NEW YORK, February 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Successful Spin-Out of the Global Sourcing Advisory Group (GSAG) From Satellnet is Now Complete

Satellnet's former Chairman and CEO John Stacey was the architect of GSAG, which he has grown into a $35million business in the USA and UK. He is now the Chairman and CEO of the new spin-out GSAG and he is joined by David Kinnear as President.

With 28 years of international management experience with Bearing Point, British Telecom (BT) EDS, US West Communications and Peat Marwick, John Stacey will be responsible for North America, China and EMEA.

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ROUSSET, France, February 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- ARM7-based 32-bit Flash MCU with Software Programmable Power Switches and Voltage Scaling for Power-constrained Applications

SAN JOSE, California, February 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- Ultra low power 1.6 Volt microcontroller family

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the AVR(R) XMEGA(TM) family, an important addition to their successful AVR microcontrollers. The system performance of AVR XMEGA expands the market reach for 8/16-bit microcontrollers. With second generation of picoPower(TM) technology, XMEGA is the only family of Flash microcontrollers with true 1.6V operation. The ultra low power consumption is combined with fast 12-bit analog functions, a DMA controller, an innovative Event System and a crypto engine. All features free CPU resources which minimize power consumption and increase system performance.

MILPITAS, California, February 26 /PRNewswire/ --

Appro (http://www.appro.com), a leading provider of high-performance enterprise computing systems, today announced the launch of its second Xtreme-X(TM) Supercomputer offering, the Appro Xtreme-X2 based on dual-socket, Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processors. This supercomputer series represents a next-generation platform based on scalable clusters that brings all of the advantages of the company's expertise in high-performance computing (HPC) to a cost-effective, highly available, scalable, and energy-efficient architecture.

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NAPERVILLE, Illinois, February 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- Co-founder Michael J. Birck remains chairman

The Tellabs Board of Directors appointed Robert W. Pullen Tellabs' new chief executive officer, president and director. Pullen, 45, is a seasoned industry expert with 23 years of experience at Tellabs in a broad variety of roles including research and development, sales, and services. The appointment is effective March 1.

"Rob is the right person to lead Tellabs through these exciting and challenging times," said Michael J. Birck, Tellabs chairman. "He brings the experience and knowledge that Tellabs needs to execute on our plan to improve performance."