LONDON, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Solcara, the market-leading provider of software for the control, management and searching of digital information, announces the appointment of Andrew Yuille as marketing director to the Solcara Board.

Andrew joins Solcara with over 15 years experience in the software and services sectors, gained in senior roles at Rubus, Tetra, The Sage Group and most recently with SmartPoint Technologies and Strategix. Andrew specialises in B2B marketing, targeting organisations in both commercial and public sectors.

PARIS, July 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Largest technology competition in the world kicks off its finals today in Paris.

Competition begins today for 370 students from 61 countries and regions competing for US$240,000 in prize money at the Imagine Cup 2008, an annual competition that gives students round the world the chance to unlock their creative genius and create technology solutions that can help address some of the world's toughest social challenges.

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NAPA, California, July 3 /PRNewswire/ --

Senetek PLC (OTC Bulletin Board: SNKTY), a Life Sciences company engaged in the development of technologies that target the science of healthy aging, today announced termination of the Invicorp(R) License Agreement with Ardana Bioscience Limited ("Ardana"). The Agreement was a license to manufacture, market, sell and distribute Invicorp(R) in Europe and was terminated pursuant to the Company's contractual rights, precipitated by Ardana's entry into voluntary administration on June 27, 2008.

The French like their artichokes fried, the Italians like them on pizza, in Spain they are used in frittata and the best artichokes are supposedly found in Greece. Meanwhile, at the University of Reading, a research University in Great Britain, the flower is being used for medicinal purposes connected to reducing cholesterol. High cholesterol levels related to cardiovascular disease have been shown to improve with the help of Artichoke Leaf Extract, or ALE, therefore minimizing the need for prescription drugs. By stabilizing cholesterol before it becomes a problem, researchers at University of Reading found yet another dietary supplement beneficial to healthy cholesterol levels.

CHENGDU, China, July 3 /PRNewswire/ --

EASEUS is releasing its Personal Partition Manager v. 1.6.4 for free. Create, delete, format or move a logical disk to reallocate free space or simply comply with system requirements. Sooner or later, most of us face the need to reshape our hard disks. Now all that is possible without having to wipe out the entire disk and reinstall all the software.

EASEUS Partition Manager performs all types of basic and advanced file system functions: resizing and moving partitions, creating new and deleting (one or all) partitions, formatting partitions and "sticking" labels to them, viewing disk or partition properties, marking partitions as active, hiding and un-hiding partitions.

If you're a long-time reader of this site, you might get the idea that Albert Einstein was a pretty smart guy - that comes across because he tends to proven right a lot even today.

PSR J0737-3039A/B is a unique system of two dead stars, pulsars, and one of the pair is 'wobbling' in space just like a spinning top, according to a team of researchers. The effect, called precession, was predicted by Albert Einstein and is yet another confirmation of his theory.

The binary pulsars were formed when a pair of massive stars exploded and their cores collapsed to create objects whose mass is greater than that of our Sun, but compressed to the size of a city. They are spinning at incredible speeds and emit powerful beams of radio waves which sweep across our radio-telescopes like cosmic lighthouses producing regular pulses of energy - hence their name, pulsars. PSR J0737-3039A/B is the only known system in our galaxy where two pulsars are locked into such close orbit around one another - the entire system could fit inside our Sun.

TOKYO and MOSCOW, July 3 /PRNewswire/ --

TransTeleCom Company CJSC (TTK), Russia's leading telecommunications backbone operator and NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), announced on July 3 that the Hokkaido-Sakhalin Cable System (HSCS), which directly links the two companies' telecom networks via an undersea cable between Nevelsk, Sakhalin in Russia and Ishikari, Hokkaido, Japan, began commercial operation on July 3.

TURNHOUT, Belgium, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Movetis NV, a European specialist pharmaceutical company, today announced that M0002 is progressing to phase IIb following positive results of a phase IIa multiple-dosing trial for the treatment of ascites, the accumulation of fluid in the abdomen in patients with liver cirrhosis resulting from liver conditions such as hepatitis C, hepatitis B or alcoholism.

M0002 is an orally-active selective vasopressin 2 receptor antagonist and a member of a new class of compounds, known as aquaretics, which inhibit water reabsorption from the renal collecting duct. The compound induces free water clearance without loss of sodium.

Calorie restriction related to longevity is a hot topic. Calorie restriction slows the aging process in rats and mice but no one is sure how. One recently popular hypothesis is that it slows aging by decreasing a thyroid hormone, triiodothyronine (T3), which then slows metabolism and tissue aging.

Mice who benefited from calorie restriction were weaned on that diet, a strategy that will get you arrested for child endangerment with human children, but a new study in the June 2008 issue of Rejuvenation Research found that moderate calorie restriction – cutting approximately 300 to 500 calories per day – showed a similar thyroid decrease in humans.

So, they say, the longevity effect may also happen in humans.