ATLANTA, April 2 /PRNewswire/ --

Xiocom Wireless, Inc., a global provider of integrated wireless broadband solutions, today announced that it has appointed Steve Erdman as President, reporting to Troy Richardson, Chief Executive Officer. In his new role, Mr. Erdman will oversee day-to-day operations and business and market development. Steve is an outstanding executive with a unique blend of skills, from global strategy, market development, mergers and acquisitions, and operations, noted Troy Richardson, Chief Executive Officer. His ability to develop partnerships across the globe has enabled Xiocom to deliver on our vision. He brings a wealth of knowledge and hands-on experience into this leadership role.

ATLANTA, April 2 /PRNewswire/ --

Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN) today announced results for its fiscal third quarter ended February 28, 2009. For the third quarter, revenues grew 26% to US$392.7 million compared to US$310.6 million in the prior year. Normalized diluted earnings per share grew 2% to US$0.45 compared to US$0.44 in the prior year quarter.

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LONDON, April 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Service provider, vendor, and individual awards to be presented at Ethernet Expo Europe 2009

The other day I posted on my FaceBook profile that I better hurry up to finish my presentation on epigenetic inheritance. One of my friends commented: “I have no idea what that means, but good luck to you!” Ironically, that is, in part, the point of my presentation: understanding what it all means. Let me explain.

Getting your teenager to drink a chocolate milkshake isn't hard in most families but it is a difficult treatment approach for families who have a daughter with anorexia nervosa.   Known as Behavioral Family Therapy or the Maudsley Approach, it calls on parents to supervise the eating habits of their anorexic child, feeding them high-calorie meals like milkshakes and macaroni and cheese until they regain a healthy weight.

LUGANO, Switzerland and DUBLIN, April 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Investment in Line With the Government and IDA Strategy for RD

LONDON, April 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Unite Calls for Urgent Recruitment Programme

One specialist school nurse is looking after an estimated 6,900 children in England, according to Unite, the largest union in the country, which is calling for a massive recruitment campaign.

The latest NHS workforce statistics, based on September 2008 figures, reveal that there were 1,062 full-time equivalent (FTE) school nurses in England - an increase of 169 (FTEs) on the previous year. There are an estimated 7.3 million school-aged children in England.

Unite said this works out that each school nurse has to look after, in theory, 6,900 children.

Unite welcomed the small increase in school nurse numbers, but said that the workforce was faced with 'a double whammy'.

Welcome to what has become Inadvertent Cicada Week in this column.  Obviously, I'm fascinated by them.  This started around the summer of 2003, when I was completely addicted to a certain farm-simulator game for the Nintendo SP. 

During virtual summer on my virtual farm the game's music was overpowered by a jarring REEEREEEREEEREEEEEEE sound, intended to represent Japan’s singing cicadas.  When I finally managed to turn my Gameboy off to get some good ol’ grad student day-sleep in the relative stillness of central Pennsylvania, I found that the REEEREEEEEEEE noise had followed me.

SAN MATEO, California, April 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- SuiteCloud Developer Network Applications from Boomi, Cast Iron, Celigo and Pervasive Allow Salesforce Customers to Run Core Business Operations in the Cloud

- SuiteCloud Connect Brings Together the Industry's Two Largest Business Application Computing Clouds

MUMBAI, April 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- TIS' Electronic Performance Support Systems (EPSS) Aim to Accelerate Time-to-Competence and Implement Standard Knowledge Systems Across Organizations

Global leader in learning solutions, Tata Interactive Systems offers Electronic Performance Support Systems that enable organizations to improve processes, set organization-wide standards, and in-turn generate greater productivity from the customer-facing networks.

In any customer-facing or contact center environment, TIS EPSS facilitates prompt decision making by proactively generating the most pertinent information and responses; thereby reducing the average handling time (AHT) and enhancing the customer's experience.