PARIS, February 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanofi-aventis announced today that Jean-Pierre Lehner, M.D., is appointed Senior Vice-President, Chief Medical Officer (CMO). He was previously Senior Vice President, Medical Regulatory Affairs.

Jean-Pierre Lehner reports to Marc Cluzel, Senior Vice President, Research Development, who declared : The newly created role of Chief Medical Officer is a further demonstration internally and externally of the company's commitment to patient well being.

TORONTO, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Redknee introduces prepaid charging solution for use with BlackBerry(R) smartphones

Redknee (TSX/AIM: RKN), a leading provider of mission-critical software and solutions for communications service providers, is pleased to announce that Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) has expanded Redknee's existing contract to include providing prepaid charging services for BlackBerry(R) smartphones. Using Redknee's new Prepaid Smartphone Charging solution, TSTT now enables all of their subscribers to enjoy high-value services that were previously only available to postpaid customers.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

MediaTek, Inc. (TAIEX: 2454), the world's leading fabless semiconductors company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions today announced that it will demonstrate its wireless communications solutions at the Mobile World Congress.

Providing leading wireless communications solutions to help people enjoy richer mobile lives is MediaTek's mission. MediaTek's image at this show will be aligned with its theme -- Richer Mobile Living. MediaTek will showcase its first smart phone solution, present the world's largest portfolio of TD-SCDMA phone module, demonstrate its latest 5M pixel camera feature phone solution and display its world leading host-based GPS solutions at this year's Mobile World Congress.

CLEVELAND, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Award-winning developer of OnBase(R) content and document management solution brings dedication to the success of partners and proven channel model to region

PARIS, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Webwag Launches the First Widgets for the Automotive Industry

Webwag, the France-based expert in mobile Internet widgets, announced they have created the first widgets for the automotive industry. This solution allows access to the Internet from the multifunction screen of a car or from any portable Portable Navigation Device (PND)! Already some car and PND manufacturers are working on the integration of widgets into their products. This widgets platform is available to of the automotive business players.

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Not sure who to date? Garth Sundem answers it in The Valentine's Day Man-O-Meter. Be sure to take it as gospel because he never just makes stuff up.

If you're still unsure who to pursue, you may be looking in the wrong places. This study says We Want To Date People Slightly More Attractive Than We Are. How, then, does anyone get a date? It's another mystery of love.

OAKLAND, California, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Tool Will Offer Option of Unbiased Marking Metric for UK Students

iParadigms LLC, makers of Turnitin, today announced that they now offer anonymous marking within its signature GradeMark(R) online feedback tool. The new anonymous marking feature offers TurnitinUK tutors the ability to view and mark students' work without knowing the identity of the author. Anonymous marking of students' work is increasingly a requirement of assessment procedures in UK universities and colleges, and is also endorsed by the Quality Assurance Agency's (QAA) Code of Practice (QAA, 2006), allowing tutors the option of hiding students' names from their assignment inbox, to allow for unbiased marking.

One of the weaknesses of using a surname as a guide in understanding genetic characteristcs has been the belief that 1 in 10 births were the result of infidelity - so the name is not only an incorrect characteristic but could even be deceptive.

Not, so, says a study funded by the Wellcome Trust published this week in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, which may help genealogists create more accurate family trees even when records are missing. It suggests that the often quoted "one in ten" figure for children born through infidelity is unlikely to be true.

Sky diving and base jumping are not for everyone. However, for certain people, the more risk and adrenaline involved in an activity, the better! What draws some people to daredevil behavior while others shy away from it? Psychologists Jane E. Joseph, Xun Liu, Yang Jiang and Thomas H. Kelly from the University of Kentucky, along with Donald Lyman of Purdue University were interested in testing how the brains of sensation-seekers differ from those of us who avoid risky behavior.

Scientists have sequenced over seventy strains of yeast, the greatest number of genomes for any species.  The basic machinery of yeast is surprisingly similar to that of humans, and the project is already helping experts to develop the tools necessary for studying human genetic variation. Yeast can also be used to develop and test new drugs, such as for cancer. 

It also gave us a clever way to finagle the title and remind you about Darwin Day tomorrow - the 200th anniversary of his birth.   And, if you are  an American Republican, it's also the 200th birthday of the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln.    But we're a science site so we'll focus on the yeast.