BELLEVUE, Washington, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- In the news release, "Pelephone Selects Xeround to Improve Subscriber Experience" issued on 28 Jul 2008 10:00 GMT, by Xeround, Inc. over PR Newswire, there were several spelling errors throughout the release that were incorrectly transmitted by PR Newswire. Complete, corrected release follows:

Pelephone Selects Xeround to Improve Subscriber Experience

- Xeround Intelligent Data Grid(TM) enhances access to subscriber data and helps bring personalized services to market faster

SAN JOSE, California, July 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- "The coolest application for the hottest mobile phone out there"

CellSpin Soft, Inc. (http://www.cellspin.net) today announced it is adding Apple's iPhone(TM) to CellSpin's fully featured mobile blogging software platform list.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Innovative, social-networking community for engineers worldwide generated nearly 400 designs; Total prize value of more than US$200,000

TechInsights announced today the top 128 designs at the start of Phase II in the Microchip PIC32 Design Challenge (www.myPIC32.com), a year-long contest and community sponsored by Microchip Technology Inc. and Digi-Key Corporation as the exclusive distributor. Nearly 400 designs were submitted in this international competition.

SEOUL, South Korea, July 28 /PRNewswire/ --

The one-stop marketplace for the fine and specialty chemical and pharmaceutical industries, XpoChem and XpoPharm, will take place at SETEC in Seoul, South Korea, on 5 and 6 November 2008, exhibiting a wide range of items in these fields, from ingredients and intermediates to finished products, equipment and machinery.

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080728/NYM070 )

In Optimizing The University - Why We Need a New Educational Model for a New Century I discussed some of the issues facing post-secondary science education.

In particular, that piece focused on how changing student demographics, modern faculty responsibilities and the new knowledge gained from advanced assessment techniques showed us that we need to fix fundamental aspects of science education if students are to receive the high quality education that is becoming increasingly important to individual and societal success.

BEND, Oregon and BOSTON, July 28 /PRNewswire/ --

Vulcan Power Company ("Vulcan") and Denham Capital ("Denham") announced today that Denham will invest US$145 million in newly issued preferred equity securities of Vulcan. In addition, Merrill Lynch Commodity Partners ("MLCP"), a principal investment fund of Merrill Lynch, will convert its outstanding notes into Vulcan preferred equity.

Regular readers know that I have long predicted the current price of oil and that we are now moving through Peak Oil These subjects were included in my “Forecast for 2008”

To quote from that January 9, 2008 column:

“In 2008, gas will, for a period of time reach $4 on the national level. A year ago I predicted that oil would rise above $80. Three months ago I predicted that the price would rise to $100 and that the trading range for oil will be $80 – 125 a barrel for the next year…but there could be several situations that could drive the price above $125.”

SAN DIEGO, July 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company Provides Update to Phase 2 Development Plan -

GLASGOW, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Cogentium Corporation Ltd, leading provider of contact centre strategic planning solutions, has released the White Paper: 'Transforming Contact Centre Planning using Simulation'.

Now more than ever, organisations need to streamline their processes and deliver a high standard of customer service. Contact centres are recognising the power and accuracy of simulation solutions to support them in meeting these objectives, particularly over more traditional call centre planning techniques.

BELLEVUE, Washington, July 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Xeround Intelligent Data Grid(TM) enhances access to subscriber data and helps bring personalized services to market faster

Xeround, Inc., the developers of the industry's first distributed data grid with virtualization capabilities, announced today that Pelephone, one of Israel's leading mobile operators, selected the Xeround Intelligent Data Grid(TM). Pelephone is leveraging Xeround DIG(TM) to consolidate its subscriber data, dramatically improving the profitability and time to market for existing and new value-added services.