SAN JOSE, California, March 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- XtremeESD(R) Protection, Praetorian(R) EMI Filtering, HDMI(TM) 1.3 and other Interface Protection Solutions Featured

California Micro Devices (Nasdaq: CAMD) will be showcasing its broad range of protection solutions, including devices for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection and electromagnetic interference (EMI) filtering at ESC Silicon Valley 2009 in San Jose, California from March 31 through April 2. These solutions are well suited to a wide range of applications, such as embedded and industrial computing, and consumer electronics.

The XtremeESD Family

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- CLARITY (CLAdRIbine tablets Treating MS OrallY) Study Data to be Presented as Late-Breaking Oral Presentation

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 30 /PRNewswire/ --

Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, announced today that the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) has accepted a late-breaking abstract regarding cladribine tablets, its oral investigational treatment of multiple sclerosis, for an oral presentation at the AAN 61st Annual Meeting in Seattle.

SAN JOSE, California, March 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- CAP7L Customizable Microcontroller with US$75K NRE enables lower cost of entry markets

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today its CAP7L customizable microcontroller that allows fabless semiconductor companies to implement ARM7(TM) processor-based systems-on-chip (SoCs) with a turn-around period as low as 12 weeks, a nominal NRE charge of only US$75,000, and unit costs as low as US$5, without requiring a separate license from ARM.

CAP7L SoCs are economical in volumes of 10K units, with a fully-amortized unit cost of US$17. In 50K unit volumes, the amortized unit cost is only US$7, including NRE and IP expense.

SHENZHEN, China, March 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Network Provides High-Speed Wireless Download Rate of up to 21Mbps

ZTE Corporation (ZTE) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, together with Hong Kong's number one mobile operator CSL Limited, today announced the availability of the world's first SDR-based HSPA+ All IP commercial network. Jointly developed by the two companies, the new HSPA+ network will provide CSL subscribers with high-speed wireless download of up to 21Mbps, considered the world's fastest 3G commercial network ever developed. CSL invested hundreds of millions of dollars to establish the network.

HAIFA, Israel, March 30 /PRNewswire/ --

CAMBRIDGE, England, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- AVEVA today announced the acquisition of iDesignOffice Pty Ltd, a technology company based in Melbourne, Australia. This acquisition brings best-in-class instrumentation engineering technology to AVEVA's portfolio, extending and strengthening it in a key area to consolidate AVEVA's leading position in plant engineering software for both EPC contractors and Owner Operators.

Instrumentation Design Office (IDO), the software now owned by AVEVA, is a suite of integrated applications for creating and maintaining instrumentation engineering data for process plants. IDO will be renamed AVEVA Instrumentation and will be available standalone or as part of an integrated suite with other AVEVA products.

LONDON, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Misys plc (LSE: MSY.L), the global application software and services company, today announces that the Retail Banking Division of Societe Generale has selected Misys Almonde to reinforce its risk, margin simulation and monitoring capability.

Societe Generale chose the Misys Almonde Asset Liability Management (ALM) and Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP) solution to establish an integrated system that is able to both run simulations and report on FTP, internal margin and Risk Management.

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Hult International Business School (http://www.hult.edu/)announced today that it is seeing a massive increase in demand for its MBA programs (http://www.hult.edu/mba-program/index), particularly among international students. Year to date applications have increased 102% as students look to strengthen their resumes in order to better position themselves in the downturn. Over 2,500 applications arrived from September 2008 to February 2009.

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All regions are driving the increase in demand; however, applications have more than tripled from the Americas and Western Europe. Applications from Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe are up over 50%.

LONDON, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- After three days, fifty presentations, eight live demos and the consumption of significant quantities of food and drink, the curtain came down on the STAR European Conference 2009. Held a short distance from CD-adapco's London headquarters, the conference defied the current economic situation by attracting a near record attendance of over 300 attendees, drawn from all sections of industry and from every discipline in the CAE world.