HAIFA, Israel, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Oil Refineries Ltd. (TASE: ORL.TA) (the Company or ORL), Israel's largest oil refiner, announced today that on April 23, 2009 it was notified by Maalot Standard and Poor's that the Company's debentures' credit rating, currently rated 'ilA', is being put under watchlist, with negative implications. A copy of Maalot's announcement will be made available on the Company's website, under investor relations, Company releases, within the next 24 hours.

DENVER, April 23 /PRNewswire/ --

Altira Group LLC, a pioneer and leader in venture capital and private equity funding for energy technology companies, today announced a pair of significant investments totaling US$17.5MM in the renewable energy sector.

Continuing to demonstrate its commitment to helping meet global energy demand, Altira made lead investments in two strategic companies, EPS Corp of Costa Mesa, CA and Lilliputian Systems, Inc. (LSI) of Wilmington, MA.

LONDON, April 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Research From the IT Job Board Confirms Public Sector is Growing in Popularity

More than two thirds (71 percent) of techies are happy working in their chosen sector, according to research(1) carried out by The IT Job Board, http://www.theitjobboard.co.uk.

For the 29 percent who are not content with the industry they work in, nearly half (49 percent) would prefer to work in software and IT services, and 30 percent advised that they would rather choose IT jobs in the public sector.

LONDON, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Telnic Limited (http://www.telnic.org), the registry operator for the new communications-focused .tel top level domain (TLD), today announced the final release of its free BlackBerry(TM) plug-in is available for download. Now, BlackBerry users can find public and private .tel contact information at the speed of their internet connection, dynamically and directly from their address book.

Navigating to http://telnic.org/community-applications.html or http://bb.apps.telnic.tel over a BlackBerry device provides access to an application which enables users to:

LONDON, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Moneybookers, one of Europe's leading online payment systems, today announces the appointment of Tero Pollanen as Head of Anti-Fraud. His appointment is one of a series of new hirings that has seen Moneybookers' headcount double since the beginning of 2008.

SINGAPORE, April 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Exchanges to be Deployed in India, US and UK

Tata Communications, a leading provider of the new world of communications, announced today that it will introduce telepresence exchange services for Cisco TelePresence(TM) (http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns669/networking_solutions_solution_se...) , a major expansion of its telepresence services. The Global Meeting Exchange will support meetings between any connected private and public Cisco TelePresence rooms.

GENEVA and STOCKHOLM, April 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Partnership to Bring Workforce Mobility to New Level as Pilot Projects Seek to Eliminate Information Overload, Boost Productivity and Reduce Costs Dramatically

SITA, the specialist airline IT provider, and Appear, the leader in context-aware software infrastructure, today announced a partnership which will shortly implement the first-ever context-aware mobile platform for the air transport industry (ATI).

FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- LORENZ today announced the release of version 3.0 of its popular eValidator validation tool. The name change from eCTD Validator reflects the broader validation scope the tool has received in this major upgrade.

Our validation utility has numerously been called the most advanced validation tool available, says Wolfgang Witzel, President of LORENZ Life Sciences Group. In this upgrade, we have included additional validation profiles and have even created a basic free version that can be downloaded from our website.

LONDON, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Misys plc (LSE: MSY), the global application software and services company, today announces that European-Russian Bank,a.s. (Evropsko-ruska banka, a.s.), a Czech-based subsidiary of the First Czech-Russian Bank, Llc, Moscow, has successfully implemented Misys Midas. The bank group will now be able to enhance the service it provides its customers not only in Russia, but also now in the Czech Republic.

The Czech Republic is becoming an attractive market for Russian banks as the trade between the two countries increases. European-Russian Bank is offering corporate and retail services to customers in the Czech Republic, focusing in the first line on export-import finance. It has selected Misys Midas to underpin this increase in business.

LONDON, April 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Protx, the UK's Fastest Growing Payment Service Provider, Becomes Sage Pay

- Enhanced Merchant Services and 24/7 UK-Based Customer Support Provide Backdrop for New Brand

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From today, Protx, the UK's largest independent payment service provider and a division of business software and services company Sage, becomes Sage Pay. The new brand reflects the payment providers' commitment to safeguard internet transactions in the future and comes amidst a whole host of enhancements that provide internet retailers with a streamlined and cost efficient means to manage their finances.