LOS ANGELES, February 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- Managed Hosting Customers to Benefit from Reliability, Performance of Next-Generation Technology

Verizon Business managed hosting customers will be among the first to benefit from the powerful new functionality of Microsoft Windows Server 2008, the next-generation server operating system launched worldwide by Microsoft Wednesday (Feb. 27).

As a member of Microsoft's early adopter initiative, known as the Rapid Deployment Program (RDP), Verizon Business has gained critical expertise that will enable it to offer Windows Server 2008 as a high-end managed hosting solution to U.S. customers this spring, with rollout to European and Asia-Pacific customers by late summer.

PARIS, February 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Optical Transmission With Capacity x Distance Product Record at 41.8 Petabit/s.km, and Three New Photonic Integrated Circuits

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext and NYSE: ALU) today announced, in four post deadline papers accepted at the OFC/NFOEC conference in San Diego, California, new optical networking milestones, including a new optical transmission record and three novel new photonic integrated circuits.

SAN DIEGO, California, February 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that Bob Tkach, director of Transmission Systems research at Bell Labs, received the 22nd John Tyndall Award, the highest recognition in the optical telecommunications community, during a ceremony at the OFC/NFOEC conference in San Diego, California. Tkach was recognized for his long and prolific body of optical networking research that includes inventing many of the fundamental technologies that are now the basis of high-capacity wave division multiplexing (WDM) systems. These include:

FREDERICK, Maryland, February 27 /PRNewswire/ --

Vaccinogen, Inc. announced that its new vaccine to block colon cancer from recurring will be commercially available in Europe starting June 2008.

"This makes OncoVAX(R) the world's first commercially viable vaccine for colon cancer," said Dr. Michael G. Hanna, Jr., Ph.D., Chairman & CEO of Vaccinogen. "It is the beginning of our worldwide strategy of profitable distribution. Questions of the feasibility of patient specific anti-cancer therapies have been raised and this new European initiative will obviate these issues."

The number of scientists is increasing along with the number of scientific journals and published papers, the latter two thanks in large part to the rise of electronic publishing. Scientists and other researchers are finding it more difficult than ever to zero in on the published literature that is most valuable to them.

A team of researchers from Northwestern University say they have developed a mathematical method to rank scientific journals according to quality.

The team analyzed the citation data of nearly 23 million papers that appeared in 2,267 journals representing 200 academic fields and that spanned the years from 1955 to 2006; their analysis produced 200 separate tables of journal rankings by field.

Biologists have elucidated the mechanism of a plant gene that controls the amount of atmospheric ozone entering a plant’s leaves and their finding helps explain why rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may not necessarily lead to greater photosynthetic activity and carbon sequestration by plants as atmospheric ozone pollutants increase.

It also provides a new tool for geneticists to design plants with an ability to resist droughts by regulating the opening and closing of their stomata—the tiny breathing pores in leaves through which gases and water vapor flow during photosynthesis and respiration.

CAMBRIDGE, England, February 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Games Portal Offers Greater Depth of Gameplay and Community Features

Jagex Ltd, the online games developer behind RuneScape, today launched FunOrb, their latest games offering. FunOrb is an engaging website that offers an array of online games, which have greater depth of play than traditional casual games.

NEW YORK, February 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- U.S. District Court Allows Claims Brought by Swiss-Based In-House Counsel To Proceed against Altria Group, Inc. and Phillip Morris International, Inc.

Some of the oldest tales and wisest mythology allude to the snake as a mischievous seducer, dangerous foe or powerful iconoclast; however, the legend surrounding this proverbial predator may not be based solely on fantasy. As scientists from the University of Virginia recently discovered, the common fear of snakes is most likely intrinsic.

Evolutionarily speaking, early humans who were capable of surviving the dangers of an uncivilized society adapted accordingly. And the same can be said of the common fear of certain animals, such as spiders and snakes: The ancestors of modern humans were either abnormally lucky or extraordinarily capable of detecting and deterring the threat of, for example, a poisonous snake.

CLOSTER, New Jersey, February 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- Ericom(R) PowerTerm(R) WebConnect for Windows Server 2008 is the first comprehensive and commercially supported FREE application access solution to extend the value and increase the adoption of Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services

Ericom Software, a leading global provider of Application Access and Virtualization solutions and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, today announced a special version of its flagship product line -- PowerTerm WebConnect for Windows Server 2008 -- that provides enhancements to Microsoft's newest Terminal Services release. These enhancements are available now for FREE and are distributed through a download from Ericom's website at www.ericom.com/ws08.