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Air Berlin Launches Efficiency Program

Air Berlin Launches Efficiency Program

Jun 18 2008 | comment(s)

BERLIN, June 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Fleet to be Reduced in the Winter and dba Administration to be Dissolved

In order to absorb part of the increased kerosene cost, Air Berlin PLC has designed a cost reduction package to be implemented at the start of the winter flight schedule. The program comprises capacity reductions as well as organizational measures. Instead of having 134 airplanes in service, as originally planned, only 120 are to remain in service at the end of the year. Nevertheless, as CEO Joachim Hunold stated in Berlin on Wednesday, the fact that Air Berlin aims to increase its fleet capacity utilization does not necessarily entail a reduction in the anticipated number of passengers transported.

Glu And SEGA Team Up To Bring The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games To Mobile

Glu And SEGA Team Up To Bring The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games To Mobile

Jun 18 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Glu Mobile Inc. (Nasdaq: GLUU), a leading global publisher of mobile games, today announced a partnership with SEGA(R) Europe Ltd. to publish Beijing 2008(TM) - The Official Mobile Phone Game of the Olympic Games and Sonic at the Olympic Games(TM) throughout EMEA, Australia and New Zealand.

Singapore Reinforces Position As A Global Site For Pharma & Biotech; Biomedical Manufacturing Output Quadruples To Reach US$17 B

Singapore Reinforces Position As A Global Site For Pharma & Biotech; Biomedical Manufacturing Output Quadruples To Reach US$17 B

Jun 18 2008 | comment(s)

SAN DIEGO, June 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Sophisticated Infrastructure and Skilled Manpower Support Cutting-Edge Manufacturing Activities

Singapore has firmly established itself as a leading manufacturing hub in Asia with its strong track record, sophisticated infrastructure, superior IP protection and reliability. Its biomedical sciences manufacturing output expanded four-fold from US$4.4 billion in 2000 to US$17 billion in 2007 at a compounded annual growth rate of 21%, far surpassing the industry's global growth rate.

Nuclear And Construction Industries Convene To Deliberate The Nuclear New-Build Programme

Nuclear And Construction Industries Convene To Deliberate The Nuclear New-Build Programme

Jun 18 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, June 18 /PRNewswire/ --

CEOs and Directors will meet at Building's Gearing up for Nuclear New-Build Conference on 30th June 08 in London, to debate the opportunities for the construction industry to profit from the Government's proposed Nuclear programme.

Colin Robertson, Executive Director at Halcrow, will lead this topical agenda. He will be joined by senior representatives from organisations such as EDF Energy, BERR, the Nuclear Industry Association, Doosan Babcock Energy, Areva and Costain.

How is math the basis of reality?

How is math the basis of reality?

Jun 18 2008 | comment(s)

"Most people will have a hard time accepting that their fundamental existence turns out to be the subject they hated in high school." Discover magazine has an interesting interview with MIT cosmologist/philosopher Max Tegmark, who argues that “there is only mathematics; that is all that exists.” Tegmark's ideas the latest development in a line of thought that mathematicians, physicists and philosopher have been thinking about for years, millennia even. A good way to jump unto this subject is to read physicist Eugene Wigner's classic "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences."
Teliris Announces Telepresence Installs For Seven Additional Global 2000 Companies

Teliris Announces Telepresence Installs For Seven Additional Global 2000 Companies

Jun 18 2008 | comment(s)

LAS VEGAS, June 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Customers Include New York Stock Exchange, Aviva, Philip Morris and British American Tobacco

InfoComm 2008 -- Teliris (www.teliris.com), the leading provider of immersive telepresence solutions, reaffirmed today its continuing lead in paying customer deployments by announcing seven additional Global 2000 customers.

Cervical Cancer Charity Welcomes Department Of Health's Announcement About HPV Vaccine

Cervical Cancer Charity Welcomes Department Of Health's Announcement About HPV Vaccine

Jun 18 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The UK's leading cervical cancer charity, Jo's Trust, has today welcomed the Department of Health's announcement that the HPV vaccine, Cervarix will be used in the national immunisation programme for 12/13 year olds starting in September, 2008.

Pamela Morton, Director of Jo's Trust, said:

Teliris Brings Touch To Telepresence With Introduction Of Immersive Collaboration

Teliris Brings Touch To Telepresence With Introduction Of Immersive Collaboration

Jun 18 2008 | comment(s)

LAS VEGAS, June 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company Pioneers First Multi-Touch Surface Collaboration Environment for Telepresence

InfoComm 2008 -- Teliris (www.teliris.com), the leading provider of immersive telepresence solutions, announced today the first-ever multi-touch surface computing based collaboration solution and interactive virtual flip chart and whiteboard for telepresence, designed specifically for immersive collaboration business use.

The revolutionary Teliris InterACT TouchTable(TM) and Teliris InterACT TouchWall(TM), allows for documents, video, audio, presentations and a wide range of other content to be instantaneously shared and manipulated across any number of locations, naturally and easily, as if participants are in the same room.

OrbitalCom To Unveil Proprietary IPTV 'Multimedia' Compression Technology At INTERNIX EXPO

OrbitalCom To Unveil Proprietary IPTV 'Multimedia' Compression Technology At INTERNIX EXPO

Jun 18 2008 | comment(s)

KINGSTOWN, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, June 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Unassailable IPTV compression technology promises to expand ISP offerings, consumer options

Communications network provider Orbital Multi Media Holdings Corporation (http://www.Quiptel.com) is set to unveil its Quiptel(TM) multimedia network at INTERNIX EXPO on July 17th in Cape Town, South Africa.

As explained by Stan Capiak, director of OrbitalCom: Quiptel(TM) will create an unparalleled ability to deliver fully interactive content. Current technology in the marketplace is consuming anywhere from 1Megabit/s to 15Megabit/s per video Stream.

Ringdale, Inc. Announces Availability Of FollowMe Embedded For Ricoh

Ringdale, Inc. Announces Availability Of FollowMe Embedded For Ricoh

Jun 18 2008 | comment(s)

AUSTIN, Texas, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Ringdale(R), Inc., a technology leader in network enhancing connectivity solutions, today announced the availability of FollowMe(R) Embedded for Ricoh, a completely integrated version of FollowMe Printing, the industry standard secure document output management solution.

FollowMe Embedded for Ricoh works on all Ricoh multifunction printers (MFPs) that incorporate Ricoh's Embedded Software Architecture (ESA), to provide easy access to FollowMe's copying, printing, emailing, faxing and scanning capabilities.

Gerresheimer Discontinues Marginal Operations

Gerresheimer Discontinues Marginal Operations

Jun 18 2008 | comment(s)

DÜSSELDORF, Germany, June 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Sale of Consumer Healthcare Business

- Concentration on Core Business of Pharmaceutics and Life Science

Gerresheimer AG, the leading manufacturer of glass and plastic products for the pharma & life science industry, is selling its consumer healthcare business. As previously announced, the Düsseldorf company is thereby discontinuing operations which are not part of the core business of pharmaceutics and life science.

"Magic Meadow Therapy - Guidance To Happiness" Now Available In English!

Jun 18 2008 | comment(s)

MUNICH, Germany, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- A miraculous approach to psychotherapy conquers Europe: after having already helped numerous people in the German-speaking regions, Thomas Meyer, MD, the founder of the Magic Meadow Therapy, is now making his related book available in English. Published by the Georg-Thomas Verlag in Hanover, his first book is now being marketed under the title "Magic Meadow Therapy - Guidance to Happiness".

Glasgow City Council Latest Convert To Solcara's Spotlight Solution

Glasgow City Council Latest Convert To Solcara's Spotlight Solution

Jun 18 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Solcara's Spotlight product has been adopted by Glasgow City Council to provide its press office with an efficient, fast, accurate and now indispensable media service.

Solcara, the market-leading provider of software for the control, management and searching of digital information, sees Spotlight consistently deployed by communications teams in need of protecting and enhancing their reputation. Spotlight ensures the efficient and auditable collection, management and distribution of time sensitive information.

Chris Starrs, PR Manager for Glasgow City Council, said:

THIS Is Electricity

THIS Is Electricity

Jun 18 2008 | comment(s)

I have a healthy respect for electricity. After all, it is both deadly and wondrous at the same time. One of the benefits of studying science at this level is that you get to learn about how ordinary, everyday things work at the most basic level. So what is electricity? We all use it, but how does it work? All you scientists out there can maybe skip this post, as you already know all this, but knowing you guys, you will read it anyway out of curiosity to see if you disagree! To start with, electricity only happens in stuff with free electrons. An electron is part of an atom, the part that encircles the nucleus. In some stuff, electrons are rather free, as opposed to being bound in atoms. The latter, we call Insulators, the former, Conductors and Semi-conductors.
Pharmacists Call For Consistent Approach To 'Top-Up' Payments

Pharmacists Call For Consistent Approach To 'Top-Up' Payments

Jun 18 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Responding to yesterday's announcement made by Alan Johnson, Secretary of State for Health, of a Government review in to the current policy on 'top-up' payments for NHS treatment, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) has called for consistency and fairness to be overriding factors.

Paul Bennett, chair of RPSGB's English Pharmacy Board, said:

Merck Serono And Bionomics Announce Multiple Sclerosis Development And Licensing Agreement

Merck Serono And Bionomics Announce Multiple Sclerosis Development And Licensing Agreement

Jun 18 2008 | comment(s)

GENEVA, June 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Bionomics and Merck Serono to Collaborate to Discover and Develop Novel, Oral Treatment for MS

- Collaboration Based on Novel Compounds That Allow Selective Inhibition of The Immune Cells Which Cause Nerve Cell Damage in Patients With MS

Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, announced today that a Development and Licensing Agreement with Bionomics (ASX: BNO) was signed, under which Merck Serono would develop new treatments for multiple sclerosis (MS) and other autoimmune conditions based on compounds from Bionomics Kv1.3 program.

Smart AdServer Selects Limelight Networks To Power Advanced Online Video Advertising Capabilities

Smart AdServer Selects Limelight Networks To Power Advanced Online Video Advertising Capabilities

Jun 18 2008 | comment(s)

TEMPE, Arizona, June 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Limelight Networks Enables Major European Online Advertising Campaign Management Company to Deliver Targeted Campaigns Reliably

Limelight Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: LLNW) today announced that Smart AdServer will use the LimelightDELIVER object delivery service to increase the quality of service SmartAdServer provides to international clients, manage peaks of online demand, and decrease the cost of bandwidth.

ARM7-Based MCU With FPGA Interface To Multi-Layer AHB

ARM7-Based MCU With FPGA Interface To Multi-Layer AHB

Jun 18 2008 | comment(s)

SAN JOSE, California, June 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Offers seamless migration to CAP7 customizable MCUs for ARM7-plus-FPGA designs

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced the AT91CAP7E, the industry's first ARM7(TM)-based MCU with a direct FPGA interface. The AT91CAP7E is a standard microcontroller with an FPGA interface that makes the FPGA look and work like it is on the internal bus of the MCU. It provides customers with a two-chip, no-NRE, FPGA-plus ARM7 solution and offers an engineering-free migration path to a lower cost, and a lower power customizable MCU.

Canopus BioPharma Strengthens Its CB1400 Platform Technology For Mucositis And Oncology Treatments Through License Agreement Wit

Canopus BioPharma Strengthens Its CB1400 Platform Technology For Mucositis And Oncology Treatments Through License Agreement Wit

Jun 18 2008 | comment(s)

LOS ANGELES, California, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Canopus BioPharma, Inc. (OTC: CBIA), a biotechnology company developing pharmaceutical products and assay methods for patients suffering from infectious disease, radiation sickness, cancer and addiction, today announced the signing of a licensing agreement with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), an organization serving the University of Wisconsin-Madison scientific community by patenting the discoveries of UW-Madison researchers and licensing these technologies to leading companies in Wisconsin, the United States and worldwide. The agreement provides comprehensive licensing rights and patent protection relating to Canopus' Phase II oncology drug candidate, CB1400.

Regional Practice Wins Prestigious

Regional Practice Wins Prestigious "Landscaping Contractor Of The Year" Award

Jun 18 2008 | comment(s)

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Regional landscape practice, TerraVerde, is celebrating after being named 'Landscaping Contractor of the Year' at ITP Business Publishing's inaugural Facilities Management Middle East Awards.

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TerraVerde, an independent company based in Dubai, provides a wide range of landscape contracting services. These include creative landscaping, outdoor lighting, indoor plants and pots, the design and implementation of sustainable water features and irrigation methods, and garden maintenance for commercial and residential projects, large or small.