SEOUL, Korea and CAMBRIDGE, England, July 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- OpenGL ES 2.0 Conformant Mali-200 GPU Enables Dynamic 2D and 3D User Experiences on all Classes of Mobile Consumer Devices

Telechips Inc. (KDQ: 054450) and ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMH)] today announced that Telechips is the first Korean licensee of the ARM(R) Mali(TM)-200 graphics processing unit (GPU), bringing advanced 2D and 3D graphics capabilities and low memory bandwidth usage to a range of portable consumer devices, including PMPs, PNDs, home and in-car audio and mobile phones.

LONDON, July 16 /PRNewswire/ --

Key Findings:

- Nearly one-in-four UK employers plan to add headcount in the third quarter

- One-third of employers say they have slowed their hiring pace compared to 2007 due to the economy

- Despite the slower economy, more than one-third of UK employers say they have open positions for which they cannot find qualified talent

- 66 per cent of UK employers expect to raise salaries in the third quarter, a significant increase from the same time (45 per cent) last year

- One-in-four workers say they are actively looking for a new job, up from 16 per cent at the same time last year

SHANGHAI, China, July 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- 71% of Chinese consumers surveyed interested in watching this summer's sports competitions on free-to-air mobile TV phones

LONDON, July 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Betfred to Join the Leading Skill-Based Games Network

GameAccount, a leading software developer and supplier to the regulated online gaming industry has signed a software licensing agreement with Betfred, operator of the Betfred licensed betting shops and major UK online sportsbook http://www.Betfred.com. The multi-year deal enables Betfred's online customers to engage in playing GameAccount's market leading portfolio of online games including Poker Dice; Gin Rummy; Multiplayer Blackjack; and Backgammon. All GameAccount person-to-person skill games offer multi-table tournaments together with head-to-head cash games.

In the remote desert highlands of southern Yemen, a team of archaeologists have discovered new evidence of ancient transitions from hunting and herding to irrigation agriculture 5,200 years ago.

As part of a larger program of archaeological research, Michael Harrower from the University of Toronto and The Roots of Agriculture in Southern Arabia (RASA) team explored the Wadi Sana watershed documenting 174 ancient irrigation structures, modeled topography and hydrology, and interviewed contemporary camel and goat herders and irrigation farmers.

By measuring a peak in the temperature of hot gas in the center of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4649, scientists have determined the mass of the galaxy's supermassive black hole. The method, applied for the first time, gives results that are consistent with a traditional technique.

Astronomers have been seeking different, independent ways of precisely weighing the largest supermassive black holes, that is, those that are billions of times more massive than the sun. Until now, methods based on observing the motions of stars or of gas in a disk near such large black holes had been used.

"This is tremendously important work since black holes can be elusive, and there are only a couple of ways to weigh them accurately," said Philip Humphrey, leader of the study and an assistant project scientist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCI. David Buote, associate professor of physics and astronomy at UCI, also worked on this study.

Women exposed to high levels of PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls – a group of banned environmental pollutants) are less likely to give birth to male children, according to a study published today in Environmental Health.

The researchers found that among women from the San Francisco Bay Area, those exposed to higher levels of PCBs during the 50s and 60s, were significantly more likely to give birth to female children.

Similar exposure is thought to have occurred in Wales, after a quarry on the edge of Groesfaen village near Cardiff was used as a toxic dumping ground from 1965 to 1972.

A two-year study led by researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) reveals that low-carbohydrate and Mediterranean diets may be just as safe and effective in achieving weight loss as the standard, medically prescribed low-fat diet, according to a new study published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.

In the study, 322 moderately obese people were intensively monitored and were randomly assigned one of three diets: a low-fat, calorie-restricted diet; a Mediterranean calorie-restricted diet with the highest level of dietary fiber and monounsaturated/saturated fat; or a low-carbohydrate diet with the least amount of carbohydrates, highest fat, protein, and dietary cholesterol. The low-carb dieters had no caloric intake restrictions.

It's no secret that the Commonwealth Fund doesn't like private health care and their new national scorecard states that scores on access have declined significantly since the first national scorecard in 2006. Despite spending more on health care than any other industrialized nation, they state, the U.S. overall continues to fall far short on key indicators of health outcomes and quality, with particularly low scores on efficiency.

There are currently great needs and great opportunities for improvement in post-secondary science education. As world education improves, we need to provide more students with complex understanding and problem solving skills in technical subjects to allow them to be responsible and successful citizens in modern society.

Emerging research indicates that our colleges and universities are not achieving this. However, there are great opportunities to improve this situation using advances in the understanding of how people learn science and advances in educational technology.