FREEHOLD, New Jersey, May 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- GainSpan's Ultra Low-Power Wi-Fi SoC at Heart of Temperature Monitoring Solution

Aginova Inc., a manufacturer of specialized wireless subsystems, today announced the industry's first Wi-Fi cold storage monitor that provides up to 5-10 years of battery life. The SentinelPro offers the most advanced Wi-Fi sensing hardware, a portable alarm unit, and a comprehensive software package for monitoring, reporting, and storing of critical storage condition data over time.

LONDON, May 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Achievement Affirms Incentra Focus, Experience in Data Protection, Remote Backup and Disaster Recovery in European Marketplace

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, May 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Regional Base in Dubai Internet City Enhances Customer Service and Support Capabilities

Verizon Business plans to open an office in Dubai Internet City (DIC) to further strengthen the company's service and support capabilities across the Middle East. The office, to be opened next month, will provide a local contact in the same regional time zone for Verizon Business' multinational customers with operations in the Middle East, as well as a base for the company's ongoing regional expansion plans.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, May 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Increases the Total Raised to EUR25 Million (USD $40 Million)

Albireo, a recent spinout from AstraZeneca focused on gastrointestinal diseases, today announced a second closing of its Series A financing.

The capital increase was subscribed for by TPG Growth, the investment platform for the early stage and growth investments of TPG, a leading private equity firm that has more than $50 billion of assets under management. This addition increases the total equity for the round to EUR25 million (USD $40 million) which will be used to develop the company's clinical and preclinical gastrointestinal pipeline.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have found that an electrically powered amplification mechanism in the cochlea of the ear is critical to the acute hearing of humans and other mammals. The findings will enable better understanding of how hearing loss can result from malfunction of this amplification machinery due to genetic mutation or overdose of drugs such as aspirin.

Sound entering the cochlea is detected by the vibration of tiny, hair-like cilia that extend from cochlear hair cells. While the cochlea’s “inner hair cells” are only passive detectors, the so-called “outer hair cells” amplify the sound signal as it transforms into an electrical signal that travels to the brain’s auditory center. Without such amplification, hearing would be far less sensitive, since sound waves entering the cochlea are severely diminished as they pass through the inner ear fluid.

Nano-whatever is all the rage. They're a big deal because they can make a blacker version of black and lots of other things but what does that even mean?

Richard Compton and his team at Oxford University are here to help make carbon nanotubes understandable to everyone - namely, by making it relevant to food. They have developed a sensitivity technique to measure the levels of capsaicinoids, the substances that make chilis hot, in samples of hot sauce. They report their findings in The Analyst.

The current industry procedure is to use a panel of taste-testers, which is highly subjective. Compton’s new method unambiguously determines the precise amount of capsaicinoids and is not only quicker and cheaper than taste-testers but more reliable for purposes of food standards; tests could be rapidly carried out on the production line.

In humans, faces are an important source of social information. One property of faces that is rapidly noticed is attractiveness. Research has highlighted symmetry and sexual dimorphism (how masculine/feminine a face is) as important variables that determine a face’s attractiveness.

But why are these traits attractive?

One idea is that both traits are adverts of genetic quality or some other aspect of quality such as fertility. An alternative view is that preferences for these traits arise through visual experience and therefore not linked to any underlying biological factors. Faces certainly have the potential to be advertisements of mate ‘quality’ and one way to examine this idea is to look at interrelationships between proposed adverts of quality.

DALLAS, May 7 /PRNewswire/ --

Parks Associates and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA(R)) today announced Enure Networks, MoCA, support.com, and Motorola as Advisory Sponsors for CONNECTIONS(TM) Europe Summit, taking place May 19, 2008, in cooperation with TM Forum's Management World 2008 in Nice, France.

The CONNECTIONS(TM) Europe Summit in Nice, at the Hotel Palais de La Mediterranee, will address the new challenges and opportunities for service providers in today's hyper-competitive worldwide market. Research from Parks Associates indicates service providers will supply over 70 million households worldwide with residential gateways by 2012.