it is caused by a burning itch, discharge or odour.(1)

Observations from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have been used to build, for the first time, a 3-D picture of the sources of intense radio emissions in Saturn’s magnetic field, known as the Saturn Kilometric Radiation (SKR).

Saturn Kilometric Radiation is the most intense component of radio emissions from Saturn. It was discovered by NASA’s Voyager spacecraft in 1980. The radio emissions have frequencies between about 10 kilohertz and 1.2 megahertz. This corresponds to the Long Wave and Medium Wave broadcasting bands.

The results were presented by Dr Baptist Cecconi, of LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, at the European Planetary Science Congress on Tuesday 23rd September.

The SKR radio emissions are generated by high-energy electrons spiralling around magnetic field lines threaded through Saturn’s auroras. Previous Cassini observations have shown that the SKR is closely correlated with the intensity of Saturn’s UV aurora and the pressure of the solar wind.

Two terrestrial planets in orbit around a sun-like star, BD +20 307, recently suffered a violent collision, astronomers at University of California Los Angeles, Tennessee State University, and California Institute of Technology will report in a December issue of the Astrophysical Journal, the premier journal of astronomy and astrophysics.

“It’s as if Earth and Venus collided with each other,” said Benjamin Zuckerman, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy and a co-author on the paper. “Astronomers have never seen anything like this before; apparently major, catastrophic, collisions can take place in a fully mature planetary system.”

NORWICH, England, September 23 /PRNewswire/ -- As news emerges that more people than ever will face increased financial pressures in the wake of rising fuel bills, the call for household energy efficiency measures have never been greater.

With an average energy bill set to climb to GBP1406 in 2009 (from GBP676 in 2005), the Government has given a commitment to help consumers improve household energy efficiency and permanently bring down energy bills.

As the nation awaits confirmation of where Government support will be given, many organisations are offering advice and guidance into where and how families can make changes that will cut their household energy costs.

OTTAWA, Canada, September 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Registration is Now Open

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the keynote speakers for the Eclipse Summit Europe conference, to be held November 19-20 in Ludwigsburg, Germany. The two keynote speakers will be:

- David Wood, Executive VP Research at Symbian. Mr. Wood's talk 'Why Should the Mobile World Go Open Source?' will be his reflections on the possible upsides and downsides when open source software systems are applied in the fast-moving helter-skelter world of mobile phones.

- Dave Thomas, Founder and Chairman of Bedarra Research Labs. Mr. Thomas's talk 'Next Generation Embedded Software - The Imperative Is Agility!' will speak to new ideas in embedded product development.

BUDAPEST, September 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Charging Model Allows Advanced Real-Time Rating and Charging for All Mobile Services Across all Payment Methods

Acision, the world's leading messaging company, announces the launch of Acision Charging Engine, a new visionary platform at the heart of its unified charging architecture. For the first time, operators will be able to unify the monetization of their services on one platform, bringing together prepaid, postpaid and bundle management, enabling the optimization of customer experience across the network.

After several years of detective work, philologists at the University of Stavanger in Norway have collected a unique collection of texts online and they're about to start the most comprehensive analysis of middle English ever.

During the last few years, associate professor Merja Stenroos and post doctor Martti Mäkinen at the University of Stavanger have travelled around Britain and read original handwritten leather manuscripts from the 1300s–1500s.

"It is as natural for us in Stavanger to research Middle English as it is for English researchers. None of us have this language as our mother tongue anyway, says Merja Stenroos, who is managing the project titled MEG - Middle English Grammar.