GENEVA, February 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) will launch its Connected Home Gateway software at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, giving consumers the freedom to access and interact with their home multimedia devices, services and media, wherever they are. The gateway also enables one single entry point for IPTV and multimedia telephony services into the home.

Installed in the home, Ericsson Connected Home Gateway achieves all of this by providing a secure connection between consumers' digital home networks and the telecommunications network, and a single point of entry for IPTV and communication services, such as multimedia telephony.

GENEVA, February 12 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of the Millennium Villages project, Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) and pan-African operator Zain have built a green-powered site in a remote village in northeastern Kenya. With the reliable and affordable mobile communication the site provides, the villagers of Dertu can make calls, access health services and education and improve their economic future.

Using a combination of wind and solar power addresses the two key deterrents to building telecommunication infrastructure in remote areas: operating costs and power supply reliability.

LONDON, February 12 /PRNewswire/ --

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New research released by the American Heart Association* reveals that Hibiscus Sabdariffa has a beneficial effect on reducing high blood pressure.

Daily consumption of three cups of hibiscus tea, (made from 1.25g of hibiscus), an amount readily incorporated into the diet, lowers blood pressure in pre- and mildly hypertensive adults and may prove an effective component of the dietary changes recommended for people at risk of developing hypertension, comments Diane L. McKay, PhD, FACN from the Antioxidants Research Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Centre.

COPENHAGEN - FTTH Council Europe Conference, February 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today highlighted its leading role in bringing to the market innovative technologies that have a proven, positive impact on green house gas emissions.

Two existing technologies - Alcatel-Lucent's distributed digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM) concept, as well as a series of passively cooled fiber-to-the-building (FTTB) DSLAMs - are now complemented by a whole new range of eco-sustainable indoor optical network terminals (ONTs), which are located at the customer's premise and convert optical signals back into electrical voice, video or data.

OTTAWA, Canada, February 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The Eclipse Foundation today announced the Gold Sponsors for EclipseCon 2009, which will take place March 23-26 in Santa Clara, Calif. Actuate, Blu Age, IBM, Red Hat, Sopera and Wind River have all agreed to act as the premier Gold Sponsors for the annual Eclipse community conference.

The support and leadership of these companies make EclipseCon a world-class conference, said Mike Milinkovich. These companies also demonstrate the diversity of the Eclipse community by offering solutions in a wide variety of markets, including business intelligence, modeling, enterprise Java development, SOA runtimes and embedded development.

LONDON, February 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Managed Web Hosting Provider Joins the Fight Against Illegal Online Content

Leading managed hosting company NTT Europe Online today announces its support for the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), to help combat illegal online material and raise awareness of the issue on Safer Internet Day.

NTT Europe Online is a global provider of managed hosting solutions to a range of internationally-renowned clients, including UEFA, Aviva and Nissan, and whose parent company NTT Communications' global network delivers a third of all web traffic across the world.