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Spb Online: First Commercial Implementation By Mobile Operator

Spb Online: First Commercial Implementation By Mobile Operator

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Major Equality Reps' Conference

Major Equality Reps' Conference

Oct 29 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

A major Equality Reps' Conference of 400 delegates is being held today (29 October 2008) in London by Unite, the country's largest trade union.

The conference forms part of a two-year project to develop and train equality reps across the union. The project is receiving matched funding from the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.

Harriet Harman MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Minister for Equalities, is the keynote speaker at the conference, at which the union is launching its education programme and on-line networking for equality reps.

Hope For Mild Alzheimer's Patients As House Of Lords Refuses To Hear NICE's Appeal

Hope For Mild Alzheimer's Patients As House Of Lords Refuses To Hear NICE's Appeal

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LONDON, October 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Eisai Limited, the licence holder of Aricept(R) (donepezil hydrochloride) and Pfizer Limited, its co-promotion partner, welcome the announcement by the House of Lords that they have refused the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)'s application for leave to appeal against the Court of Appeal verdict handed down earlier this year.

In May this year the Court of Appeal found in favour of Eisai, and ruled that the process by which NICE decided to restrict anti-dementia medicines for newly diagnosed patients with mild Alzheimer's disease was procedurally unfair and that it put stakeholders at a significant disadvantage in their ability to engage fully with the process.

Nurses Present Palin Clothing Line Website ... And Other Ways The Money Could Have Been Spent

Nurses Present Palin Clothing Line Website ... And Other Ways The Money Could Have Been Spent

Oct 29 2008 | comment(s)

OAKLAND, California, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

What else could you do with US$150,000? That's the sum the Republican National Committee famously spent on wardrobe and makeup for Gov. Sarah Palin.

Contrast that with a registered nurse who can be outfitted in scrubs for just US$10 for a hospital shift. The same US$150,000 would outfit 15,000 RNs in scrubs, notes Geri Jenkins, RN, co-president of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee which sponsored the site, http://www.DressLikePalin.com.

How disgraceful at a time when so many Americans are struggling to pay their medical bills or keep their homes, Jenkins noted.

Palin's Tahari skirt suit alone = 60 RN scrubs.

Qeep Mobile Community Reaches 500,000 User Mark

Qeep Mobile Community Reaches 500,000 User Mark

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COLOGNE, Germany, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Young People From 192 Countries Meet on qeep to Chat, Play Games and get to Know Each Other.

- Page Views in the Mobile Community Climb Higher, and Higher.

qeep, the successful mobile community, is excited to celebrate its two year launch anniversary and has reached the half-million mark in users. Young people in 192 countries, everywhere from the USA to India and Greenland to South Africa, are using the network to keep up with their friends while on the-go and to find new chat friends. Currently between 4000 and 5000 new users are signing up each day giving qeep a monthly growth rate of 25 to 30 percent.

EMC To Welcome Nearly 1,500 Attendees At Momentum Europe 2008

EMC To Welcome Nearly 1,500 Attendees At Momentum Europe 2008

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HOPKINTON, Massachusetts, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Prague to Play Host to Market's Premier Enterprise Content Management And Archiving User Conference

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, plans to welcome nearly 1,500 attendees at Momentum Europe 2008, which will be held November 10-13, 2008, at the Prague Congress Centre in Prague, Czech Republic. Momentum Europe 2008 is the market's largest gathering of customers, partners and industry experts in enterprise content management (ECM) and archiving outside of the Americas.

Industry Takes On Botnets, Other Issues At MAAWG Meeting

Industry Takes On Botnets, Other Issues At MAAWG Meeting

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SAN FRANCISCO, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Focus on Cooperative Efforts to Protect Users' Online Experience

Focusing on the urgent problems of identifying and removing botnets from end-users systems and preventing other online exploitation, the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) initiated several new projects at its third meeting of the year. The new work represents important steps forward in cooperative industry efforts to protect end-users by addressing the safe mitigation of botnets, ISP migration to IPv6, detection and reporting of compromised hosts, Web messaging abuse and other outbound abuse. The progress of these projects and other ongoing work will be reviewed at the 15th MAAWG General Meeting on February 17-19 in San Francisco, Calif.

One Million .mobi Registered Names Help Drive Evolution Of Mobile Web

One Million .mobi Registered Names Help Drive Evolution Of Mobile Web

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DUBLIN, Ireland and WASHINGTON, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- After two highly successful years, large and small companies continue to seek quality presence on mobile Web with .mobi

dotMobi, the company behind the .mobi Internet domain designed to help consumers find content that works on mobile phones, today announced that more than one million .mobi domains have been registered since its launch two years ago.

From October 2006, dotMobi has seen continued growth in the amount of registrants as companies pursue the increased visibility and targeted marketing the mobile Web offers. Mobile content consumption is steadily growing while the lack of consistency and navigation issues that previously hampered mass consumer adoption are lessening.

PIDX London Event Will Focus On ROI Of Upstream ECommerce In Current Economy: Hosted By OFS Portal

PIDX London Event Will Focus On ROI Of Upstream ECommerce In Current Economy: Hosted By OFS Portal

Oct 29 2008 | comment(s)

HOUSTON, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

Reduced transaction costs, faster cycle times and fewer errors are among the eCommerce benefits for upstream oil and gas suppliers and service providers in today's economy that will be highlighted at the 2008 International EU Autumn Meeting of PIDX, the American Petroleum Institute e-business standards development body for the oil and natural gas industry.

Tata Communications Spearheads First Security Compliance Consortium To Address Monetary Authority Of Singapore (MAS) Guidelines

Tata Communications Spearheads First Security Compliance Consortium To Address Monetary Authority Of Singapore (MAS) Guidelines

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SINGAPORE, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Security Providers Join Forces to Deliver Consolidated Solution to Meet Latest IBTRM Requirements

Tata Communications, a leading provider of the new world of communications, announced the launch of the first Security Compliance Consortium to simplify the process of meeting compliance needs for the banking and finance sector. This initiative follows the new Internet Banking and Technology Risk Management (IBRTM) guidelines released by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in June 2008. The guidelines outline a set of best practices that mandate risk management processes and security controls for financial systems, including Internet banking.

Earth Council Geneva: Marine Debris Program

Earth Council Geneva: Marine Debris Program

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GENEVA, October 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Earth Council Geneva was a major contributor this summer in an effort to clean marine debris from the shores of Alaska. Teaming with the Marine Conservation Alliance Foundation (financially backed by the US Federal government) ECG spearheaded a project focusing on the wild beaches of Shelikof Strait in south central Alaska. ECG Chairman, Reto Braun, enlisted the help of a local non-profit organization, Earth Tabs, and its vessel to retrieve derelict nets, lines, buoys and trash from the Alaskan coastline.

Recessionary Climate Expected To Fuel Demand For Outsourcing Initiatives Into 2009

Recessionary Climate Expected To Fuel Demand For Outsourcing Initiatives Into 2009

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LONDON, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Organisations Grapple With Challenges of Managing Multi-Provider/ Multiple Outsourcing Efforts

Despite the fact organisations worldwide are deferring capital expenditures, outsourcing continues to be the number one tool chosen to drive organisational change, according to EquaTerra's Advisor and BPO/ITO Service Provider Pulse Survey 3Q08.* The findings show demand for outsourcing is outpacing business investments in areas such as hardware, software or other types of more discretionary project-based services.

NXP World-Class 150mm Fab Available For Immediate Operations

NXP World-Class 150mm Fab Available For Immediate Operations

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CAEN, France, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- NXP Semiconductors Selects ATREG as its Agent in the Sale of their IPD Business and 150mm Fab in France

NXP Semiconductors, a global leader in the development and fabrication of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced it has retained ATREG, the semiconductor sales division of Colliers International, to sell its Integrated Passives Device business (IPD) and related operational 150mm semiconductor manufacturing facility in Caen, France.

Blinkx Wins Hitwise Top 10 Award, Named Industry Leader Among U.S. Web Sites

Blinkx Wins Hitwise Top 10 Award, Named Industry Leader Among U.S. Web Sites

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SAN FRANCISCO, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that it has been named a winner of Hitwise's Top 10 Award for the quarter ending September 2008. During this period, http://www.blinkx.com ranked 7th Web site in the Hitwise Entertainment-Multimedia industry category.

Each quarter, Hitwise, the leading online competitive intelligence service, awards the 10 most popular Web sites in over 160 Hitwise categories. Top 10 Web site Awards are based on popularity according to the market share of user visits a Web site receives compared to other Web sites in their industry during a specific period. blinkx's high traffic earned it a top spot on Hitwise's list for Web sites of its kind.

Sneakey - A Picture Of A Key Is Now Worth A Thousand Locksmiths

Sneakey - A Picture Of A Key Is Now Worth A Thousand Locksmiths

Oct 29 2008 | comment(s)

UC San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key.

"We built our key duplication software system to show people that their keys are not inherently secret," said Stefan Savage, the computer science professor from UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering who led the student-run project. "Perhaps this was once a reasonable assumption, but advances in digital imaging and optics have made it easy to duplicate someone's keys from a distance without them even noticing."
Boundary Extension - Why Our Brain 'Cheats' To Show Us The Whole Picture In Memories

Boundary Extension - Why Our Brain 'Cheats' To Show Us The Whole Picture In Memories

Oct 29 2008 | comment(s)

We all experience memory errors from time to time and research has suggested that 'false' memories may be a result of having too many other things to remember or perhaps if too much time has passed.
Melanin - One Thing Obese People Can Have In Excess And Get Healthier

Melanin - One Thing Obese People Can Have In Excess And Get Healthier

Oct 29 2008 | comment(s)

In a new research report published online in The FASEB Journal, researchers describe a discovery that may allow some obese people avoid common obesity-related metabolic problems until they can lose weight: make a common antioxidant, melanin, in excess.  Melanin is a common antioxidant responsible for skin and eye color.

Most promising is that some of the antioxidant drugs that can mimic the melanin effect are FDA-approved and available. This availability would greatly speed the development of new treatments, should they prove effective in clinical trials.
Raptor Pharmaceuticals Corp. To Present At Two Upcoming Healthcare Conferences

Raptor Pharmaceuticals Corp. To Present At Two Upcoming Healthcare Conferences

Oct 29 2008 | comment(s)

NOVATO, California, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

Raptor Pharmaceuticals Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: RPTP), today announced that senior management will present a corporate overview and clinical pipeline updates at two upcoming healthcare investor conferences:

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071022/NYM074LOGO )

Appearance Of Politicians Matters - If It's Negative

Appearance Of Politicians Matters - If It's Negative

Oct 29 2008 | comment(s)

A team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Scripps College, Princeton University, and the University of Iowa writing in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 
say appearance counts  when it comes to perception of politicians - but mostly if the appearance is negative.   This effect diminishes the more people know about a candidate.    So, voters who know little about John McCain coming up to election 2008 might be inclined to view him negatively when compared to a younger, more charismatic Barack Obama.
Nature's Stock Market - Predicting Boom And Bust Ecologies

Nature's Stock Market - Predicting Boom And Bust Ecologies

Oct 29 2008 | comment(s)

The natural world behaves a lot like the stock market, with periods of relative stability interspersed with dramatic swings in population size and competition between individuals and species.

While scholars may be a long way from predicting the ins and outs of the economy, University of Calgary biologist Edward McCauley and colleagues have uncovered fundamental rules that may govern population cycles in many natural systems. Their discovery is published today in the prestigious scientific journal Nature.