MUMBAI, India, February 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector continues to grow despite the economic downturn. Germany remains one of Europe's leading players, making up approximately 20 percent of the European market. At NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2009, taking place from February 11-13, 2009 in Mumbai, Germany Trade and Invest will be showcasing the country's investment potential to the world's most important players in ICT.

PALO ALTO, California, February 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Kx Systems, the leader in high-performance database and timeseries analysis, has opened an Asian office to be headed by Chris Burke.

LONDON, February 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Al-Ahram, Egypt's number one publishing house with over 40 publications and a distribution of 1.5 million for flagship daily newspaper Al-Ahram, has embarked on a major initiative for their publishing re-modernisation with KnowledgeView Ltd.

For over 132 years, Al-Ahram has been the leader in publishing systems in the Arab world. The object of our current modernization with Knowledge View establishes a secure multi-publishing platform for the future. Quoted Mr Taymoor A Hassib, Director General of Al-Ahram.

MUMBAI, India, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Products Drive Growth in the Indian Bakery Industries

Since 2004, the Indian bakery industry has been making huge strides forward, undergoing a virtual metamorphosis thanks to increasing consumer gravitation toward convenience products and health food products. The market is expected to grow at a steady rate of 8.0 percent from 2010 onwards.

New analysis from Frost Sullivan (http://www.food.frost.com) , The Trend Analysis of Ingredients Applications in Indian Bakery Industry, finds that the market earned revenues of over $161.4 million in 2007 and estimates this to reach $278.1 million in 2014.

PARIS, February 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanofi-aventis announced today that Jean-Pierre Lehner, M.D., is appointed Senior Vice-President, Chief Medical Officer (CMO). He was previously Senior Vice President, Medical Regulatory Affairs.

Jean-Pierre Lehner reports to Marc Cluzel, Senior Vice President, Research Development, who declared : The newly created role of Chief Medical Officer is a further demonstration internally and externally of the company's commitment to patient well being.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

MediaTek, Inc. (TAIEX: 2454), the world's leading fabless semiconductors company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions today announced that it will demonstrate its wireless communications solutions at the Mobile World Congress.

Providing leading wireless communications solutions to help people enjoy richer mobile lives is MediaTek's mission. MediaTek's image at this show will be aligned with its theme -- Richer Mobile Living. MediaTek will showcase its first smart phone solution, present the world's largest portfolio of TD-SCDMA phone module, demonstrate its latest 5M pixel camera feature phone solution and display its world leading host-based GPS solutions at this year's Mobile World Congress.

PARIS, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Webwag Launches the First Widgets for the Automotive Industry

Webwag, the France-based expert in mobile Internet widgets, announced they have created the first widgets for the automotive industry. This solution allows access to the Internet from the multifunction screen of a car or from any portable Portable Navigation Device (PND)! Already some car and PND manufacturers are working on the integration of widgets into their products. This widgets platform is available to of the automotive business players.

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OAKLAND, California, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Tool Will Offer Option of Unbiased Marking Metric for UK Students

iParadigms LLC, makers of Turnitin, today announced that they now offer anonymous marking within its signature GradeMark(R) online feedback tool. The new anonymous marking feature offers TurnitinUK tutors the ability to view and mark students' work without knowing the identity of the author. Anonymous marking of students' work is increasingly a requirement of assessment procedures in UK universities and colleges, and is also endorsed by the Quality Assurance Agency's (QAA) Code of Practice (QAA, 2006), allowing tutors the option of hiding students' names from their assignment inbox, to allow for unbiased marking.