MANILA, Philippines, April 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Acision Flexible Charger and Acision Location Gateway Deployed to Substantially Increase Usage of Voice Service

Acision, the world's leading messaging company, and Globe Telecom, a leading telecommunications company in the Philippines, have launched the world's first fully convergent solution that works across both fixed and mobile networks for post-paid subscribers. Enabled by Acision's innovative real-time, location-based charging solutions, Acision Flexible Charger and Acision Location Gateway, the service is designed to boost network traffic, primarily voice, by offering free calls within a set city zone. This new breakthrough service is branded Duo - Mobile and Landline in One by Globe Telecom.

A process called ‘dark gulping’ may solve the mystery of the how supermassive black holes were able to form when the Universe was less than a billion years old.

Dr Curtis Saxton will be presenting the study at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science at the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Low International Calling Rates for Friends and Family Worldwide

Friendster, Inc., a top 20 global Web site based on traffic* and the #1 social network in Asia, today announced the launch of The Friendster Loop, a pre-paid calling card with low, competitive rates, ideal for making international calls conveniently to over 220 countries. The Friendster Loop calling card is available immediately for use by anyone, including Friendster's tens of millions of active users and Internet users around the globe. Users can register for The Friendster Loop at www.friendsterloop.com.

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MCKINNEY, Texas, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

Torchmark Corporation (NYSE: TMK) reported today that for the quarter ended March 31, 2009, net income was US$.91 per share (after a charge of US$.49 per share for impairment of invested assets) compared with US$1.29 per share for the year-ago quarter. Net operating income for the quarter was US$1.49 per share, a 4% per share increase compared with US$1.43 per share for the year-ago quarter.

Reconciliations between net income and net operating income are shown in the Financial Summary below.

FINANCIAL SUMMARY

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

IPTV will take a backseat to other pay-TV platforms as telcos seek alternative strategies to meet the significant market demand, according to a new report from Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com), the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network (www.lightreading.com).

BELFAST, Northern Ireland, April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Pro-life campaigners are calling on Mr Michael McGimpsey MLA, Northern Ireland's health minister, to withdraw the controversial guidelines on abortion issued by his department last month, and to have the matter looked at again by the Province's devolved government.

LONDON, April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The London Borough of Brent Council has selected an autonomous web based SMS software from, text message provider, Text Messaging Centre (TMC) http://www.tmcsms.com/ in order to communicate quickly and efficiently with both its staff and borough residents.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

The Institute for Plastination in Heidelberg, Germany and its Scientific Director, anatomist Dr. Gunther von Hagens - creators of the world renowned anatomical exhibitions: BODY WORLDS and KORPERWELTEN - categorically state that their exhibitions are NOT in any way associated with or affiliated to OUR BODY, the display in Paris which has been ordered by the French court to close its doors to the public.

ATLANTA and LONDON, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

(Infosecurity Conference 2009) -- Lancope(R), Inc., the provider of the StealthWatch(R) System, the Best in NetFlow Analysis ( http://www.lancope.com/news/08052008.aspx) and the most widely used network behaviour analysis (NBA) and response solution, today announced that it will showcase the new StealthWatch FlowSensor(TM) VE at Infosecurity Europe 2009. This free NetFlow-based, lightweight virtual appliance provides anomaly detection and network performance monitoring for virtual environments. When deployed with the physical StealthWatch solution, StealthWatch FlowSensor VE extends Lancope's physical network security and visibility expertise to the virtual network.

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Intellogist Evaluates Search Tools and Shares Best Practices

Landon IP, Inc., the global leader in professional patent searching and analysis, has launched Intellogist, a free online tool that provides the intellectual property (IP) community with a revolutionary resource for finding objective information about patent searching tools and sharing best practices.

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Available today at http://www.intellogist.com, this website provides many resources for information scientists at companies and law firms, including: