BEIJING, September 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Alliance Digital Changes Name to Alliance Development Group (ADG)

Alliance Digital today announced it has changed its name to Alliance Development Group to better reflect the Company's business of providing China-focused, cross-border market development, strategic partnering, and investment advisory services to leading global and Chinese technology companies. The Company will use the trade names Alliance Development Group and ADG, as appropriate.

COPENHAGEN, September 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- A Radically Different Approach Enables Sales Professionals to Use the SAP Variant Configurator in an Interface Very Similar to Their Microsoft Outlook(TM)

COPENHAGEN, September 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Danish Software Company, Configit, Releases Configit Quote - the Sales Configurator for SAP Organizations Selling Complex Products

COPENHAGEN, September 10 /PRNewswire/ --

Configit announces the October release of Configit Quote, a very different type of sales configurator for manufacturing companies using the SAP Variant Configurator.

What do you call a supernova that is not as powerful and doesn't destroy the star?

A babynova? Subnova?

We'll need to think of something, according to Berkeley astronomer Nathan Smith, because that is what happened in 1843 to Eta Carinae, the galaxy's second most studied star.

Eta Carinae (η Car) is a massive, hot, variable star visible only from the Southern Hemisphere, and is located about 7,500 light years from Earth in a young region of star birth called the Carina Nebula. It was observed to brighten immensely in 1843, and astronomers now see the resulting cloud of gas and dust, known as the Homunculus nebula, wafting away from the star. A faint shell of debris from an earlier explosion is also visible, probably dating from around 1,000 years ago.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, September 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- NCR SelfServ ATMs Helps Banks to Increase Revenue and Improve Customer Satisfaction

NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) http://www.ncr.com today announced the launch of its new NCR SelfServ(TM) family of automated teller machines (ATMs) in Cambodia. NCR SelfServ ATMs are designed to help drive more revenue by enabling easier introduction of multi-function services and ensuring higher ATM availability to customers, while reducing environmental impact.

PARSIPPANY, New Jersey, September 10 /PRNewswire/ --

DSM Pharmaceutical Products (DPP) announced today the appointment of That's Nice LLC as agency of record for marketing services. This relationship, in effect since June 2008, covers services for this DSM business group and its three business units: DSM Pharma Chemicals, DSM Biologics and DSM Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

DSM Pharmaceutical Products offers custom manufacturing for pharmaceutical chemicals, manufacturing technology and services for biopharmaceuticals, and secondary manufacturing of both. Guy Tiene, director of marketing and communications for DSM Pharmaceutical Products, said, "This requires an integrated communications program and a wide range of marketing activities."

LONDON, September 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Manpower Software plc, the leading provider of workforce optimisation applications in the UK healthcare market, is pleased to announce during the company's first quarter, 10 NHS Trusts have selected MAPS Healthroster, their electronic rostering solution, which compares to 23 for the entire previous fiscal year 2007/8.

The first beam in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN was successfully steered around the full 27 kilometres of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator at 10h28 this morning. This historic event marks a key moment in the transition from over two decades of preparation to a new era of scientific discovery.

“It’s a fantastic moment,” said LHC project leader Lyn Evans, “we can now look forward to a new era of understanding about the origins and evolution of the universe.”

Starting up a major new particle accelerator takes much more than flipping a switch. Thousands of individual elements have to work in harmony, timings have to be synchronized to under a billionth of a second, and beams finer than a human hair have to be brought into head-on collision.

CHARENTON-LE-PONT, France, September 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Essilor is pursuing its growth strategy in Eastern Europe's markets by acquiring a majority stake in Omega Optix. The company is a leading operator in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, where its prescription laboratories generate total revenue of more than EUR10 million.

In addition to ensuring the long-term viability of a recognized market player, the acquisition will enable Essilor to offer local customers an alternative lineup of products and services, thereby driving fast growth in a rapidly developing market.

The current Omega Optix management team will remain in place and continue to operate the company independently.

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MELBOURNE, Australia, September 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- World's Richest Photographic Competition Proudly Supported and Sponsored by "Polaroid" "The Victorian Government" and "Clean Ocean"

The International Aperture Awards on-line photography competition is open to ALL professional and aspiring photographers, photographic students and anyone with a hidden gift for capturing a winning photograph. Enter up to four images from the following categories for your chance to win - People and Portrait; Sport; Landscape; Science and Nature; Commercial/Advertising; Abstract/Illustrative; Photojournalism/Press.

BASEL, Switzerland, September 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- 100+ Abstracts on Roche Medicines Feature at This Congress

More than 100 Roche abstracts have been accepted for the biggest cancer congress in Europe, the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), which opens in Stockholm on Friday (12th September). The Roche abstracts include the latest data on Avastin (bevacizumab), Herceptin (trastuzumab), Tarceva (erlotinib), Xeloda (capecitabine) and the new breast cancer drug, pertuzumab, which is currently in phase III trials. Roche's pipeline drug IGF-1R, which is in early development, will also feature.

Key presentations include: