OR AKIVA, Israel, September 30 /PRNewswire/ -- ITGI Medical, Ltd. (TASE: ITGI) a company engaged with research, development, manufacturing and marketing of heterologous tissue covered stents, announced that its second heterologous tissue covered stent - AneuGraft(R) received CE Mark approval.

AneuGraft(R) is a stent 100% covered with a heterologous tissue, designed to set a barrier between the coronary blood vessel wall and its lumen. It is intended for situations in tortuous vessels.

"AneuGraft(R) Pericardium Covered Stent is especially suitable for patients with tortuous vessels where other covered stents may not be adequate for use due to limitations resulting from tortuous anatomy," says Efri Argaman ITGI Medical CEO.

OSNABRÜCK, Germany, September 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- DBU's German Environmental Award Goes to the Dean of the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management (USA), and the Founder of BRAIN AG

LONDON, September 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Business telephone line provider 123Telecom have launched their lowest telephone tariff ever and aptly named it The Credit Crunch Tariff.

"Telecoms prices are at their lowest level ever at a time when other utility costs have soared over the last 18 months" says 123Telecom MD Eric Toll. "Our Credit Crunch Tariff enables customers to choose any contract period between 9 and 36 months and we guarantee to freeze all prices for the duration of the contract term."

In recent years, 123Telecom have achieved a reputation in the industry for aggressively discounting calls and line rental, however their new Credit Crunch tariff represents the companies lowest rates yet.

The Captain can't freeze smelly fish that's past its best - and Icelandic scientists can now help him out by detecting the levels of stench-making bacteria faster than ever before.

The research in the Royal Society of Chemistry's Journal of Environmental Monitoring reports a new method to detect bacteria that break down dead fish and produce the distasteful smell of rotting fish. It opens the door to a standard of quality control even higher and speedier than the finely-tuned nose of the bushy-bearded Birdseye.

Using a technique based on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), Eyjófur Reynisson and colleagues from Matis-Icelandic Food Research, Reykjavik, can assess the levels of Pseudomonas bacteria in fish in just five hours. This is four times faster than the current quickest method, which involves traditional cultivation of the bacteria Pseudomonas, the root cause of stinking fish.

There's a lot of truth in the old proverb "experience is the best teacher," and apparently it even applies to 10-month-old infants.

Researchers have found that infants who had an opportunity to use a plastic cane to get an out-of-reach toy were better able to understand the goal of another person's use of a similar tool than were infants who had previously only watched an adult use a cane to retrieve a toy.

HOUSTON, September 30 /PRNewswire/ --

Endeavour International Corporation (Amex: END) (LSE: ENDV) today announced that Carl D. Grenz has joined the company as executive vice president of operations.

"With the increasing number of new business development and venture opportunities, a larger production base and expanding drilling and development activities, it was time to expand our executive team to meet the demands of our bigger business," said William L. Transier, chairman and chief executive officer. We are excited to have someone with Carl's operational background, knowledge and experience in the North Sea."

According to findings from the October issue of the American Sociological Review, money does matter in education, but not in a way lobbyists want you to believe.

The research, which looked at the mathematical literacy scores of thousands of 15-year-old immigrants to 13 Western nations from 35 different native countries, indicates that economic development and political conditions in an immigrant's home country impact the child's academic success in his or her destination country.

Despite claims that education quality is solely a funding issue, the results say that immigrant children from countries with lower levels of economic development have better scholastic performance than comparable children who emigrate from countries with higher levels of economic development.

With one of the most aggressive submarine cable builds in the world now complete, the first phase of the Trans-Pacific Express submarine cable system directly connecting Mainland China, the United States, South Korea and Taiwan is ready for service. The 18,000 kilometer (more than 11,000 mile) fiber-optic undersea cable will play a significant role in driving new development for international telecommunications in the Asia-Pacific region.

Originally announced as a 5.12 terabit system in December 2006, the cable system has increased in capacity, and when fully deployed when phase two is completed, TPE will be a 6 terabit submarine cable system.

The six international telecommunications carriers initially investing in the Trans-Pacific Express Submarine Cable Consortium -- China NetCom, China Telecom, China Unicom, Chunghwa Telecom, Korea Telecom and Verizon Business -- knew a monumental task was ahead when they set out to build and make ready for service within two years the most advanced submarine cable in the Pacific Ocean.

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia, September 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company to Deliver National Mobile Service to 25,000 Postal Workers

CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced today that it has signed a new information technology (IT) services contract with the UK's Royal Mail to deliver a national mobile service to 25,000 delivery vehicles in its letters and parcels operation. The CSC-led team includes Blackbay, a provider of mobile workforce solutions.

LONDON, September 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- GSMA partners with leading companies to deliver range of ready to run, easy to use Mobile Broadband devices

Today, 16 of the world's best known IT and mobile companies have united behind a GSMA-led initiative to create a new category of always-connected Mobile Broadband devices, delivering a compelling alternative to WiFi. This will give consumers the freedom to get online on the move, while enabling operators to address a US$50 billion opportunity in both mature and emerging markets (Pyramid Research*).

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