IRVINE, California, October 15 /PRNewswire/ --

The increased emphasis on safety by regulatory agencies worldwide has led to more costly medical product development programs and requires rapid, cost-effective and resource intensive actions by Sponsors to respond appropriately. Expertise to effect constructive change can be found in consulting organizations. GZP has already emplaced systems to protect our clients from compliance errors that can lead to adverse regulatory action by the FDA. Throughout the product lifecycle, better use of resources by small and medium sized firms and wise allocation of funding can lead to more success with the FDA review process.

RA'ANANA, Israel, October 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- UK's Fourth Largest Supermarket Group Will Deploy Retalix' Integrated Point-Of-Sale, Store and Fuel System

Retalix(R) Ltd. (NASDAQ: RTLX), a leading provider of software solutions for retailers and distributors, announced today that Morrisons (LSE: MRW), the UK's fourth largest supermarket group, will deploy Retalix software to increase operational efficiency and enhance the shopping experience across its 378 stores and 285 filling stations.

PARIS, October 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Public Group Targeting Interoperability Across Education and Human Resources Applications and Services

Liberty Alliance, the global identity community working to build a more trustworthy Internet for businesses, governments and people worldwide, today announced the launch of the public Liberty Alliance Human Resources and Education Special Interest Group (SIG). The goal of the group is to foster interoperability, security and user privacy across online identity-enabled solutions in the global education and human resources sectors. The Human Resources and Education (HR-EDU) SIG will hold its first public face-to-face meeting on October 22 at the ePortfolio & Digital Identity 2008 conference in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

LONDON, October 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Solcara has today launched a new version of its popular Spotlight Media Relations Management product specifically designed for media relations teams wanting to get more out of their budget.

Spotlight is already used by many of the busiest media relations teams in the UK and beyond. This latest version, Spotlight 6, provides teams of all sizes the option of using Spotlight for a simple comprehensive monthly subscription; often called Software-as-a-Service. As well as this new subscription option, Spotlight 6 benefits from many months of development resulting in a range of enhanced features and an exciting new 'look-and-feel'.

LOS ALTOS, California, October 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company Opens UK Office to Meet Increased Demand for Secure and Managed USB Memory Sticks in Europe

IronKey, maker of the world's most secure flash drive, today announced that the company has opened a new European office in the UK as part of its expansion efforts into more worldwide markets. IronKey's new office will help support its rapid growth in Europe.

Physicists working to disprove "Lorentz invariance" -- Einstein's prediction that matter and massless particles will behave the same no matter how they're turned or how fast they go -- won't get that satisfaction from muon neutrinos, at least for the time being, says a consortium of scientists.

The test of Lorentz invariance, conducted by MINOS Experiment scientists and reported in the Oct. 10 issue of Physical Review Letters, started with a stream of muon neutrinos produced at Fermilab particle accelerator, near Chicago, and ended with a neutrino detector 750 meters away and 103 meters below ground. As the Earth does its daily rotation, the neutrino beam rotates too.

HELSINKI, October 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Turkcell Surpasses 1.8 Million Mark in Mobile Transactions in 19 Months

HELSINKI, October 15 /PRNewswire/ --

Valimo, the selected technology provider for Turkcell, today announced that after only 19 months from implementation, Turks have made over 1.8 million mobile transactions. With the Valimo solution Turkcell has provided its 35.4 million customers unparalleled convenience.

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Another multi-billion-dollar taxpayer bailout could lie ahead, this time to rescue a cash-strapped government program that insures pensions of 44 million American workers and retirees, a University of Illinois finance professor warns.

Jeffrey R. Brown says the troubled Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., which steps in when private-sector employers with under funded defined-benefit plans go bankrupt, was $14 billion short of the cash it will need to cover pensions based on the latest estimates released a year ago.

But he predicts the shortfall will soar as a sour economy shutters more businesses and a plunging stock market carves into pension fund assets, with a government fix similar to this month's $700 billion Wall Street bailout as the likely solution.

Hot, young planets may be easier to spot because they stay that way longer than astronomers have thought, according to new work by MIT planetary scientist Linda Elkins-Tanton.

For a few million years after their initial formation, planets like Earth may maintain a hot surface of molten rock that would glow brightly enough to make them stand out as they orbit neighboring stars. Elkins-Tanton, Mitsui Career Development Professor of Geology in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, says the “magma ocean” stage for Earth-sized planets may last a few million years, much longer than previously estimated. “That means we may actually see them elsewhere, as detection systems get better,” she said.