CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, February 17 /PRNewswire/ --

Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com), a worldwide leader in telecom research and consulting services, has launched a new research product line aimed specifically at identifying and analyzing growth opportunities in emerging markets.

The Pyramid Research Telecom Insider series delivers concise and timely data and analysis covering telecom trends in key regional emerging markets, including:

-- Africa the Middle East -- Latin America -- Asia/Pacific -- Europe

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, February 17 /PRNewswire/ --

General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) will showcase its capabilities at the International Defence Exhibition Conference (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi, UAE, Feb. 22-26, 2009. General Dynamics is a market leader in business aviation; land and expeditionary combat vehicles and systems, armaments, and munitions; shipbuilding and marine systems; and mission-critical information systems and technologies. General Dynamics companies have long-standing and trusted relationships with nations across the Gulf region, especially in the aerospace, military and security fields.

Stand information

The General Dynamics stand is at Hall 4 - Booth A11, with a display of military vehicle capability at Hall 12 - B20.

Scientists have discovered a mutation responsible for cancer progression, a finding with potential implications for the development of treatment against not one, but a series of cancer types, since this mutation can be linked to an abnormality recently discovered to exist in all malignancies.   The discovery has just been published in Nature Genetics.(1)

ATLANTA and LONDON, February 17 /PRNewswire/ --

IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global futures and over-the-counter (OTC) marketplaces and clearing houses, and ICAP (IAP.L), the world's premier interdealer broker, announced the successful execution through ICE Clear U.S.(TM) of the first agricultural cleared swap transaction in the history of U.S. exchanges. The OTC sugar swap transaction was submitted to the clearinghouse by ICAP, on behalf of Infinium Capital Management and Credit Suisse.

TEL AVIV and BARCELONA, February 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Trivnet, a market leader in mobile payments and commerce solutions, today announced the commercial availability of its cross-network and cross-border mobile money transfer solution.

The Trivnet solution consists of three building blocks, all based on the carrier grade TRIV Platform(TM): the Trivnet Mobile Wallet, the Trivnet Electronic Distribution module, and the Trivnet Business Management module. Trivnet has established partnerships and integrations with global telecom and banking players, to provide Mobile Network Operators with an end-to-end money transfer solution, including the possibility to benefit from Software as a Service (SaaS) schemes and share remittance fees.

TORONTO, February 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Large and Mid-Market Organizations Deploy Clarity's Industry Leading CPM Solution Together With Microsoft's BI Technology

Clarity Systems, a leader in corporate performance management (CPM) and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, today announced that a rapidly growing number of customers are selecting Clarity's CPM solutions to complement their Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) foundation.

NEW YORK, February 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Telepresence and Videoconferencing Insight Newsletter Recognizes Teliris Custom Telepresence and Teliris Express Telepresence in Editor's Choice Awards for Achievements in 2008

Teliris (www.teliris.com), the leading provider of immersive telepresence and immersive collaboration solutions since 1999, announced today that Telepresence and Videoconferencing Insight (TP VC Insight) recognized Teliris for the Best Telepresence Solution of the Year 2008.

SAN FRANCISCO, February 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Award-Winning 'Time Engineers(TM)' Game Gives Younger Students Basic Technology Know-how in Fun, Interactive Environment

TechInsights, the global leader in media, marketing and professional services for the electronics industry, and next-generation educational game developers, Software Kids, LLC, today announced the release of Time Engineers(TM), a graphics and content rich video game designed to introduce pre-high school students to basic engineering, science and math principles in a fun and entertaining setting.

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Time to put New York Times’ columnist Stanley Fish in his place, again. Fish is a rather interesting kind of animal: an academic through and through (he is, after all a professor of law at Florida International University and dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and before that has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins and Duke University), who nevertheless relishes harsh criticism of academia.

BROOMFIELD, Colorado, February 17 /PRNewswire/ --

Accera, Inc., a biotechnology company delivering breakthrough therapies in central nervous system (CNS) diseases, announced today it is a SILVER level sponsor of the 2009 International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease (ICAD). The annual conference, put on by the Alzheimer's Association, is the world's leading forum on dementia research. ICAD 2009 will take place July 11-16 in Vienna, Austria.