GUETERSLOH, Germany, April 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Even in times of global challenges and growing transnational interdependencies - national governments still have considerable broad scope of action. This is especially underlined by the positive example of the Nordic states, which are ranked as top performers by the Sustainable Governance Indicators 2009 - a new ambitious study of the German Bertelsmann Foundation on policy performance and executive capacity in the OECD. The United Kingdom only achieves average results with some major deficits especially in the fields of social affairs, education and civil rights protection.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

3G subscriptions in the Honduras telecommunications market will surge to 30 percent by 2014, up from 2 percent today, according to a new report from Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com), the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network (www.lightreading.com).

LONDON, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- NParchive Embraces XAM to Offer Flexible Solution for Preserving and Searching Historical Data on any Storage Platform

Clearpace, the data archive store specialist, http://www.clearpace.com is launching an eXtensible Access Method (XAM) compliant version of its data compression and storage product - NParchive. By adopting XAM, NParchive enables partners who resell or embed the Clearpace technology to deliver solutions that instantly archive structured data to XAM-based storage platforms. NParchive v3.0 will be available to partners and end-user organisations from 8th April 2009.

SAN JOSE, California, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Atmel's QTouch Technology wins in Capacitive Touchscreen Controller ICs Category

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced that its multi-touch devices, the AT42QT5320 and AT42QT5480 have been awarded the 2008 Product of the Year by the influential electronics magazine, Electronic Products China (EPC). Atmel's devices for genuine dual-finger touch were selected by EPC's highly experienced judging panel in the Capacitive Touchscreen Controller ICs category.

AMSTERDAM, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- ATIR(TM) Data Presented at the Annual EBMT Presidential Symposium

Biopharmaceutical company Kiadis Pharma reported preliminary clinical data on ATIR(TM) showing its potential in mismatched bone marrow transplantations. Data was presented by the company's principal investigator Dr. Denis Claude Roy during the prestigious Presidential Symposium at the Annual European Bone Marrow Transplantation meeting (EBMT) in Goteborg, Sweden, on Monday, March 30, 2009. Only the 6 highest ranked presentations, representing the most promising new developments in the transplantation field, were selected for this Symposium.

Before the invention of boxed chocolates, Corvettes and bling-bling, all a man had to do for sweet lovin' was provide his special ladies with meat.  Studies of extant hunter-gatherer societies show that literally bringing home the bacon leads to greater reproductive success.  Highly skilled hunters also partake in more extra-marital affairs and in polygamous societies, have more wives. 

LONDON, April 8 /PRNewswire/ -- An attack by the National Secular Society (NSS) on the NHS chaplaincy service has been described as 'erroneous and simplistic' by Unite, the largest union in the country.

Unite, which embraces The College of Health Care Chaplains, called for more independent research and study, instead of the NSS's 'sweeping generalisations' and calls for the end to funding.

This follows the NSS's demand today (Wednesday, 8 April) that religious groups fund their own presence in hospitals, thus saving an alleged GBP40m per year.

BANGALORE, India, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Placement Based on a Sound Current Offering, Good Market Presence, and an Excellent Strategy

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) today announced that it was named a leader in global IT Infrastructure Outsourcing in the recently published market assessment report The Forrester Wave(TM): Global IT Infrastructure Outsourcing, Q1 2009 (March 2009).

PARIS, April 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Uzbekistan's permanent representative to UNESCO, Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva, launches Uzbekistan 2020 - a charity fund dedicated to developing cultural, intellectual and human exchanges between Western Europe and Uzbekistan.

Uzbekistan 2020 will be inaugurated on April 8th 2009, during a gala dinner with many eminent personalities, at Paris' Museum of Modern Art: amongst them, Former First Lady Mrs. Bernadette Chirac and Professor Khayat. These personalities will take part in an auction which will benefit to the Claude Pompidou Foundation.

HOUSTON, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --