TOKYO and INDIANAPOLIS, February 23 /PRNewswire/ --

Heart patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) undergoing an artery-opening procedure will soon have a new treatment option to help prevent heart attacks. Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (TSE: 4568) and Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) announced today that the European Commission has granted marketing authorization for EFIENT(R) (prasugrel) for the prevention of atherothrombotic events in patients with ACS undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

PLEASANTON, California, February 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Pre-Civil War Buildings Now House 21st Century Trapeze Networks Wireless LAN

Trapeze Networks wireless LAN gear has been meticulously installed into the historic 156-year-old campus of the Institute of Notre Dame (IND), an all-girls private high school in Baltimore, Maryland. With the final phase of IND's wireless remodeling complete, the wireless campus now lets students and faculty access the Internet and online educational sources to better prepare each student's potential in the digital age.

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LONDON, February 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Misys Learning Suite Adoption Facilitates Best-Of-Breed Training Across Bank's Network

Misys plc (FTSE: MSY.L), the global application software and services company, today announces that International Bank of Qatar (IBQ) will be implementing the Misys Learning Suite to train its expanding workforce as part of its ongoing growth strategy.

It is every geek’s dream to join a think tank and thereby rule the world with nifty numbers and influential ideas—for no think tank is completely without agenda. John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis (not to be confused with the Emmy-winning actor of the same name, most known for his role as the beer-swilling husband on the TV series Roseanne) even-handedly describes the difference in approach of first-rate liberal versus conservative think tanks, saying, for example, “The Brookings Institution is more likely to investigate unmet needs and ask what governmental programs could solve this problem. The NCPA is more likely to investigate how government policies are causing the problem in the first place and ask how the private sector can be utilized to solve it.”

BUCHAREST, February 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Lamit Company, an important satellite internet provider, launches a new solution for improving the satellite internet connections (terrestrial, wireless or bidirectional via satellite), the 2.5 STABLE version of Lamit 2Pro Advanced and Lamit 2Pro Mini Power servers. Despite the very small dimensions of the Mini Power server, it maintains all the features and characteristics of the Lamit 2Pro server's Platform. The new generation of servers includes Wireless connectivity (N type, offering an extended coverage area and maximum transfer rates) providing easier users' connection. The new servers' version also offers new encryption facilities, a better control and professional management of the users' LAN.

VIENNA, February 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Center Communication Systems GmbH, or Center Systems for short, with its headquarters in Vienna, has from the start of 2009 taken over the activities of EADS Secure Networks GmbH in the segment of Cab radio systems and is the new expert partner and contact for Railway communication. Center Systems will also push ahead with the further development of the product.

The existing product range of cab radio systems from Center Systems will be immediately and optimally supplemented with the takeover of EADS cab radio systems and be further developed in the future.

EADS Secure Networks has relinquished the Railways communication business segment, since this is not part of the company's core business.

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CHANTILLY, Virginia, February 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- High speed solutions to be integral part of Spirent's Ethernet Service Assurance portfolio

Endace Limited (LSE/AIM: EDA), a recognized developer of high speed packet capture networking technology, today announced a technology partnership with Spirent Communications (LSE: SPT) to develop the next generation of high speed service assurance probes, used by service providers to ensure quality of service on their networks. Spirent has a strong reputation in the fast-growing field of Ethernet Service Assurance, enabling service providers to verify revenue-generating IP-based services and their underlying network infrastructure.

JERUSALEM and NEEDHAM, Massachusetts, February 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Oridion Systems Ltd. (SIX Swiss Exchange: ORIDN). Oridion Systems Ltd. has received an FDA 510(k) clearance for its Capnostream(TM)20 Monitor with Integrated Pulmonary Index(TM).

The Integrated Pulmonary Index(TM), the latest Oridion Smart Capnography(TM) initiative, utilizes sophisticated algorithms to integrate the real time measures and interactions of four complex parameters - end tidal CO2 (EtCO2), respiration rate, pulse rate and SpO2 (oxygen saturation) into a single index value. The result is displayed on a scale from 1-10, where 10 indicates optimal pulmonary status.

In tales, legend and role-playing games, sprites are tiny creatures that cause lots of rascally hijinks - sometimes they even dance in the sky.   Scientists at Tel Aviv University say that some "sprites" are very real and they are zipping across the atmosphere, providing a possible explanation for those more modern legendary denizens of the skies; UFOs.

Thunderstorms, says Prof. Colin Price, head of the Geophysics and Planetary Sciences Department at Tel Aviv University, are the catalyst for a newly discovered natural phenomenon he calls "sprites." He and his colleagues are one of the leading teams in the world studying the phenomenon, and Prof. Price leads the study of "winter sprites" ― those that appear only in the northern hemisphere's winter months.