HSIN-CHU, Taiwan, R.O.C., March 31 /PRNewswire/ --

- Ideal for power sensitive, automotive and analog applications

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. (TSE: 2330; NYSE: TSM) today announced that it has qualified its new 0.18-micron embedded flash (embFlash) process technology family that targets a wide range of applications. The new family includes a baseline 1.8 to 5 volt standard process, an ultra-low leakage process, and specific automotive-qualified embedded Flash IP.

AMSTERDAM, March 31 /PRNewswire/ --

- Thinking Outside the Box Yields web 3.0, Nonlinear and Smartphone Applications

ORLANDO, Florida, March 31 /PRNewswire/ --

The World Heart Federation, Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (TSE: 4568) and Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) announced today that they have partnered to improve cardiovascular health internationally. The organizations made the announcement at the 58th Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology in Orlando, Florida.

An estimated 17.5 million people died from cardiovascular disease in 2005, representing 30 percent of all global deaths, making it a significant public health concern.(1)

NEU-ISENBURG, Germany, March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- S-882Z is the part number of a new Charge Pump IC, introduced by Seiko Instruments, which distinguishes itself by physical set-up from traditional integrated circuits. It is completely built in SOI (Silicon On Insulator) technology, guarantying its functionality from lowest input voltages.

MINNEAPOLIS, March 31 /PRNewswire/ --

- New MultiModem iCell Combines IP and GPIO capabilities for Mission Critical Applications

LONDON, March 31 /PRNewswire/ --

Planalytics Inc. announced today that Hozelock Limited, a market leading garden watering, spraying and aquatics manufacture, has licensed its Business Weather Intelligence(R) platform. Hozelock will use Planalytics weather-driven demand (WDD) analyses for its product categories to isolate, measure and plan for weather's affect on sales across the UK.

Customer Service is at the heart of the Hozelock business. The Planalytics solution will help us to understand how much the weather will affect our end consumers, and as a result we can better support our retail customers through the volatile British summer, commented Peter Rush, Managing Director for Hozelock.

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LONDON, March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- There's been a lot of talk about Telepresence, the latest development in visual communications. Whilst video conferencing has been around for years, telepresence really comes into its own through its life size, fully HD, and specially-designed environment; creating an almost life-like meeting experience.

So far, however, telepresence has solely been aimed at C-level executives within multinational organisations. With a typical room costing in the region of GBP100,000-GBP200,000 and the significant impact it has on bandwidth, is telepresence really worth it? Isn't it a bit of an extravagance in this current economic downturn or is it a fundamental, cost-saving business tool?

MONTREAL, March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Atrion International announces that it has augmented its product development, regulatory services and marketing staff by 20% during the first quarter of FY-09. This is as a result of a consistent double-digit growth rate of its enterprise and mid-market customer base. Atrion is accommodating a majority of this staff growth in its recently expanded Worldwide Headquarters with the addition of a second location at 4929 Place Olivia, Ville Saint-Laurent, Quebec. The expansion will enable Atrion to support the increasing global demand for its Product Compliance Solutions. The new facilities will now house a portion of the Company's North American Marketing Sales departments as well as the Global Finance department.

LONDON, March 31 /PRNewswire/ --

- .tel Information Now Available in 11 Languages

Telnic Limited (http://www.telnic.org), the registry operator for the new .tel top level domain, today announced the launch of its multilingual website, providing .tel related information in 11 languages including: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Russian.

With over 145 registrars signed up to offer .tel domain names in 30 countries, we are pleased to provide a multilingual website to help people across the world better understand the power and innovation of .tel, says Benjamin Blumenthal, Telnic's Director of Marketing.

READING, England, March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- DediPower, a leading UK provider of managed hosting and data centre solutions, has been selected by EN Consulting Services to deliver the managed hosting for their recently introduced online migration process validation service.

The primary focus of EN Consulting Services is on migration and transition practices in the Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory enterprise space. As part of their transition infrastructure offerings, EN Consulting Services have built an online laboratory which allows customers to carry out pre-production process validation on their infrastructure prior to going to live.