BERLIN, January 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company expands the impact of Partners in Learning program over the next five years, reaching up to three times as many students, teachers and schools.

PALO ALTO, California, January 22 /PRNewswire/ --

TONIC, a Silicon Valley company offering exclusive, limited edition merchandise and services benefiting global causes, today announces its Board of Creators.

TONIC is defined as anything invigorating, mentally, morally or physically, which embodies the spirit of what the company is trying to accomplish. The company's mission is to sell products online that look attractive, feel great and most importantly, contribute to causes and people who need it most. Consumers have enthusiastically greeted TONIC's first run of limited-edition tees since their introduction in December.

PHILADELPHIA and CHIPPENHAM, England, January 22 /PRNewswire/ --

ikordo, the free online meeting planner that organizes and schedules meetings, will be a gold sponsor at the DEMO 08 conference, to be held from January 28th - 30th 2008 in Palm Desert, CA at the JW Marriott Resort and Spa. DEMO is the premier launch venue for new products, technologies and companies. As a young technology company in the Web 2.0 arena, ikordo selected DEMO as a key venue to showcase its online scheduling service. Delegates at the conference will have the opportunity to schedule their onsite or follow up meetings by visiting the ikordo meeting pod in the Sponsor Networking Lounge.

WASHINGTON, January 22 /PRNewswire/ --

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today that it has begun collecting additional fingerprints from international visitors arriving at Boston Logan International Airport (Logan). The change is part of the department's upgrade from two- to 10-fingerprint collection to enhance security and facilitate legitimate travel by more accurately and efficiently establishing and verifying visitors' identities.

"Biometrics have revolutionized our ability to prevent dangerous people from entering the United States since 2004. Our upgrade to 10-fingerprint collection builds on our success, enabling us to focus more attention on stopping potential security risks," US-VISIT Director Robert Mocny said.

IRVINE, California and LONDON, January 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Revenues Increase and Profitability Improves at Tadpole's Endeavors Application Streaming Operations

Endeavors Technologies, the pioneer in application streaming and virtualization technology, and its parent company, Tadpole Technology plc, today announced results for the year ended 30 September 2007.

Operating revenue from the Company's application streaming activities known as Endeavors Technologies ("continuing operations") increased by 56% to 3.3 million pounds Sterling from 2.1 million pounds Sterling whilst operating profit before non-cash charges was 27,000 pounds Sterling as opposed to an operating loss of 1.3 million pounds Sterling in the previous year.

All materials, from paper to water, reflect some amount of light. Scientists have long envisioned an ideal black material that absorbs all the colors of light while reflecting none. So far they have been unsuccessful in engineering a material with a total reflectance of zero but each advancement eventually boosts the effectiveness and efficiency of solar energy conversion, infrared sensors and other devices.

The total reflectance of conventional black paint is between 5 and 10 percent.

MILAN, Italy, January 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier has acquired Edra S.p.A, an online publishing company in the healthcare field. Together, Elsevier and Edra will be able to provide professional and promotional support to pharmaceutical companies by combining Elsevier's content and services with Edra's electronic capabilities and online delivery channel. An important tool is Medikey, the largest online medical and healthcare professional community in Italy.

Elsevier Masson S.r.l, based in Milan, is the market leading provider of scientific and medical content and services, in the form of books, journals, drug databases and pharmaceutical marketing support.

The 1000 Genomes Project, announced today, will involve sequencing the genomes of at least a thousand people from around the world.

Drawing on the expertise of multidisciplinary research teams, the 1000 Genomes Project will develop a new map of the human genome that will provide a view of biomedically relevant DNA variations at a resolution unmatched by current resources.

As with other major human genome reference projects, data from the 1000 Genomes Project will be made swiftly available to the worldwide scientific community through freely accessible public databases.

Any two humans are more than 99 percent the same at the genetic level.

HOLMDEL, New Jersey, January 22 /PRNewswire/ --

Sparta Systems, Inc. (Sparta), the maker of TrackWise(R), and the market leader in enterprise quality and compliance management software, announced today that AlfaBeta, the second largest food retailer in Greece, deployed TrackWise as its Quality Management System of record to improve overall customer service and supplier quality while reducing the complexity of its manufacturing process.

CHICAGO, January 22 /PRNewswire/ --

InfoDyne Corporation, a leading provider of low latency, high performance market data technology, today announced that Man Investments, a global leader in alternative investment products and solutions, has deployed InfoDyne's TPS+Plus feed handlers for Bloomberg's B-Pipe on Demand (BPOD) datafeeds. The solution provided seamless integration of BPOD within Man's existing RMDS production system.