HEERLEN, The Netherlands and AACHEN, Germany, September 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Solar Cell Offers 9 Percent Higher Output

Solland Solar, Netherlands' largest producer of solar cells, will enable the solar energy sector to take a major step forwards with its new Sunweb cell. By concentrating the generated energy to the back of the cell, Sunweb can offer a 2 percent higher output per cell. Processed and connected in a solar module, the output even increases to 9 percent. This is a substantial improvement for the sector.

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"Metal Wrap Through"

GRONINGEN, The Netherlands, September 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Elkoog B.V., the start-up from Groningen, The Netherlands, has developed Heeii.com, an extension for the web browser that continuously offers a top ten of interesting web sites which are closely related to the web sites that are being visited. Heeii.com approaches privacy of surfing behaviour as openly as possible, and puts it at service of its users.

'Porn mode'

STUTTGART, Germany, September 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Pinnacle Biologics has appointed Movianto to provide exclusive logistics and distribution services to support the launch of the drug Ethyol(R) in several European markets. As one of the leading European providers of distribution and logistics services for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and healthcare industry, Movianto through its pan-European network of ten subsidiaries offers an ideal infrastructure and services portfolio along the whole supply chain.

LONDON, September 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Doosan Babcock jointly with Doosan Heavy Industries of Korea have announced a Global Technology Licensing Agreement with a leading Canadian CO2 management technology company, HTC Purenergy Inc. ("HTC"). In conjunction with the Licensing Agreement, Doosan Babcock and Doosan Heavy Industries will subscribe to a Private Placement for an approximate 15% equity share ownership in HTC and seat on HTC's Board of Directors with the investment of CDN$10 million.

COPENHAGEN, September 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Vopium quietly went public on the NYSE Euronext stock exchange, Marche Libre, in Paris on 23 July. Since then the company's stock has risen steadily, despite this summer lull in the market. After six weeks of public trading, Vopium has reached a market value of 26.06 million Euro (As of September 3, 2008). Vopium already operates in 15 countries and full focus is now set on the company's continued international expansion.

CAMBRIDGE, England, September 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Seamless digital photo collaging at your fingertips with AutoCollage.

Microsoft Research today launched AutoCollage 2008, a desktop application that allows users to easily compile a set of individual photographs into one seamless collage. In just a few clicks, people can transform an unwieldy group of photos -- for example, of an event such as a wedding or holiday -- into a single collage image that can be printed; used in e-postcards, web pages or desktop backgrounds; or e-mailed to family and friends.

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