LONDON, June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Female business owners are more likely to survive tough economic times than men thanks to their pragmatic and open approach to business, according to Business Link in London.

A vox pop of 300 businesswomen attending a Business Link in London event later today on dealing with economic downturn, reveals that women's slow and steady approach to business puts them in a strong position to be successful in a difficult economic climate.

Business Link in London, a business support organisation that helped over 28,000 female-owned businesses in the Capital last year, cites a number of reasons why women stand a better chance of riding the storm during tough economic times. A summary of the key strengths that give women the edge include:

LONDON, June 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Staggering Energy Waste can Power an Entire City of 300,000

OnRelay, a pioneer in Mobile PBX, today issued a second wake up call for businesses to reconsider their investment in redundant IP Telephony hardware. OnRelay's latest research study has found that the 25 million IP desk phones projected to be purchased in 2008(1) consume 1.6 billion Watts of power. This is equivalent to the needs of a 300,000 person UK city, which is more than Oxford and Cambridge, England, combined.

TEANECK, New Jersey, June 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Ranking Among the Top Healthcare IT Providers Underscores Cognizant's Leadership in the Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry

Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading provider of global consulting, technology and business process services, today announced that the Company has been ranked the 11th largest healthcare IT provider by Healthcare Informatics magazine in its 15th annual survey of major healthcare information technology providers. Cognizant's ranking is based on revenue from the Healthcare segment, which grew by 52 percent year-on-year.

REDMOND, Washington and DUBLIN, Ireland, June 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Microsoft joins with veteran entrepreneurs, venture investors and Enterprise Ireland to set up new company that will bring a cutting-edge resource to market.

HAIFA, Israel, June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Oil Refineries Ltd. (TASE: ORL.TA) ("Oil Refineries" or the "Company") announced today the results of the Extraordinary General Meeting held on June 10, 2008 in relation to the directors' and position holders' liability insurance coverage.

For the full wording of the resolution, please review the English convenient translation of the resolution available on the Company's website - http;//www.orl.co.il under Investor Relations, Company Releases.

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Benfotiamine, a popular vitamin supplement is being advertised with claims that are demonstrably untrue, as revealed by research published in the open access journal BMC Pharmacology.

Benfotiamine is a synthetic derivative of thiamine (vitamin B1). It is marketed heavily as a dietary supplement using a selection of unsubstantiated, 'not-quite-medical' claims that tend to characterize this field. A large part of this campaign has been built around the belief that benfotiamine is lipid-soluble and, therefore, more physiologically active.

Scientific research led by Dr Lucien Bettendorff of the Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology at the University of Liège, Belgium, has entirely disproved these claims.

TEL-AVIV, Israel, June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- HCL CleanTech (http://www.hclcleantech.com), an Israeli company co founded by Prof. Avram Baniel and Prof. Ari Eyal has developed a proprietary full HCL recovery process, which makes an old, industrially proven German Cellulosic to fermentable sugars and Ethanol process economically very attractive. The new technology can also "clean" and improve other HCL dependant industries. Modern Chemical technology makes the implementation straightforward and immediate.

Marine bacteria have the capacity to take up and capture carbon dioxide with the help of sunlight, say researchers at Kalmar University in Sweden in collaboration with colleagues in Spain, Australia, and Russia.

This can be compared to a simple form of photosynthesis, where marine bacteria use energy from sunlight to absorb carbon dioxide. It was previously known that bacteria in oxygen-starved lakes can have this capacity, but it's new knowledge that bacteria in the open seas can do so as well. This challenges earlier knowledge that algae are the only organisms that capture carbon dioxide in the surface water exposed to sunlight. It remains unknown just how much carbon dioxide is captured by these bacteria.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Cellectricon, a leading provider of screening solutions for drug discovery, today announced a new collaborative agreement with AstraZeneca. Under the agreement Cellectricon will provide AstraZeneca with two of its new groundbreaking high throughput platform, Dynaflow(R)HT, for ion channel screening.