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KEIGHLEY, England, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- froggybank.co.uk Releases 101 Tips to Beat the Credit Crunch

More people have changed their utility provider through the UK's biggest consumer loyalty network in the last two days, than did in the previous three months.

Since British Gas announced its 35% price increase on Wednesday, the froggybank.co.uk (http://www.froggybank.co.uk/) network has seen a massive increase in switchers.

For the first time ever utilities are the top selling category in the network.

And many shoppers are also getting a cash bonus to switch supplier, through sites such as froggybank.co.uk.

Scottish Power (http://www.froggybank.co.uk/scottish-power/) doubled its cashback offering of up to GBP72 on Wednesday.

ARNHEM, The Netherlands, August 4 /PRNewswire/ -- ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consulting, design, engineering and management services company, today announced that it will sell Copijn to Hoek Hoveniers from Voorhout, the Netherlands. Copijn, established in 1807, is a design and contracting firm specializing in green amenities projects in the Netherlands. Its sixty staff members will continue to work for Copijn. The company, with annual gross revenues of EUR 6 million, became a part of ARCADIS in 1994. No further financial details were disclosed.

GRASBRUNN, Germany, August 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The largest private Indian airline, Jet Airways (India) Limited, has opted for IATA-BSP payment solutions from Wirecard AG.

Established in 1992, Jet Airways is among the world's fastest-growing airlines today and carries millions of passengers. Jet Airways has 64 destination airports in Asia, Europe and North America.

V Janakiraman, Head of Revenue Accounting, Jet Airways says: "The reason for our decision for Wirecard AG was the high reputation Wirecard enjoys in the airline industry. We chose Wirecard because our partner airlines were impressed with the efficiency and performance of their payment solutions."

PASADENA, California, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Premium SMS Company powers earliest, most accurate national lottery results

NearU Search (http://www.nearusearch.com) has inked a deal with Ann Arbor, MI based lottery results provider LotteryUSA (http://www.lotteryusa.com) to offer the most recent draw information to members via text message. The LottoWatch premium subscription will be available in June across all 50 states.

"This is the promise of mobile convenience. The Internet is great when you have time. But time is so scarce. People are looking for ways to make information come to them. That's where we come in," said Heather Mlodinow, NearU Search CEO. "Lottery USA users will be able to sign up for winning number text alerts on the LotteryUSA site."

LONDON, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Brightcove's New Subsidiary in Japan Adds General Manager, Announces First Customer, and Closes $4.9 Million Financing; gorin.jp to Publish Beijing Olympic Video With Brightcove

Brightcove Inc., the leading global Internet video platform, today announced that it has appointed technology industry leader and entrepreneur Hisashige Hashimoto as general manager of Brightcove KK, Brightcove's Japan-based subsidiary. It was also announced that Web TV distribution giant, PRESENTCAST, has selected the Brightcove Internet video platform for gorin.jp, the exclusive online video portal in Japan for coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. gorin.jp is backed by all of Japan's commercial television broadcasters.

TOKYO, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Industry's first 500,000-write performance and 50-year data retention at 125 degrees C

Seiko Instruments (SII) announced availability of the S-25A series of SPI Serial EEPROMs, specifically designed for use in the highly demanding automotive market. The ground-breaking S-25A EEPROMs set industry performance records by achieving 500,000 writes at 125 degrees C, and up to 50-year data retention.