BARCELONA, Spain and WESTFORD, Massachusetts, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Next-Generation Leader Increases Functionality for Business Services & Wireless Networks

Sonus Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: SONS), a leading supplier of service provider IP-voice infrastructure solutions, today announced the latest release of its industry-leading software platform. Sonus Release 7.1 delivers a new level of IP-voice capabilities, further leveraging Sonus' field-proven distributed architecture for growth markets such as wireless, business services and emerging geographies.

STOCKHOLM, February 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The trend for Scandinavia's multi-national companies to recruit a truly international workforce in support of increasingly global business initiatives has prompted CIGNA International Expatriate Benefits - the world's largest provider of employer-sponsored International Health Care Plans - to strengthen its service offering to clients in the region, by opening a new local base in Stockholm.

CIGNA International's new office - headed up by International Sales Director for Scandinavia, Lars-Einar Petterson - will provide a locally based international healthcare service to multi-national clients based in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland.

SARATOGA, California, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- EPE 4.2 Offers Improved Performance and Reliability to Support Mission Critical Applications

BARCELONA, Spain and WARREN, New Jersey, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- New AWE6174 Delivers High Power With Exceptional Performance; Supports Use of DC-DC Converter for Even Greater Power Savings

ANADIGICS, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANAD), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions in the broadband wireless and wireline communications markets, today announced its new AWE6174 quad-band Polar EDGE power amplifier (PA) module for 3G wireless handsets and equipment. ANADIGICS made the announcement this morning at the Mobile World Congress 2008 which is being held February 11-14 at the Fira de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (ANADIGICS: Hall 2, Stand 2C19).

BARCELONA, Spain, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

NAVTEQ (NYSE: NVT), a leading global provider of digital map data for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions, announced today an agreement with Telefonica for the cooperative innovation of new mobile traffic products for European markets. This relationship is a milestone in the first phase of NAVTEQ Traffic(TM) presence in Europe, and initial products are targeted for Barcelona and Madrid. NAVTEQ Traffic currently serves the United States and Canada with comprehensive real-time and historical traffic data services and technology.

NIEUWEGEIN, The Netherlands, February 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Ballast Nedam has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with wpd for the design, supply and installation of 21 foundations forming part of the offshore wind farm Baltic I which is located in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Germany. wpd is a German project developer of offshore wind farms. According to the present schedule Ballast Nedam will install the 21 foundations for the project Baltic I in the first quarter of 2009.

This Memorandum of Understanding results in a situation whereby Ballast Nedam's Heavy Lifting Vessel ,the Svanen, has a full order book for the first quarter of 2009 and Ballast Nedam is positive about a potential for employment of the Svanen thereafter.

BARCELONA, Spain, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- GIPS Media Processing Technology Enables Movial to Deliver Highest-Quality Mobile VoIP Experience to Users of New Social Networking Application; Visit GIPS at Hall 2, Booth 2G6

Global IP Solutions (GIPS) the leading provider of high-quality VoIP media processing, today announced that Movial, the company that inspires rich, intuitive Internet experiences, has launched its Social Communicator software application utilizing GIPS' VoiceEngine(TM) technology.

A healthy lifestyle during the early elderly years—including weight management, exercising regularly and not smoking—may be associated with a greater probability of living to age 90 in men, as well as good health and physical function, according to a report in the February 11 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. A second article in the same issue finds that although some individuals survive to 100 years or beyond by avoiding chronic diseases, other centenarians live with such conditions for many years without becoming disabled.

Studies of twins have found that about one-fourth of the variation in human life span can be attributed to genetics, according to background information in the article. That leaves about 75 percent that could be attributed to modifiable risk factors.

Detailed images from Hubble’s Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) reveal an infant galaxy, dubbed A1689-zD1, undergoing a firestorm of star birth as it comes out of the dark ages, a time shortly after the Big Bang, but before the first stars completed the reheating of the cold, dark Universe. Images from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope’s Infrared Array Camera provided strong additional evidence that it was a young star-forming galaxy in the dark ages.

“We certainly were surprised to find such a bright young galaxy 13 billion years in the past”, said astronomer Garth Illingworth of the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA and a member of the research team.