COLOGNE, Germany, July 27, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Acentic, a leading supplier of digital interactive TV (iTV) and broadband systems for the hotel industry, announced today that it has launched Horizon…

CAIRO, July 27, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Actis (http://www.act.is/), a leading private equity investor in emerging markets, announces the 100% management buy-out ('MBO') of Mediterranean Smart Cards…

LONDON, July 27, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- In a video interview with financial broadcaster http://www.cantos.com, Misys CEO Mike Lawrie highlights a 10% constant currency rise in profits along with margin…

MUNICH, Germany, July 27, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Zurich-based TUI Suisse Ltd has outsourced its payment processing to Wirecard AG. The range of services to be provided covers online consumer payments…

LONDON, July 27, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), an alliance of telecommunications companies committed to building an open applications platform, today announced its…

TOKYO, July 27, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- MediaTek Inc., a leading fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions, announces it has entered into a licensing…

Part of the enjoyment in birding includes directly experiencing nature, taking your time, breathing, listening, watching each rustle in the trees, and listening some more. Part of the limitations,…

Plastiki  is made out of – you guessed it – plastic. Plastiki, the plastic bottle version of Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki  , was carried from San Francisco to Sydney on a conveyor belt....and…

The concept of "primitive" is one that is very often misunderstood. Properly defined, "primitive" means "more like a particular ancestor", refers only to individual characteristics (not whole species…

As I have explained in various blog posts and in this paper, it is a fallacy to assume that any one character found in a so-called "primitive" species alive today was also found in the ancestral…