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September 30th, 2009 REHOVOT, Israel - - New Material Simulates Parts Traditionally Made out of Rubber; Moves Products to Market Faster Objet Geometries (www.objet.com/), the innovation leader in 3D printing, today released the TangoBlackPlus, a new material that allows designers and manufacturers to create high-quality parts that more closely resemble a broad range of rubber products. The material allows for a shorter finishing process, empowering users to accelerate time-to-market.

September 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Brookdale Care, one of the UK's leading providers of residential support services for people living with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD), has welcomed the publication of the NHS Information Centre's Report Autism Spectrum Disorders in adults living in households throughout England, which draws from data gathered in the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2007. The Report, which is the first of its kind in the world, highlights the prevalence of ASD in the adult population.

September 22nd, 2009 SUNNYVALE, California - - Spirent TestCenter Assesses Quality of Service (QoS) and Multi-Session Support of Home Gateways and Reference Designs in First of its Kind Public Test Event Spirent Communications plc (LSE: SPT), a global provider of networks, services and device testing, today announced that it is providing the test infrastructure for the Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) Test Event that will establish Quality of Service (QoS) metrics and help demonstrate the ability of home gateways to deliver end-to-end QoS for multiplay managed services. A telecom operator-led open forum committed to releasing specification for home gateways, HGI is using Spirent TestCenter(TM) to assure service providers that the home gateway vendors selected are in compliance with HGI's quality metrics for broadband services.

September 1st, 2009 BERLIN - Sony today announced its European launch plan of new BRAVIA(TM) TVs, Blu-ray Disc players and Blu-ray home cinema systems with a new feature, BRAVIA(TM) Internet Video. In Europe and elsewhere, more people are watching longer forms of videos on their PCs than ever before.

August 11th, 2009 LONDON - Commenting on last night's BBC Three documentary which followed the lives of three young people living with Autism and Asperger syndrome ('The Autistic Me', BBC Three, 9pm, 11th August 2009), Lesa Walton - Care & Development Director of specialist Autism care provider Brookdale Care - said today: "The programme makers and especially the three young people living with Autism and Asperger syndrome featured in the documentary are to be congratulated on aiding public understanding of Autism and associated Autistic Spectrum Conditions (ASC), which affect one in every hundred people in the UK. "As the documentary showed, three of the biggest challenges that people living with ASC face are the transition from adolescence to adulthood, social integration and acceptance and finding employment.

July 7th, 2009 LONDON - - Campaign Launched Today to Support Local Communities in Britain From today, The Better Local Living campaign urges local communities to support community stores and drive greater community spirit. To launch Better Local Living, the campaign's creator, PayPoint, has investigated Britain's attitudes to the concept of community and the communities they live in.

June 4th, 2009 LONDON - Brookdale Care, the specialist provider of care services for people living with autism, has today welcomed the National Audit Office's Report on Supporting Adults with Autism and called on the Government to take direct action to implement its recommendations. The findings of the report - which scrutinises policy and practise across Government departments and local authorities - reveal that there is a lack of training and awareness to correctly diagnose and assist people living with autism and strongly recommends that resources are invested to improve planning and commissioning for specialist autistic services, including targeted support for those with high functioning autism or Asperger syndrome.

June 2nd, 2009 TAIPEI, Taiwan - Embedded designs deliver high quality consumer experience; hybrid TV expands OEM market reach Telegent Systems, the company that makes television mobile, and Topstar Digital Technologies Co., Ltd., the leading ODM/OEM supplier in China for notebooks, today announced that Topstar Digital will be demonstrating the industry's first netbook and all-in-one PC with embedded hybrid digital and analog free-to-air TV at Computex in Taiwan this week (Upper level, booth N305, N307). The netbook and PC designs, which leverage Telegent's breakthrough PC TV technology, will be available in mass production later this year and are targeted at overseas markets.

April 20th, 2009 LONDON - The Southern Co-operative today launch their 'aids for daily living' business: co-operative Xest. This brand new home shopping concept will offer a range of products that make life just that little bit easier.

April 16th, 2009 SAO PAULO - Contract Allows Each Company to Increase Range of Destinations Served TAM's (NYSE: TAM; Bovespa: TAMM4) cargo unit, TAM Cargo, and TAP Cargo signed a contract today during Intermodal South America 2009 that expands the range of destinations served by both companies' cargo operations. TAM Cargo will serve 15 new locations in Europe and Africa.

June 23rd, 2009 MELBOURNE - Sleep while you fly - that's the inspiration behind a new range of airplane seats designed by a British designer. Emil Jacob believes while it isn't possible to extend the horizontal space in a plane, going vertical might just do the trick for passengers.

June 8th, 2009 GANGTOK - Artisans in Sikkim are making a blend of age-old designs and incorporating new designs to popularise their carpets in the international market. Mostly woven by women, the rich culture and tradition of Buddhism are clearly visible in the woollen carpets, thus making them different from rest of the Indian handicrafts.

July 21st, 2009 MUMBAI - Tata Communications, a leading telecom and Internet services provider, Tuesday launched advanced ethernet services to help its customers experience high-speed, secure and cost-effective bandwidth. Ethernet is a widely installed local area network (LAN) technology.

August 20th, 2009 American expands in-flight Internet accessFORT WORTH, Texas — American Airlines has expanded its in-flight internet service to more aircraft. The airline has now made the Wi-Fi service available on 100 MD-80 aircraft, which is two-thirds of the 150 Gogo installations scheduled to be completed by the end of 2009, according to a company news release Thursday.

August 11th, 2009 Designs sought for mural on WTC construction fenceNEW YORK — Artists looking for somewhere to display their work now have a chance to be seen at one of the city's most high-profile places — the World Trade Center site. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the city Department of Transportation are asking artists to submit designs for a new mural.

August 11th, 2009 Belo expands use of SpotCrime mapping servicesBALTIMORE — Television station operator Belo Corp. said Tuesday it will receive crime-mapping services from SpotCrime at stations in New Orleans and Phoenix, expanding service it already gets in Charlotte and Dallas/Ft.

March 31st, 2009 LONDON - It's time to bid adieu to those traditional washing machines that required you to make multiple rounds of the bathroom carrying that basket of dirty clothes, thanks to a Wi-Fi washing basket that would do all your laundry on its own. The see-through basket would automatically start when the dirty clothes placed in the basket hit a certain weight.

June 15th, 2009 VA expands health care eligibility for nondisabledWASHINGTON — The Veterans Affairs Department opened the doors of its health care system Monday to about 266,000 nondisabled veterans with moderate incomes, some of whom have been shut out of those benefits. The veterans eligible are from a category known as "Priority 8." They have no illnesses or injuries attributed to their military service, and they earn more than the average wage in their communities.

August 18th, 2009 MUMBAI - The installation, testing and commissioning of the 6,700 km TGN-Intra Asia (TGN-IA) cable system was complete, telecom service provider Tata Communications and undersea communications technology leader Tyco Telecommunications announced Tuesday. "The fully operational 6,700 km TGN-IA system links Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Vietnam and the Philippines, providing route diversity throughout the Asia Pacific region, Tata Communications said in a regulatory statement.

June 8th, 2009 Live Nation expands 'no service fee' planLOS ANGELES — On the heels of its first successful "No service fee Wednesday," concert promoter Live Nation Inc. says it will expand the summer ticket program from the lawn to reserved seats this week, while acknowledging that some fees never went away.