DALLAS, May 14 /PRNewswire/ --

ATERAS announced today that the Policy Number Expansion Project for Claims IT Systems at Progressive using DB-Shuttle(TM) Enterprise Change capabilities has been a success! The purpose of the project was to use a standard automated method to identify and change the field definition and length of 69 different DB2 columns (including policy number, street names, form numbers and status codes) across multiple databases in the Progressive Enterprise.

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PORTOROZ, Slovenia, May 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Microsoft is helping the EEA to inform Europeans on changes to environmental conditions in real time - and empowering citizens to play their part in data gathering.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 14 /PRNewswire/ --

Strategic-creative consultancy frog design today announced plans to enhance its presence in Europe with the opening of a new studio in Amsterdam in September. Executive Creative Director Europe Cees van Dok will head up the new studio while continuing to oversee the Digital Media Design, Product Design and Technology teams in frog's additional European locations in Stuttgart and Milan.

MAIDENHEAD, England, May 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- PREVENAR Shown to Reduce Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Young Children

Data presented at the 26th annual meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID) in Graz, Austria, provide additional evidence of the public health impact of the routine use of Prevenar* (Pneumococcal Saccharide Conjugated Vaccine, Adsorbed), which helps protect against the seven pneumococcal serotypes causing the majority of disease worldwide.(1)

READING, England, May 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Leaders Have Best Overall Combination of Current Offering and Strategy

Verizon Business has been recognised as a leading provider of European-wide-area-network (WAN) services in an April 2008 Forrester Research report.

The report, "Forrester Wave(TM): European WAN Services, Q2 2008," recognised Verizon Business as "a great all-round performer. Verizon Business has coverage in 30 countries, a strong product portfolio, leading SLAs (service-level agreements), the best e-portal, and top customer satisfaction scores."

LONDON, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Online Media Technologies Ltd. launches a new online portal which features the collection of freeware for home video and audio management. All free solutions presented on http://www.avs4free.com are the innovative programs of Online Media Technologies Ltd. which concentrates on the development of high-quality software. AVS4FREE applications have no time or feature limits and are absolutely free.

Having about thirty video and audio software in its product line Online Media Technologies Ltd. releases AVS4FREE.com, a separate online portal with only multimedia freeware. AVS4FREE.com doesn't require any user registration to download and use the software for free.

CALGARY, Canada, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Oncolytics Biotech Inc. ("Oncolytics") (TSX:ONC, NASDAQ:ONCY) announced today that that it has received a letter of approval from the U.K. Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for its Clinical Trial Application (CTA) to begin a Phase II clinical trial using intravenous administration of REOLYSIN(R) in combination with paclitaxel and carboplatin in patients with advanced head and neck cancers. The principal investigator is Dr. Kevin Harrington of The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.

PALO ALTO, California, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Facebook today announced another step towards enabling anyone in the world to communicate and share information with the people they know, regardless where they live or what language they speak, by releasing the site in Polish. Current users who want to view Facebook in Polish can change their language preference from their account settings, and beginning today, any person who goes to http://www.facebook.com from Poland will see the site in Polish.

We all know that children who are popular do well socially. A new study has found that teenagers who feel good about themselves and are comfortable with their peers can also be socially successful without being popular in the traditional sense.

These findings come from researchers at the University of Virginia and are published in the May/June 2008 issue of the journal Child Development.

Researchers studied 164 adolescents from racially, ethnically, and socio-economically diverse backgrounds. The teens were interviewed at age 13 and then again at 14. The researchers also interviewed the adolescents’ same-sex close friends.

A study investigating aging in mice has found that hormonal changes that occur when mice eat significantly less may help explain an already established phenomenon: a low calorie diet can extend the lifespan of rodents, a benefit that even regular exercise does not achieve.

“We know that being lean rather than obese is protective from many diseases, but key rodent studies tell us that being lean from eating less, as opposed to exercising more, has greater benefit for living longer. This study was designed to understand better why that is,” said Derek M. Huffman, the study’s lead author.

The study applies only to rodents, which are different in some key ways from humans, cautions Huffman.