ELMSHORN, Germany, March 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Ideal Foundation for Mini-PC Complete Systems From EUR 199.

Shuttle Inc., the market leader in the mini-PC segment and the manufacturer of Multi-Form-Factor solutions, today presents its latest coup - a mini-PC barebone for just EUR 94. The Shuttle Barebone K45 is based on the proven Intel 945GC chip set and supports both power-saving and current dual-core processors. The small dimensions make it the ideal format for your desk. Here, where mainly only simple applications such as the Internet, e-mail or Office are required, the K45 really shows its stuff.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- PickupPal announces it has launched the world's first online transportation marketplace, a key resource to help commuters connect and offset global transportation environmental impacts. By 2010, it is estimated that there will be over half a billion registered private vehicles in North America and Europe, and the figures are at least double that the world over. PickupPal will allow any of these individual drivers to sell a seat or any interested person to buy a ride - in a virtual, online transportation marketplace.

CALGARY, Canada, March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Addax Petroleum Corporation (TSX: AXC and LSE: AXC) ("Addax Petroleum" or the "Corporation") will announce its financial results for the year ended December 31, 2007 on Thursday, March 13, 2008, and will discuss its financial results in a conference call on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 12:00 p.m. (noon) Eastern Time / 4:00 p.m. London, U.K. time. Mr. Jean Claude Gandur, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. James Pearce, Chief Operating Officer, and Mr. Michael Ebsary, Chief Financial Officer, will discuss the Corporation's most recent financial and operating results.

PARIS, March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext and NYSE: ALU) will hold a web press conference on Monday, March 10th to launch a unique new technology for broadband wireless providers which addresses a major challenge that carriers are facing as they increase their deployment and support of data applications and devices over their wireless networks.

CHARENTON-LE-PONT, France, March 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Another Year of Solid Performance

The Board of Directors of Essilor International, the world leader in ophthalmic optical products, today announced its audited financial results for the year ended December 31, 2007.

EUR millions 2007 2006(2) Change Revenue 2,908.1 2,690.0 + 8.1% Contribution from operations(1) 527.4 482.6 + 9.3% As a % of revenue 18.1% 17.9% --- Operating profit 504.6 460.5 + 9.6% Profit attributable to equity 366.7 328.7 + 11.6% holders 12.6% 12.2% --- As a % of revenue Earnings per share (in EUR) 1.78 1.61(3)+ 10.8%

(1) Operating profit before share-based payments, restructuring costs and other non-recurring items, and goodwill impairment.

LONDON, March 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- 40 per Cent of 16-34 Year Olds Think They Can Make Their First Million in Five Years

- A Third of Women Expect to Hit the Million Mark in Five Years

As many as seven million Brits genuinely believe they will become millionaires and over two thirds of those think it will be achievable within 10 years according to new research from Orange Business Services.

The survey into people's attitudes to making money found that women and young people could prove the most promising contributors to the UK economy over the next decade, with the majority relying on business skills and personal ambition to reach millionaire status. In contrast, men would risk the most for a millionaire lifestyle.

Challenging the gender divide

READING, England, March 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Industry Expert Will Focus on Delivery of Security Solutions

Verizon Business has appointed John Madelin as director of professional services for its EMEA Security Solutions practice. In this key role, Madelin will focus on enhancing the company's delivery of security solutions to Verizon Business' enterprise and government customers in the region.

The Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham, Ariz., has taken celestial images using its twin side-by-side, 8.4-meter (27.6 foot) primary mirrors together, achieving first "binocular" light.

U.S., Italian and German partners in the telescope, known as the LBT, are releasing the images today. First binocular light is a milestone not only for the LBT, “now the world's most powerful telescope" but for astronomy itself, the partners say. The University of Arizona in Tucson is a quarter owner of telescope observing time.

The first binocular light images show three false-color renditions of the spiral galaxy NGC 2770. The galaxy is 102 million light years from our Milky Way, a relatively close neighbor.

Scientists studying images from The High Resolution Imaging Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have discovered never-before-seen impact "megabreccia" and a possibly once-habitable ancient lake on Mars at a place called Holden crater.

The megabreccia is topped by layers of fine sediments that formed in what apparently was a long-lived, calm lake that filled Holden crater on early Mars, HiRISE scientists say.

"Holden crater has some of the best-exposed lake deposits and ancient megabreccia known on Mars," said HiRISE's principal investigator, professor Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. "Both contain minerals that formed in the presence of water and mark potentially habitable environments.

A new study published in The Journal of Finance explores the economic significance of “smart money” in the U.S. and U.K. mutual fund marketplaces.

The “Smart Money” hypothesis states that investor money is “smart” enough to flow to funds that will outperform in the future, and that investors have genuine fund selection ability. The current study employs a British data set of monthly fund information differentiated between individual and institutional investors.

Research by Aneel Keswani at the Cass Business School in London, England, and David Stolin at the Toulouse Business School in Toulouse, France, documented a smart money effect in the United Kingdom using monthly data available from 1991 to 2000. Inflows, not outflows, gave rise to the smart money effect in the U.K.