FALLS CHURCH, Virginia, April 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- System Upgrades Improve Application Processing for Passports and Identity Cards

CSC (NYSE: CSC) today announced that the UK Identity and Passport Service (IPS), an executive agency of the Home Office responsible for issuing UK passports and ID cards, has awarded the company a 10-year managed information technology (IT) services contract to upgrade the IPS application and enrollment system. The agreement has an estimated value of US$570 million (385 million pounds sterling).

LONDON, April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Patients at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (http://www.kch.nhs.uk/) in London are to benefit from a groundbreaking new patient automated arrival system from NCR Corporation (http://www.ncr.com/) (NYSE: NCR). The solution is designed to reduce queuing, increase the immediacy and privacy of patient communications and cut down on paperwork allowing staff to focus on providing the highest standards of clinical care.

LONDON and DUESSELDORF, Germany, April 7 /PRNewswire/ --

WGZ Corporate Finance Beratung GmbH, a leading German midcap MA advisor, today announced that it has selected IntraLinks -- the industry-leading virtual dataroom provider -- as its preferred platform. Under the terms of the agreement, WGZ professionals will use IntraLinks' online workspace solution, IntraLinks(R) Exchanges(TM), to securely share critical information with advisors and other outside parties.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Start your engines at www.blinkx.com

blinkx, the world's largest video search engine, today announced new partnerships with Automotive Rhythms, Live Car Shows, CarDataVideo, and Bumper2Bumpertv. Hundreds of new car and auto-related videos have been made available at www.blinkx.com. Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx will also place contextually relevant advertising against these videos, and share resulting advertising revenue with the partners.

LONDON, April 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Service to Provide Direct Access Between Equinix Financial eXchange Community in Slough and Financial Firms in the City

DALLAS, April 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Entrust to present ePassport capabilities at Nigerian ICAO event

Just six months after an impressive showing at the ePassports EAC Conformity Interoperability Tests in Prague, Czech Republic, Entrust, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENTU) aims to further strengthen its global leadership position. The ePassport security expert will express strong support for the creation of Master List Signing during this week's ICAO Regional Seminar on Machine Readable Travel Documents (MRTDs), Biometrics and Security Standards in Abuja, Nigeria.

DALLAS and LONDON, April 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- New release supports multi-currency for international customers

Astadia, the leader in Cloud Computing consulting, and one of salesforce.com's leading system integrators, announced today at salesforce.com's Cloudforce London event a new release of its Marketing Desktop(SM) product to support international salesforce.com customers.

CHICAGO, April 7 /PRNewswire/ --

CareerBuilder.com, the largest online job site in North America with properties in 13 European countries, has partnered with Europe's top recruiting technology companies to offer clients seamless integration to maximize recruiter efficiencies. The new partnerships include: Amris, Bond, Broadbean, Bullhorn, Candidate Manager, ChangeWorkNow, First Advantage, iCIMS, Kenexa, MrTed, PeopleBank, Peopleclick, PCRecruiter, Profilsoft, and Webcruit (Kaonix). Partnerships also include job posting aggregators such as and eQuest and candidate sourcing tools such as TalentDrive, AIRS, Daxtra and infoGIST.

SINGAPORE, DETROIT, LONDON and PUNE, India, April 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Consolidation of former operating companies yields all-new organization

Tata Technologies Limited, a global leader in Engineering Services Outsourcing (ESO) , Product Development IT services, and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) this week announced the launch of its brand worldwide, and the retirement of the brand names of its former operating companies, INCAT and iKnowledge Solutions (iKS). The global consolidation of the company has yielded an all-new organization that incorporates the best of its former operating companies.

Geneticists have tackled a question that has perplexed humanity since the dawn of time: does love at first sight truly exist?

Maybe, according to a study published in the April 2009 issue of the journal GENETICS.  A team of scientists from the United States and Australia say they have discovered that, at the genetic level, some males and females are more compatible than others, and that this compatibility plays an important role in mate selection, mating outcomes, and future reproductive behaviors. In experiments involving fruit flies, the researchers found that before mating, females experience what amounts to "genetic priming," making them more likely to mate with certain males over others.