CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, July 3 /PRNewswire/ --

Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE: NOC) Sperry Marine business unit has recently unveiled a new integrated desktop marine radar designed to meet the latest International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) performance standards.

PARIS, July 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Largest technology competition in the world kicks off its finals today in Paris.

Competition begins today for 370 students from 61 countries and regions competing for US$240,000 in prize money at the Imagine Cup 2008, an annual competition that gives students round the world the chance to unlock their creative genius and create technology solutions that can help address some of the world's toughest social challenges.

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LONDON, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Manpower Software plc, the leading provider of workforce optimisation software applications and rostering solutions in the UK healthcare market, is pleased to announce that Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has selected Manpower Software's MAPS Healthroster solution for nurse rostering, with the intention of Trust-wide rollout to over 2,000 staff.

NAPA, California, July 3 /PRNewswire/ --

Senetek PLC (OTC Bulletin Board: SNKTY), a Life Sciences company engaged in the development of technologies that target the science of healthy aging, today announced termination of the Invicorp(R) License Agreement with Ardana Bioscience Limited ("Ardana"). The Agreement was a license to manufacture, market, sell and distribute Invicorp(R) in Europe and was terminated pursuant to the Company's contractual rights, precipitated by Ardana's entry into voluntary administration on June 27, 2008.

We learned from the prior blog that the Sun is much too bright for normal viewing with our sensitive eyes. A white “color” results when we observe objects that are both extremely bright and bright at all or most visible wavelengths. Please allow me to elaborate a little more on this issue.

The French like their artichokes fried, the Italians like them on pizza, in Spain they are used in frittata and the best artichokes are supposedly found in Greece. Meanwhile, at the University of Reading, a research University in Great Britain, the flower is being used for medicinal purposes connected to reducing cholesterol. High cholesterol levels related to cardiovascular disease have been shown to improve with the help of Artichoke Leaf Extract, or ALE, therefore minimizing the need for prescription drugs. By stabilizing cholesterol before it becomes a problem, researchers at University of Reading found yet another dietary supplement beneficial to healthy cholesterol levels.

HONG KONG, July 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Record Revenue and Profit Despite Difficult Economic Conditions

-- Record revenue and profit -- Group revenue increased by 6.0% to US$1,552.0 million -- Profit attributable to shareholders rose by 17.9% to US$215.7 million -- Net profit margin expanded 1.4% points to 13.9% -- Net cash topped US$285.4 million -- Final dividend of US51.0 cents per share, total dividend per share for the year (exclude a special dividend of US30.0 cents per share in the financial year 2007) up 26.0%

VTech Holdings Ltd (HKEx: 303; LSE: VTH; ADR: VTKHY) today announced its annual results for the year ended 31st March 2008, reporting record revenue and profit, as net profit margin again expanded.

CHENGDU, China, July 3 /PRNewswire/ --

EASEUS is releasing its Personal Partition Manager v. 1.6.4 for free. Create, delete, format or move a logical disk to reallocate free space or simply comply with system requirements. Sooner or later, most of us face the need to reshape our hard disks. Now all that is possible without having to wipe out the entire disk and reinstall all the software.

EASEUS Partition Manager performs all types of basic and advanced file system functions: resizing and moving partitions, creating new and deleting (one or all) partitions, formatting partitions and "sticking" labels to them, viewing disk or partition properties, marking partitions as active, hiding and un-hiding partitions.

NICE, France, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The Institut de la Vision, a research center exclusively dedicated to eye diseases, has been the industry's benchmark on vision-related issues since its opening in March 2008. Consequently, it attracts a large number of industrialists looking to test the therapeutic effectiveness of their molecules intended to fight blindness. Thus, Iris Pharma took the logical step of joining forces with the Institut, with several objectives in mind: encourage industrial/academic cooperation, develop research programs and adapt certain specific procedures to the industrial field.

If you're a long-time reader of this site, you might get the idea that Albert Einstein was a pretty smart guy - that comes across because he tends to proven right a lot even today.

PSR J0737-3039A/B is a unique system of two dead stars, pulsars, and one of the pair is 'wobbling' in space just like a spinning top, according to a team of researchers. The effect, called precession, was predicted by Albert Einstein and is yet another confirmation of his theory.

The binary pulsars were formed when a pair of massive stars exploded and their cores collapsed to create objects whose mass is greater than that of our Sun, but compressed to the size of a city. They are spinning at incredible speeds and emit powerful beams of radio waves which sweep across our radio-telescopes like cosmic lighthouses producing regular pulses of energy - hence their name, pulsars. PSR J0737-3039A/B is the only known system in our galaxy where two pulsars are locked into such close orbit around one another - the entire system could fit inside our Sun.