RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Practice Leaders Appointed

Quintiles Transnational Corp. today announced the appointment of three new practice leaders and a business development head as part of its expanding Quintiles Consulting business, which provides pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies with strategic guidance to maximize potential and minimize risk from early discovery through commercialization.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Empowers UK Shoppers to Save Time and Money and Take Control of Shopping

United Kingdom shoppers, it's time to take control of shopping. Save time, save money, and arm yourselves with mShopper.

mShopper, the leader in mobile shopping, today announced that it has launched its UK shopping service. Armed with real-time price and product details through their cell phones, shoppers in the UK will quickly and easily find and buy great products with only a few keystrokes -- saving valuable time and money.

HONG KONG, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

OrbusNeich's Genous Bio-engineered R stent will be featured at a sponsored symposium during Angioplasty Summit TCT 2008 Asia Pacific.

The symposium, which will take place on April 23 at the Convention Center of Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Seoul Hotel in Seoul, Korea, includes:

Not that these women sweat anyway. "Horses Sweat, Men Perspire And Ladies Glow," my mother always told me.

But you get the idea. A group of fashion conscious women is making a difference this Earth Day - by looking fabulous!

Okay, as a man in his 40s with more children than I can count, I had a hard time even writing the word 'fabulous' without laughing.

But there is something serious happening. Chantecaille, a cosmetics company, has said it will donate five percent of the proceeds of its new “Protected Paradise” face and eyes compacts to the Pew Institute’s Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation program, which provides a $150,000 award to each of five ocean experts around the world annually to develop solutions to critical ocean challenges.

LONDON, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company finds use of malicious software increasingly motivated by financial gain.

Microsoft Corp today released the fourth volume of its Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) at Infosecurity Europe 2008. The report focuses on the second half of 2007 and uses data derived from a range of tools running on approximately 450 million computers worldwide to provide an in-depth, global view of software vulnerabilities, software exploits, malicious software and potentially unwanted software.

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CALGARY, Canada, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Phase 1a Study Objectives Were Met

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IRVINE, California and LONDON, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Endeavors and Partners to Offer Microsoft Office on a Rental Basis

Endeavors Technologies, the pioneer in application streaming and virtualization technology, and its parent company, Tadpole Technology plc, today announced support for the Microsoft program amending the Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA). The new program allows service providers to stream Microsoft Office for delivery through a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model.

ABBOTT PARK, Illinois and ST. PAUL, Minnesota, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

Smiths Medical MD will promote and distribute Abbott's FreeStyle Navigator Continuous Glucose Monitoring System (http://www.continuousmonitor.com/). Smiths Medical MD is the manufacturer of the CozMore insulin technology system (http://www.smiths-medical.com/markets/diabetes/) and the Deltec Cozmo insulin pump.

To supplement Abbott's own promotional efforts, a non-exclusive distribution agreement will allow Smiths Medical representatives to promote Abbott's FreeStyle Navigator System to its growing customer base in the United States. Financial terms will not be disclosed.

SYDNEY, Australia, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- HotelsCombined.com has been shortlisted alongside Expedia.com and TripAdvisor.com for prestigious Travel award

HotelsCombined.com has been named a finalist for the category "Best Travel Metasearch/Price Comparison Website" for the 2008 Travolution Awards.

The Travolution Awards, organized by the UK's leading B2B online magazine, is the most respected awards event for the UK Travel sector. The website is amongst an elite field of nominees including Cheapflights.co.uk, British Airways, EasyJet.com, WAYN.com, STA Travel, Kayak.co.uk, TUI Travel PLC and Travelodge.

ATLANTA and LONDON, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Leading University Leverages sFlow for End-to-End Network Visibility -