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September 27th, 2009 MANAMA, Bahrain - - More Than 200 Education Professionals From Around the World Will Share Insights, Best Practices and Game-changing Ideas at October Conference Leaders of European industry will join ministerial representatives and non-profit organisations at The Education Project, a global education conference in the Kingdom of Bahrain on October 15-17. Among the strong European speaker contingent are: Francois Barrault, former CEO, BT Global Services and BT Group board member; Kari Pitkänen, Director of Administration, Finnish National Board of Education; Bahram Bekhradnia, Director, Higher Education Policy Institute UK; Helen Pinnock, Education Advisor, Save the Children UK; Dan Shine, President, 50x15 Foundation and Senior Advisor, Corporate Global Citizenship, World Economic Forum, and Professor Ralph Tabberer, former Director General of Schools for England, will speak at the conference.

September 24th, 2009 MANAMA, Bahrain - Leading education experts from Singapore and Hong Kong have confirmed their participation as key-note speakers at the inaugural global education conference in Bahrain next month. The speakers include Professor S.

June 17th, 2009 PITTSBURGH - ComponentOne XapOptimizer Shrinks the Size of Silverlight Applications and Secures Code With the release of Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft introduced a new and exciting way to create cutting edge rich Internet applications (RIAs). The size of these applications developed by Silverlight users influences the download time and consumption of network resources.

April 19th, 2009 LONDON - Willie Walsh, CEO of BA, will make the keynote address at the 23rd IR Society Annual Conference, on Tuesday 21 April. Dr Vince Cable MP, Deputy Leader and Shadow Chancellor for the Liberal Democrats, will address the closing plenary.

April 19th, 2009 PITTSBURGH - ComponentOne Studio for iPhone Brings You Controls that Mimic iPhone and iPod touch User Interfaces With the advent of mobile technology, more and more people are using an iPhone as their on-the-go method of connecting to the World Wide Web. For those who develop Web applications, the task is to build Web applications that mimic the user interface (UI) of the iPhone and iPod touch devices.

April 15th, 2009 LONDON and SHANGHAI - As global automakers such as Porsche put the finishing touches to their show cars in the run-up to the Shanghai Motor Show on April 20th, quarterly automotive interior design magazine Interior Motives and its online sister publication Car Design News are preparing to host their second Chinese design conference in the city the following day. Scheduled to take place in Shanghai on 21st and 22nd April (immediately following the first motor show press day), the 2009 Interior Motives China conference will see the biggest names in Chinese, Asian and Western car design come together for a two-day programme of interactive debate.

April 13th, 2009 AUSTIN, Texas - REAL Software, creator of REALbasic, a cross-platform development tool for creating software for Mac, Windows and Linux, is now shipping REALbasic 2009 Release 2. This release includes more than 70 improvements and 18 new features, including COM automation support for Windows and support for MySQL.

April 7th, 2009 LONDON - Design & communications agency Living Designs today relaunches as Living Group with a brand new PR division rounding out a full complement of design, digital and communications services. The decision to launch Living PR is based on the need to keep pace with clients' rapidly evolving demands and offer them a truly integrated communications and marketing service.

March 24th, 2009 LONDON - Make Your Theatre Better for Building Audiences Booking is now open for Conference 09, Experiencing Theatres, The Theatres Trust's annual conference on 9 June 2009 aimed at theatre industry professionals, designers and architects. This year the one day conference considers how different approaches to theatre architecture attract and influence audiences in different ways.

March 12th, 2009 PITTSBURGH - The leader in the Microsoft Visual Studio component industry, ComponentOne, has been named by TechWeb as the winner of the 19th annual Jolt Product Excellence Award in the Libraries, Frameworks and Components category. For the past 18 years, the Jolt Product Excellence Awards have been presented annually to products and books that have "jolted" the industry with their significance and made the task of creating software faster, easier, and more efficient.

January 14th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Global software giant Microsoft will invest in training teachers in Gujarat and enhance the use of IT in the education sector. Microsoft India Pvt Ltd signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Gujarat government at the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors' Summit this week.

September 24th, 2009 NY Clinton meeting focuses on education, jobsNEW YORK — Education is an evergreen subject in political campaigns but one that loses priority once politicians are in office because there often isn't any immediate political gain, Queen Rania of Jordan said Thursday during a panel at the Clinton Global Initiative. "The benefits of education sometimes don't fit in with the political cycle because you reap the benefits way down the line," she said.

July 23rd, 2009 GM names design executive to head CadillacDETROIT — General Motors Co. on Thursday named one of its top design executives as the new head of its Cadillac brand.

April 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bollywood actor Mahima Chaudhry attended the Global Action Week, a programme meant to educate the street children, in New Delhi. The seven-day-long Global Action Week aims at providing education to the underprivileged children.

September 15th, 2009 MYSORE - Sonia Gandhi, chief of India's ruling Congress Party, today inaugurated a world-class corporate global education centre of Infosys Technologies in Mysore. The facility is an extension of the IT major's Global Education Centre (GEC), which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in February 2005.

September 23rd, 2009 Global Initiative takes on gender inequalityNEW YORK — The importance of gender equality took center stage Wednesday at the Clinton Global Initiative as speakers emphasized how investing in girls and women can have repercussions at all levels of a society. "No country can prosper if it leaves half its people behind," said Melanne Verveer, the State Department's ambassador-at-large for global women's issues.

September 22nd, 2009 LONDON - A British company has come up with new airplane designs that have interiors like a tube train. The most striking feature of the design is its seating arrangement where passengers would sit on seats with their backs towards the windows.

June 5th, 2009 LONDON - Former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is to speak about India's global role to key politicians, scientists and industrialists next week during a lecture tour of Britain and Ireland, including the British province of Northern Ireland, his tour organisers said Friday.

June 6th, 2009 LONDON - Former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is to speak about India's global role to key politicians, scientists and industrialists next week during a lecture tour of Britain and Ireland, including the British province of Northern Ireland, his tour organisers said Friday.

April 6th, 2009 DHARAMSALA - The Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama presided over a conference on world peace in Dharamsala on Sunday. Organised by voluntary group 'India Splendour', the conference looks at theIndian View for Global Peace.' Hindu spiritual leader, the Jagadguru Shankaracharya Swami Divyanand Teerthji Maharaj of Bhanpura Peeth, Buddhist leader Gyalwang Karmapa Orgyen Drodul Trinley Dorje, and many others attended the conference.