SAN FRANCISCO, March 11 /PRNewswire/ --

Initiating a dialogue with ISPs on how to protect social sites from exploitation, Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, asked network operators to trust that users will voluntarily report abuse and to cooperate with sites in building a safe online environment at the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) general meeting in San Francisco held Feb. 18-20. Over the course of the event, MAAWG committees completed a white paper on email authentication and updated best practices for volume email senders, both of which will be released to the industry within the next few weeks.

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- Deal Accelerates Commercialization of Intelligent Targeting Technology for Mobile -

Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions, today announced that it has acquired Xiam Technologies Limited (Xiam), an Ireland-based pioneer of wireless content targeting solutions. Xiam's My Personal Offers System (MPOS) provides targeting and personalization technology that accelerates discovery and individualizes the user experience by presenting relevant content offers and advertisements to consumers.

READING, England, March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- DediPower, one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers, has been selected by Asylum Entertainment Ltd (http://www.asylum-entertainment.com), a leading video game developer to provide all of their managed hosting requirements. DediPower will deliver a managed hosting business server solution to meet Asylum Entertainment's operational requirements in the competitive global games market worth over GBP15bn and growing at nearly 10% p.a.

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- New 2.25 mm Diameter Stent Now Available in Europe, Asia and Latin America

Abbott (NYSE: ABT) announced today that it has received CE Mark (Conformite Europeene) approval for a 2.25 mm version of its XIENCE(TM) V Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System, offering physicians a smaller stent based upon the proven efficacy, positive safety results and excellent deliverability of XIENCE V. The addition of the 2.25 mm stent to the XIENCE V portfolio gives physicians access to a wider range of stent sizes for treating a variety of patient types.

STAMFORD, Connecticut, March 11 /PRNewswire/ --

FocusVision, the world's leading provider of video transmission, recording, and analytical tools for qualitative market research, announced today that Eric Grosgogeat has been named as the new Chief Executive Officer.

Grosgogeat comes to FocusVision from Philips Electronics where he served as Vice President and General Manager -- Oral Care. During his tenure at Philips Electronics, he managed Sonicare in North America, delivering sizable revenue and profit growth.

Scientists have discovered epigenetic changes (i.e. chemical changes to a gene that do not alter the DNA sequence) in individuals with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. This is the first epigenome-wide investigation in psychiatric research, and this groundbreaking data may be a significant step on the journey to fully understanding major psychosis.

Dr. Arturas Petronis, senior scientist in the Krembil Family Epigenetic Laboratory at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), and his team studied 12,000 locations on the genome using an epigenomic profiling technology developed at CAMH. Approximately one in every two hundred of these genes showed an epigenetic difference in the brains of psychiatric patients.

Significantly, these changes were noted on genes involved in neurotransmission (the exchange of chemical messages within the brain), brain development, and other processes linked to disease origins.

Ant colonies are always used as the model for working together rather than for individual gain but that isn't so, say researchers from the University of Leeds and the University of Copenhagen. Dr. Bill Hughes and Professor Jacobus Boomsma say they have found evidence that, far from being a model of social cooperation, the ant world is riddled with cheating and corruption – and it goes all the way to the top.

Certain ants, they say, are able to cheat the system, ensuring their offspring become reproductive queens rather than sterile workers.

It's Gattaca, except with ants.

In the largest and longest study to date of weight loss maintenance strategies, researchers at Duke University Medical Center found that personal contact – and, to a lesser extent, a computer-based support system – were helpful in keeping weight off.

“The results of this study send a strong signal to those who seem to believe that obesity is such an intractable problem that nothing can be done about it,” says Dr. Laura Svetkey, professor of medicine at Duke and the lead author of the study. “Our research shows that is not true. A large majority of the participants in the Weight Loss Management study lost weight and kept weight off for two and one-half years.”

Rather than improving motorist safety, red-light cameras significantly increase crashes and are a ticket to higher auto insurance premiums, researchers at the University of South Florida College of Public Health conclude.

“The rigorous studies clearly show red-light cameras don’t work,” said lead author Barbara Langland-Orban, professor and chair of health policy and management at the USF College of Public Health. “Instead, they increase crashes and injuries as drivers attempt to abruptly stop at camera intersections. If used in Florida, cameras could potentially create even worse outcomes due to the state’s high percent of elderly who are more likely to be injured or killed when a crash occurs.”