LONDON, April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Ricoh Europe (http://www.ricoh-europe.com) is offering businesses increased opportunities to achieve cost savings, increase productivity and reduce environmental impact, with the expansion of its Managed Print Services. The enhanced services are available as a global or local implementation and stand out in the market by offering a full lifecycle approach to document management. The holistic solution can be embedded into the workflow of an organisation to meet its unique and specific needs. It includes consultancy, hardware, software, maintenance, management services, office solutions and document process outsourcing throughout the entire document lifecycle.

LONDON, April 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- Frost Sullivan to Host Analyst Briefing on Biometrics Market on Thursday, 7 May 2009, at 16.00 BST

In 2008 biometric vendors witnessed massive growth; however the same downturn that affected banking, construction industry and retail stores since the end of 2008 also affected some biometric vendors. This said, with the ongoing demand for more integrated security solutions from vertical sectors such as education, law enforcement, government, healthcare and manufacturing facilities, 2009 is anticipated to be a steady uphill year for the market.

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ROSH-HA'AYIN, Israel, April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Kornit Digital, a leading-edge company that develops, manufactures and markets high-speed industrial digital inkjet printers, superior pigmented ink and unique chemistry solutions for the garment apparel decorating industry, today announced that it will exhibit its comprehensive solution for dark polyester printing at Fespa Digital Europe 2009 Show on May 12-14, 2009 in Amsterdam. Kornit will be located in Hall 1, Booth H70.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Cellectricon, a leading provider of automated screening solutions for drug discovery, today announced its collaboration with BioFocus DPI, a contract research organization with leading expertise in ion channel screening. BioFocus DPI will utilize Cellectricon's Dynaflow(R)HT, a fully automated patch clamp (APC) system, to further increase its electrophysiology-based screening capacity, particularly for fast ligand-gated ion channels.

TOKYO, April 27 /PRNewswire/ --

NTT Communications (NTT Com) announced on April 27 that following the establishment of NTT Communications Russia LLC in Moscow, Russia this past January, the wholly owned subsidiary will now set up a branch office in St. Petersburg, and, in addition, two other NTT Com subsidiaries will respectively set up branches in Brussels, Belgium and Neemrana, India, all within the current business quarter.

The Brussels branch will be set up by NTT Europe Limited, an NTT Com subsidiary that already manages branch offices in other European cities.

NTT Com also operates a representative office in Moscow, which it set up in April 2008.

MUMBAI, India, April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Patni Computer Systems (http://www.patni.com/) (BSE: PATNI COMPUT, NSE: PATNI, NYSE:PTI), a leading global IT and BPO services provider, today announced that it has been ranked as the No. 1 'Green Innovative Information Technology Vendor' by the prestigious 2009 Black Book Top Green Outsourcing Vendors Survey, an annual industry survey of outsourcing service providers' pro-environmental initiatives from the perspective of their client experience. Patni was credited as a highly recommended vendor who exceeded client satisfaction, with over 315 client nominations. The Green Outsourcing Vendors survey is conducted by the Brown-Wilson Group, a Tampa, Florida-based research organization.

LONDON, April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- BIS Ltd, a leading provider of datacentres and global networks today announced that it had completed a new strategic partnership with Telstra International EMEA.

The partnership cements the strong relationship between the companies and demonstrates Telstra's commitment to BIS and its customers.

Filligent, a Hong Kong-based biotech company, is mobilizing stocks of its anti-infective BioMask to help combat the global spread of the deadly new Mexican strain of Influenza A.   The BioMask is the first medical face mask to kill the Influenza A virus within seconds of contact while retaining the breathability required by front-line workers and children, who are often the first to fall in a contagious episode.

If pizza isn't already on the list of 7 greatest inventions of the post-modern world (because nothing goes with wanting to strangle someone who invokes Foucault like a nice slice of pepperoni) a new discovery may put it there; the physics of the perfect pizza toss have inspired Monash University to design the next generation of micro motors  ... thinner that a human hair.

The idea that far distant particles can somehow 'talk' to each other led Einstein to call it 'spooky action at a distance'.

Having confirmed its existence, scientists today are learning how to use this 'spooky action' as a helpful tool. Now a team of physicists at the University of Bristol and Imperial College London have harnessed this phenomenon to shed light on another unusual and previously difficult aspect of quantum physics - that of distinguishing between two similar quantum devices.

In the everyday world any process can be considered as a black box device with an input and an output; if you wish to identify the device you simply apply inputs, measure the outputs and determine what must have happened in between.