SAN DIEGO and LONDON, May 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Spectrum Acquisition Broadens Opportunity to Develop, Test and Explore Innovative Wireless Services and Technologies in the United Kingdom -

Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions, today announced that it has acquired 40 MHz (1452-1492 MHz) of L-Band radio spectrum recently auctioned by UK communications regulator Ofcom, at a cost of GPB 8,334,000. This acquisition will allow Qualcomm, in collaboration with its partners, to bring a variety of innovative wireless technologies to the UK market.

LUTON, England, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- To meet the growing demand for Linux Systems Support Engineers, Administrators and Developers, Europe's largest blended learning IT company, SkillsTrain, has introduced a new Linux+ course, encompassing the CompTIA Linux+ examination and enabling existing IT professionals to study and qualify around existing work and personal commitments. With over three quarters of supercomputers using Linux as an operating system, demand for Linux Systems Support Engineers, Administrators and Developers is at an all time high.

77.8% of supercomputers now use Linux as an operating system, the Linux market is growing rapidly and holds around 12.7% if the overall server market.

HAIFA, Israel, May 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Conference Call Scheduled for May 21, 2008 at 10:00am ET

Oil Refineries Ltd. (TASE: ORL.TA) (the "Company"), Israel's largest oil refiner, announced today that it will be releasing its first quarter 2008 financial results on Wednesday, May 21, 2008.

The Company will be hosting a conference call the same day, Wednesday, May 21, at 10:00 am ET. On the call management will review and discuss the first quarter 2008 results and will be available to answer questions.

LONDON, May 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Application Provides Low Cost Fundraising And Money Transfer Service

Moneybookers, one of Europe's largest online payment systems, is today launching a Facebook application that will enable its five million account holders to more cost effectively send and receive money transfers via their Facebook profile. While currently in beta, the application will be available to all Facebook users at the beginning of June - enabling account holders to rapidly and securely raise sponsorship money or charitable donations, collect debts, demand participation fees or make payments to and from anyone on Facebook.

LONDON, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Eisai Europe Ltd announced today that results from 9 clinical data abstracts about compounds in the company's oncology pipeline, product portfolio and preclinical oncology research have been accepted for presentation at the 44th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), taking place in Chicago from May 30 to June 3, 2008.

A wide variety of abstracts on Eisai investigational compounds will showcase research focused on metastatic breast cancer, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, mesothelioma, pancreatic cancer and other types of cancer, as well as supportive care to aid those currently undergoing treatment for cancer.

A new study reveals the genetic identity of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the version responsible for sexual transmission, in unprecedented detail.

The finding provides important clues in the ongoing search for an effective HIV/AIDS vaccine, said researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The UAB team found that among billions of HIV variants only a few lead to sexual transmission.

Earlier studies have shown that a ‘bottleneck’ effect occurs where few versions of the virus lead to infection while many variants are present in the blood. The UAB study is the first to use genetic analysis and mathematical modeling to identify precisely those viruses responsible for HIV transmission.

PHILADELPHIA, May 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Addition of English-translated Japanese Utility Models Provides Most Comprehensive Access to Proliferating Asian Patent Data

Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, has further increased coverage of the growing patent activity in the Asia Pacific region with the addition of registered Japanese Utility Models in Derwent World Patents Index(R) (DWPI(SM)). This is the latest addition to the DWPI database, with Chinese Utility Model Registrations added in October 2007. The inclusion of the Japanese Utility Models provides the best access to Asian patents in English, and further enhances the value of DWPI for prior art and patentability searches.

The human race was divided into two separate groups within Africa for as much as half of its existence, says a Tel Aviv University mathematician. Climate change, reduction in populations and harsh conditions may have caused and maintained the separation.

Dr. Saharon Rosset, from the School of Mathematical Sciences at Tel Aviv University, worked with team leader Doron Behar from the Rambam Medical Center to analyze African DNA. Their goal was to study obscure population patterns from hundreds of thousands of years ago.

Rosset, who crunched numbers and did the essential statistical analysis for the National Geographic Society's Genographic Project, said the team was trying to understand the timing and dynamics of the split into at least two separate groups.

Identifying gene ancestry is crucial for computational genomics because genes passed down from a common ancestor tend to perform similar functions in the cell. Scientists exploit this similarity in tasks like predicting gene function, mapping human chromosomal regions to corresponding regions in model organisms, and reconstructing the regulatory circuitry that turns genes on and off.

Although computational biologists have developed methods to identify genes that share a common ancestor, current methods often lead to spurious conclusions when applied genes encode multi-domain proteins. Domains are sequence fragments that encode the basic building blocks of protein structure. Evolution makes new genes by mixing and matching domains in novel combinations, much like a child who builds a house, a car and a helicopter from the same LEGO kit by combining LEGO blocks in different ways.

This process, called domain shuffling, creates complex proteins that perform specific, critical tasks such as cell communication and binding to other cells. When one of these proteins fails, cancer is often the result. Domain shuffling allows rapid evolution of new proteins, but it also makes it close to impossible for scientists to determine their ancestry.