SUNNYVALE, California, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Spirent Solutions Benchmark Next-Generation Converged Networks against Realistic, Accurate Performance Metrics

LONDON, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Sustained Innovation Expected to Generate Six Billion by 2013

- Mobile Broadband users near 100 million

The GSMA today announced that the mobile world has celebrated its four billionth connection, according to Wireless Intelligence, the GSMA's market intelligence unit. This milestone underscores the continued strong growth of the mobile industry and puts the global market on the path to reach a staggering six billion connections by 2013.

MUMBAI, India, February 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector continues to grow despite the economic downturn. Germany remains one of Europe's leading players, making up approximately 20 percent of the European market. At NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2009, taking place from February 11-13, 2009 in Mumbai, Germany Trade and Invest will be showcasing the country's investment potential to the world's most important players in ICT.

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, February 11 /PRNewswire/ -- AtomPark Software Inc. (http://www.atompark.com), a software developer, announces the public release of its Bluetooth broadcasting software application Atomic Blue Sender 1.20 - a marketing solution able to send advertisements or other messages to passing mobile devices with Bluetooth enabled (http://www.abs-promo.com).

Using a Bluetooth system

Bluetooth broadcasting can be used as a new and innovative way to market products or simply to send useful information about opening hours, deadlines, special or calendar events, schedules, special offers and sales etc. in places where there are sure to be crowds; shopping centers, museums, concert halls, theatres, universities, company buildings and similar places.

PALO ALTO, California, February 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Kx Systems, the leader in high-performance database and timeseries analysis, has opened an Asian office to be headed by Chris Burke.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Preliminary Profits for the Year Grew by 89% to Reach AED 2.0 Billion

Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC, a publicly listed company on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX: TAQA), today reported preliminary financial results for the period ended 31 December 2008. These are unaudited preliminary results, subject to changes that may be caused from the final determination of certain accounting estimates.

The company's preliminary profits for the year grew by 89% to reach AED 2.0 billion in 2008. Preliminary revenues grew by 102% to AED 16.9 billion, from AED 8.3 billion in 2007. Total assets grew by 29% to reach AED 88 billion in 2008. The basic earnings per share grew from 25 fils to 39 fils.

LONDON, February 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Al-Ahram, Egypt's number one publishing house with over 40 publications and a distribution of 1.5 million for flagship daily newspaper Al-Ahram, has embarked on a major initiative for their publishing re-modernisation with KnowledgeView Ltd.

For over 132 years, Al-Ahram has been the leader in publishing systems in the Arab world. The object of our current modernization with Knowledge View establishes a secure multi-publishing platform for the future. Quoted Mr Taymoor A Hassib, Director General of Al-Ahram.

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MUMBAI, India, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Products Drive Growth in the Indian Bakery Industries

Since 2004, the Indian bakery industry has been making huge strides forward, undergoing a virtual metamorphosis thanks to increasing consumer gravitation toward convenience products and health food products. The market is expected to grow at a steady rate of 8.0 percent from 2010 onwards.

New analysis from Frost Sullivan (http://www.food.frost.com) , The Trend Analysis of Ingredients Applications in Indian Bakery Industry, finds that the market earned revenues of over $161.4 million in 2007 and estimates this to reach $278.1 million in 2014.

PARIS, February 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanofi-aventis is pleased to announce the collaboration with Dr. Elias Zerhouni as Scientific Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer, Christopher A. Viehbacher and to the Senior Vice President, Research and Development, Marc Cluzel.

Sanofi-aventis has embarked upon an ambitious program with the goal of making the company a world leader in healthcare. Sanofi-aventis will be able to draw upon Dr. Zerhouni's deep experience and knowledge gained over an impressive career in both academia as well as the Director of the NIH.