CALGARY, Canada, August 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- 83 Per Cent Increase in Funds Flow From Operations to USD524 Million

- 190 Per Cent Increase in Net Income to USD293 Million

- 8 Per Cent Increase in Production to 132.9 Mbbl/d

Addax Petroleum Corporation ("Addax Petroleum" or the "Corporation") (TSX:AXC and LSE:AXC), today announced its results for the quarter ended June 30, 2008. The financial results are prepared in accordance with Canadian GAAP and the reporting currency is US dollars.

BERLIN, August 6 /PRNewswire/ -- A 64-year-old man from France is the patient with the longest support time worldwide by the implantable heart support system INCOR(R). For five years already the Frenchman has been living with the system.

In August 2003, the then 59-year-old Jean-Pierre Offe was suffering from end-stage heart failure. Poor blood circulation in the heart muscle and two heart attacks had weakened his heart so severely it could no longer supply his body with enough blood. For medical reasons Mr. Offe was not eligible for heart transplantation, but desperately needed support for his failing heart.

BEIJING, August 6 /PRNewswire/ --

Haier, the world's fourth largest white goods manufacturer and the official white goods sponsor of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, today opens the Haier "Making the World a Home" Experience Center in Chaoyang Park, Beijing. The Experience Center will be open to the public for the duration of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, where visitors will experience Haier's vision of the future of home appliances and its "U-Home" technology.

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PRAGUE, Czech Republic, August 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- JetBrains Wins the 2008 SD Times 100 and a Reader's Merit Award From Visual Studio Magazine

JetBrains(R), the creator of intelligent, productivity-enhancing tools for software developers, is again recognized for excellence and leadership in the industry. Two of its major products, IntelliJ IDEA and JetBrains ReSharper, continue to set new standards of developer productivity in the Java and .NET worlds, respectively.

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TEL AVIV, Israel, August 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Entertainment Industry Veteran Reavis Daniel Moore Appointed Chairman

- Company Teams up With Digital Music Pioneer Ted Cohen and Tag Strategic

YouLicense.com, the online music licensing marketplace, today announced it has secured Series A funding from Ofer Media, Israel's leading private equity and investment firm for media, entertainment and Internet companies, and Logia Group LTD, a global provider of innovative mobile content solutions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The funding will be used to grow the company's global marketing efforts and content acquisitions.

BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, August 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Optimized Mobile Workforce Management System Schedules More Than 1,000 Technicians to Ensure Telecommunications Services run Smoothly

REDWOOD CITY, California, DHAKA, Bangladesh and BANGALORE, India, August 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Initiative Will Deliver Affordable Banking Services to the World's Poorest People

Obopay, Inc., the pioneering service provider for payments via mobile phones, and Grameen Solutions, the company globally recognized for promoting economic and social development through information and communications technology, today announced a unique, first-of-its-kind alliance to use mobile technology to deliver banking services to a billion of the world's poorest people by 2018.

HARTFORD, Connecticut, August 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Comprehensive Portfolio of Benefit Products and Programmes Available in September

Aetna (NYSE: AET) announced today that its international health and group business, Aetna Global Benefits (AGB), will begin offering products and programmes to European Union-based multinational corporations and their employees on international assignments. Available in September, this robust portfolio demonstrates Aetna's commitment to deliver world-class benefits solutions to multinational employers and international assignees. This offering also represents the first integrated product solution between AGB and Goodhealth Worldwide since the recent acquisition.

LONDON, August 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Twitter, the micro blogging site has become the latest target for cyber criminals, intent on stealing data (http://www.tinyurl.com/5rzu28). Social networks are beginning to prove a fertile environment for hackers.

According to antiviral firm, Kaspersky, a fake, malicious Twitter profile has been spotted. It announces a link to pornographic video but instead downloads a fake version of Adobe Flash, which installs programs capable of stealing data.

The attack is believed to be the first to target Twitter.

The language, the servers used to download the Trojans and email addresses used to collect the stolen data point to a Brazilian creator.

The fake profile has a name that means "pretty rabbit" in Portuguese.

ELMSHORN, Germany, August 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Extension of the Basic Product Range With the Shuttle Barebone K48

Shuttle Inc., the market leader in the mini-PC segment and the manufacturer of Multi-Form-Factor solutions presents its second Mini-PC Barebone for users of simple applications. For everyday use Office, the internet and email do not require an oversized specification that delivers maximum performance. A processor from the entry-level segment, suitable memory and hard disk saves investment costs and energy.