ORLANDO, Florida, May 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Companies Expand Collaborative Relationship and Global Footprint

Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading provider of global IT and business process outsourcing services, and SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced a global services partnership in an effort to deliver increased business value by streamlining their engagement and enabling both companies to respond quickly to the ever-changing needs of their customers. The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE(R) 2009, being held in Orlando, Florida, May 11-14.

SAN JOSE, California, May 12 /PRNewswire/ --

NXP Semiconductors announces the following TechOnline Webinar:

What: NXP Semiconductors Webinar When: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 11:00am EDT (8:00am PDT, 15:00 GMT) Where: http://seminar2.techonline.com/registration/distrib.cgi?s=1380d=2958 How: Live over the Internet -- Simply log on to the web at the address above. Contact: Rebecca Samuel, Media Relations, NXP Semiconductors, +1-408-474-8769

WEST PATERSON, New Jersey, May 12 /PRNewswire/ --

Interactive Systems Worldwide, Inc. (Pink Sheets: ISWI) announced that Global Interactive Gaming Ltd. (GIG), the Company's wholly owned UK subsidiary, has appointed Mr. Gareth M. Humphreys as its Business Development Director. In this role, Mr. Humphreys will oversee all strategic sales operations at GIG and will report directly to Mr. Bernard Albanese, Chief Executive Officer of ISWI. He will be headquartered in GIG's London office.

AUSTIN, Texas and WOODCLIFF LAKE, New Jersey, May 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Joins Microsoft and IBM as only ETL Experts to Sit on Benchmarking Subcommittee

Syncsort, a global provider of high-performance data integration software, is pleased to announce its invitation to join the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), a non-profit corporation founded to define transaction processing and database benchmarks. Syncsort will participate in the TPC's ETL Benchmark subcommittee, where it will lend expertise in performance and low total cost of ownership to drive industry thinking and direction.

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RALEIGH, North Carolina, May 12 /PRNewswire/ --

PRA International, a leading Clinical Research Organization, announces it is participating as a sponsor for Exploratory Clinical Development World (ECDW), 13-14 May 2009, in London, UK. ECDW is considered to be Europe's largest and most highly regarded early development congress. Experts from PRA's Early Development Services (EDS) group will be available to discuss PRA's capabilities at ECDW. Please contact Martin Schuiling ( schuilingmartin@praintl.com) to schedule a meeting and learn more.

MADRID, May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- ONDAS Media S.A., the satellite radio company for Europe, today announced that it has entered into a commercial agreement to install satellite radio receivers in Renault vehicles and its affiliates across Europe. This agreement will allow Renault customers to enjoy the benefits of the uninterrupted signal quality that satellite radio brings, in addition to extensive, commercial-free content and programming to be broadcast by ONDAS Media.

MUNICH, Germany, May 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- IBS to Re-Engineer OAG's Air Freight Rates Application

OAG Cargo Solutions (http://www.oagcargo.com), a leading data and online information services business for the global airfreight industry and part of UBM Aviation, announced today it has signed an agreement with IBS Software Services (http://www.ibsplc.com) to develop its next generation Air Freight Rates application, AFRA-2. IBS, a specialist in the aviation technology domain, will deliver a completely new application that will significantly enhance the way airlines, GSA's and freight forwarders interact on the distribution, management and selection of real-time airfreight rates.

HOUSTON, May 12 /PRNewswire/ --

WATER STANDARD, a global vessel-based water desalination company, was honored with the Desalination Deal of the Year award at Global Water Intelligence's Global Water Awards Ceremony held Monday, April 27, 2009 in Zurich, Switzerland.

The award recognizes WATER STANDARD's contribution to redefining an industry and acknowledges WATER STANDARD's achievement in securing commitments of up to US$250 million in funding towards the development and construction of the first in its fleet of Seawater Desalination Vessels (SDV), an unprecedented achievement in the desalination sector.

DUSSELDORF, Germany, May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The rating agency Standard Poor's has today confirmed the current rating of BB+ for the Gerresheimer Group and continues to categorize the outlook as stable. The focus of the MDAX company on the pharma life science industry is therefore assessed as positive and sustainable by the rating agency.

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DRESDEN, Germany, May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- In coming years Saxony will develop technologies on a large scale that will significantly reduce energy consumption of microchips and information technology. In September 2008 a jury of the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research selected a group of companies and research institutes in micro- and nanoelectronics, as well as information and communication technology for a top level research project. Today the group, called the 'Cool-Silicon-Cluster', which is located in the Dresden area, officially starts its project financed by both the Federal and the State governments. The setup of the cluster organization as well as the identification of all projects only took several months.