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Telecom Strategy Partners Releases Ratings On Key Mobile Backhaul Vendors' Solutions

Telecom Strategy Partners Releases Ratings On Key Mobile Backhaul Vendors' Solutions

Apr 03 2008 | comment(s)

CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina and PARIS, April 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Telecom Strategy Partners announces Release 1.1 of its Mobile Backhaul Solutions service, which includes competitive analysis and ratings of the solutions capabilities of key vendors addressing this significant market opportunity.

The service analyzes the market drivers and inhibitors, operator challenges and requirements, technology trends and issues in mobile backhaul, and compares and assesses vendors' vision, strengths, weaknesses, market direction and timing.

High Street Health Centres

High Street Health Centres

Apr 03 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, April 3 /PRNewswire/ -- News today of Government plans to extend services available through pharmacies in England is good news for patients, for the public and for local communities.

Pharmacies on the High Street and in every community already provide easy access to healthcare services for the public. 99% of the population can reach a community pharmacy by car, by walking or by public transport within 20 minutes. The plans will give the public better access to better choices for tackling prevention of illness and providing treatment. For example within three years pharmacies are expected to be in a position to provide treatment for half of minor ailments (coughs, colds, eye infections, stomach upsets, headaches) for patients who currently visit their GP.

Free Mobile Content Publishing Tool Released By Mippin

Free Mobile Content Publishing Tool Released By Mippin

Apr 03 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, April 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Mippin Makes Global Mobile Reach and Monetisation a Reality for All Brands - Large and Small - for Free

- Mippin.com

Refresh Mobile the company behind leading mobile portal Mippin announces today the launch of Mippin Maker: an entirely free service that creates a perfectly rendered mobile edition of the publisher's website and allows the publisher to generate revenue from mobile immediately.

UltraShape(R) Non-Invasive Fat Reduction And Body Contouring Clinical Study Results Featured At American Society For Laser Medic

UltraShape(R) Non-Invasive Fat Reduction And Body Contouring Clinical Study Results Featured At American Society For Laser Medic

Apr 03 2008 | comment(s)

YOQNEAM, Israel and SAN RAMON, California, April 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Results of an independent multi-treatment clinical study of the UltraShape(R) Contour I, the first clinically proven non-invasive solution for fat reduction and body contouring using non-thermal selective focused ultrasound will be presented at the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery annual meeting on April 4, 2008 in Kissimmee, Florida. The presentation is entitled "Lipotripsy: Non-invasive Ultrasonic Selective Destruction of Adipocytes using UltraShape" will take place during the scientific session The Cutting Edge in Optical Diagnostics and Therapeutics of Tissues and Cells.

This Is One Kraken You Don't Need To Fear

This Is One Kraken You Don't Need To Fear

Apr 03 2008 | comment(s)

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $65 million grant to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) to develop Kraken, a state of the art supercomputer. Kraken will enhance the computational power of the TeraGrid, the world's largest, most powerful and comprehensive distributed cyberinfrastructure for open scientific research.

"Like the gargantuan sea monsters Kraken, which inspired the naming of this supercomputer, the possibilities in scientific and engineering advances it enables are enormous, limited only by the confines of human imagination and vision beyond the frontiers of science," said NSF Director Arden L. Bement in a taped message that was played today at a luncheon in Knoxville.

Alesayi Awards ACS Contract To Provide Automated Traffic Management Expertise For Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia

Alesayi Awards ACS Contract To Provide Automated Traffic Management Expertise For Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia

Apr 03 2008 | comment(s)

DALLAS, April 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Visionary program will be world's most sophisticated countrywide approach to traffic management

Innovative use of automated traffic management technology will improve public safety and reduce traffic congestion throughout Saudi Arabia under a first-of-its-kind program sponsored by the kingdom's Ministry of the Interior. As part of the program, Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (NYSE: ACS) has been awarded a contract by Saudi firm Omar K. Alesayi Communications and Space Services Company Ltd. (Alesayi) to implement the project.

Middle East Operator Uses Comptel Dynamic OSS For Data Retention

Middle East Operator Uses Comptel Dynamic OSS For Data Retention

Apr 03 2008 | comment(s)

HELSINKI, Finland, April 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Comptel Solution Helps Comply With National Requirements for Data Retention of Voice Call and Other Services Data

Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), the leading vendor of dynamic Operations Support System (OSS) software, announced today that Comptel Data Retention Solution has been deployed by Middle Eastern operator. The operator uses the solution to collect and retain data related to voices calls and usage of other services. This data can then be used by authorities to combat serious crimes, including terrorism.

Labor Market Strong For Scientists And Engineers - National Science Foundation

Labor Market Strong For Scientists And Engineers - National Science Foundation

Apr 03 2008 | comment(s)

Every two years NSF surveys and collects data on scientists and engineers, defined as people with a bachelor's degree or higher with science, engineering or related degrees or occupations.

NSF collects data on these individuals with three separate national surveys: the National Survey of College Graduates, the National Survey of Recent College Graduates, and the Survey of Doctorate Recipients. Collectively, these surveys are known as the Scientists and Engineers Statistical Data System, or SESTAT.

Moleac Announces Series A Investment

Moleac Announces Series A Investment

Apr 03 2008 | comment(s)

SINGAPORE, April 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Injection of Funds Will Boost Company's Internationalization Efforts

Singapore-based Moleac announced that it has raised US$3.5 million. This Series A investment comes from a group of private investors, who are based in both Europe and Asia, and Hunza Ventures. Moleac will use this injection of funds to market its first product NeuroAid(TM) on a global scale.

4D Interactive Appoints New Chairman

4D Interactive Appoints New Chairman

Apr 03 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, April 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Colin Glass Named Social Media Company's First Chairman

4D Interactive, the UK social media company, is pleased to announce that Colin Glass will become its first Non-Executive Chairman with immediate effect.

Mr.Glass joins 4D on the strength of an impressive career that has seen him hold board positions at UK consumer technology giants including PC World and Dixons. Most recently Mr.Glass played a pivotal role in the start up, growth and sale of leading photo e-commerce company Photobox Ltd. and is currently an active Non-Exec Chairman at The Creation Agency Ltd., a leading sales and marketing agency.

BaselWorld And SIHH: Results Of The WorldWatchReport 2008 Revealed

BaselWorld And SIHH: Results Of The WorldWatchReport 2008 Revealed

Apr 03 2008 | comment(s)

GENEVA, April 3 /PRNewswire/ --

-- The 4th edition confirms the strong consumer interest in luxury watch products. -- Interest in counterfeit products falls 27%. -- The Internet plays a key role in luxury watch pre-purchasing activities.

This annual market study, prepared by IC-Agency, focuses on the 5 top luxury watch export markets. It deciphers queries entered into search engines throughout the Internet from millions of prospects for 12 luxury watch brands.

The following are the main trends highlighted in the 2008 report.

In Europe (France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom)

Anxiety Can Be Your Friend, Study Shows

Anxiety Can Be Your Friend, Study Shows

Apr 03 2008 | comment(s)

Anxiety gets a lot of bad press. Dwelling on the negative can lead to chronic stress and anxiety disorders and phobias, but evolutionarily speaking, anxiety holds functional value.

In humans, learning to avoid harm is necessary not only for surviving in the face of basic threats (predators or rotten food), but also for avoiding more complex social or economic threats, like enemies or questionable plans.

A team of psychologists at Stanford University have identified a region of the brain, the anterior insula, which plays a key role in predicting harm and also learning to avoid it. In a new study, Gregory Samanez-Larkin and colleagues scanned the brains of healthy adults while they anticipated losing money.

California Wolverine Not A Native, Says Study

California Wolverine Not A Native, Says Study

Apr 03 2008 | comment(s)

Preliminary results from DNA analysis of wolverine scat samples collected on the Tahoe National Forest do not match those of historic California wolverine populations, according to U.S. Forest Service scientists.

Geneticists with the agency’s Rocky Mountain Research Station recently began analyzing samples, when wildlife biologists with the Tahoe National Forest and California Department of Fish and Game began sending hair and scat samples they collected from wolverine detection sites on the national forest to a lab in Missoula, Mont.

The interagency effort began in March after an Oregon State University graduate student working on a cooperative project with the U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Southwest Research Station photographed a wolverine, an animal whose presence has not been confirmed in California since the 1920s.

Bad News For Biology Students - Mitosis Just Got More Complicated

Bad News For Biology Students - Mitosis Just Got More Complicated

Apr 03 2008 | comment(s)

A biological process taught to every pupil studying science at high school has just become a little more complicated, thanks to a new discovery published today.

Scientists from the University of Bath have found that a protein called RASSF7 is essential for mitosis, the process by which a cell divides in two. In research published in the journal Molecular Biology of the Cell, they show that the protein is essential for building the microtubules that allow the two halves of the cell to slide apart.

“What makes mitosis so interesting is that it is one of the biological processes that everyone remembers from their days at school,” said Dr Andrew Chalmers from the University’s Department of Biology & Biochemistry.

Magnetic Fountains On The Sun

Magnetic Fountains On The Sun

Apr 03 2008 | comment(s)

The Sun has a very dynamic atmosphere, with huge fountains of hot gas erupting in the atmosphere, or corona, every few minutes, travelling at tens of thousands of kilometers per hour and reaching great heights.

A team of scientists using the Hinode spacecraft has been searching for the origin and driver of these 'fountains', immense magnetic structures that thread through the solar atmosphere. On Wednesday 2 April at the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting in Belfast (NAM 2008), team leader Dr. Michelle Murray from the Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL, University College London) presented the latest results from Hinode together with computer simulations that model conditions on the Sun.

Do Cosmic Rays Prove Global Warming A Swindle?

Do Cosmic Rays Prove Global Warming A Swindle?

Apr 03 2008 | comment(s)

Research published in the Institute of Physics' Environmental Research Letters shows how a team from Lancaster and Durham Universities sought a means to prove the correlation between the ionizing cosmic rays and the production of low cloud cover.

Previous research had shown a possible correlation, using the results of the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project, and this had been used to propose that global warming was due to cosmic rays.

The new research shows that change in cloud cover over the Earth does not correlate to changes in cosmic ray intensity. Neither does it show increases and decreases during the sporadic bursts and decreases in the cosmic ray intensity which occur regularly.

More Coffee Awesomeness - It May Ward Off Cholesterol And Alzheimer's

More Coffee Awesomeness - It May Ward Off Cholesterol And Alzheimer's

Apr 03 2008 | comment(s)

A daily dose of caffeine blocks the disruptive effects of high cholesterol that scientists have linked to Alzheimer's disease. A study in the Journal of Neuroinflammation revealed that caffeine equivalent to just one cup of coffee a day could protect the blood-brain barrier (BBB) from damage that occurred with a high-fat diet.

The BBB protects the central nervous system from the rest of the body's circulation, providing the brain with its own regulated microenvironment. Previous studies have shown that high levels of cholesterol break down the BBB which can then no longer protect the central nervous system from the damage caused by blood borne contamination. BBB leakage occurs in a variety of neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.

Masai Warriors Understand England Better Than The English Do

Masai Warriors Understand England Better Than The English Do

Apr 03 2008 | comment(s)

First, I have a disclosure: I had no idea where Masai was before I googled it. It turns out I have never heard of it because it's not a place, it's a tribe. In Kenya and Tanzania. They don't read us, I assume. Instead they herd cattle in small groups, ten or so huts per settlement. In the old days, their ascension into manhood required killing a lion. With a spear. I have a .308 rifle and I don't want to be within 200 yards of a lion so I respect that they feel so confident in their hand-to-hand fighting they'll take a chance on dying just to prove they can herd cattle with the other men in their village. Kenya doesn't allow that any more (well, officially.
Ten Of Australia's Top Researchers Honoured At Thomson Scientific Research Day And Citation Awards 2008

Ten Of Australia's Top Researchers Honoured At Thomson Scientific Research Day And Citation Awards 2008

Apr 03 2008 | comment(s)

CANBERRA, Australia, April 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Australia Ranked Among the Top Ten Nations for the Influence of its Scientific Papers in 2007 According to Thomson Scientific Data

Australia's influence on international scientific research was today recognised by Thomson Scientific, a leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, as it gave Citation Awards to ten of the most pre-eminent researchers working in Australia. According to Thomson Scientific data, in 2007 Australia ranked among the top ten nations for the influence of its scientific papers.

Masada Recognized As Top Infrastructure Project For Latin America

Masada Recognized As Top Infrastructure Project For Latin America

Apr 02 2008 | comment(s)

MIAMI, April 2 /PRNewswire/ --

Masada Resource Group, a Birmingham, AL provider of waste-to-ethanol technology, was recognized today as one of the top five infrastructure projects for Latin America at the 6th Latin American Leadership Forum in Miami. Masada presented on its Waste-to-ethanol project in the Dominican Republic. Masada teamed with Dominican-based RJ Zapata and Associates, SA last November to form W2E Resources, SA, and its waste-to-ethanol company in the Dominican Republic.