A Phase III multi-center clinical trial of HBOC-201, a hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier, manufactured by Biopure Corporation, was relatively safe in patients under 80 years old who have a moderate need for transfusion, up to the equivalent of three units of regular blood, says a study published in the June edition of the Journal of Trauma.

This study is the first Phase III trial to compare a blood substitute to regular blood and was conducted at 46 sites in the United States, Europe and South Africa.

The six-week study involved 688 patients, ages 18 and older, undergoing elective orthopedic surgery, since these procedures often have a high need for blood transfusions. Patients initially received either one unit of blood, which is about a pint, or received an equivalent one unit or 65 grams of HBOC-201.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Spb Software House, the leading Windows Mobile applications vendor, releases Spb Backup 2.0 - a tool for making reserve copies of personal data and system settings for Windows Mobile phones. Spb Backup safeguards from data loss, eliminates the pain of reinstalling applications after a hard reset, a ROM or device upgrade, and delivers a flawless restore experience. The choice of ASUS and Gigabyte, Spb Backup became the best-sold backup utility for Pocket PC in 2007. The new Spb Backup 2.0 is smarter, twice as fast, and makes moving data between Windows Mobile phones as easy as unpacking an archive.

SAN MATEO, California, June 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Version 3.5 Enables High Performance, Multi-Stage Filtering to Counter Spam Attacks

Bizanga, the global company behind the most scalable and full-featured email and message processing platform, today announced the release of version 3.5 of its platform, the Intelligent Message Processor(R) (IMP).

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pennsylvania, June 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Study of the project management profession to be focus of 13-16 July, 2008 event in Warsaw, Poland

Academicians, scholars and project management professionals from throughout the world will gather in Warsaw, Poland, on 13-16 July 2008 to hear the preliminary findings of a three year-long research study on the "Value of Project Management." Commissioned by the Project Management Institute and conducted by researchers at Athabasca University in Canada, the study will look at more than 60 case studies from a globally dispersed array of industries and will provide benchmarks for organizations to calculate the return on investment for their implementation of standardized project management programs.

CALGARY, Canada, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Addax Petroleum Corporation (TSX: AXC and LSE: AXC) ("Addax Petroleum" or the "Corporation") today made the following announcement.

BERN, Switzerland, June 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Connecting ISDN phones to any VoIP system, the award-winning SmartNode S-DTA is the only two-call VoIP CPE on the market suitable for carrier-network deployment.

Patton-Inalp Networks -- creator of the SmartNode brand of industry-leading VoIP technology solutions -- announces their award-winning SmartNode Smart-Digital Telephone Adapter (S-DTA) is fully released and generally available.

STOCKHOLM, June 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Experience a Football Game on TV Like you Were Playing Yourself

Never mind if you haven't been picked for the Euro 2008 football tournament - soon we'll all be able to play like football stars such as the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Fredrik Ljungberg.

Using a state-of-the-art visualisation technology developed by researchers at the Royal College of Technology in Stockholm, anyone will be able to pass as a football pro within a few years' time. You'll be able to squeeze past your opponents running down the pitch, or put yourself in the position of the opposing team - all at the same time as the game is being played live on your TV screen.

NEW YORK and LONDON, June 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- 78 Percent of Respondents State They are Re-Evaluating Data Management Technology to Manage Complex Products More Effectively

FRIMLEY, England, June 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Andreas J. Goss has Been Appointed Chief Executive of Siemens in the UK and North West Europe.

Andreas J. Goss, who has been Chief Financial Officer in the UK since April 2006, will take on the role with immediate effect. Andreas J. Goss first joined Siemens in 1985 and held a number of management assignments within Siemens in the USA and Germany before his position as CFO of Siemens plc in the UK. Besides his role at Siemens, Goss is also a member of the Economic Affairs Committee of the Confederation of British Industry.

Horst J. Kayser, the current chief executive, is leaving Siemens to pursue a new career as chief executive at KUKA AG, Augsburg (Germany).