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Acision Joins The GSMA

Acision Joins The GSMA

Nov 19 2008 | comment(s)

Mobile Asia Congress, MACAU, China, November 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Acision Becomes a GSMA Associate Member to Champion New Standards and Innovation in Messaging, Mobility and Mobile Marketing

Acision, the world's leading messaging company, today announces that it has become a member of the GSMA, the global trade group for the mobile industry. As an infrastructure supplier, Acision will join the GSMA as an associate member, becoming part of a group of key mobile companies that provide communications technologies and services to more than 3 billion people worldwide.

Media Invitation: Silicon Valley Comes To Oxford 2008 Saïd Business School, University Of Oxford

Media Invitation: Silicon Valley Comes To Oxford 2008 Saïd Business School, University Of Oxford

Nov 19 2008 | comment(s)

OXFORD, England, November 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- ‘360 Degree View of the Valley’ Monday 24th November, 1.00pm-8.00pm

Media invitation to the 8th annual Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford - the Saïd Business School's leading entrepreneurship forum. Speakers will explore the big issues and future directions of innovation and entrepreneurial phenomena in a vibrant and fast paced mix of masterclasses and panel debates. This leading European entrepreneurship forum brings business leaders and luminaries from across Silicon Valley with Oxford faculty, MBAs, student members of Oxford University and the British entrepreneurial ecosystem.

CORRECTION: GSMA, Huawei And Leading Operators To Ignite The Embedded Mobile Market

CORRECTION: GSMA, Huawei And Leading Operators To Ignite The Embedded Mobile Market

Nov 19 2008 | comment(s)

MACAU, November 19 /PRNewswire/ --

The GSMA, the global trade body for the mobile industry, and Huawei, a leading provider of next-generation end-to-end telecommunications solutions, have joined forces to help the mobile industry realise the huge potential market for consumer and industrial goods that can connect to 3G mobile networks. Huawei has joined the GSMA's Embedded Mobile initiative, which will initially focus on bringing the benefits of continuous mobile connectivity to the consumer electronics, clean energy, healthcare, transport and utilities sectors.

Comarch Constructs Turn-Key WiMAX Network For Promonte, Montenegro

Comarch Constructs Turn-Key WiMAX Network For Promonte, Montenegro

Nov 19 2008 | comment(s)

KRAKOW, Poland, November 19 /PRNewswire/ --

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Comarch concluded the last phase of a WiMAX project at Promonte, the prime GSM mobile service provider in Montenegro. The project introduces global activity taken within Telenor Group's - Internet to the people, taking advantage of the combination of up to date technologies like 3GHSPA, WiMAX and WiFi.

Cyprotex Purchases Applied Biosystems Sciex QTRAP(R) 5500 LC-MS/MS

Cyprotex Purchases Applied Biosystems Sciex QTRAP(R) 5500 LC-MS/MS

Nov 19 2008 | comment(s)

MACCLESFIELD, England, November 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Cyprotex are proud to announce the introduction in their facilities of one of the most sensitive ion trap and triple quadrupole instruments in the industry.

The QTRAP(R) 5500 LC-MS/MS offers unparalleled sensitivity and impressive speed by uniting the world's most sensitive triple quadrupole with the world's most sensitive and fastest scanning linear ion trap. It combines exceptional quantitative and qualitative analytical potential with no sacrifice in performance for either capability, and allows accurate and precise ion detection over a wide dynamic range.

South African IP/PBX Market Benefits From Move To Next-Generation Converged Technology

South African IP/PBX Market Benefits From Move To Next-Generation Converged Technology

Nov 19 2008 | comment(s)

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, November 19 /PRNewswire/ --

IP-based technology offers businesses increased competitiveness by providing enhanced capabilities. While the high cost of IP-based infrastructure constrains growth in the South African market, the ongoing investment in telecommunications infrastructure will foster development in the IP PBX market in South Africa.

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New analysis from Frost Sullivan (http://www.enterprise.frost.com), Update on the South African IP/PBX Market, estimates that the market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 21.6 per cent between 2008 to 2014.

Bavarian Nordic Receives USD 25 Million Milestone Payment After Submission Of Important IMVAMUNE(R) Data To The U.S. Health Authorities

Bavarian Nordic Receives USD 25 Million Milestone Payment After Submission Of Important IMVAMUNE(R) Data To The U.S. Health Authorities

Nov 19 2008 | comment(s)

KVISTGARD, Denmark, November 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Bavarian Nordic has invoiced the U.S. authorities for another milestone payment of USD 25 million as allowed under the RFP-3 contract to manufacture and deliver 20 million doses of the company's IMVAMUNE(R) smallpox vaccine. This milestone payment was triggered by the recent submission of a clinical safety report from a large Phase II study with IMVAMUNE(R) in HIV infected subjects, which is part of the regulatory package that will be used to potentially support the use of IMVAMUNE(R) in a declared emergency. With this, Bavarian Nordic is an important step closer to fulfilling the conditions for initiating delivery of IMVAMUNE(R) in 2009.

The income will be recognised as revenue in the financial statements for 2008.

ZuuMedia Launch Unique Christmas Gift Card

ZuuMedia Launch Unique Christmas Gift Card

Nov 19 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, November 19 /PRNewswire/ --

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zuuMedia are offering an unusual and practical present this Christmas. They have launched a stylish business card shaped CD gift card which gives the recipient a 3, 6 or 12 month membership of Instant Computer Support for GBP26.97, GBP49.45 and GBP98.89 respectively. They're also throwing in an additional month's membership for free and all memberships include an Award Winning Internet Security suite worth GBP29.99 per year.

Ascom Wireless Solutions Adds Voice To Their TeleCARE IP Solution

Ascom Wireless Solutions Adds Voice To Their TeleCARE IP Solution

Nov 19 2008 | comment(s)

GOTEBORG, Sweden, November 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Enables Speech Communication Between Staff and Patients

Ascom Wireless Solutions introduces VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) to their Ascom teleCARE IP solution. This solution that succeeds the teleCARE M system, which is widely used at hospitals all over the world, will now give nurses the possibility to talk with their patients, find out what the reason for the call is and adjust their work according to the information.

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How To Build The Perfect Computer By Author Thomas Thompson

How To Build The Perfect Computer By Author Thomas Thompson

Nov 19 2008 | comment(s)

ORLANDO, Florida, November 19 /PRNewswire/ --

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How to Build the Perfect Computer, by author Thomas Thompson, explains how to customize and construct your own custom computer. In this book he tells you what parts you need and where to find them. He explains it all in an easy to read style. This is Thomas Thompson's first book, How to Build the Perfect Computer, which was first published in 2005. Thomas Thompson has revised and expanded the book for today's computer uses. Thomas Thompson has years of hands on experience in the Electronics and Computer repair field. This is a great holiday gift choice. So pick it up at your local book store or online at Lulu.com.

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Economic Downturn Provides Perfect Backdrop For Global Release Of Firmware Technologies Inc. Collaboration Product Vistime(TM)

Economic Downturn Provides Perfect Backdrop For Global Release Of Firmware Technologies Inc. Collaboration Product Vistime(TM)

Nov 19 2008 | comment(s)

MELBOURNE, Australia, November 19 /PRNewswire/ --

High fuel prices, rising air travel and the economic slowdown will drive worldwide sales for vistime(TM), as companies seek to work more efficiently, says Firmware Technologies Inc. President Jacques Blandin.

On the eve of releasing the vistime(TM) product worldwide, Firmware Technologies Inc. today announced a strategic partnership with Autonomy. The addition of their KeyView technology will allow vistime(TM) to support hundreds of file types that can be instantly viewed, printed, shared and interacted with natively in the vistime(TM) product.

V458 Vulpeculae - A Binary Star Explosion Inside A Nebula

V458 Vulpeculae - A Binary Star Explosion Inside A Nebula

Nov 19 2008 | comment(s)

The explosion of a binary star inside a planetary nebula has been captured by a team of researchers – an event that has not been witnessed for more than 100 years. The study, published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, predicts that the combined mass of the two stars in the system may be high enough for the stars to eventually spiral into each other, triggering an even larger supernova explosion.
First Genome Wide Sequence Of Extinct Animal - The Woolly Mammoth

First Genome Wide Sequence Of Extinct Animal - The Woolly Mammoth

Nov 19 2008 | comment(s)

Scientists are reporting the first genome-wide sequence of an extinct animal, according to Webb Miller, Penn State professor of biology, one of the project's two leaders. The animal is the woolly mammoth, an extinct species of elephant that was adapted to living in the cold environment of the northern hemisphere and they did it by sequencing four billion DNA bases using next-generation DNA-sequencing instruments and a novel approach that reads ancient DNA with high efficiency.
Microsoft And Novell Mark Two Years Of Interoperability Progress

Microsoft And Novell Mark Two Years Of Interoperability Progress

Nov 19 2008 | comment(s)

REDMOND, Washington and WALTHAM, Massachusetts, November 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Strong customer demand, technical collaboration and commercial success affirms strategy and partner model.

CORRECTION: GSMA, Huawei And Leading Operators To Ignite The Embedded Mobile Market

CORRECTION: GSMA, Huawei And Leading Operators To Ignite The Embedded Mobile Market

Nov 19 2008 | comment(s)

MACAU, November 19 /PRNewswire/ --

The GSMA, the global trade body for the mobile industry, and Huawei, a leading provider of next-generation end-to-end telecommunications solutions, have joined forces to help the mobile industry realise the huge potential market for consumer and industrial goods that can connect to 3G mobile networks. Huawei has joined the GSMA's Mobile Broadband Embedded initiative, which will initially focus on bringing the benefits of continuous mobile connectivity to the consumer electronics, clean energy, healthcare, transport and utilities sectors.

Banning Fast Food Advertising Would Curb Childhood Obesity But The Social Cost Would Be High

Banning Fast Food Advertising Would Curb Childhood Obesity But The Social Cost Would Be High

Nov 19 2008 | comment(s)

A ban on fast food advertisements in the United States could reduce the number of overweight children by as much as 18 percent, according to a new study being published this month in the Journal of Law and Economics. The study also reports that eliminating the tax deductibility associated with television advertising would result in a reduction of childhood obesity, though in smaller numbers. 

The authors found that a ban on fast food television advertisements during children's programming would reduce the number of overweight children ages 3-11 by 18 percent, while also lowering the number of overweight adolescents ages 12-18 by 14 percent. The effect is more pronounced for males than females. 
Global Warming Projections Overestimated, Says Black Carbon Study

Global Warming Projections Overestimated, Says Black Carbon Study

Nov 19 2008 | comment(s)

A detailed analysis of black carbon, the residue of burned organic matter,  in computer climate models suggests they may be overestimating global warming predictions.  A new Cornell study in Nature Geosciences quantified the amount of black carbon in Australian soils and found that there was far more than expected, said Johannes Lehmann, the paper's lead author and a Cornell professor of biogeochemistry. The survey was the largest of black carbon ever published.
King Herod's Grave At Herodium Confirmed?

King Herod's Grave At Herodium Confirmed?

Nov 19 2008 | comment(s)

Analysis of newly revealed items found at the site of what is believed to be the mausoleum of King Herod at Herodium (Herodion in Greek) have provided Hebrew University of Jerusalem archaeological researchers with more evidence affirming that this was indeed the site of the famed ruler's 1st century B.C.E. grave.

Herod was the Roman-appointed king of Judea from 37 to 4 B.C.E., who was renowned for his many monumental building projects, including the reconstruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, the palace at Masada, the harbor and city of Caesarea, as well as the palatial complex at Herodium, 15 kilometers south of Jerusalem. 
Tissue-Engineered Trachea Transplant Is Adult Stem Cell Breakthrough

Tissue-Engineered Trachea Transplant Is Adult Stem Cell Breakthrough

Nov 19 2008 | comment(s)

The first tissue-engineered trachea (windpipe), utilizing the patient's own stem cells, has been successfully transplanted into a young woman with a failing airway. The bioengineered trachea immediately provided the patient with a normally functioning airway, thereby saving her life. 

These remarkable results provide crucial new evidence that adult stem cells, combined with biologically compatible materials, can offer genuine solutions to other serious illnesses.
Urban Trees Enhance Hydrologic Cycle And Water Infiltration

Urban Trees Enhance Hydrologic Cycle And Water Infiltration

Nov 19 2008 | comment(s)

Global land use patterns and increasing pressures on water resources demand creative urban stormwater management. Traditional stormwater management focuses on regulating the flow of runoff to waterways, but generally does little to restore the hydrologic cycle disrupted by extensive pavement and compacted urban soils with low permeability. The lack of infiltration opportunities affects groundwater recharge and has negative repercussions on water quality downstream.