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- Wireless carriers can now fully embrace Wi-Fi connected devices with smartphones offering high-speed data connections to laptops, and other internet devices

TapRoot Systems Inc., a leading developer of software for the smartphone market, today announced its WalkingHotSpot(TM) solution for wireless carriers.

TapRoot's patent-pending software transforms a Wi-Fi enabled smartphone into a hotspot providing access to 3G data networks. The solution is the first in a series of products allowing wireless subscribers to enhance their smartphones for internet connectivity.

LONDON, March 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- British Businesses are Losing GBP250 a Second in Costs and Payouts for Needless Accidents in the Workplace

Millions of British men and women are at risk at work today because of a lack of safety training, the biggest survey ever carried out by the British Safety Council (BSC) has revealed. BSC bosses were shocked to find that half of all employers (51%) had not even bothered to offer training, despite the fact that they could be saving billions of pounds in payouts and costs. One worker is still being killed every working day and one person is injured almost every minute(1).

LONDON, March 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Partnership With MSN Provides Customers With Expanded Selection on MSN Shopping UK

PriceGrabber.co.uk(TM), a part of Experian(R), today announced a relationship with MSN Shopping in the United Kingdom to deliver an increased selection of products to consumers via MSN's shopping channel.

Hundreds of thousands of product offers and deals supplied by PriceGrabber.co.uk will enhance the overall shopping experience for MSN Shopping users in categories such as appliances, clothing, consumer electronics, health & beauty, and cameras. PriceGrabber.co.uk also will provide product reviews and merchant ratings to enable the user to find the right product, at the right price, from the right seller.

AUSTIN, Texas, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Ringdale, Inc., a technology leader in network enhancing connectivity solutions, is now shipping the ModuLAN(R) DocuSender(TM) appliance to distribution channel partners worldwide.

DocuSender is a unique business solution that allows hard copy documents to be scanned directly from a USB scanner to an e-mail address or fax line. When a document is sent as an e-mail, each page of the document is scanned as an image and arrives in the e-mail inbox as separate GIF file attachments.

Ringdale's ModuLAN devices are aimed at organizations moving toward a paperless office. DocuSender compliments the ModuLAN FaxReceiver(TM), which converts incoming faxes into e-mails and sends them directly to an inbox without using a PC.

ARNHEM, The Netherlands, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consultancy, design and engineering company, today announced that it has signed a three-year global contract to provide environmental consultancy services to Akzo Nobel - a leading global paint and chemical company. The work related to this contract will be performed in at least 12 countries in Europe, North- and South America as well as Asia. Under this contract, ARCADIS will become one of only two selected global environmental consultants to Akzo Nobel.

LOS ANGELES, March 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- ANSWERS.travel enables users to search the top 20 travel web sites such as Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, Priceline, Kayak and other major travel sites at the same time with one click as well as answer any type of travel related question free of charge to users.

LONDON, March 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- YELLOWPAGES.travel, a service by YellowPages Corporation offering US$1,000,000 prize to any UK resident with the funniest home video preferably related to travel

New research suggests political freedom and geographic factors contribute significantly to causes of terrorism, challenging the common view that terrorism is rooted in poverty.

"There is no significant relationship between a country's wealth and level of terrorism once other factors like the country's level of political freedom are taken into account," says Alberto Abadie, public policy professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

Abadie's review of the World Market Research Centre's Global Terrorism Index found no clear correlation between terrorism and poverty. Abadie's research was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Results from a recent survey conducted by a University of Missouri professor reveal that the U.S. public prefers to act locally and nationally on environmental issues and that may be why appeals to global warming are not more successful.

“The survey’s core result is that people care about their communities and express the desire to see government action taken toward local and national issues,” said David Konisky, a policy research scholar with the Institute of Public Policy. “People are hesitant to support efforts concerning global issues even though they believe that environmental quality is poorer at the global level than at the local and national level. This is surprising given the media attention that global warming has recently received and reflects the division of opinion about the severity of climate change.”

Can physical symptoms in depression be a consequence of low energy production rates? A report in the March issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics introduces a new hypothesis regarding the mechanisms of physical symptoms in depression: it states that energy production rates toward the lower end of the spectrum may predispose the individuals to develop depression and its physical symptoms.

The Authors hypothesized that decreased ATP production rates in mitochondria underlie depressive disorder with very high levels of somatization. They assessed muscle mitochondria in depressed patients as well as somatic symptomatology with 3 self reported scales (Somatic Anxiety, Muscular and Psychasthenia) from the Karolinska Scales of Personality.

At the end of the study, on each of the 3 Karolinska Scales of Personality, virtually every patient with very high levels of somatic symptomatology demonstrated muscle ATP production rates below the control range in the scales.