LONDON, January 17 /PRNewswire/ --

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LONDON, January 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Football Legend Launches E.ON National FA Cup Schools Day

Alan Shearer went back to school today to launch the annual E.ON National FA Cup Schools Day. The initiative, set up by FA Cup Sponsor E.ON, one of the UK's largest energy companies, aims to encourage 500,000 school children to participate this year.

WILTON, Connecticut, January 17 /PRNewswire/ --

BRISTOL, England, January 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Turn the fledgling family toy store into a toy business empire! That's the premise behind Toy Shop, an exciting new simulation for the Nintendo DS(TM) announced today by Majesco Entertainment Company (NASDAQ: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market. Developed by Gameinvest, Toy Shop puts players at the helm of a struggling toy shop where they'll need to create fun toys that sell while managing store inventory, customers and budget.

DES PLAINES, Illinois, January 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Highly Sensitive Assay Detects Mutant Strain First Identified Last Year in Sweden

Working in collaboration with leading international researchers in the area of sexually transmitted disease, Abbott has developed a newly formulated molecular test capable of detecting a new variant strain of Chlamydia trachomatis found in one in five chlamydia cases in Sweden.

The assay, which is intended to be performed on the automated Abbott m2000 real-time PCR clinical diagnostic system, has received CE Mark certification in the European Union.

IRVINE, California and LONDON, January 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Partner Expansion Provides Opportunities to Capitalize on Surging Application Virtualization Market

Endeavors Technologies, the pioneer in application streaming and virtualization technology, and its parent company, Tadpole Technology plc, today announced a new multi-level partner program. The company also announced that Blackhawk Technology Consulting, Client-Server Technology Group, Inc. and NTAKT7 have signed on as partners in the Americas region.

LOS ANGELES, January 17 /PRNewswire/ --

BioGold Fuels Corporation, in a joint venture with Bioteknia, has entered into a letter of intent to build a waste to fuel production facility in the Dominican Republic. Bioteknia will provide the contracts for the land to build the plant, the supply of waste for processing and the purchase of the resulting fuel and energy. Bioteknia will also secure the necessary governmental permits to build and operate the plant. BioGold will provide the technology and know how to build and operate the plants, as well as the funding necessary for construction.

"BioGold is excited to be expanding our operations into the Dominican Republic," said BioGold's CEO, Steve Racoosin. "This plant will be a flagship for the waste to energy marketplace. This is the first step towards achieving BioGold's global goal of eliminating the waste just sitting in our landfills and converting it to renewable energy and fuels."

SAN JOSE, California, January 17 /PRNewswire/ --

Micrel Inc., (Nasdaq: MCRL), an industry leader in analog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, today launched the MIC2341 and MIC2342. The devices are Dual Channel Hot-Plug Power Controllers that support the power requirements for PCI Express Specification v2.0. The MIC2341 and MIC2342 augment Micrel's growing PCIe product family and are ideal for high performance enterprise computing network system processor boards, DDR memory boards, embedded systems and gigabit Ethernet add-in cards for the server networks and RAID/storage network markets. The devices are currently available in volume quantities and are priced at US$4.54 for 1K quantities.

Geodesy is the science of determining the geometry, gravity field, and rotation of the Earth and their evolution in time. Traditionally, geodesy has been serving other sciences and has had many societal applications, including mapping. With the advent of satellite technology, geodesy itself developed into a science, making unique contributions to the study of the Earth system, its inherit dynamics, and its response to climate change, as well as a tool underpinning a wide variety of other remote sensing techniques. Geodesy is an important element in making all Earth observations interoperable, facilitating the combination of satellite observations with those gathered on ground.


The European Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is called Galileo. Credit: ESA


Facilitated by Global Navigation Satellite Systems such as GPS, a wide and growing set of applications associated with positioning and navigation is opening up.

Hubert Burda Media has invited a select circle of guests to join their fourth conference on global issues of the 21st century: Digital-Life-Design (DLD). Participants will address concerns and innovations in the fields of digital lifestyle, media, science and arts. Approximately one hundred international experts are expected in Munich between 20 and 22 January 2008 to discuss future challenges arising for society as a whole as well as for corporate citizens and individuals.

The only conference in Europe to offer such a wide range of topics, select circle of speakers and exclusive set-up, DLD was founded in 2005 by Stephanie Czerny and Dr. Marcel Reichart, the two managing directors of Hubert Burda Media Research&Development.

VIENNA, Austria, January 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- From January 31 to February 1, Vienna Will Become a Hub for Environmental Technology and Renewable Energies

Speaking on the urgent need for an energy revolution, US economist Jeremy Rifkin said during his Vienna visit last year that he hoped the EU and Austria would play a pioneering role. Now, the internationally renowned futurologist is returning as the keynote speaker of envietech 2008, the first European congress for environmental technology and renewable energies. The conference will take place at the Austria Center Vienna under the patronage of the Austrian Ministry for the Environment from January 31 to February 1, 2008.