MUMBAI, India, September 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Partnership With Batelco Expands Global MPLS Network

Tata Communications, a leading provider of a new world of communications announced another key milestone in the global expansion of its MPLS network into the Middle East through a partnership with Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco). Batelco is Bahrain's leading integrated communications provider, providing end-to-end telecommunications solutions to retail and enterprise customers in the Middle East region. This partnership enables Tata Communications to offer MPLS (Multi Protocol Label Switching) VPN services into Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan and other locations within the region for its customers in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world.

KARLSRUHE, Germany, September 29 /PRNewswire/ -- RapidSolution Software AG has made the 5th generation Radiotracker web radio software public on the website http://audials.com. The absolutely unique MusicFinder, the reception quality, the user comfort and the number of web radios and output formats are just a few of the highlights that have been extended and enhanced.

Radiotracker focuses on the wishes of users

LEEDS, England, September 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- With Photo

Masternaut Three X is celebrating having been named as one of the UK's fastest growing technology companies for the second year running. The Leeds-based vehicle tracking and mobile resource management company was ranked 43 in the 2008 Tech Track 100 league table that was recently published in the Sunday Times, up an impressive 20 places on their 2007 listing. The annual Sunday Times Tech Track 100, sponsored by Microsoft, Barclays Commercial and BDO Stoy Hayward, ranks Britain's fastest growing private technology companies based on sales growth over the last two years.

GENEVA, Switzerland, September 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Award Highlights Successful Global HR Approach During Company Integration

Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, announced today that it has won the prestigious "Human Capital Leadership Award" 2008 for "Strategic HR Leadership" by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). The division's Human Resources (HR) department was recognized for its critical leadership role during the integration of the former Serono with the Merck Ethicals pharmaceuticals division, and in driving the organization's performance and reputation while supporting strategic goals through superior employee relations.

HATBORO, Pennsylvania and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, September 29 /PRNewswire/ --

Economic globalization and liberalization have been blamed for numerous social ills over the last two decades, including a sharp rise in interethnic violence in countries all over the world. Not so, say the results of a study conducted by researchers from McGill University and published in the current issue of International Studies Quarterly.

According to Dr. Stephen Saideman and former student David Steinberg, the more government intervention there is in the local economy, the more likely inter-ethnic violence and rebellion becomes. Conversely, the more economically open a society is, the less likely such violence becomes.

QINGDAO, China, September 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Recognition as a Global Company Increases

- Clients More Confident in Haier

Haier, the world's fourth largest white goods manufacturer, closed with success its sponsorship of the Beijing 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and is on track to reach its goal of becoming a truly global brand.

The remains of a 30-foot-long predatory dinosaur discovered along the banks of Argentina's Rio Colorado is helping to unravel how birds evolved their unusual breathing system.

Birds have a breathing system that is unique among land animals. Instead of lungs that expand, birds have a system of bellows, or air sacs, which help pump air through the lungs. This novel feature is the reason birds can fly higher and faster than bats, which, like all mammals, expand their lungs in a less efficient breathing process.

The discovery, announced at a news conference in Mendoza, Argentina, builds on decades of paleontological research indicating that birds evolved from dinosaurs.

Applications for Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowships In Science And Religion are now open.

The fellowship enables ten print, broadcast or online journalists to pursue an intensive two-month course of study in issues of science and religion. The program includes three weeks of seminars at the university of Cambridge featuring eminent, well-known authorities in the field. Fellows are paid a stipend in addition to travel expenses to Cambridge.