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September 27th, 2009 LONDON - - Winner to be Announced During 2009's Energy Saving Week (21 October) and Will Speak up for the "Man In The Street" on Green Issues Over the Next Year - Pics Available From www.dsawyer@webershandwick.com Melanie Sykes has launched the search for the first 'Green Voice of Great Britain' on behalf of the only free, impartial adviser to consumers on all sustainable living issues - the Energy Saving Trust. She is urging individuals across Great Britain and Northern Ireland to enter a competition to find a people's green champion - a passionate advocate selected from the people, to represent the people.

September 23rd, 2009 IEPER, Belgium - Melexis announces today the release of the MLX92213. This newly designed low voltage Hall-Effect Latch sensor integrates advanced power management providing micropower-efficient solutions for battery or handheld applications.

August 24th, 2009 DENVER - - Flying Laboratory Will Accelerate Delivery of C4ISR Capabilities Warfighters will receive critical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities sooner, now that the airborne test-bed developed by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received its Experimental Airworthiness Certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration. This Airborne Multi-Intelligence Laboratory (AML) will be used to tailor advanced sensor combinations to resolve specific military, strategic intelligence and homeland security mission needs.

June 29th, 2009 DARESBURY, England - - Including the First Commercially Available Displays & Thermostats Packaged for Utilities & Companies to Trial Vesternet.com - the ZigBee eCommerce store - has packaged several of the first commercially available Smart Energy Certified products for companies to test real world smart metering applications. ZigBee Smart Energy is rapidly becoming the de facto standard of choice for smart grid deployments worldwide.

June 21st, 2009 LEEDS, England - The voucher code market has well and truly shaken off its cornflake box image of the past with news that users shopping at online discount code site VoucherSeeker can now get a discount on their divorce! This is one of the more contemporary deals on the site perhaps reflecting modern Britain, alongside other offers such as scuba diving or fitting out their dog in designer clothing. VoucherSeeker.co.uk now features more shops for more sectors than ever before, allowing its users to be ever more adventurous whilst looking after the wallet.

May 18th, 2009 MILAN - With paint shops being the biggest consumers of power in assembly plants, the challenge in an increasingly energy-hungry world is to make them more efficient. Facing this challenge head-on is Italian specialist supplier Geico.

May 14th, 2009 SHENYANG, China - The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals(TM) (IAOP(TM)) announced the newest inductees to The Outsourcing Hall of Fame on May 12th. Dr. Liu Jiren, Chairman & CEO of Neusoft Corporation, was inducted into the prestigious Hall of Fame for his outstanding contributions to China's outsourcing industry and the global outsourcing cooperation, and he is also the first Chinese to receive this honor.

April 29th, 2009 DARESBURY, England - Vesternet has developed two core products: Zigbox - a compact ZigBee Ethernet gateway Zigbytes - a web-based user interface Together they form the backbone of any network: Zigbox gathers sensor data... & Zigbytes presents it online.

April 8th, 2009 FLORENCE, Italy - Results Presented at the Annual Congress of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) ABILIFY(R) (aripiprazole), when used in combination with lithium or valproate, is a generally well-tolerated long-term treatment for patients with Bipolar I Disorder, who are partially non-responsive to lithium or valproate monotherapy.(1) The data presented at the annual congress for the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) report a favourable long-term safety profile for ABILIFY in combination with lithium or valproate.(1) Professor Eduard Vieta, lead study investigator and Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Bipolar Disorders Programme of the Hospital Clinic at the University of Barcelona, Spain, said "As a doctor, I value data on safety, tolerability and efficacy as extremely important. Clinicians look for treatments that are efficacious and tolerable in the long term.

March 26th, 2009 LONDON - April 1st 2009 is Energy Wasting Day - www.energywastingday.com Wannabe celeb Dan Power is releasing the World's first ever 'anti-eco' single -'Energy Wasting Day' (Wednesday 1st April 2009). In his debut music video, Dan Power (a self-confessed carbon junkie and Jeremy Clarkson fan) is seen cavorting with a group of girls pole dancing around patio heaters, riding a gas guzzling motorbike and advocating all kinds of ways to needlessly waste energy.

October 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Taking a major step towards improved CMOS sensors for most in-car camera systems, scientists have developed a new process that could provide colours to these systems. The CMOS sensors are semiconductor chips that convert light signals into electrical pulses and are installed in most digital cameras.

November 17th, 2009 GE to develop wearable sensorsNISKAYUNA, N.Y. — GE Global Research, the technology development arm of General Electric Co., said Tuesday it will get $2 million federal grant to develop wearable sensors that alert people to chemical weapons and diseases.

February 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government Wednesday launched Bachat Lamp Yojna, an energy scheme aimed at saving 10,000 MW of power in the next three years. Under the scheme, the government would distribute less power consuming compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) at a price of Rs.15 to replace existing bulbs.

March 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Researchers have discovered a way to detect explosives based on the physical properties of their vapours and are readying the technology, which utilises micro-sensors, for field testing. 'Certain classes of explosives have unique thermal characteristics that help to identify explosive vapours in presence of other vapours,' said Thomas Thundat, Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) and University of Tennessee researcher who conducted the study with colleagues at ORNL and the Technical University of Denmark.

October 28th, 2009 Pickens: OSU town hall will be among his lastOKLAHOMA CITY — Billionaire energy magnate T. Boone Pickens says a town-hall meeting planned for his alma mater to promote his "Pickens Plan" for energy independence will be his next-to-last in a university setting.

October 21st, 2009 Utah's 4-day workweek brings some savingsSALT LAKE CITY — Closing Utah state offices on Fridays has delivered an unexpected bonus: big savings on overtime pay. But new calculations show the change to a four-day workweek didn't achieve its intended energy saving.

November 4th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The palatial residences of Haryana's governor and chief minister in Chandigarh have been refurbished with new energy-efficient lighting worth nearly Rs.23 lakh that has brought down electricity bills at the two places by nearly Rs.900,000 annually. The two sprawling residences of Governor Jagannath Pahadia and Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda are among the several buildings that have undergone energy audit under the state's department of renewable energy's plan to conserve energy.

June 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Engineers have developed a technique that saves energy and servicing costs by indicating when air conditioners are low on refrigerant, preventing the units from working overtime. The new "virtual refrigerant charge sensor" is particularly practical for automotive air conditioners, which tend to leak refrigerant more than other types of units, and also for household central air conditioning units, according to James Braun, a professor of mechanical engineering, Purdue University.

March 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A group of scientists have discovered a new way to sensitively detect explosives based on the physical properties of their vapors. "Certain classes of explosives have unique thermal characteristics that help to identify explosive vapors in presence of other vapors," said Thomas Thundat, a researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Tennessee, who conducted the research with his colleagues at ORNL and the Technical University of Denmark.

July 17th, 2009 LONDON - Ever wondered why do jockeys sit on horses in such a weird way? Well, that's because it allows stallions to gallop more quickly, a new study has found. Their modern riding posture - the so-called Martini glass - has led to a dramatic improvement in race times, by making things much easier on their horses, New Scientist.