LONDON, September 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Tata Communications, a leading provider of the new world of communications, received two awards at the Global Telecoms Business 2008 Innovation Awards which took place earlier this month in London.

Tata Communications, which was recognized for its International wholesale network transformation for its Global IP Voice network and International network infrastructure transformation for the TGN-Intra Asia and TGN-Eurasia submarine cables, was selected by an exclusive judging panel based on the company's innovations worldwide.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, September 25 /PRNewswire/ --

Bytemobile, Inc., the global leader in mobile internet solutions for network operators, today announced the general availability of its WebGate(TM) Service, which provides a single service control point within the network for all wireless data traffic. This enables operators to deliver innovative new data services and applications to their customers while controlling data flow through intelligent service selection.

PARIS, September 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Institute Launched as New Research Suggests Improved Patient Education May Play Key Role in Halting Escalating Disease in the EMEA Region

PARIS, September 25 /PRNewswire/ --

Experts have predicted that by 2025, the number of people with diabetes will have increased by 20 per cent within Europe, 80 percent within Eastern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern populations and 80 percent within the African patient population(1). Diabetes specialists and patients agree that improved education for healthcare professionals and patients could, however, reduce both the financial and personal impact of diabetes on our society.

Canadian bedrock more than four billion years old may be the oldest known section of the Earth's early crust, say scientists at the Carnegie Institution. They used geochemical methods to obtain an age of 4.28 billion years for samples of the rock, making it 250 million years more ancient than any previously discovered rocks. The findings offer scientists clues to the earliest stages of our planet's evolution, they say.

"There have been older dates from Western Australia for isolated resistant mineral grains called zircons," says Richard Carlson of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, "but these are the oldest whole rocks found so far."

NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME, England, September 25 /PRNewswire/ -- BitDefender's Total Security 2009 comes with a number of new features and enhancements including, Instant Messaging encryption, home network management and an online backup option.

"Building on experience gained in over a decade of product development, this launch of the 2009 version follows one of the most extensive, global beta test programmes so far undertaken by BitDefender, " says Nick Billington country manager for the UK and Ireland.

"As well as added functionality we have enhanced performance in order to keep BitDefender at the forefront of proactive protection for PCs," says Nick Billington.

HILVERSUM, The Netherlands, September 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Integration of PC and Phone is Key in Improving Enterprise Business Communications

Research commissioned by NEC, a global leader in enterprise business communications, shows that business is hampered by a lack of communication skills and tools.

With employees exchanging more and more information through various means such as mobile phone, e-mail and IM, it is becoming increasingly challenging for organisations to ensure their staff are able to handle the sea of information and use the various methods of communication efficiently.

SAN MATEO, California and COLOGNE, Germany, September 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Bizanga to Integrate eco's Certified Senders Alliance Whitelist and Make it Available to its Growing Installed Base

ECO, the association of German Internet enterprises, and Bizanga, provider of the world's leading email and message management platform, have today reached an agreement to collaborate on an initiative for sharing a common repository of information between ISPs in order to combat spam effectively without affecting the transmission of legitimate e-mails. In addition, Bizanga will integrate the eco Certified Senders Alliance Whitelist service as part of its ever growing ecosystem of partners and installed base of customers.

MIT researchers have designed a new robotic underwater vehicle that can hover in place like a helicopter — an invaluable tool for deepwater oil explorers, marine archaeologists, oceanographers and others.

The new craft, called Odyssey IV, is the latest in a series of small, inexpensive artificially intelligent submarines developed over the last two decades by the MIT Sea Grant College Program’s Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Laboratory. The Odyssey series revolutionized underwater research in the 1990s by introducing the thrifty and highly capable underwater robots. But the previous Odyssey vehicles still had one significant limitation: Like sharks, they could only operate while continuously moving forward.

Over a decade after it exploded, one of the nearest supernovae in the last 25 years has been identified. This result was made possible by combining data from the vast online archives from many of the world’s premier telescopes.

The supernova, called SN 1996cr, was first singled out in 2001 by Franz Bauer. Bauer noticed a bright, variable source in the Circinus spiral galaxy, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. Although the source displayed some exceptional properties Bauer and his Penn State colleagues could not identify its nature confidently at the time.

It was not until years later that Bauer and his team were able to confirm that this object was a supernova. Clues from a spectrum obtained by ESO’s Very Large Telescope led the team to start the real detective work of searching through data from 18 different telescopes, both ground- and space-based, nearly all of which existed. Because this object was found in an interesting nearby galaxy, the public archives of these telescopes contained abundant observations.