LONDON, October 13 /PRNewswire/ --

Thomson Reuters today launched a web-based, interactive community that brings comprehensive information, research, analysis and professional networking tools to the global base metals marketplace. Thomson Reuters Metals Insider went live today at www.communities.thomsonreuters.com/basemetals with a community of approximately 6,700 professionals. Metals Insider is aimed at equipping the global base metals marketplace with the tools to gather in-depth information and collaborate with industry peers.

REDWOOD CITY, California and MUMBAI, October 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Tata Communications, a leading provider of a new world of communications and Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. (ISC), a non-profit public benefit corporation, announced today that the companies will partner to provide best-in-class Domain Name System (DNS) Hosting Services for both enterprise and service provider customers. DNS provides critical functionality for the Internet.

DNS is the means by which organizations can be found online. Rather than being recognized by a string of numbers representing an IPv4 address, or as will be increasingly the case, by an IPv6 address, companies are known by the name of their website.

MELBOURNE, Australia, October 13 /PRNewswire/ --

Nido Petroleum Ltd (Nido) is pleased to announce that oil production has commenced from the Galoc oil field, offshore Palawan Island in the Philippines. Oil production commenced on 9 October 2008. Oil is now flowing to the FPSO 'Rubicon Intrepid'.

Ms. Joanne Williams, Nido's Deputy Managing Director, said "We at Nido have been patiently working towards this day since 2004 and I am very proud today to see the commencement of oil production from Galoc. After many challenges throughout the execution of the development programme, I congratulate our Joint Venture Partners and the Department of Energy for their dedication and concerted efforts to bring this project to fruition."

ZURICH, Switzerland, October 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Solianis' multisensor system for non-invasive Continuous Glucose Monitoring is currently being tested by diabetic patients in the home and work environment. 12 patients have completed a 10-day trial aimed at assessing system reliability. Results indicate that the system tracks glucose in home-use settings and is sensitive to hypoglycemic glucose excursions.

With this proof of concept Solianis can now proceed to producing the final prototype. The company expects to launch its first product in Europe in 2010 after CE approval, targeting this non-invasive device at the insulin dependent diabetes population. Later model variants will address patients with diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance.

HUIZEN, The Netherlands, October 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Through a resolution, La Prevention Routiere Internationale has called for the European Commission to do everything possible to drastically reduce the number of casualties in traffic. Because of the fact that on the European roads this decrease lags behind significantly and even came to a stop in 2007, the PRI is of the opinion that the objective of the European Union to reduce the number of casualties in traffic in 2010 to 27.000, is far from being obtained. Last year, 43.000 people were killed in accidents on European roads.

SUTTON, England, October 13 /PRNewswire/ -- ICIS, the leading global publisher of chemicals information, today announces the winners in the ICIS Innovation Awards 2008, sponsored by Dow Corning.

The winner in each of the four categories is:

ExxonMobil Chemical Company (US) and affiliate TonenGeneral (Japan), for best product innovation

Virent Energy Systems (US) for best innovation by an SME

DSM Nutritional Products (Switzerland), for best business innovation

Dow Chemical (Benelux/US), for most innovative corporate social responsibility (CSR) project

(See below for full details of the winning innovations.)