SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, May 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Apple, Dell, PG, IBM, and Cisco Systems Top the List

AMR Research, the leading research firm focused on the global supply chain and supporting technologies, released its Supply Chain Top 25 today, an annual ranking that highlights companies that display superior supply chain performance, capabilities, and leadership.

CAMBRIDGE, England, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The results are now available for the first Mobile Broadband Genie Road Trip Awards. The exercise directly pitted dongles provided by six mobile broadband suppliers (O2, Orange, 3, T-mobile, Virgin Media and Vodafone) against each other on a 350-mile rail journey over two days.

According to providers, mobile broadband is the answer for people who want to access the internet 'on the move'. Broadband Genie decide to put these claims to the test to see if consumers can expect to get what they're paying for. The results were decidedly mixed, with Virgin Media (Winner) and Vodafone (Runner Up) performing best overall.

LONDON, May 28 /PRNewswire/ --

The 2009 Frost Sullivan World Content Delivery Networks Hot Investment Opportunity Award is presented to Ipercast International, a France-based Content Delivery Networks (CDN) service provider. In a highly competitive CDN landscape, Ipercast has differentiated itself by building a repertoire of exceptional multimedia broadcasting solutions on Internet Protocol (IP) platforms.

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MILTON KEYNES, England, May 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- ABS Capital Partners Attracted to Leader in Mobile Field Force Solutions

O4 Corporation, global provider of mobile sales force automation solutions for retail execution, today announced it had completed a $15 million Series A financing transaction led by ABS Capital Partners, a leading later-stage growth company investor.

The deal marks another milestone in O4's surge to prominence in this rapidly expanding software market segment. It also underscores the value investors see in successful software companies that deliver on-demand solutions in high-growth sectors.

LONDON, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Telnic Limited (http://www.telnic.org), the registry operator for the new communications-focused .tel top level domain (TLD) which has sold over 200,000 domains in six weeks since launch, today announced that .tel Superbook for the iPhone and iPod Touch is now available to download for free on the Apple App Store.

STOCKHOLM, May 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- A Powerful CRM and Workflow Solution From the Leading Swedish Provider of Software for the Online Advertising Industry Ensures the Best Possible Sales Results for Partners and Customers of OMS

HERAKLION, Greece and BRUSSELS, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The European Network and Information Security Agency [ENISA] launches two reports with three recommendations on emerging new technologies and their potential to improve the resilience of communication networks. Technologies have been developed with properties that improve both the resilience and security of the Internet. Experience is missing in the area of commercial operation of these features, as well as operational best practices and recommendations in applied network resilience.

AMSTERDAM, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics (Euronext: AMT), a leader in the field of human gene therapy, announced today that the European Medicines Agency has granted Orphan Drug Designation to AMT's gene therapy product AMT-021 for the treatment of acute intermittent porphyria (AIP).

VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) researchers linked to K.U.Leuven and Harvard University say they have shown that stretches of DNA previously believed to be useless 'junk' DNA play a vital role in the evolution of our genome. Their findings were that unstable pieces of junk DNA help tuning gene activity and enable organisms to quickly adapt to changes in their environments.

Junk DNA in two paragraphs

"Most people do not realize that all our genes only comprise about 3% of the total human genome. The rest is basically one large black box,"  says Kevin Verstrepen, heading the research team. "Why do we have this DNA, what is it doing?"

Oxidative stress has been linked to aging, cancer and other diseases in humans. Paradoxically, researchers have suggested that small exposure to oxidative conditions may actually offer protection from acute doses. Now, scientists at the University of California, San Diego, have discovered the gene responsible for this effect. Their study, published in PLoS Genetics on May 29, explains the underlying mechanism of the process that prevents cellular damage by reactive oxygen species (ROS).