LONDON, October 9 /PRNewswire/ --

Planalytics Inc., the global leader in Business Weather Intelligence(R), in its September WeatherCall(SM) report said that retailers had a strong, although short-lived, start to the season when wetter and cooler weather increased demand for autumn merchandise during the first ten days of the month. By mid-month this favourable seasonal demand faded as temperatures trended back towards normal and sunny days outnumbered grey ones. The pattern shifted again at the very end of the month, when the mellow pattern changed to something more akin to most people's perception of autumn, as a vigorous system brought wind and rain to all parts of the UK.

MILAN, Italy, October 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Making HD video conferencing simple and affordable and supporting its diffusion as a communication and collaboration standard throughout companies of any size and industry: it's been less than a year since Mirial started its partnership with BCS Global, but the two companies already seem to have reached their goal.

KEIGHLEY, England, October 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The credit crunch has not stopped UK consumers from purchasing lower value gadgets and electrical products, according to the UK's leading cashback shopping website.

http://www.froggybank.co.uk analysed the spending habits of the half a million members of its cashback network.

It discovered that while purchases of high value electrical items are in decline, lower value items show a recovery in sales when compared to two or three months ago.

And contract mobile phone sales have increased by six per cent so far this year compared to last year.

froggybank.co.uk's marketing manager Nadeem Azam said: "It seems we are always going to be fascinated by gadgets whatever the status of the economy."

DUBLIN, Ireland, October 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Associated Press, MocoSpace, News International, Mobitainment and Zagat Survey lead the winners for best mobile Web sites

The dotMobi Advisory Group (MAG) today announced the winners of the first ilovemobileweb Awards for excellence in mobile Web site creation. More than 50 submissions from a half-dozen countries were considered for six categories: Social Networking, Information, Entertainment, Corporate, Commerce and Retail, and Travel.

LONDON, October 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Purse strings are tightening up and down the country as the credit crunch hits home and a recent survey of 3,500 women aged 16 to 60 reveals it is affecting their beauty choices. In response to the downturn, female consumers are turning to affordable classic brands like Pond's that they trust, can perform a number of functions and contain simple but essential ingredients.

Changing Trends

The first ecosystem ever found having only a single biological species has been discovered 2.8 kilometers (1.74 miles) beneath the surface of the earth in the Mponeng gold mine near Johannesburg, South Africa.

There the rod-shaped bacterium Desulforudis audaxviator exists in complete isolation, total darkness, a lack of oxygen, and 60-degree-Celsius heat (140 degrees Fahrenheit).

D. audaxviator survives in a habitat where it gets its energy not from the sun but from hydrogen and sulfate produced by the radioactive decay of uranium. Living alone, D. audaxviator must build its organic molecules by itself out of water, inorganic carbon, and nitrogen from ammonia in the surrounding rocks and fluid. During its long journey to the extreme depths, evolution has equipped the versatile spelunker with genes – many of them shared with archaea, members of a separate domain of life unrelated to bacteria – that allow it to cope with a range of different conditions, including the ability to fix nitrogen directly from elemental nitrogen in the environment.

Scientists have used a technique originally developed for economic study, Granger causality, to become the first to overcome a significant challenge in brain research: determining the flow of information from one part of the brain to another.

For years, scientists have used scanners to identify the brain regions involved in particular mental tasks. But they cannot get that data fast enough to trace the flow of information from one area of the brain to another.

TORONTO, October 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Redline's RedMAX(TM) Products Provide Nex-Tech With Superior Coverage, Capacity and Lower Costs for its WiMAX Deployment

TORONTO, October 9 /PRNewswire/ --

Redline Communications Group Inc. ("Redline") (TSX and AIM: RDL), a leading provider of WiMAX and broadband wireless infrastructure products, today announced that Nex-Tech, a subsidiary of Rural Telephone Service Company and one of Kansas' largest and most diversified integrators of communication technologies, has chosen Redline's 3.65 GHz RedMAX solution for its multi-city WiMAX roll-out in Kansas USA.