PALO ALTO, California, December 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Second generation of widely deployed ZFS based OpenStorage solution

Nexenta Systems announced today the release of NexentaStor 1.1. NexentaStor is the most broadly adopted OpenStorage network attached storage and iSCSI solution and has been used by over 4,800 companies world-wide to provide enterprise class storage via easy to use, hardware independent, ZFS based software.

Customers include InfoUSA, the leading provider of business and consumer information products, database marketing and processing services.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, December 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Cellectricon, a leading provider of screening solutions for drug discovery, today announced the signing of a collaborative agreement with The Automation Partnership (TAP) in the UK, manufacturers of advanced automated systems for cell culture, sample management and high throughput screening applications. Under the agreement TAP will co-develop and manufacture the Dynaflow(R)HT System, Cellectricon's next generation high throughput ion channel screening platform. Dynaflow(R)HT will be launched and commercially available in 2009.

LONDON, December 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Live Chat Session With the Energy Zarr- Richard Zarr, Chief Technologist, PowerWise Solutions of National Semiconductor to Discuss a White Paper on Metrics of Energy Efficiency

Premier Farnell plc (LSE:pfl), the leading multi-channel, high service distributor and its companies (Farnell, Newark, Premier Electronics, Farnell-Newark CPC, and MCM), today announced the Live EDGE competition will be hosting a series of technical learning and networking events held in a virtual global community, the Live EDGE EcoSphere. Registration and the event schedule are now available for the Energy Efficiency and Lighting conference at http://www.live-edge.com/ecosphere starting on the 11th of December 2008.

MINNEAPOLIS, December 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Device will enable minimally-invasive transcatheter closure of cardiac structures

AGA Medical Corporation announced today that it received European CE Mark (Conformite Europeenne) approval for its AMPLATZER(R) Cardiac Plug (ACP). The ACP provides an innovative, minimally invasive solution for closing cardiac structures not involving the septal wall. One such intended use will be for the non-surgical occlusion of the left atrial appendage.

A Duke University study suggests that evolution can behave as differently as dogs and cats. While the dogs depend on an energy-efficient style of four-footed running over long distances to catch their prey, cats seem to have evolved a profoundly inefficient gait, tailor-made to creep up on a mouse or bird in slow motion.

"It is usually assumed that efficiency is what matters in evolution," said Daniel Schmitt, a Duke associate professor of evolutionary anthropology. "We've found that's too simple a way of looking at evolution, because there are some animals that need to operate at high energy cost and low efficiency."

Namely cats.

BETH HALEVY, Israel, December 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Full Internet Security Protection now Available as Apple(R) Recommends the use of Anti-Virus Tools

Yoggie Security Systems(TM) today announced that the world's first miniature hardware internet security devices for MacBooks and Mac desktop computers, are available for purchase from Yoggie Security System's eStore: http://www.yoggie.com/e-store, and at online retailers worldwide.

On November 21st 2008, Apple's(R) support site advised Mac users that they should apply security tools. Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple anti-virus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult.

Why can humans talk while chimps can't? The answer is more than just vocal cord anatomy; our brains have a lot to do with our ability to learn and use language. One 'language gene' is FOXP2. Mutations in FOXP2 lead to a rare but dramatic language disorder. Characterized by an inability to use grammar. We all know people who are grammatically challenged (stemming from illiteracy, for example), but this disorder is not the same thing - the affected people have a strong genetic barrier that prevents them using grammar, no matter how hard they work at it.

This disorder is a dramatic example of a language development disorder, but millions of children have much more mild language disorders. Many of these kids outgrow their language problems but not all. A group of researchers working in the UK and the US asked whether some of these relatively mild language disorders are somehow connected to the FOXP2 gene, which so far has only been found to be involved in dramatic speech disorders. Sure enough, they found that variants in a gene regulated by FOXP2 are strongly correlated with mild language disorders.

OAK PARK, Michigan, December 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Azure Dynamics Corporation (TSX: AZD, LSE: ADC OTCQX: AZDDF) - (Azure or the Company), a leading developer of hybrid electric and electric powertrains for commercial vehicles today filed its six month block listing return under the Azure Dynamics Corporation Stock Option Plan.