LONDON, May 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- AboveNet's Fibre-Optic Network in London to be Used for In-Depth Validation Trials

AboveNet, a leading provider of fibre optic and IP connectivity solutions for business and carriers, and QinetiQ, the defence, security and technology company, have announced a strategic partnership that will exploit an advanced cryptography solution to provide strong network security for communications. This solution aims to make quantum cryptography a reality across optical networks.

DUBLIN, May 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Completed Series B Total Stands at EUR21.3 m

DUBLIN, May 19 /PRNewswire/ --

Opsona Therapeutics, a biotechnology company focused on novel therapeutic and preventative approaches to autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, today announced that Roche Venture Fund and Enterprise Ireland have committed an additional EUR3.3 million to the Series B financing announced in February this year, bringing the total round to EUR21.3 million. The new investors join Novartis Venture Fund, Fountain Healthcare Partners, Inventages Venture Capital and Seroba-Kernel in completing the round, which will enable Opsona to further expand its clinical development pipeline.

BEIJING and TOKYO, May 19 /PRNewswire/ --

iSoftStone Holdings Limited (iSoftStone), a global provider of consulting, IT outsourcing, and business process outsourcing services, announced its strengthened commitment to its Japan- and Korea-based clients, to continue to help them meet their needs for business technology solutions delivered from China. As part of that commitment, iSoftStone has asked that Juro Nakauchi, previously a corporate advisor to iSoftStone, to assume the role of Chairman for the Japan Korea Business Group. Mr. Nakauchi will report to Chairman CEO TW Liu, and will focus principally on strategic business development and management.

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LONDON, May 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Jackpot Reward - Match 3 Numbers to Win a Million

LONDON, May 19 /PRNewswire/ --

Tipp24.com has come up trumps with two generous lotto promotions this month. Incentive number one, the jackpot reward, enables customers to earn one million Euros if their friends or family members win the jackpot. Incentive number two gives customers the chance to win one million Euros by matching just 3 numbers.

Jackpot reward of one million

SAN RAMON, California, May 19 /PRNewswire/ --

eQuest, the global leader in job posting and Internet recruitment management services, today announced that beginning June 1, 2009 it will release a complete French version of its job posting user interface application.

eQuest provides job delivery services to more than half of the Fortune 100 including multi-national companies doing business in France as well as around the world.

While eQuest has long-served the French market, this release is the first to include a French version of our patented job delivery software, said John Malone, President and CEO of eQuest. We look forward to better serving the French market with this release.

The French release will work with all eQuest ATS and ERP partners.

It's always best not to go overboard but the discovery of Darwinius masillae is pretty darn exciting, because it represents the most complete fossil primate ever found;  the skeleton, soft body outline and even the stomach contents.   It is phylogenetically terrific. Or not.  In any new claim like this, there will be doubts.

Empa and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have, together with Bucher Schoerling, Proton Motor, BRUSA Elektronik AG und Messer Schweiz, developed a hydrogen powered municipal street cleaning vehicle which was presented to the public last week in Basel. The vehicle is named the "Bucher CityCat H2"  and is the first municipal utility vehicle in the world powered by fuel cell technology.   For the next 18 months it will be tested in everyday usage.

Morphometric and phylogenetic analyses of the fossilised remains of the jaws and teeth of a shrew discovered in a deposit in Gran Dolina de Atapuerca, in Burgos, a city of northern Spain at the edge of the central plateau, have shown this to be a new species (Dolinasorex glyphodon) that has not previously been described. The extinct animal had red teeth, was large in size compared with mammals of the same family, and was more closely related to Asian than European shrews.

Neanderthals/neandertals, popularly regarded as the 'stupid' cousins of modern humans, were actually capable of capturing the most impressive animals - and that takes some sense.   Dutch researcher Gerrit Dusseldorp analyzed their daily forays for food to gain insights into the complex behavior of the Neanderthal. His analysis revealed that the hunting was very knowledge intensive. 

A new type of air-fuelled battery called the STAIR (St Andrews Air) cell could give up to ten times the energy storage of designs currently available, meaning a new generation of batteries for electric cars, mobile phones and laptops.

The new design has the potential to improve the performance of portable electronic products and give a major boost to the renewable energy industry. The batteries will enable a constant electrical output from sources such as wind or solar, which stop generating when the weather changes or night falls.