INSIGHT PUBLISHER...
PHILADELPHIA and LONDON: Thomson Scientific, part of The
Thomson Corporation and leading provider of information
solutions to the worldwide research and business communities,
has announced the availability of InSight Publisher 3.6. The
latest version of InSight Publisher adds intuitive hyperlinking
and cross-reference management to its enhanced functionality
set.
www.thomson.com
www.scientific.thomson.com
www.liquent.com
QTRAX V.2...
NEW YORK: QTRAX - the world's first free and legal
peer-to-peer music service announces that at the V.2 Beta
launch, its ground-breaking service had approximately 61,000
unique users per hour (between 7am and 1pm EST). This
translates to approximately 1,464,000 unique users per day.
QTRAX believes that a significant percentage of users were
unable to access the site due to this massive demand and has
now dramatically increased its download capacity.
www.QTRAX.com
FUNKYSEXYCOOL SIGNS...
NEW YORK: MTV Networks Germany (MTVN) and FunkySexyCool, the
global mobile social community for 18-34 year olds, have signed
a cooperation agreement to promote FunkySexyCool across
Germany, Switzerland and Austria on MTVN's German, Swiss and
Austrian TV, web and mobile networks.
www.fsccorporate.com
www.mtvnetworks.de
10TH ANNIVERSARY...
PARIS: The Stade de France celebrates its 10th anniversary
in an amazing way with images that will be seen all over the
world. It will be a symbol and a thank you to all the fans,
players, athletes, artists that helped give the Stade de France
its legendary status.
www.stadefrance.com
PREMIER FARNELL...
LONDON: Premier Farnell plc, the leading multi-channel, high
service distributor supporting millions of engineers and
purchasing professionals globally, announces open registration
to the technical conference and awards ceremony for Live EDGE -
Electronic Design for the Global Environment. The awards
ceremony will announce the US$100,000 prize package winner and
the five highly commended designs receiving US$5,000 each.
www.premierfarnell.com
www.live-edge.com
www.pinnacle-marketing.com
SPACE ADVENTURES...
VIENNA, Virginia: Space Adventures, Ltd., the world's
leading space experiences company, announces that Nik Halik of
Australia has been chosen to train as the back-up crew member
alongside our orbital spaceflight candidate, famed game
developer and son of former NASA astronaut, Richard Garriott,
who is currently planning a mission to the International Space
Station in October.
www.spaceadventures.com
DEBT RETIREMENT...
TULSA, Oklahoma: St. Joseph, Inc. announces that the company
has reduced the company's debts by effected conversion of its
Series B Preferred Stock and three promissory notes into shares
of the company's common stock, at a conversion price of US$0.30
per share of common stock.
www.stjosephinc.com
CALIFORNIA MICRO...
MILPITAS, California: California Micro Devices introduces
PicoGuard XS, an innovative new ESD (electrostatic discharge)
protection architecture in the XtremeESD family, the industry's
first product to provide both outstanding signal integrity and
robust ESD protection for high speed differential signals such
as DisplayPort and HDMI.
www.cmd.com
www.XtremeESD.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal
amount of FINS, MTN and MTNR securities issues on February 7,
2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the
principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. Fannie Mae
will also redeem MTN securities issues on January 28, 2008.
www.fanniemae.com
BANCO BRADESCO...
SAO PAULO: We present below the main figures obtained by
Bradesco in 2007. Our Report on Economic and Financial Analysis
with the complete Financial Statements is available on
Bradesco's website (www.bradesco.com.br/ir).
www.bradesco.com.br
www.bradesco.com.br/ir
RFID PILOT...
SOLIHULL and MOUNTAIN VIEW, California: Ford Motor Company's
Land Rover division and Savi announce they have launched a
pilot program that deploys an active Radio Frequency
Identification (RFID) solutions that better synchronizes the
delivery of auto parts from multiple suppliers to Land Rover's
key assembly plant in the West Midlands (U.K.). The pilot is
made possible through a U.K. central government grant
administered by the University of Warwick.
www.savi.com
CIRCOS LAUNCHES...
PALM DESERT, California and SAN MATEO, California: This
Wednesday at the DEMO 08 conference in Palm Desert, CA, Circos
will officially launch semantic search designed to change the
way we share and discover knowledge on the Web. Circos will
take the stage at 3:46 PST and will be on hand at the DEMO
Pavilion, #6. To learn more, visit www.circos.com.
www.circos.com
www.demo.com
DEATH MOURNED...
AUCKLAND: Over 290,000 members of The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints in the New Zealand and Pacific Islands
areas are mourning the death of President Gordon B. Hinckley.
www.media.lds.org
ABBOTT ANNOUNCES...
ABBOTT PARK, Illinois: Abbott announces that the European
Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use, the scientific
committee of the European Medicines Agency, has issued a
positive opinion recommending approval of a new, lower-strength
tablet formulation of the company's leading HIV protease
inhibitor, Kaletra (lopinavir/ritonavir).
www.abbott.com
www.abbott.com/HIVAIDS
www.abbottglobalcare.org.
www.KALETRA.com
www.abbott.com/hiv
CLEXANE/LOVENOX APPROVED...
PARIS: Sanofi-aventis announces that the anticoagulant
Clexane (enoxaparin sodium injection) has been approved for
marketing in Japan by the Ministry of Health, Labour and
Welfare for the prevention of venous thromboembolism in
patients undergoing orthopaedic surgery of the lower limbs such
as total hip replacement, total knee replacement and hip
fracture surgery.
http://epp.eurostat.cec.eu.int
www.preventdvt.org
ROCHE ANNOUNCES...
BASEL: Roche announces that the European Commission has
given its approval for the significantly wider use of its
anti-angiogenic agent Avastin (bevacizumab) in patients
suffering from metastatic colorectal cancer.
www.avastin-info.com
www.health-kiosk.ch/start_krebs
www.thenewsmarket.com
ECO-FRIENDLY DIVING...
SINGAPORE: Reflecting the dive industry's trend towards more
environmentally aware practices, Asia Dive Expo 2008 (ADEX)
will this year turn its focus towards eco-friendly diving.
www.asiadiveexpo.com
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