TORONTO, Canada, October 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- After the Past 2 Days it's all About Return on Information

- Xenos ES Enables Organisations to Reduce Reuse Recycle Structured and Unstructured Electronic Data and Documents

Xenos Group Inc. (TSX: XNS) today announced the launch of the Xenos Enterprise Server(TM), the product of a 25-year quest for an intelligent framework for electronic information infrastructure and management in the complex modern enterprise.

LONDON, October 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- A Live EDGE Energy Efficiency Conference will be Hosted Online on 15 October 2008

Premier Farnell plc (LSE:PFL), the leading multi-channel, high service distributor and its companies (Farnell, Newark, Premier Electronics, Farnell-Newark CPC, and MCM), today announced that design entries are now being accepted at http://www.Live-EDGE.com for the international design competition, Live EDGE - Electronic Design for the Global Environment. The competition invites electronic design engineers, students and hobbyists to design products utilizing electronic components, which will positively impact the environment.

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MAIDENHEAD, England, October 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Toys R Us has announced its top toy predictions for Christmas with High School Musical, Hannah Montana, Ben 10, In The Night Garden and Nintendo Wii expected to be topping Christmas wish lists this year.

Toys R Us will be offering outstanding value for budget-conscious families with many top toys cheaper than they were last year and virtually all electronic products both lower in price and with higher specifications than ever before.

LOS ANGELES, October 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- Malaysian Plantation is First to Receive International Certificate for Responsible Practices

The American Palm Oil Council (APOC) today announced that a Malaysian palm oil plantation has been certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), the world's only international association formed to codify sustainable industry practices, as the first plantation to adopt the strictest standards of sustainability in its production of palm oil.

ESPOO, Finland, October 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Fortum contributes EUR 400,000 to the John Nurminen Foundation's Clean Baltic Sea project aiming at reducing phosphorous discharges from municipal sources in Poland. The project is carried out in co-operation with the Swedish Foundation Baltic Sea 2020 and Polish cities.

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RICHMOND, California, October 1 /PRNewswire/ --

Lumiphore, Inc., a biotechnology leader in the development of new proprietary fluorescent metal-lanthanide technology for use in high-value applications, announced that it has signed an exclusive agreement with Biophor Diagnostics, Inc., Redwood City, California to apply Lumiphore products in diagnostic tests for drugs of abuse.

Under the agreement, Biophor Diagnostics holds the exclusive worldwide rights to Lumi4(TM) technology in current and future diagnostic tests of this type. Lumi4(TM) fluorescent metal-reporter compounds bring increased sensitivity, stability, and robustness to assays in the drugs of abuse testing market through their excellent fade-resistant photophysical properties.