PARIS, May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Deezer announces the signing of an agreement with the Universal Music giant covering 35 countries. With this move, the first French music on demand website launches its international deployment in order to position itself as a key player in the changing music industry.

TOKYO, May 15 /PRNewswire/ --

Acrodea, Inc. (CEO and President: Junya Tsutsumi), headquartered in Meguro-ku, Tokyo, and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications (London UK, President: Hideki Komiyama, "Sony Ericsson") reached an agreement for Acrodea to provide VIVID UI and VIVID Panorama to Sony Ericsson mobile telephones and executed a master license agreement. Based on the agreement, Sony Ericsson will be able to release globally mobile telephone terminals installed with Acrodea products.

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LONDON, May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- DSG International plc, one of Europe's largest specialist electrical retailers, today announces it's strategic business review. In a video interview Group Chief Executive John Browett talks through the detail of his five point plan for renewal and transformation of the group, which owns brands such as Curry's, PC World, Currys.digital and Pixmania. There will also be a live presentation to analysts at 0900BST.

The interviews, transcript, podcast and vodcast are available now on http://www.cantos.com. Cantos interviews are also available on our CEO Direct page in iTunes.

PERTH, Australia, May 15 /PRNewswire/ --

Professor Lyn Beazley, eminent neuroscientist and Chief Scientist of Western Australia, will conduct a series of workshops, seminars and media interviews in Johannesburg, Durban, Grahamstown and Bloemfontein.

LONDON, May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The launch of mvision (previously known as Margolis Communication Systems) took place today. Everything about mvision - from the technology itself to its costing structure - is designed to deliver an entirely new kind of video conferencing experience. With mvision, video conferencing is delivered not as a technology or a product, but as a state-of-the-art managed service. The mvision solution runs completely independently of an organisation's main IT network using separate dedicated bandwidth and connectivity, thereby eliminating any technical issues that are commonplace with video conferencing.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Albireo, a pharmaceutical company focusing on the development of therapeutics for gastrointestinal diseases, announced today the appointment of Hans Graffner, M.D., Ph.D, as Chief Medical Officer (CMO).

Dr. Graffner will oversee the clinical development programs at Albireo with initial focus on the lead program A3309, a therapeutic with a novel mechanism of action targeting the treatment of patients with chronic constipation.

LONDON, May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- In a video interview, Steve Holliday, National Grid CEO, looks at the group's full year results which include, for the first time, contributions from the Keyspan acquisition. He discusses capital investment plans, the balance sheet and share buy-back and the outlook given the current economic climate. The interview, transcript, podcast and vodcast are available now on http://www.cantos.com. Cantos interviews are also available on our CEO Direct page in iTunes.

LONDON, May 15 /PRNewswire/ --

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Six Sigma is a business strategy designed to use smarter data and methodology to reduce defects - six standard deviations between the mean and the nearest specification limit. Statistically it is 3.4 defects per million.

Could this business practice be used to help turn companies green by reducing their energy use?

According to mechanical engineer Prabhakar Kaushik of NC College of Engineering in Haryana, India, and colleagues, energy conservation should be at the forefront of company efforts. In a global economy with environmental pressures high on the agenda, organizations are under increasing pressure to control costs, maintain high levels of safety and quality, and save energy. Energy conservation, of course, offers the parallel advantages of helping to reduce costs, improving efficiency, as well as reducing the carbon footprint.

New research appearing in the May issue of Psychological Science suggests that being put in a low-power role may impair a person’s basic cognitive functioning and thus, their ability to get ahead.

Pamela Smith of Radboud University Nijmegen and colleagues Nils B. Jostmann of VU University Amsterdam, Adam Galinsky of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and Wilco W. van Dijk of VU University Amsterdam, focus on a set of cognitive processes called executive functions. Executive functions help people maintain and pursue their goals in difficult, distracting situations. The researchers found that lacking power impaired people’s ability to keep track of ever-changing information, to parse out irrelevant information, and to successfully plan ahead to achieve their goals.