JENA, Germany, April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Occlutech GmbH, the leading European manufacturer of cardiac occlusion devices today announced a clarification of a recent news release.

In a news release dated February 8th, 2008, Occlutech stated that it received an opinion from AIPPI the European "Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property" with regard to non infringement by Occlutech of certain European IP held by AGA Medical.

AIPPI has requested a clarification of this statement:

1) The name European International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property was not stated correctly. The correct name is the "International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property".

A lot of discussion on emissions revolves around mitigation rather than optimization but researchers at TU Delft have shown that creating an improved aerodynamic shape for truck trailers by mounting sideskirts can lead to a cut in fuel consumption and emissions of up to as much as 15%.

Earlier promising predictions, based on mathematical models and wind tunnel tests have been confirmed during road tests with an adapted trailer. This means that public-private platform PART (Platform for Aerodynamic Road Transport), has produced an application which can immediately be put into production.

It is expected that the cost of fitting aerodynamically-shaped sideskirts will be recouped within two years. Furthermore, the sideskirts can be fitted to approximately half the trucks currently in use in the Netherlands as the skirts can also be retrofitted.

PLEASANTON, California, April 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Spigit, Microsoft and Alcatel-Lucent are the top three finalists in the Software Category

Spigit, Inc., the leader in social productivity software for the enterprise, today announced it was named along with Microsoft (with Novell) and Alcatel-Lucent as a finalist in the software category for the Best of Interop Las Vegas 2008 awards by TechWeb's Information Week and Interop. Interop Las Vegas, the leading global business technology event series, will announce winners on April 29, 2008. Spigit will be demonstrating its software products InnovationSpigit and IdeaSpigit at booth #2455.

ATLANTA, April 17 /PRNewswire/ --

CryoLife, Inc. (NYSE: CRY), a biomaterials, medical device and tissue processing company, announced today that it has signed an exclusive three-year agreement with Minneapolis-based Medafor, Inc. Under terms of the agreement CryoLife will distribute Medafor's microporous polysaccharide hemostatic agent for use in cardiac and vascular surgery in the U.S. and for cardiac, vascular and general surgery, other than orthopaedic and ear, nose and throat surgery, outside the U.S. (excluding Japan and China).

LAS VEGAS, April 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- New offering is designed to enhance business productivity.

At RFID Journal LIVE! 2008, Microsoft Corp today unveiled Microsoft BizTalk RFID Mobile -- a lightweight platform for a variety of mobile devices, which simplifies the development of mobile applications that expose relevant, real-time business information. BizTalk RFID Mobile enables delivery of relevant information from mobile devices to core business processes for a variety of scenarios, whether for a dock worker verifying a shipment or a pharmacist verifying that the right medicine has been stocked.

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HOUSTON, April 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Acorn Systems launches new pre-packaged cost and profitability management solutions designed for new clients in Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing, Consumer Products, Distribution and Logistics

Acorn Systems, Inc. today announced the launch of several new, highly targeted applications in the form of Acorn Industry Value Accelerators. The solutions enable new Acorn clients to leverage pre-packaged, best practices to realize bottom line profit improvements in an accelerated timeframe. Acorn's suite of Industry Value Accelerators is available for its core industries: Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing, Consumer Products, Distribution and Logistics.

SAN MATEO, California and SYDNEY, Australia, April 17 /PRNewswire/ --

NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), announced today that Virgin Money Australia, the financial services arm of Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, has switched from an outsourced solution to NetSuite OneWorld. NetSuite OneWorld provides Virgin Money with one system to run its business operations more efficiently, enabling cost savings for itself as well as savings that can be passed along to customers. NetSuite is a leading vendor of on-demand, integrated business software suites that include Accounting / Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Ecommerce software for small and midsized businesses and divisions of large companies.

WARRINGTON, England, April 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- New SOA-based product reduces costs per transaction, accelerates order fulfilment and enhances customer satisfaction

Martin Dawes Systems, an international provider of billing, customer care and business assurance solutions for the communications market, today announced the launch of its Business Process Engine (BPE), a new SOA-based solution for service providers who want to customise their customer service management systems.

LONDON, April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- BackgammonMasters Online Game Operators of popular games such as 21 Blackjack, Poker and Backgammon plan to enlist the MIT "Blackjack Teams" to test their new BlackJack platform and Basic Blackjack Calculator. With the recent release of the Hollywood Movie "21" starring Kevin Spacey based on the book "Bringing Down the House" by Ben Mezrich, about a team of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) students who formed teams of card counters who were able to beat the odds in the Las Vegas Casinos, BackgammonMasters has decided to put their software to the ultimate brain test and see how they measure up.