PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania and DUBLIN, Ireland, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY) announces that it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York against Barr Laboratories, Inc. (Barr) for infringement of three of Shire's patents: U.S. Patent No. 5,968,976 ('976 Patent);U.S. Patent No. 7,381,428 ('428); and U.S. Patent No. 7,465,465 ('465).

The lawsuit was filed in response to an ANDA (Abbreviated New Drug Applications) filed by Barr seeking FDA approval to market and sell generic versions of Shire's 500 mg, 750 mg, and 1 g FOSRENOL(R) (Lanthanum Carbonate) products.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 16 /PRNewswire/ --

Mobile penetration in Kenya's telecom market will grow by 95 percent over the next five years, a market growth that will reflect intense competition among network operators and lead to a rapid uptake of mobile data services, according to a new report from Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com), the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network (www.lightreading.com).

PARIS, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that, according to data from Dell'Oro, it has considerably strengthened its quarterly, year-over-year market position in the Service Provider Edge Router market segment. Dell'Oro data shows that in the second half of 2008, Alcatel-Lucent continued to grow in the edge router segment - gaining more than three percentage points to reach 17.6 percent market share - while the other top-three vendors either dropped significantly or were flat.

MILPITAS, California, March 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Ideal for High Power and Ultra High Brightness Lighting Applications

NEW YORK, March 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- New design gives audience an even bigger role in driving debate and discussion on what is by far the largest Website targeting the worldwide communications industry

Light Reading, the leading online publication for the telecom industry, has re-launched www.lightreading.com with improved multimedia navigation and social-networking features aimed at giving its audience a stronger voice on the world's most popular communications industry Website.

BILLERICA, Massachusetts, March 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Webinar attendees will learn how virtualizing analytic data marts will bring in a new era of economics and agility for data warehousing and business intelligence; MarketBridge customer case study featured

SAN JOSE, California, March 16 /PRNewswire/ --

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the AVR(R)32 ATEVK1105 Digital Audio Gateway kit, demonstrating digital audio streaming, decoding and playback. These audio capabilities serve the exploding market of audio accessories and peripherals that connects home and car Hi-Fi audio systems to the digital age. This includes the popular iPod(R) docking stations. The kit is based on the AVR high performance AT32UC3A 32-bit Flash microcontrollers and provides developers with a ready-to-use hardware/software platform and a variety of interfaces and evaluation capabilities to meet their audio systems requirements and get faster to market.

SAN JOSE, California and UPPSALA, Sweden, March 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Newly-released IAR Embedded Workbench Version 5.0 for ARM Provides Enhanced Support for AT91SAM Application Developers

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) and IAR Systems(R) AB announced today the result of their cooperation to enhance the support for Atmel's entire AT91SAM family of ARM(R)-based Flash microcontrollers and embedded microprocessors in the latest release of IAR Embedded Workbench(R). The product of intensive collaborative development between the two companies, this powerful toolkit simplifies and accelerates application development for Atmel's AT91SAM micros.

DUBLIN, March 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Announced Acquisition of EQUASYM(R) IR and XL (Methylphenidate Hydrochloride) for the Treatment of ADHD Provides Shire Entry to the European ADHD Market

LONDON, March 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Major Module Enhanced Within Misys Summit FT to Provide Improved Management of Counterparty Risk and Collateral on a Real-Time Basis

Misys (LSE: MSY), the global application software and services company, today announced its latest solution for collateral management - Misys Summit FT Collateral Management - to meet the needs of financial institutions looking to closely manage counterparty risk. The solution enables banks and investment managers to make better decisions on trade viability and the level of collateral required through real-time tracking and assessment of collateral levels, an essential service in current market conditions where collateral values can change quickly.