JOHANNESBURG, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- SYSTIME, the largest Oracle JD Edwards practice globally, announced today the expansion of its international presence by opening offices in Johannesburg (Gauteng) and Cape Town, South Africa.

SYSTIME's presence in South Africa reaffirms the company's commitment to provide a local presence globally to all clients.

DUSSELDORF, Germany, June 22 /PRNewswire/ --

ATX Group, a leading provider of customized connected vehicle (telematics) services to global automobile manufacturers, announced today that its services are now available to rental car customers in Germany through a program offered by BMW and Sixt rental car agency. Sixt customers who rent a BMW at one of the over 500 Sixt retail outlets throughout Germany will have exclusive and free access to BMW Assist and BMW Online connected vehicle services, provided through the BMW Connected Drive program supported by ATX.

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LONDON, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- BIS Ltd announced today that it has achieved Cisco Powered designations for MPLS VPN, Managed Internet Service and Metro Ethernet services by establishing the resources and procedures to deploy, manage and support these Cisco Powered services.

BIS has been quietly providing managed solutions to our customers for years and we were delighted to formalise this by working with Cisco to achieve a Cisco Powered designation and become a member of Cisco's Managed Services Channel Program, said BIS Sales Director, Samantha Keating. Our relationship with Cisco enables us to continue to grow our Managed Service business, delivering technology with consistent high quality customer service, she continued.

MOSCOW, June 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Icon Private Equity, One of the Largest Private Equity Funds in Russia and CIS, Will Invest US$200 Million to Establish a National WiMAX Operator

Icon Private Equity plans to invest US$200 million into the development of WiMAX networks in Russia's regions, said Kirill Dmitriev, the fund's Managing Partner (http://www.iconpe.com/index.php?id=team_engdesc=62).

LONDON, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Government's Digital Britain report has proposed a complex and probably impractical deterrent for people accessing pirated music online but online music jukebox We7 (http://www.we7.com)has found that two in three (64%) consumers are only listening to and sharing music illegally online because they do not know how to do so legally.

94% of Brits say they would choose a legal music site to access their favourite tracks if it offered the same or better services than a pirate site. With that encouraging statistic, We7believes that the best way to eliminate music piracy is through education, awareness and the promotion of legal and safe online music services.

A baffling report says health workers fail to understand the importance of sex for Tanzanian children.   Yes, children.

Community health organizations working on AIDS prevention projects in Tanzania, frequently fail to understand how children in Tanzania deal with sex, says Miranda van Reeuwijk, who followed groups of children in Tanzania between 2004 and 2008.  

van Reeuwijk followed the children in order to help change this situation and says the children mainly view sex as something from which they can personally benefit, but frequently hide their relationships from parents and health workers. They are more scared of their strict parents than of HIV. 

Melatonin can slow down the effects of aging, according to a team at laboratoire Arago in Banyuls sur Mer (CNRS / Université Pierre et Marie Curie) who say that a treatment based on melatonin can delay the first signs of aging in a small mammal.

Better known as the ‘time-keeping' hormone, melatonin is naturally secreted by the body during the night. It is therefore a kind of biological signal for nightfall, allowing an organism to synchronize itself with the day/night rhythm.

HAMBURG, Germany, June 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- 2-Teraflop SuperServer 6016GT-TF-TM2 with Two Tesla GPUs plus a new 4U System that supports Four Tesla GPUs

Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a leader in application-optimized, high performance server solutions, is showcasing the fastest 1U server on the planet, its new, 2-Teraflop SuperServer 6016GT-TF-TM2, this week at ISC '09 in Hamburg, Germany (booth 310). This massively parallel processing dual-GPU server is the first 1U multi-GPU (graphics processing unit) system with a fully non-blocking architecture. Optimized for performance and reliability, the 6016GT-TF-TM2 supports dual Nehalem CPUs and features two NVIDIA Tesla M1060 GPUs via two Gen2 PCI-Express x16 connections.

The largest artificial underground cav in Israel has been exposed in the Jordan Valley in the course of a survey carried out by the University of Haifa's Department of Archaeology. Prof. Adam Zertal, who headed the excavating team, reckons that this cave was originally a large quarry during the Roman and Byzantine era and was one of its kind. Various engravings were uncovered in the cave, including cross markings, and it is assumed that this could have been an early monastery.

"It is probably the site of "Galgala" from the historical Madaba Map," Prof. Zertal says.

A toxic molecule implicated in cell damage and disease  may also be essential for bird migration, according to the University of Illinois. They propose the molecule superoxide as a key player in the mysterious process that allows birds to 'see' Earth's magnetic field.