REDMOND, Washington and OSLO, Norway, January 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Companies' combined expertise, technology will help businesses capitalise on the power of enterprise search.

TOKYO and BIELEFELD, Germany, January 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Pursuant to the offer document published by NTT DATA Europe on 13 November 2007, acceptances by shareholders representing about 87 percent of itelligence AG's outstanding share capital have been secured. 72 percent(1) of itelligence shares were tendered during the initial acceptance period, which ended on 13 December 2007. A further 15 percent of itelligence shares, including a stake of approximately 13 percent held by Nobel SA, the second largest shareholder of itelligence AG, were tendered during the additional acceptance period, which ended at midnight on 2 January 2008.

MELBOURNE, Australia, January 8 /PRNewswire/ --

John Gould, one of England's and the world's most admired orthinologists will be honoured on Wednesday morning at 10.00 am in London with a special signing of the "Gould Climate Change Pledge."

Nearly one hundred years after being formed by the Prime Minister of Australia Alfred Deakin in 1909 and named after John Gould, Gould, Australia's major environmental education organization will honour its namesake with the release of the Climate Change Pledge at the world's largest education expo BETT.

PARIS, January 8 /PRNewswire/ -- "The subject of biofuels needs an open discussion about their environmental and economic impacts. Billions of Euros for subsidies, rising food prices, use of land, fertilisers and water are all critical issues", said Jack Short, Secretary General of the International Transport Forum on Monday in Paris on the occasion of the launch of the first web-debate of the Forum on biofuels. "We invite all experts and interested persons to participate in the biofuels debate on our website, the results of which will stimulate the discussion at the International Transport Forum, to be held in Leipzig 28-30 May 2008."

LONDON, January 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The newly revamped BackgammonMasters Game Lobby is introducing its members to a new look and improved navigation scheme. Sources at the company are hinting that this dramatic change in the look and feel is laying the groundwork for a fully integrated casino system with over 200 popular online casino game variations such as Video Poker, Roulette, Slots, 21 BlackJack and more.

PERTH, Australia, January 8 /PRNewswire/ --

Nido Petroleum Ltd (Nido) is pleased to announce the successful conclusion of the drilling phase of the Galoc development on 7 January 2008.

Phase 1 of the Galoc development drilling programme was designed to drill two horizontal production wells located to access the maximum producible oil volumes from the southern half of the field.

The drilling programme included a pilot hole to establish the optimum drilling location for the horizontal production sections. A total of 11,346 metres was drilled and a 5.5 inch predrilled liner was run on the Galoc 3 horizontal production section.