UTRECHT, The Netherlands, February 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- SEB Ready for the Next Phase of SEPA

BARCELONA, Spain, February 19 /PRNewswire/ --

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RealGames(TM), the casual games business unit for digital entertainment services company RealNetworks(R), Inc. (NASDAQ: RNWK), today announced that Tropical Towers, also known as Tiki Towers(TM) in North America, has been named Best Casual Game at the 5th Annual International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA). Held during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, IMGA is an annual contest for the best mobile games in the world.

WAALWIJK, The Netherlands, February 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Positive developments enforce foundation of strategy 'Vision 2010: Gear to Growth':

- Revenue increases 12% to EUR 78.6 million - Operating profit (EBIT) increases 45% to EUR 5.4 million

Proposal to increase the dividend to EUR 0.30 per share from basic earnings per share of EUR 0.55 for 2008

Industrial Automation Integrators (IAI) changes name into IAI industrial systems and presents new logo

PARIS, February 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Saft, leader in the design, development and manufacture of high-end batteries for industry and defence, announces its certified results for the full year ended 31 December 2008.

LONDON, February 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Partnership to serve BT's Small and Medium Business (SMB) Customers

Astadia, the leader in SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) consulting, and one of salesforce.com's largest system integrators, announced it has been selected by BT to implement salesforce.com solutions for BT's small and medium business customers in the United Kingdom.

Gamma-ray bursts are the universe's most luminous explosions. Astronomers believe most occur when exotic massive stars run out of nuclear fuel. As a star's core collapses into a black hole, jets of material -- powered by processes not yet fully understood -- blast outward at nearly the speed of light. The jets bore all the way through the collapsing star and continue into space, where they interact with gas previously shed by the star and generate bright afterglows that fade with time.

Make of it what you will but a study released today says that breastfeeding may reduce multiple sclerosis(MS) relapses.   Sorry guys, this only helps women MS sufferers and only after pregnancy.

For the study, researchers followed 32 pregnant women with MS and 29 pregnant women without MS during each trimester and up to a year after they gave birth. The women were interviewed about their breastfeeding and menstrual period history. 

A total of 52 percent of the women with MS did not breastfeed or began supplemental formula feedings within two months of giving birth. Of those, 87 percent had a relapse after pregnancy compared to 36 percent of women with MS who breastfed exclusively for at least two months after pregnancy. 

SEATTLE, February 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Private industry joins efforts to support hundreds of thousands of cocoa, cashew farmers through improved training, access to markets

The Bill Melinda Gates Foundation today announced two significant partnerships and US$48 million in grants to help hundreds of thousands of small cocoa and cashew farmers in sub-Saharan Africa significantly increase their incomes so they can lift themselves out of hunger and poverty. The two grants -- US$23 million to the World Cocoa Foundation and US$25 million to the German development organization Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH -- were awarded in conjunction with US$42 million in cash and in-kind contributions from private industry.

A major mystery about the origins of life may be resolved if a new hypothesis holds up, says  a study published in Nature.   Two Université de Montréal scientists have proposed a new idea for how a 'universal molecular machine', the ribosome, might have managed to self-assemble as a critical step in the genesis of all life on Earth.

Want to get a lot of money thrown at immunology?   Show that sex can not only be exhausting, if you do it right, it can also cause drops in the immune system.

According to a study in Journal of Evolutionary Biology, when fruit flies mate the females' genes are activated to roughly the same extent as when an immune reaction starts.   Using a combination of behavioral studies and genomic technology, so-called microarrays, researchers at Uppsala University can show how fruit fly females are affected by mating.

"We monitor how genetic expression is impacted by mating and show that the most common process that is affected is the immune defense system," says Ted Morrow at the Department of Ecology and Evolution, Uppsala University.