PALO ALTO, California, December 12 /PRNewswire/ --

Accel Partners, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm, today announced the addition of Dick Williams as CEO-in-Residence. Dick brings unparalleled operational experience and leadership, as well as deep knowledge in the enterprise software and digital media markets.

As CEO-in-Residence, Dick will work with the Accel team to identify and analyze new ventures that have the potential to define important market categories. Dick will also directly advise and assist Accel portfolio companies which will benefit from his valuable experience.

LONDON, December 12 /PRNewswire/ --

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The personalised dummy from http://www.MyDummy.co.uk is featured in the recent edition of People Magazine in the mouth of none other than Heidi Klum and Seal's son Henry Samuel. But this is only one of the many success stories for the just 2 1/2-year-old invention.

In September, Hollywood star Trista from the TV series The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, showed off the MyDummy in a big report in US Weekly magazine. Also, at last year's Awards ceremony, the MyDummy was chosen to be part of the exclusive VIP gift bags given to the award-nominated actors and actresses. Among the lucky recipients were the stars from Desperate Housewives and Kiefer Sutherland from 24 Hours.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, December 12 /PRNewswire/ --

Bytemobile, Inc., the global leader in mobile internet solutions for network operators, today announced the general availability of its Unison(TM) Advertising Module (UAM), which enables operators to serve targeted ads in off-portal web pages on virtually all mobile devices. As a result, carriers can quickly create new ad revenue streams to complement data revenues and subsidize the cost of data delivery.

LONDON, December 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Misys plc (FTSE: MSY.L), the global application software and services company, today announces that Banco Itau has migrated Banespa's customers with Misys Equation in its Japanese operations. Banco Itau also use Misys' core banking solution, Midas, for its American and offshore operations.

Following the acquisition of the customers of Banespa (Banco do Estado de Sao Paulo) Tokyo Branch at the end of 2006, Banco Itau immediately needed to manage the increase in the volume of deposits and remittances the additional operations brought in Japan. All Banespa's customer records and information from the Tokyo operations were transferred across to Misys Equation.

New research has revealed that peoples’ personality types predicts their donations to charities and noble causes.

In a sample of almost 1000 participants the researchers found that people with a pro-social personality gave more money to charities and other noble causes.

The saying goes that "time flies when you're having fun" and accident victims report events happening in slow motion as disaster occurred. But can humans really experience events at different speeds? Is time that relative?

Apparently not, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, who studied how volunteers experience time when they free-fall 100 feet into a net below. Even though participants remembered their own falls as having taken one-third longer than those of the other study participants, they were not able to see more events in time.

Instead, the longer duration was a trick of their memory, not an actual slow-motion experience.

“People commonly report that time seemed to move in slow motion during a car accident,” said Dr.

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, December 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Forty-five Prestigious Journals to be Launched on ScienceDirect in Response to Customer Demand

Elsevier, a leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical (STM) information, today announced that 45 French-language medical journals from Elsevier Masson will be available on ScienceDirect beginning January 3, 2008.

ZUG, Switzerland, December 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Swiss Hawk AG's portfolio company Vitaboost International BV launches its new website with online shop today. The new online shop enables customers from all over Europe to order Vitaboost products online. In addition, Vitaboost products will be available in stores from Friday 14th December. The first Vitaboost product is the "Vitaboost Activator", a healthy energy drink product for everyday use with a base of orange, grape and lime juice enriched with Ginkgo Biloba, Taurin, Ginseng, Vitamin B Complex, Vitamin C, Caffeine, Schisandra and Guarana. Check out http://www.vitaboost.com for more information.

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FRIMLEY, England, December 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Approximately 78% of Beta-thalassaemia Patients had Decreases in Cardiac Iron and 90% had Decreases in Liver Iron After Six Months, Interim Data Show(1)

- Study in Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) Patients With Iron Overload Showed Continued Safety and Efficacy Over Two Years(2)

- Safety and Efficacy Demonstrated in Lower-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) Patients(3)

COPENHAGEN, December 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Summary: An IND has Been Filed With the FDA for the Fourth Genmab Antibody Developed Under the Company's Collaboration With Roche.

Genmab A/S (OMX: GEN) announced today that an Investigational New Drug application (IND) for a Genmab antibody developed under the company's collaboration with Roche has been filed with the FDA by Roche. Genentech and Roche are collaborating on development of the antibody which selectively blocks the interaction of the OX40 ligand and its receptor. The companies are evaluating the antibody for the treatment of asthma. Genmab will receive a milestone payment from Roche which does not influence Genmab's financial guidance for 2007.