BASINGSTOKE, England and CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Mexico is the First Latin American Country to Approve Treatment

Shire plc (LSE: SHP)(NASDAQ: SHPGY)(TSX: SHQ), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announced that ELAPRASE(R) (idursulfase), a human enzyme replacement therapy for the treatment of Hunter syndrome, has been approved for commercial sale by the Mexican Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risk (COFEPRIS). Mexico is the tenth-largest pharmaceutical market in the world(1) and the first Latin American country to approve ELAPRASE.

BARCELONA, Spain, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- UbiEst wins overall prize in application developers' contest

NAVTEQ (NYSE: NVT), a leading global provider of digital map data for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions, announced today at Mobile World Congress 2008 that UbiEst is the European grand prize winner of this year's Global LBS Challenge.

The winning application, UbiSafe, is an exciting new LBS service that gives families the peace of mind of always knowing the location of loved ones. Users can set preferences or get notifications via their mobile phone to know instantly that a child has left school or a user defined safety zone.

Three runners-up were also selected by the judging panel and include:

Senda: Chronomove

BARCELONA, Spain and WESTFORD, Massachusetts, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Next-Generation Leader Increases Functionality for Business Services & Wireless Networks

Sonus Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: SONS), a leading supplier of service provider IP-voice infrastructure solutions, today announced the latest release of its industry-leading software platform. Sonus Release 7.1 delivers a new level of IP-voice capabilities, further leveraging Sonus' field-proven distributed architecture for growth markets such as wireless, business services and emerging geographies.

STOCKHOLM, February 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The trend for Scandinavia's multi-national companies to recruit a truly international workforce in support of increasingly global business initiatives has prompted CIGNA International Expatriate Benefits - the world's largest provider of employer-sponsored International Health Care Plans - to strengthen its service offering to clients in the region, by opening a new local base in Stockholm.

CIGNA International's new office - headed up by International Sales Director for Scandinavia, Lars-Einar Petterson - will provide a locally based international healthcare service to multi-national clients based in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland.

SARATOGA, California, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- EPE 4.2 Offers Improved Performance and Reliability to Support Mission Critical Applications

BARCELONA, Spain and WARREN, New Jersey, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- New AWE6174 Delivers High Power With Exceptional Performance; Supports Use of DC-DC Converter for Even Greater Power Savings

ANADIGICS, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANAD), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions in the broadband wireless and wireline communications markets, today announced its new AWE6174 quad-band Polar EDGE power amplifier (PA) module for 3G wireless handsets and equipment. ANADIGICS made the announcement this morning at the Mobile World Congress 2008 which is being held February 11-14 at the Fira de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (ANADIGICS: Hall 2, Stand 2C19).

BARCELONA, Spain, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

NAVTEQ (NYSE: NVT), a leading global provider of digital map data for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions, announced today an agreement with Telefonica for the cooperative innovation of new mobile traffic products for European markets. This relationship is a milestone in the first phase of NAVTEQ Traffic(TM) presence in Europe, and initial products are targeted for Barcelona and Madrid. NAVTEQ Traffic currently serves the United States and Canada with comprehensive real-time and historical traffic data services and technology.

NIEUWEGEIN, The Netherlands, February 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Ballast Nedam has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with wpd for the design, supply and installation of 21 foundations forming part of the offshore wind farm Baltic I which is located in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Germany. wpd is a German project developer of offshore wind farms. According to the present schedule Ballast Nedam will install the 21 foundations for the project Baltic I in the first quarter of 2009.

This Memorandum of Understanding results in a situation whereby Ballast Nedam's Heavy Lifting Vessel ,the Svanen, has a full order book for the first quarter of 2009 and Ballast Nedam is positive about a potential for employment of the Svanen thereafter.

BARCELONA, Spain, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- GIPS Media Processing Technology Enables Movial to Deliver Highest-Quality Mobile VoIP Experience to Users of New Social Networking Application; Visit GIPS at Hall 2, Booth 2G6

Global IP Solutions (GIPS) the leading provider of high-quality VoIP media processing, today announced that Movial, the company that inspires rich, intuitive Internet experiences, has launched its Social Communicator software application utilizing GIPS' VoiceEngine(TM) technology.