AUSTIN, Texas, March 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Nine New ARM Cortex-M3-based Microcontrollers Unveiled in Low Power 130nm Technology

LONDON, March 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Value of Successful PFI Projects Completed by Kajima Now Totals in Excess of GBP300m

Kajima, the property development and investment company, today (3rd March) announces the completion of its GBP25 million Newcastle Libraries PFI project.

The centerpiece of this project, the new Newcastle City Library, will open to the public in June this year. Built on the site of the former library by Princess Square it extends to some 8,000m2 and includes a 180-seat performance space, displays of local heritage treasures, a creche, a cafe, an internet information hub and meeting rooms for community groups.

LONDON, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Applied Industrial Logic and Eonic today announced a partnership aimed at providing UK brokers and insurers with OpenQuote, the world's number one open source insurance solution (based upon number of downloads during the last six months).

OpenQuote was created by Applied Industrial Logic to help reduce both the time-to-market and costs of web-enabling quotations for insurance products and schemes. The software allows insurers, brokers and agents to efficiently release and maintain their products, by configuring risk capture, risk assessment and rating rules.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 3 /PRNewswire/ --

blinkx, the world's largest video search engine, today announced a technology partnership with Markit, a financial information services company. Markit's clients, including banks, asset management firms and hedge funds, will now have organized access to business news video.

Markit will use blinkx's advanced video technology, its massive index of online video and 450-plus content partnerships to provide its clients with comprehensive business news video coverage. The videos will be distributed on Markit's Web site and the Markit Enhanced Feed.

PARIS, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Novexel, a speciality pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of novel antibiotics designed to overcome the significant global problem of microbial resistance, announces today that its most advanced injectable antibacterial, which combines Novexel's broad spectrum beta lactamase inhibitor, NXL104, with the well established cephalosporin antibiotic, ceftazidime, has entered a second Phase II clinical trial.

LONDON, March 3 /PRNewswire/ --

Based on its recent analysis of the autoimmune disease diagnostics markets, Frost Sullivan recognizes Aesku.Diagnostics with the 2008 European Frost Sullivan Product Line Strategy Award for its consistent approach towards product development. It has anticipated and catered to the needs in bio-marker identification, offered versatile immunoassay systems, extended research capabilities as well as delivered unprecedented sensitivity and exceptional performance.

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CeBIT - HANNOVER, Germany, March 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- deCarta WLNA Fleet Europe Streamlines Development of Fleet and Mobile Resource Management Navigation Solutions

ABERDEEN, Scotland, March 3 /PRNewswire/ --

ODS-Petrodata has launched the first interactive database and newswire service that covers the complex offshore construction vessel arena.

The new ConstructionVesselBase covers all vessels that install and maintain vital offshore oil and gas infrastructure, including platforms, pipelines and other subsea hardware throughout the world. Worldwide deployments of heavy lift construction barges, well intervention vessels, accommodation barges, and pipelay vessels are all tracked, as are the dive and ROV support vessels dedicated to the subsea market.

LONDON, March 3 /PRNewswire/ --

CMPMedica, the global healthcare information provider which is a division of United Business Media Limited, has signed an agreement with MAIDIS, the international healthcare software vendor, to provide an integrated medicine management system for two hospitals in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Natural wood, with its unique grain patterns, is what gives traditional acoustic instruments warm and distinctive sounds, while the power of modern electronic processing provides an unlimited degree of control to manipulate the characteristics of an instrument's sound. Now, a guitar built by a student at MIT's Media Lab promises to provide the best of both worlds.