BONN and BERLIN, March 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- iMOVE and Ghorfa Will be Hosting the Forum in Berlin From May 6th - 7th, 2009

CARDIFF, March 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Paralink to Provide Femtolab, FemtoLite to China, Taiwan, Hong Kong

Epitiro, the broadband communications authority, today announced Paralink Networks Inc. as its distributor of FemtoLab and FemtoLite test solutions for China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Paralink offer a range of network test equipment to manufacturers, mobile operators and broadband service providers, with corporate offices in China and Taiwan.

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, March 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Video link: http://pubstr.datiq.net/capital/philipsEN.wmv

IEEE, (http://www.ieee.org/portal/site) the world's largest technical professional society, announced today that it will be granting its prestigious IEEE Milestone Award (http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/milestones_intro.html) to Royal Philips Electronics (http://www.philips.com/) for its contribution to the development of the Compact Disc (CD) on March 6th 2009. The award coincides with the 30th anniversary of the historic demonstration of the first CD prototype codenamed Pinkeltje on 8 March 1979.

AUSTIN, Texas, March 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Stellaris(R) Family of MCUs, ARM's CMSIS Initiative Share Same Goal of Standardizing the Microcontroller Market with a Single, Scalable Hardware/Software Architecture

Luminary Micro, creators of the award-winning Stellaris family of ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontrollers (MCUs), today announced alignment and support for ARM's Cortex Microcontroller Software Interface Standard (CMSIS), a standardized hardware abstraction layer for the Cortex-M processor series. The purpose of the CMSIS initiative is precisely the same as Luminary Micro's purpose when creating the Stellaris family of ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontrollers: to standardize a fragmented industry on one superior hardware and software microcontroller architecture.

GENEVA, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- A groundbreaking international conference will provide a forum for the worlds of energy, environmentalism and development to seek common ground on the challenges facing humanity, and also an unusual opportunity for top Iranian and Western energy officials to talk face to face.

On March 16-17, 2009 the Energy Pact Foundation will be holding the Energy Pact Conference at the International Conference Centre Geneva. The Conference, organised with the support of the Republic and State of Geneva, will for the first time address in an integrated manner the related issues of energy needs and environmental and developmental challenges.

MUMBAI, India, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- One year after concluding their first agreement, Tata Communications, a leading provider of a new world of communications, announced today it is working with Mobile Network Operator PLAY to route all of the company's international call traffic around the globe. PLAY (P4), the first multimedia mobile phone operator in Poland, already has over 2 million customers within the country.

About one in 3,500 people are affected with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a disease of the retina's visual cells that eventually leads to blindness. Now, a University of Missouri researcher has identified a genetic link between cats and humans for two different forms of RP. This discovery will help scientists develop gene-based therapies that will benefit both cats and humans. 

Researchers examined the genetic mutations in two groups of cats; one with a congenital form of RP and another with a late-onset form and were able to identify the genes responsible for both forms of the disease in cats.

While number of calories taken in versus used will always be the the biggest factor in weight loss, the type of diet can make a difference too.   If you want to lose fat instead of muscle, for example, or if you want to lower your triglyceride levels so you'll be less likely to develop diabetes and heart disease.

A new study by  Donald Layman, a University of Illinois professor emeritus of nutrition,  followed the weight-loss efforts of 130 persons at two sites, the U of I and Penn State University, during 4 months of active weight loss and 8 months of maintenance.

As researchers continue to examine the role of sweeteners in the diet, it's important that people understand the differences among various ingredients used in scientific studies, according to the Corn Refiners Association (CRA). Interchanging two distinctly different ingredients, such as pure fructose and high fructose corn syrup, creates factually incorrect conclusions and misleads consumers.

Recent studies using pure fructose that purport to show that the body processes high fructose corn syrup  differently than other sugars due to fructose content are a classic example of this problem because pure fructose cannot be extrapolated to high fructose corn syrup. The abnormally high levels of pure fructose used in these studies are not found in the human diet.

72.28 percent of drug addicted men claim to have consumed drugs to be able to have sexual relations and most of them (58%) choose cocaine for this purpose.  Of course, they're drug-addicted men so they may also say they do it to cook dinner.   

The irony is that it's self-defeating, since cocaine is the most debilitating common drug when it comes to sexual performance.

It's not just men.   37.50% of drug addicted women do the same thing, resorting to cocaine (37%), speed balls (the colloquial term for intravenous use of heroin and cocaine together) at 25% and alcohol  at 25%.