LONDON, April 20 /PRNewswire/ --

The 2008 Frost Sullivan Brazilian Water and Wastewater Business Development Strategy Leadership Award is presented to Perenne for its impressive growth over the last four years. The company's sales and distribution strategy has effectively leveraged its expertise in the high technology reverse osmosis (RO) segment.

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PITTSBURGH, April 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- ComponentOne DataGrid, Chart, and Maps for SharePoint are Now Available

Earlier this year, ComponentOne, a leading component vendor in the Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner Program, announced the Community Technology Preview (CTP) release of three Web Parts for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The industry's reaction was outstanding and today ComponentOne announced the general availability of these Web Parts, DataGrid, Chart, and Maps for SharePoint, based on the success of the CTP program.

PITTSBURGH, April 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- ComponentOne Studio for iPhone Brings You Controls that Mimic iPhone and iPod touch User Interfaces

With the advent of mobile technology, more and more people are using an iPhone as their on-the-go method of connecting to the World Wide Web. For those who develop Web applications, the task is to build Web applications that mimic the user interface (UI) of the iPhone and iPod touch devices. In response to the trend and demand, ComponentOne, a leading component vendor in the Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner Program, has announced a suite of Microsoft ASP.NET controls named Studio for iPhone.

SAN RAMON, California, April 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Network Now Reaches United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, France, India, and Australia.

When we emerge from a supermarket laden down with bags and faced with a sea of vehicles, how do we remember where we've parked our car and translate the memory into the correct action to get back there? A paper in PLoS Biology identifies the specific parts of the brain responsible for solving this everyday problem, which could have implications for understanding the functional significance of a prominent brain abnormality observed in neuropsychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia. 

SAN FRANCISCO, April 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company Releases Caustic RT - Flexible Development Platform for No-Compromise Raytracing

Today Caustic Graphics released CausticRT(TM), the worlds only massively accelerated raytracing system for achieving breakthrough levels of quality in interactive, cinema-quality 3D computer graphics. The Caustic development platform, which includes a raytracing accelerator card and SDK, are now available to qualified developers so they can create new or port their existing 3D applications to Caustic and deliver fast, efficient raytracing to their customers.

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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts and LAS VEGAS, April 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Companies Collaborate to Enhance Video Quality and Content Protection on the Web

Scientists at Cambridge University have discovered that freshwater algae can form stable groupings in which they dance around each other, miraculously held together only by the fluid flows they create. Their research was published today in Physical Review Letters.

The researchers studied the multicellular organism Volvox carteri, which consists of approximately 1,000 cells arranged on the surface of a spherical matrix about half a millimetre in diameter. Each of the surface cells has two hair-like appendages known as flagella, whose beating propels the colony through the fluid and simultaneously makes them spin about an axis.

Transcatheter valve implantation is a newly developed technique for the curative treatment of high-grade aortic stenosis. It is likely to be of benefit especially to elderly, multimorbid patients for whom the risk of open heart surgery would be too great. The initial results obtained with this technique at the German Heart Center in Munich are presented in the current issue of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International by Sabine Bleiziffer and her colleagues . 

We've all heard it before.   Some of you may even have used it:   "I thought she was X" age.    Alcohol impairs judgment, it is said, or releases inhibitions, depending on whether you like the effects.

There may be nothing to that argument, according to a new study.   Consuming alcohol did not affect how men judged the age of women, which has important legal implications if alcohol is cited as a cause of impairing judgement in cases of unlawful sex with a minor, because  men always think women look older.