LONDON, May 7 /PRNewswire/ --

GTA by Travelport, a global travel wholesaler and the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) [LON: IHG, NYSE: IHG (ADRs)], owner of the InterContinental(R) Hotels Resorts, Hotel Indigo(R), Crowne Plaza(R) Hotels Resorts, Holiday Inn(R) Hotels Resorts, Holiday Inn Express(R), Staybridge Suites(R) and Candlewood Suites(R) brands, today announced that they have signed a global full content distribution agreement to further strengthen their strategic relationship.

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The majority of the infrastructure in Angola and Mozambique was severely devastated during their respective civil wars. Efforts to rapidly improve these economies have revealed the fragility of their infrastructure, and it is therefore of crucial importance to allocate adequate resources to accelerate the reconstruction of their electricity backbones.

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AMSTERDAM, May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobileye N.V., a global pioneer and leader in vision-based driver assistance systems and analytics for automotive manufacturers and suppliers, teams with Delphi Corporation and with Volvo Car Corporation to deliver vital vision processing technology for the next generation Volvo S60, planned for a mid-2010 debut. The safety enhancements on the new S60 sedan take active safety to the next level with features like Full Speed Range Adaptive Cruise Control and a Collision Warning and Mitigation system with full automatic braking power, that not only detects moving and stationary vehicles but pedestrians as well. The system warns the driver of an imminent collision and automatically brakes the vehicle if the driver is not able to do so.

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- NASA and VisitBrighton put new Photosynth release to work in Virtual Earth and outer space.

Microsoft Corp. today announced updates to its Photosynth technology that enable commercial use through integration with Microsoft Virtual Earth. The Photosynth integration into Virtual Earth signifies the first release designed to enable businesses to use Photosynth in commercial applications.

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LONDON, May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Senior executives in internationally dynamic software firms say that the current economic crisis will not significantly affect their European business models, according to The Software Report 2009. Dublin is the most positively perceived European location; the South East, London, Ile de France, West Nederland, Bavaria and Stockholm are considered to be the strongest cost/quality options for locating a European software facility. Northern Ireland has been the most successful regional location for software development centres between 2001 - 2008.

MACCLESFIELD, England, May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Cyprotex today (7th May 2009) launches Cloe(R) Gateway, a new secure web portal for access to drug discovery services. The initial offering via Cloe(R) Gateway is a new enhanced version of our proprietary predictive software, Cloe(R) PK, which predicts whole body pharmacokinetics from simple in vitro ADME and physicochemical properties.

Commenting on the launch, Dr Anthony D. Baxter, Cyprotex's Chief Executive Officer, said:

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The Frost Sullivan 2009 European Molecular Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases Product Line Strategy of the Year Award, is presented to SIRS-Lab GmbH. The company's exceptional product line for sepsis diagnosis and monitoring make it a worthy recipient of this award.

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Sepsis is the second commonest cause of death in industrialised countries. The major challenge for intensive care physicians is to be able to identify sepsis as early as possible to facilitate appropriate and effective treatment.

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- Brightcove customers gain access to one of the leading global social media networks for videos and Web TV content

Brightcove Inc., the leading online video platform, today announced a partnership with sevenload, one of Europe's leading social media networks for videos, photos and Web TV content, to enable Brightcove customers to distribute online video content to sevenload's social media platform. This partnership will also introduce new monetization opportunities for Brightcove customers that are expanding their advertising inventory through distribution into the sevenload network. Brightcove customers already taking advantage of this new distribution opportunity include SPOX.com, a popular sports Web portal in Germany.

An international team of geologists may have uncovered the answer to an age-old question - an ice-age-old question, that is. It appears that Earth's earliest ice age may have been due to the rise of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere, which consumed atmospheric greenhouse gases and chilled the earth.

Scientists from the University of Maryland, including post-doctoral fellows Boswell Wing and Sang-Tae Kim, graduate student Margaret Baker, and professors Alan J. Kaufman and James Farquhar, along with colleagues in Germany, South Africa, Canada and the United States, uncovered evidence that the oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere - generally known as the Great Oxygenation Event - coincided with the first widespread ice age on the planet. 

VANCOUVER, May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Sirius Genomics, a developer of pharmacogenomic diagnostics, announced today that it has signed a collaborative agreement with Vanderbilt University to study patients enrolled in Vanderbilt's Validating Acute Lung Injury biomarkers for Diagnosis (VALID) study. The agreement focuses on the continued development of Sirius' pharmacogenomic diagnostic. The diagnostic is intended to assess responsiveness to recombinant human activated Protein C (sold by Eli Lilly and Company under the trademark Xigris (R)) in patients with severe sepsis at high risk of death.