SAN JOSE, California, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Industrial Software Technology to Provide Java Solutions to Increase Development Productivity for AVR32 AP7 Series

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) and Industrial Software Technology(TM) S.A. announced today the industry's most integrated solutions to design Java applications for embedded systems. Based on a cleanroom implementation of a Java(R) Virtual Machine called MicroJvm(R), the first product of the MicroJvm family specifically targeted for AVR(R)32 cores offers a bare-metal virtual machine with a small memory footprint (65 Kbytes), a high speed engine (up to 3 times faster than common Java engines) and optimized software library bundles.

BIRMINGHAM, England, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Environment and Energy Awards Recognise Semplice Eco|Solutions for Addressing Hybridised Energy Saving and Clean Energy Generation to Make Sustainability Financially Viable

Semplice Energy Limited, a leading provider of CleanTech energy solutions to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions, were awarded the consultancy award for sustainable cleanup at the Environment and Energy awards held at the ICC in Birmingham last night.

A "CatCam” that captures feline-centric video of a forest and a new mathematical model are two elements of a new effort to explain how the brain’s visual circuitry processes real scenes.

The new model of the neural responses of a major visual-processing brain region promises to significantly advance understanding of vision.

The researchers sought to develop the new model because until now, studies of the visual system have used simple stimuli such as dots, bars and gratings.

HAIFA, Israel, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Oil Refineries Ltd. (TASE: ORL.TA) ("Oil Refineries" or the "Company") announced today its financial results for three months ending March 31, 2008.

The following reports are accounted for under IFRS is US dollars. During the first quarter of 2008 the Company expanded its segment reporting and, in addition to the segments reported, the Company added a Trade sector. The Company is implementing its strategic plan in all areas of activity.

ASCOT, England, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The Micromachined Diamond Device Initiative (MIDDI) led by researchers at Element Six Ltd in collaboration with the Institute of Photonics at The University of Strathclyde has been completed successfully. The aim of MIDDI, which was part-funded by the UK Department of Trade and Industry, was to develop world-leading technologies for diamond microelectronic device manufacturing to give European companies a competitive edge over Japan and the US.

WASHINGTON, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Societe d'Articles Hygieniques to develop additional production facilities, increase exports

Emerging Capital Partners (ECP), an international private equity firm focused on investing across the African continent, today announced a U.S. $47.3 million investment in Societe d'Articles Hygieniques (SAH), Tunisia's leading personal care company and producer of absorbent hygiene products. The funds will be used to expand operations in SAH's existing North African markets, as well as to enter into new markets.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Wayport, a provider of converged network solutions to enable breakthrough network applications, has taken over one of the largest WLAN networks in Finland, the DNA WLAN network. The agreement includes the acquisition of DNA's complete WLAN business: network infrastructure, contracts with the venues as well as the end-subscribers. The acquired network consists mainly of hotels and congress centres, but also other venues, such as cafes and the Helsinki International Airport.

Two new exoplanets mean that the COROT mission(1) has now found a total of four new exoplanets in its 510 day journey. COROT started observations of its sixth star field at the beginning of May and, during this observation phase which will last 5 months, will simultaneously observe 12,000 stars.

The two new planets are gas giants of the hot Jupiter type, which orbit very close to their parent star and tend to have extensive atmospheres because heat from the nearby star gives them energy to expand. But an oddity dubbed ‘COROT-exo-3b’ has raised particular interest among astronomers. It appears to be something between a brown dwarf, a sub-stellar object without nuclear fusion at its core but with some stellar characteristics, and a planet. Its radius is too small for it to be a super-planet.

We all know that coffee can cure everything.

Now it turns out that even a coffee roasting process - torrefaction - could give biomass a power boost, increasing the energy content of some energy crops by up to 20 percent, making biofuels merely bad instead of awful.

The study, carried out by engineers from the University of Leeds, examined the combustion behavior of crops grown specifically for energy creation when put through the mild torrefaction thermal process usually associated with coffee production.

LONDON, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

Cable operators with coaxial and HFC networks in Europe offering internet and analogue video are going digital along with plans to offer Voice over IP. While digitization enhances the revenue per subscriber it brings challenges of activating & deactivating of multiservices, rating of multiple usage types, managing prepaid & postpaid billing models and generating single bill for the subscriber. MagnaQuest has deployed its solution for several operators globally and is confident of supporting these new business plans of operators in Europe. MagnaQuest solution, MQSubscribe(TM) has powerful rating, service packaging, provisioning, tracking of cable modems, monthly billing, and customer care functionalities.