LONDON and PUNE, India and DETROIT, August 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Jaguar Land Rover appoints INCAT as Application Transition Vendor and Application Management Services provider in a move that underscores INCAT's leadership in IT and engineering management within the automotive sector

INCAT, a global leader in Enterprise IT Services and Engineering Services Outsourcing (ESO) and a leading international provider of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, has been awarded a managed services contract with Jaguar Land Rover until 2013. Jaguar Land Rover has appointed INCAT as the preferred services partner on two key roles in the Ford-Tata IT migration process.

SYDNEY, August 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Optenet, a Spanish information security technology multinational, announces the launch of operations in Australia with the opening of a new office in Sydney.

Led by Jean-Philippe Fortier, Country Manager for Australia, this opening is part of the company's strategic plan and marks the beginning of Optenet's operations down under. From there, the Spanish multinational will market its new security solutions for telcos, managed security providers and enterprises.

NEW YORK, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Ranking, In Its 7th Year, To Be Unveiled At 3rd Annual Top 250 Global Energy Companies Asia Leadership Awards Dinner

Platts, the world's leading energy information provider and a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), will announce its annual Platts Top 250 Global Energy Companies in Singapore on October 20, 2008.

The Platts Top 250 Global Energy Companies ranking, now in its seventh year, measures corporate leadership by examining each company's performance and tracks the changes in ranks of regional energy companies as they increasingly assume a greater role in global energy sustainability.

SAN MATEO, California, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Report Finds Siperian Best-in-Class for Market Vision, Implementation & Technology Partnerships, And Advanced Feature Sets

LONDON, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --

The most valuable business asset that you and your sports and leisure facility could own this year will cost you nothing more than your time. Because a ticket to Sports Development Week (SDW, 23-25 September, Birmingham NEC), the UK's primary annual event focused on participation, infrastructure and performance in sport, is completely free when you pre-register at www.sdwshow.co.uk (and avoid the 15 pounds Sterling entry fee when registering at the show).

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AUSTIN, Texas, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Version of Software Empowers Users to Take Advantage of Multicore, FPGA and Wireless Technologies

NIWeek -- National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI) today announced LabVIEW 8.6, the latest version of the graphical system design software platform for control, test and embedded system development. Building on the inherent parallel nature of graphical programming, LabVIEW 8.6 delivers new tools to help engineers and scientists take advantage of the benefits of multicore processors, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and wireless communication.

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LONDON, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --

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Successful results and growing sales of Michelson Diagnostics Ltd's (MDL) Optical Coherence Technology (OCT) systems have encouraged investors to place a further GBP600K into the business to help develop the in vivo technology. The capital injection forms part of a new funding round of almost GBP600k into pioneering MDL, with Catapult Venture Managers investing a further GBP250k, London Seed Capital a further GBP50k and the balance of the money coming from private investors. The money will be used to complete development of its hand-held OCT probe for applications in cancer diagnosis and treatment.

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MANHASSET, New York, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Industry Veterans Rank Financial Engineering Programs Based on Wall Street Recruitability

TechWeb's Advanced Trading, the premiere source for objective industry-specific content for trading executives, today announced the Top Ten schools for quantitative analysts. Working closely with Wall Street veterans, Advanced Trading chose the top schools in terms of financial services recruitability. Published in the August issue, the article entitled, "The Top 10 Quant Schools, According to the Street" was written by executive editor, Cristina McEachern. The feature story can be found online at: http://www.advancedtrading.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209102204.

REDWOOD CITY, California, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Pediatrics publishes data on Re-Mission(TM) video game showing young cancer patients who played the game took their medications more consistently

Video games are among the most popular entertainment media in the world. Now, groundbreaking research shows that a specially designed video game can promote positive behaviors in young cancer patients that enhance the effectiveness of medical treatment. This research, sponsored by the nonprofit organization HopeLab and published today in the medical journal Pediatrics, provides scientific evidence for a growing field of product development that taps into the positive potential of video games and other popular technology to improve human health.