SOUTHFIELD, Michigan, January 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Proximus not only prolongs contract, but also includes new services

TechTeam Global, Inc., (Nasdaq: TEAM), a worldwide provider of information technology (IT), enterprise support and business process outsourcing services, today announced a 4-year contract renewal with Belgacom Mobile, better known under the branded name Proximus, to deliver multilingual customer services to its "Pay & Go" customers.

Belgacom Mobile is the largest mobile telecommunications operator in Belgium, serving about 2.3 million Pay & Go customers (customers with a prepaid calling card), seven days a week. Since 2004, TechTeam Global has served Pay & Go customers in Dutch, French and English via phone and internet.

AUSTIN, Texas, January 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Improved SQL Compliance and Improved PHP Compatibility

REAL Software, maker of REALbasic and REAL SQL Server, which run cross-platform on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems, will ship REAL SQL Server 2008 Release 1 during Macworld Expo in San Francisco. The new version exhibits better SQL standards compliance and updates have been made to increase PHP compatibility on Apple's Leopard OS X and Linux-based platforms.

AUSTIN, Texas, January 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Development language will support introspection; Delivering on the most requested enhancement from users

REAL Software, maker of REALbasic, a cross-platform development environment for Windows, Mac and Linux developers, will announce REALbasic 2008 Release 1 at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. The latest version will include introspection, which has been the most highly requested feature from the user community in recent years.

"Adding introspection to our object-oriented language provides developers with a powerful tool," stated Geoff Perlman, President and CEO of REAL Software. "With this new capability our users will be more productive and their applications will be more dynamic and adaptable."

MOSCOW, January 15 /PRNewswire/ --

Mechel OAO (NYSE: MTL), one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, announces the appointment of Andrey Deineko as its Steel Division Director.

Andrey Deineko (54) will be in charge of developing Mechel's steel segment, carrying out operational management, planning, and controlling operations of Mechel's steel assets.

DUBAI, January 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Distribution Facility to Cash in on US$3 Billion Pharmaceutical Industry Growing at 9% Per Annum

Newly formed pan-Gulf pharmaceutical storage and distribution firm, Pharma World Holdings, is setting up a state of the art facility within the United Arab Emirates, the first ever 3PL pharmaceutical provider in the region, to capitalize on an industry estimated to be worth around $3 billion per annum.

The newly established firm brings a track record of expertise to the region being a 50/50 venture between UAE based Ithmar Capital Fund I and Banaja International Group.

Researchers from the Monell Chemical Senses Center have attempted to count the number of genes that contribute to obesity and body weight - and it isn't a pretty number.

The findings suggest that over 6,000 genes, almost 25 percent of the genome, could help determine an individual’s body weight.

“Reports describing the discovery of a new ‘obesity gene’ have become common in the scientific literature and also the popular press,” notes Monell behavioral geneticist Michael G. Tordoff, PhD, an author on the study. “Our results suggest that each newly discovered gene is just one of the many thousands that influence body weight, so a quick fix to the obesity problem is unlikely.”

AUSTIN, Texas, January 15 /PRNewswire/ --

LUMINARY MICRO STAND NUMBER: 9-204 EMBEDDED WORLD 26th - 28th February 2008 NUREMBERG, GERMANY

Luminary Micro (http://www.luminarymicro.com), creators of the award-winning Stellaris(R) family of ARM Cortex(TM)-M3-based microcontrollers (MCUs), will be exhibiting at the Embedded World Show 2008 in Nuremberg, Germany. Luminary Micro will showcase its wide range of Stellaris microcontrollers as well as its new BLDC Motor Control Reference Design Kit and the Automation System Demo incorporating conveyor belts and four robotic arms and using Ethernet and CAN communications to drive the automation.

Neutron stars can be considerably more massive than previously believed and it is more difficult to form black holes, according to new research developed by using the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Paulo Freire, an astronomer from the observatory, will present his research at the American Astronomical Society national meeting in Austin on Jan. 11.

In the cosmic continuum of dead, remnant stars, the Arecibo astronomers have increased the mass limit for when neutron stars turn into black holes.

“The matter at the center of a neutron star is highly incompressible. Our new measurements of the mass of neutron stars will help nuclear physicists understand the properties of super-dense matter,” said Freire.

PUERTOLLANO, Spain and MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, January 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Castilla-La Mancha Site is Major Milestone in Commercialization of Concentrator Photovoltaics

SolFocus, designer and manufacturer of solar energy solutions including concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) systems, intelligent tracking systems, and solar thermal technology, and Spain's Institute of Concentration Photovoltaics Systems (ISFOC) today announced the installation of the first CPV array in the ISFOC's 3 MW project in Castilla-LaMancha. This is the first 200kW of the .5MW that SolFocus will install over the next few months for this worldwide solar initiative aimed at accelerating the development and adoption of CPV technology.