CARDIFF, Wales, March 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- World's First IP-Focused Laboratory and In-Life LTE Test Solution

Epitiro, the broadband communications authority, today announces the LTE Test Suite, the world's first packet-domain test solution for UMTS long term evolution (LTE) device manufacturers and mobile network operators (MNO). The suite is comprised of LTELabTM and ISP-I TM LTE.

LONDON, March 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Businesses Should Seize Opportunity to Demonstrate Green Credentials

New research from the Carbon Trust Standard shows that consumers still want to buy green despite the current economic climate, with 62% of consumers saying environmental concerns influence their purchasing decisions 'the same as a year ago' and just over a quarter saying they influence them 'even more' than in 2008.

BRUSSELS, March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The 3rd European Space Agency (ESA) Investment Forum will take place near Brussels (Dolce La Hulpe) on the 7th of April 2009. It brings together international investors specialised in seed and early stage funding, looking for hot new ideas, with innovative fledgling high-tech companies, who are seeking funds to get their business up and running.

BERKELEY, California, March 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- World's Leading Neurological Testing Company Purchases Leading UK Firm In The Fast Growing Field of Brainwave-Based Market Research

NeuroFocus, the world's leading company in the rapidly-expanding field of neuromarketing, announced that it has concluded an agreement to purchase Neuroco. The move marks NeuroFocus' next step in its global expansion, following closely on the company's rapid growth in the U.S. and the development of its business in Asia, where it has added major new clients in several key countries including Japan and Korea, among others.

NeuroFocus and Neuroco are both privately held companies. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Neuroco will now become NeuroFocus Europe.

While you're sipping that morning cup and looking for excuses to put off work, here's what's interesting in science around the web today (well, ok, not just today - I haven't done one of these in about a month):

Your tax money pays for the research, so shouldn't you be able to read that research without paying an arm and a leg? Biologist Michael Eisen defends the National Institute Health policy that scientists put copies of their manuscripts in a freely accessible, public repository, as Congress plans to revisit that policy at the behest of for-profit publishers. Eisen argues the policy doesn't hurt publishers, and thus there's no reason to scrap it:

LONDON, March 10 /PRNewswire/ --

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Award winning email service provider Database Group Interactive will provide a new series of Executive Briefings and Seminars on the topics of email strategy, multichannel marketing, and data insight. The first session on Friday 20 March will focus on Strategic Planning and will present new benchmark findings of customer response trends across various economic sectors.

The 20 March seminar will include group discussion on key issues faced within e-marketing departments for planning effective campaigns, including business objectives priorities, ROI benchmarking, and tactical briefing, led by DBGi's Chairman Richard Lees.

NEW YORK, March 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Leading Glaucoma Experts are Working Together to Provide Tips to Help Prevent Vision Loss as Glaucoma Prevalence is Rising Rapidly Across the Globe

On the second annual World Glaucoma Day (March 12), leading global glaucoma experts are working together to help educate patients diagnosed with glaucoma and those who may be at risk for the condition. Glaucoma is a worldwide epidemiological challenge affecting approximately four percent of the global population with an estimated 50 percent of glaucoma cases remaining undiagnosed. Research shows that by 2010, an estimated 60.5 million people globally will be living with either angle closure glaucoma (ACG) or primary open angle glaucoma (POAG).

LONDON, March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- A new website will help local government and community activists to get better broadband services in their areas. They will be able to use it to identify local needs and develop the strategies to bring superband speeds to the whole UK.

Visitors to the Point Topic BroadBand Geography site will be able to click on a map of the UK and see how much broadband there is in each of the 12 government regions and nations and the 434 local authority areas.

For every one of these areas the site shows the number of consumer and business broadband lines, the take-up of broadband per household and per head of population, and the proportion of homes in the area which can get the higher broadband speeds.

HOUSTON, March 12 /PRNewswire/ --

Endeavour International Corporation (NYSE-Alt: END) (LSE: ENDV) today reported net income to common stockholders for 2008 increased to US$45.7 million or US$0.32 per diluted share as compared to a loss of US$60.3 million or US$0.49 per diluted share in 2007. Revenues in 2008 increased more than 47 percent to US$260.4 million from US$176.1 million in 2007. The company reported adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of US$176.5 million from US$124.1 million in 2007. Discretionary cash flow for the year was US$120.8 million.

AUSTIN, Texas, March 12 /PRNewswire/ --

Excite! the event for experiential, exhibition and live marketing has announced a strategic partnership with MeetingTechOnline (MTO), the premier educational event for technology buyers and sellers in the meetings industry. MTO Summit, which tours US cities including Washington, Chicago and San Francisco, will co-locate with Excite! this June in Earls Court, London.

Excite!, formerly Exhibiting Show, attracts an audience of over 3,000 event marketers, organizers and agencies and with its regular line-up of innovative exhibitors and solutions providers and massively popular seminar program.