BERLIN, August 6 /PRNewswire/ -- A 64-year-old man from France is the patient with the longest support time worldwide by the implantable heart support system INCOR(R). For five years already the Frenchman has been living with the system.

In August 2003, the then 59-year-old Jean-Pierre Offe was suffering from end-stage heart failure. Poor blood circulation in the heart muscle and two heart attacks had weakened his heart so severely it could no longer supply his body with enough blood. For medical reasons Mr. Offe was not eligible for heart transplantation, but desperately needed support for his failing heart.

BEIJING, August 6 /PRNewswire/ --

Haier, the world's fourth largest white goods manufacturer and the official white goods sponsor of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, today opens the Haier "Making the World a Home" Experience Center in Chaoyang Park, Beijing. The Experience Center will be open to the public for the duration of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, where visitors will experience Haier's vision of the future of home appliances and its "U-Home" technology.

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PRAGUE, Czech Republic, August 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- JetBrains Wins the 2008 SD Times 100 and a Reader's Merit Award From Visual Studio Magazine

JetBrains(R), the creator of intelligent, productivity-enhancing tools for software developers, is again recognized for excellence and leadership in the industry. Two of its major products, IntelliJ IDEA and JetBrains ReSharper, continue to set new standards of developer productivity in the Java and .NET worlds, respectively.

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TEL AVIV, Israel, August 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Entertainment Industry Veteran Reavis Daniel Moore Appointed Chairman

- Company Teams up With Digital Music Pioneer Ted Cohen and Tag Strategic

YouLicense.com, the online music licensing marketplace, today announced it has secured Series A funding from Ofer Media, Israel's leading private equity and investment firm for media, entertainment and Internet companies, and Logia Group LTD, a global provider of innovative mobile content solutions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The funding will be used to grow the company's global marketing efforts and content acquisitions.

BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, August 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Optimized Mobile Workforce Management System Schedules More Than 1,000 Technicians to Ensure Telecommunications Services run Smoothly

REDWOOD CITY, California, DHAKA, Bangladesh and BANGALORE, India, August 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Initiative Will Deliver Affordable Banking Services to the World's Poorest People

Obopay, Inc., the pioneering service provider for payments via mobile phones, and Grameen Solutions, the company globally recognized for promoting economic and social development through information and communications technology, today announced a unique, first-of-its-kind alliance to use mobile technology to deliver banking services to a billion of the world's poorest people by 2018.