LONDON, July 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Frost Sullivan to Host Analyst Briefing on European Pneumatic Actuators Market on Tuesday, 4 August 2009, at 14.00 BST

European pneumatic manufacturers are finding sustainability and profitability increasingly difficult to maintain in competitive market conditions exacerbated by the global economic crisis. Plummeting demand in the framework of general market uncertainty forces participants to focus more on innovation and value addition. Since demand for custom pneumatic solutions remains promising, participants are expected to instigate alliances to enhance their product and geographical coverage.

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AMSTERDAM, July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consultancy, design, engineering and management services company, today announced it has named Lance K. Josal FAIA as President and CEO of ARCADIS subsidiary RTKL Associates Inc., the international planning, design and engineering firm. Josal succeeds RTKL's current President and CEO, David C. Hudson AIA, who is retiring from the firm. The changes will take effect on 1 September 2009.

PARIS, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Orolia SA (NYSE Alternext Paris - FR0010501015 - ALORO), group specialized in high-precision timing, positioning and synchronization electronics systems, announced today the signing of an agreement with Airtek Capital Group to acquire Kannad SAS, a key global supplier of maritime, aeronautical and land-based distress positioning beacons. Headquartered in Guidel, France, Kannad is a market leader in positioning systems for severe environments and with pro-forma sales of 17.7 MEUR in 2008 (excluding the scientific instrumentation business divested in late 2008), it is one of the world's largest providers of COSPAS-SARSAT locator beacons.

PARIS, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) announced today that it has acquired Velocix, a leading global provider of Content Delivery Network (CDN) infrastructure and services to Internet and broadband service providers and media and entertainment companies.

CDNs optimize digital distribution over the Internet by replicating popular video and rich media content to geographically dispersed networks of delivery servers. This allows user requests for content to be served more rapidly and reliably from these local delivery servers rather than from a single source.

GUILDFORD, England, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of Surrey and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have signed an agreement to collaborate on the delivery of a GBP10m programme to translate the results of research into innovation that makes a real-world difference. The collaboration is supported by a GBP4m Knowledge Transfer Account (KTA) from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) with an additional GBP6m funding from industrial partners and the University of Surrey.

The joint Surrey/NPL team will focus on three specific areas of technology, each with the potential to create transformational benefits for the UK economy and society. The areas are:

LAS VEGAS, July 29 /PRNewswire/ --

FC2, Inc. has updated one of its services, FC2 Counter ( http://counter.fc2.com/ ) with more language options. The service is now available in French, German, Spanish, Russian and Korean.

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FC2 is making continuous efforts to make progress on multi-lingual application of its services following its success in FC2 Image Resizing Tool ( http://r.fc2.com/ ) and FC2 Blog ( http://blog.fc2.com/ ).

FC2 Counter is a well-known service among Japanese users, which enables users to easily display the number of visitors to their blogs for free.

LONDON and BOSTON, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- MetraTech Corp. (http://www.metratech.com/), the charging, billing, settlement and customer care product provider has a new white paper on enterprise billing that examines how both the operational environment and the complexity inherent within creating, managing and billing for services requires a different approach; leading to better customer relationships, greater visibility for customers and operations, combined within a strict and manageable auditing environment.

SYDNEY, LONDON and CHICAGO, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- ThoughtWorks is delighted to announce that Australian BT Financial Group's 'BT Super for Life' superannuation product (http://www.btsuperforlife.com.au), which was developed through a BT and ThoughtWorks' partnership, has been honoured in the global CIO 100 Awards this year.

The prestigious CIO 100 Awards honour 100 companies worldwide that are creating new business value by innovating with technology.

SAN JOSE, California, July 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- SAM9G45 ARM9-based Embedded MPU offers 480 Mbps EHCI-compliant HS-USB with on-chip PHy, Ethernet and SDIO for high-speed connectivity, plus LCD and Touch Sensing for intelligent UIs.