BRADFORD, England, March 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Health researchers at the University of Bradford have welcomed the GBP500,000 donation announced by best-selling author Terry Pratchett today (Thursday 13 March 2008).

Mr Pratchett was diagnosed with a rare early-onset form of Alzheimer's disease in December last year. He will announce a pledge of around GBP494,000 at the Alzheimer's Research Trust annual conference.

Currently there are around 15,000 people in the UK with early-onset dementia, which strikes under the age of 65.

BRACKNELL, England, March 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Play the Pros and Win PowerLine HomePlug Networking Hardware

BRACKNELL, England, March 13 /PRNewswire/ --

ZyXEL, sponsors of professional gaming outfit Team Dignitas, is offering gamers the opportunity to play the professionals during i33 (Newbury, March 21/22nd). The player who manages to achieve the most 'kills' against one of the Dignitas professionals in Unreal Tournament 3 (UT3) on each day will be rewarded with a pair of ZyXEL PowerLine HomePlug adapters, that will help turn players' home electrical circuits into a high speed broadband network, with access points in any room.

Everyone knows computer chips have increased in speed and shrunk in size over the past few decades and their interconnects, the copper wires that transport signals around the chip and to other chips, have shrunk also. As interconnects get smaller, the copper’s resistance increases and its ability to conduct electricity degrades. This means fewer electrons are able to pass through the copper successfully, and any lingering electrons are expressed as heat. This heat can have negative effects on both a computer chip’s speed and performance.

The $260 billion semiconductor industry won't get too excited just yet but they have to take notice of a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute study comparing the performance of copper nanowires and carbon nanotube bundles for interconnects. It is the first study to examine copper nanowire using quantum mechanics rather than empirical laws.

Amino acids are organic molecules that are the backbone of the proteins that build many of the structures and drive many of the chemical reactions inside living cells. The production of proteins is believed to constitute one of the first steps in the emergence of life. Amino acids are truly the 'building blocks' of life on Earth but the presence of these compounds in meteorites has led some researchers to look to space as a source.

Scientists at the Carnegie Institution have discovered concentrations of amino acids in two meteorites that are more than ten times higher than levels previously measured in other similar meteorites. This result suggests that the early solar system was far richer in the organic building blocks of life than scientists had thought, and that fallout from space may have spiked Earth’s primordial broth.

LONDON, March 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Proceeds of US$140 Million Represent Nine Times Original Investment

Balderton Capital, the leading European venture capital firm, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement to sell its 15.7% stake in Bebo (http://www.bebo.com) to AOL, which is to acquire the global social media network. The proceeds of the sale due to Balderton Capital are approximately US$140 million, more than nine times the original sum invested.

These returns make Bebo one of the most successful European internet investments of recent years. Another Balderton investment, MySQL, the fast-growing open source database company, was recently sold to Sun Microsystems for a price of approximately US$1 billion.

CALGARY, Canada, March 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- 59 per cent increase in Funds Flow From Operations to $1,319 Million

- 98 per cent increase in Net Income to $482 Million

- 40 per cent increase in Production to 125.9 Mbbl/d

- 26 per cent increase in Proved Plus Probable Reserves to 446.7 MMbbl

Addax Petroleum Corporation ("Addax Petroleum" or the "Corporation") (TSX:AXC and LSE:AXC), today announced its results for the year ended December 31, 2007. The financial results are prepared in accordance with Canadian GAAP and the reporting currency is US dollars. In addition, the Corporation is announcing an increase to its 2008 capital expenditure budget.

EL SEGUNDO, California, March 13 /PRNewswire/ --

Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) today announced that the company will not extend its relationship with Riis Cycling or its professional cycling team past the end of the current contract, which expires on Dec. 31, 2008.

CSC indicated the decision reflects a shift in priorities as the company makes new investments to implement a strategic long-term growth plan.

FREMONT, California, March 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Mac Users Experience Up to 28% Performance Improvement Using New Corsair Low Latency Tuned Memory

Corsair(R) http://www.corsair.com, a worldwide leader in high-performance computer and flash memory products, announced today the world's first high performance memory modules made especially for the Mac. The new Corsair memory modules are the industry's first low latency modules specifically tuned for the new MacBook and MacBook Pro laptop computers.

BAD HOMBURG, Germany, March 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Deutsche Postbank International S.A. (PBI), located in Luxembourg, has migrated to the fund accounting of SimCorp Dimension in seven months. Special attention was paid to the regulatory specifics of Luxembourg during the implementation. Postbank Luxembourg has been using SimCorp Dimension since 2001.

To secure fast project progress, KAG Best Practice, a special starter package of SimCorp Dimension for the implementation within fund management companies was used. PBI's existing system could therefore be discontinued at the end of February 2008.

SAN MATEO, California and EDMONDS, Washington, March 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- NetSuite Powers Wolfgang Puck Coffee's Multi-Channel Sales and Multi- Location Operations

- NetSuite Streamlines Growing Wholesale-Distributor's Business Operations Management from Accounting to CRM and to Ecommerce