OTTAWA, Canada, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Maude Barlow, senior advisor on water to the President of the United Nations General Assembly and Council of Canadians chairperson, says the Harper government's goal of a seat on the UN Security Council should be denied until Canada formally recognizes water as a human right.

Ms. Barlow is currently in Istanbul for the week-long World Water Forum at which government ministers from 120 countries will discuss global water issues.

LONDON, March 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Expands Platform for the Entire Subscriber Base

Azercell Telekom, the largest mobile operator in Azerbaijan announced today its decision to expand its Celltick-operated idle screen broadcast channel to its entire customer base.

The service, called 'Simurq' which is powered by Celltick's LiveScreen Media platform was originally launched to a limited audience of 300,000. Based on the impressive ARPU figures, Azercell has nominated Celltick to manage the service for the entire user base in cooperation with Unimark, a leading content aggregator in Azerbaijan.

LONDON, March 17 /PRNewswire/ --

The mobile content market with the advent of the applications store has brought a new model of mobile content distribution. The applications store gives an opportunity to capitalize on direct relationships with consumers, linking them to the brand and offering an easy-to-use way of purchasing a variety of applications. It is like on a farmer's market, where people can purchase fresh products and homemade food eliminating the middleman and the additional costs associated with buying through an intermediary.

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LONDON, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Research has revealed that new mums are spending an astonishing FOUR hours looking for advice online every day. Whenever baby naps, mum is logging onto the internet to get find out more about feeding, sleeping, development, health and shopping.

And more often then not, they are consulting other mums for advice on their baby's well being.

The poll of 3,000 mums, conducted by parenting club Bounty revealed 43 minutes a day are spent talking to like-minded people in forums and chatrooms.

In fact, 36 per cent of those polled rate other mum's advice more highly than recommendations from health visitors and midwives and 39 per cent would prefer to conduct their own research online rather than asking their own mum for guidance.

MANILA, Philippines, March 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Advanced SMS Features Provide Filipinos With Market Leading Personalisation and Flexibility

Acision, the world's leading messaging company, and Sun Cellular, the fastest-growing mobile network provider in the Philippines, have partnered to come up with the world's most advanced SMS services using Acision Message Plus. As part of Acision Text Suite, the first open text architecture, Acision Message Plus provides Sun Cellular's mobile subscribers with personalised message management functionality, enabling them to block SMS spam, set up automatic replies and automatically copy or forward messages to another mobile number or email address - all from their handset.

LONDON, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- I-Media - a DAS Holding company - has launched an ambitious multi-platform publication in the UAE. The new publication includes an Arabic language financial daily newspaper and a breaking news Web site - alrroya.com. This was made possible through the Publish live technology from KnowledgeView.

The project was launched in a record 5 months, thanks to close cooperation between the I-media team and KnowledgeView's consultants and engineers. Publishing activities are conducted from two newsrooms in Dubai and Abu Dhabi that are linked over a secure Web, forming a single virtual newsroom. The two newsrooms were designed by KnowledgeView's architects to comply with Convergent Newsroom mode of work.

PARIS, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- - WCC's ELISE Software has Been Selected to Transform the Process of Matching Candidates With Job Offers.

WCC Smart Search Match, a leading provider of high-performance search and match software, announced today that the French Public Employment Service, Pole Emploi, implemented the ELISE Smart Search and Match platform throughout its organization on 7 February, both for visitors to its website at http://www.pole-emploi.fr and its consultants/agents.

This success has been made possible by using WCC's ELISE software, which optimally supports the process of matching candidates with job offers.

UMEA, Sweden, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Konftel AB, Europe's leading conference phones manufacturer, announced today that it will start delivering IP conference phones to the German company snom technology AG.

This order has a certain prestige - snom is a market leader in IP telephony, comments Peter Renkel, CEO at Konftel.

On the CeBIT Show a week ago, snom launched its snom MeetingPoint - a SIP-based conference phone as the first result of the partnership which began in July 2008.

LONDON, March 17 /PRNewswire/ --

While insulin syringes are the oldest delivery method available, they are currently experiencing a decline in use in Europe. Several factors have contributed to this trend, the most important being the high acceptance and popularity of insulin pens.

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New analysis from Frost Sullivan (http://www.medicaldevices.frost.com), European Insulin Delivery Devices Market, finds that the market earned revenues of $1,112.8 million in 2007 and estimates this to reach $1,895.0 million in 2014.

LONDON, March 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Slovenian Client Expands Ventyx Leadership in Global Nuclear Market

Ventyx(R), the world's largest private software provider to the energy and utility industry, today announced that Nuklearna elektrarna Krsko d.o.o. (NEK) has selected the Ventyx Shift Operations Management System (eSOMS) software solution to enhance the efficiency, productivity and safety of the utility's operation and maintenance activities at its Krsko Nuclear Power Plant. The new license with NEK marks the continuing expansion of Ventyx's customer base in the nuclear industry, where the company owns unparalleled market share and deep domain expertise unmatched in the enterprise software market.