The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) held its eighth educational forum on online Brand Abuses and Internet Governance on Tuesday, September 23. Hosted by CADNA, Turner Broadcasting System, and Alston&Bird at the CNN Center in Atlanta, the event featured expert advice on proactive, preventative and reactive online domain name strategies available to brand owners and provided a forum for frank discussion.

The event opened with remarks from Jeanene Jobst, Counsel to Turner Broadcasting, who gave a brand owner's point of view on one of the most pressing issues affecting brand domain strategies -- the imminent launch of an unlimited number of new top level domains (TLDs). As counsel to Turner, Ms.

SUNNYVALE, California, September 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Founding Members Include Concentrix Solar, Emcore, ISFOC, Isofoton, and SolFocus

PARIS, September 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced a seven-year agreement with all-inclusive resort company Club Med. Under the agreement, Alcatel-Lucent and its global business partners will install and manage the company's telephony solution for hospitality, bringing improved communications that will help meet the increasingly high expectations of Club Med guests and employees, and differentiate the company in a highly competitive industry.

OXFORD, England, September 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Conference to Become Annual International Event Featuring the World's Leading Thinkers and Doers

Four years after its first European gathering, TED organizers today announced the return of the TEDGlobal Conference to Oxford, UK, on an annual basis.

TEDGlobal 2009, the inaugural annual conference, is titled "The Substance of Things Not Seen," and will feature more than 40 remarkable speakers presenting over the course of four days, from July 21-24, in Oxford.

MUMBAI, India, September 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Syngenta announced that yesterday it received the 2008 World Business and Development Award (WBDA) for the development and successful introduction of a new sugar beet that can be grown under tropical climate conditions and brings significant advantages to farmers, the environment, the sugar and ethanol industries and the economy.

AMSTERDAM, September 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Ibuildings Hires PHP Heavyweight Cal Evans as Director

In order to further encourage the use of the PHP programming language and to further enhance the quality of PHP programmers, Ibuildings will start a PHP Centre of Expertise this year. The centre will be lead by Cal Evans, a world-renowned PHP expert. He is, among many other things, the editor-in-chief of one of the most important portals for PHP developers. His transfer to Ibuildings caused quite a stir in the PHP community. In October Evans will move from his current residence in Nashville (Tennessee - US) to the Netherlands.