PARIS, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Generali France, France's second largest general insurance company, has selected CA's (NASDAQ: CA) Clarity(TM) Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) as its single project management solution to deliver major IT transformation projects and to increase business agility and competitive advantage.

In early 2007, Generali France was growing much faster than its rivals. To maintain that competitive advantage, it made the strategic decision to create a single entity from the numerous insurance companies it had acquired.

LONDON, June 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- New 'Panel-Centric Hybrid' Approach Enables Unified Reporting Across Entire Internet Universe, Including Internet Cafes and Mobile WiFi Browsing

Strong industry support has emerged following the announcement earlier this week that comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, will be launching its new Media Metrix 360 'panel-centric hybrid' solution for digital audience measurement in the U.K. The new service, which combines person-level measurement with Web site server metrics to account for 100 percent of a Web site's total audience, will be available in the U.K. from September 2009 with the publication of August 2009 data.

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In the last few columns, I described how laboratory simulations of a volcanic prebiotic environment showed that interesting organic reactions can be driven by the heat and pressure associated with vulcanism. I also described my own studies of volcanic sites on the present Earth, which we call prebiotic analogue environments, and pointed out some of the problems that arise when we try to duplicate laboratory experiments in the real world geothermal conditions. 

In the comments following the column, Gerhard Adam suggested that ice might be a plausible alternative to a hot site for the origin of life.

WAREGEM, Belgium and FREIBURG and NECKARSULM, Germany, June 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Framework Agreement for the Installation and Maintenance of Solar Systems for Electricity Generation Concluded

MUNICH, Germany, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobile communications operator T-Mobile International has chosen the Rohde Schwarz group as the exclusive supplier of its standard drive test systems. The contract includes the delivery of RS ROMES software and associated mobile radio scanners to five European countries. T-Mobile International will use the drive test systems from Rohde Schwarz to test the transmission quality of channels in its mobile radio networks. This will enable the network operator to ensure interference-free mobile communications coverage.

LONDON, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The publication recognised that since launching their managed telepresence service in July 2008, Tata Communications has been leading the industry with their innovative and comprehensive strategy. According to Peter Quinlan, Tata Communications is the first provider to open public telepresence rooms, with a global network of public telepresence rooms which customers can access on a pay-per-use basis. Starting with four public rooms in India, their coverage has expanded to ten rooms: Mumbai, Bangalore (2 rooms), Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, London, Boston, Manila and also Santa Clara, California (Cisco location). Tata Communications plans to significantly expand their global network of rooms by the end of 2009.

LONDON, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- European CEO, the premier pan-European publication for business leaders, has announced the winners of its Telepresence Awards 2009. The awards were announced in the June-July issue of the magazine, released this month. The winners were as follows:

Telepresence Provider of the Year Award for 2009, Tandberg

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 4 /PRNewswire/ --

The global number of users paying for mobile video services will grow five-fold from 2008 to 2014, surpassing 534 million, with a substantial proportion of mobile net additions coming from emerging markets, according to the latest report by Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com), the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network (www.lightreading.com).

LONDON, June 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Sony Ericsson Selects Saffron Digital for new Film Service

Following the announcement of its new Entertainment Unlimited initiative, Sony Ericsson has selected leading mobile platform specialist, Saffron Digital, as its exclusive technology partner to deliver the film service, PlayNow(TM) Arena Movies, to its handsets.

Saffron Digital will operate as Sony Ericsson's global partner in this venture, managing the end to end platform solution from content management, video encoding, website hosting, file delivery and digital rights management. PlayNow(TM) Arena Movies is part of Sony Ericsson's recently announced Entertainment Unlimited proposition.

LONDON, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The latest issue of the online journal Diabetic Hypoglycemia (http://www.hypodiab.com) features an authoritative review on sulfonylureas by Professor Ian Campbell, a leading expert in oral hypoglycemia therapy.

Professor Campbell's review focuses on sulfonylurea-induced hypoglycemia (SIH), which is a well-recognized side-effect of this class of therapy for type 2 diabetes. In the review he discusses the incidence of SIH, with particular reference to the different sulfonylureas. He also reflects on the morbidity and mortality seen with SIH, precipitating risk factors, treatment of SIH, and education of patients and medical staff in the prevention of SIH.