SAN FRANCISCO, March 31 /PRNewswire/ --

- Online Voting is Now Open to the Public at Webware.com

blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that it has been selected by editors at CNET Webware as a finalist for the 2009 Webware 100 Awards in the Photo Video category.

From more than 5,000 user-submitted nominations, blinkx was chosen as one of 300 finalists. The 100 winners will be announced on May 19 and posted on Webware.com, a CNET site.

NEW YORK, March 31 /PRNewswire/ --

- Digital Agency Adds Senior Manager to Executive Team

AKQA, the leading independent digital marketing agency, has announced that Jim Rossman will join AKQA as its President Chief Operating Officer. Rossman is currently the Chief Operating officer at Digitas, the Publicis Groupe direct and digital marketing unit.

As we continue to rapidly expand, we want to add senior leadership to the AKQA executive team, said Tom Bedecarre, Chief Executive Officer of AKQA. We're looking forward to welcoming Jim later in April and introducing him to our organization, Bedecarre added. Rossman will be based in New York and will work with the AKQA staff and clients globally. Rossman will report directly to Bedecarre in his new role.

LONDON, March 31 /PRNewswire/ --

- 'A Beta Life - Youth' reveals the overall driver for young people is a desire for real world interaction with friends.

New research into the attitudes of youth towards technology has exploded some of the myths about the technology consumption and media choices of young people today. The research, A Beta Life - Youth, examined how technology affects all aspects of young people's relationships. It concludes that the offline world is still the primary influencer and driver of young people in how they conduct their lives, including interactions with friends, family, entertainment media, communication technologies, advertising and brands.

Cicadas might have used their wily prime number scheme to dodge 2 and 4 year predators, but what about a predator with continual exponential growth? 

The microcircuitry industry has reliably doubled the density of transistors on a chip every 2 years, as observed by Gordon E. Moore in 1965. This exponential density growth trend is known as Moore’s law, and satisfying it requires that nanofabrication techniques are constantly embraced, devoured, then cast aside. 

PRINCETON, New Jersey, March 31 /PRNewswire/ --

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- Travel Assistance Company is First in its Industry to Optimize Mobile Web Experience for Members

Assist America, Princeton, N.J., the premier provider of global emergency services through employee benefit plans, has launched Assist America(R) Mobile, an optimization of the company's website for users of Apple's iPhone. A comparative BlackBerry product will follow in a few weeks.

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LONDON, March 31 /PRNewswire/ --

- Expansion into New Vertical Markets, Comprehensive Partner Enablement and Increased Sales Contribute to MDM Leader's Profitability and Customer Satisfaction

AUSTIN, Texas, March 31 /PRNewswire/ --

- Stellaris IDM-SBC offers an Ethernet, USB, and CAN-connected QVGA touch-screen user interface for control, automation, and instrumentation applications

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 31 /PRNewswire/ --

The migration from narrowband and DSL to fiber will increase the size of Taiwan's Internet market from US$1.6 billion in 2008 to US$2.3 billion in 2013, according to a new report from Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com), the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network (www.lightreading.com).

... Not that the Texas school board creationists were coherent before, but what else do they have left? After the defeat of language in the state standards to teach the "strengths and weaknesses" of evolution in Texas public schools, the creationist school board members have rallied under the motto "Somebody's got to stand up to experts!" Thus, in defiance of the logical thinking and coherent grammar embraced so fondly by those nefarious experts, the Texas school board on Friday passed a number of incoherent amendments to their state science standards.

NEW YORK, March 31 /PRNewswire/ --

- Paris-based bank to aggregate and manage liquidity globally

TraderTools Inc. (TraderTools), a provider of business solutions, software and services to financial institutions trading FX, announced today that Natixis, one of the largest banks in France, licensed TraderTools' Liquidity Management Platform (LMP) to facilitate its global FX trading. In addition to its Paris headquarters, Natixis' FX trading desks include international money centers New York and Singapore. The TraderTools LMP will connect between the trading desks and includes liquidity aggregation, algorithmic trading and order management.