SAN JOSE, California, May 6 /PRNewswire/ --

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), announced today the AVRUSBRF01 reference design for development with AVR(R) microcontrollers in the un-licensed 2.4 GHz ISM band and connection to PCs with USB.

TEL AVIV, Israel, May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- PPV Billing Ltd., an international software development firm based in Tel Aviv, announced the launch of several new websites. Its flagship website, Kadabo.co.uk, is an innovative website that offers users a streamlined, more convenient web surfing experience. It was initially introduced to the British public in a campaign which reached over 3 million users. To date, Kadabo.co.uk and its sister sites have received 15 million page views from around the world. In addition to Kadabo, PPV Billing has also developed similar sites aimed at the German, French, and Spanish language markets, and are developing an international site with a global reach as well.

Fallow agricultural land and steppe-formation processes are evidently capable of having a much greater effect on global air quality than was previously assumed, according to researchers who examined a dust cloud that formed over parched fields in southern Ukraine and led to extremely high concentrations of particulate matter in Central Europe.

Over two-thirds of the land area in the Ukraine consists of fields and meadows. The soil on 220,000 square kilometres is regarded as being under threat. Since the 1930s wind erosion in what was then the Soviet Union has increased considerably as a result of collectivisation in agriculture and the resultant large field areas.

In particular, this has affected the regions north of the Caucasus, the lower reaches of the Don river and eastern and southern Ukraine. It is possible that the process is also accelerated by climate change. In particular, previously unaffected semi-arid regions are continuing to dry out.

ROANOKE, Virginia, May 6 /PRNewswire/ --

Meridium Inc., the leader in asset performance management (APM) software and consulting solutions, today announced that the world's largest primary producer of platinum, Anglo Platinum (JSE: AMS) (ADR: AGPPY) has chosen RCMO(TM) for its reliability centered maintenance (RCM) solution.

TEL AVIV, Israel, May 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Babylon-Enterprise Enables SAP Employee Access to Corporate Information and Translations in a Single Click

Babylon.com announced today that Babylon-Enterprise, its corporate information retrieval solution, has been implemented at SAP, and on every one of almost 44,000 SAP employee desktops worldwide.

After extensive evaluation SAP chose Babylon's solution for instant information retrieval, offering employees access to essential information in a single click. Babylon's product enables instant access to all information sources - ranging from internal corporate IT systems, through to external content such as language dictionaries and general reference sources.

PARIS, May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Transport Forum has launched its second online debate on "The Transport Sector and Climate Change" in preparation for its upcoming Forum, to be held in Leipzig on 28-30 May.

BRADFORD, England, May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Yorkshire Water has won many awards for customer service and holds the British government's Charter Mark for Service Excellence. In 2006 they were voted utility company of the year for an unprecedented third consecutive year, finishing ahead of all other water, gas, electricity, and telecoms companies.

Pursuing further efficiencies, Yorkshire Water looked for a way to retain their proven voice switches and reduce leased line costs. The first steps in 2003 involved the elimination of a number of costly 2 Mbps lines by carrying voice traffic over their own packet-switched core network.

CAMBRIDGE, England, May 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Support for the Microsoft Extended Debugging Interface (eXDI) in ARM RealView ICE Significantly Improves Visibility and Control of any ARM Processor-Based Platform Being Used for Windows Embedded CE Operating System Development

LONDON, May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Misys plc (FTSE: MSY.L), the global application software and services company, today announces that its core banking and trade services solutions have been selected by Masraf Al Rayan to build a true Islamic solution for its consumer and commercial customers.

Misys was chosen as the best partner for Masraf Al Rayan over other solutions from five vendors because of its proven expertise in Islamic finance and credibility in the region.

SOUTHAMPTON, England, May 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Leading Asthma Expert Calls for Action

On the occasion of World Asthma Day on 6 May, leading asthma expert Professor Stephen Holgate from the University of Southampton (UK) says: "I am delighted that the theme of this year's World Asthma Day 'You Can Control Your Asthma' sends out such a positive message. Indeed, with personalised disease management asthma can be controlled in the great majority of asthma patients."