SAN FRANCISCO, December 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Italy's leading pay-TV operator renews agreement for OpenTV solutions

OpenTV Corp. (Nasdaq: OPTV), a leading provider of solutions for the delivery of advanced television and cross-platform interactive services, announced today that Sky Italia has entered into a multi-year renewal of its middleware license agreement with OpenTV. Sky Italia is Italy's premier provider of satellite television, offering a variety of programming choices to more than four million subscribers.

REHOVOT, Israel and NEW YORK, December 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Target Diseases for This Collaboration are Diffuse Large Cell Lymphoma, Transformed Follicular Lymphoma, and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

- Collaboration to Develop MicroRNA-Based Diagnostics Test, Early Detection and Prognosis.

- 43,000 People Will be Diagnosed With These Types of Cancers in 2007 in the US Alone(1)

- MicroRNAs Hold Significant Potential as Highly Sensitive and Specific Biomarkers for Hematological Cancers

- Collaboration Also Will Seek to Identify MicroRNA (miRNA) Targets for Therapeutic Applications

LONDON, December 13 /PRNewswire/ --

Marian Salzman, the world's no. 1 Trendspotter and Chief Marketing Officer at JWT Worldwide, is back for the third year along with Ann Mack, Director of Trendspotting at JWT, with their fascinating annual forecasts for 2008. Marian has previously brought us the metrosexual man, domestic divas, globesity, fortification and wiggers (white kids who want to be black).

Trends covered include Health, Travel, Home, Technology, Fashion and Beauty. (For more detailed information on the trends below and information on many others please see contact details below.)

ZURICH, Switzerland, December 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Player-to-Screen Distribution System to be Added to Six New Product Lines

Minicom is proud to announce the expansion of its partnership with NEC Display Solutions. The joint Minicom and NEC venture began in February of 2006 with the announcement of the integration of the DS Vision 3000 receiver with NEC's Mutleos line of display screens. The partnership will now be enlarged to incorporate Minicom receivers in a total of seven different models of NEC screens.

CALGARY, Canada, December 13 /PRNewswire/ -- SemBioSys Genetics Inc. (TSX:SBS), a biotechnology company developing a portfolio of therapeutic proteins for metabolic and cardiovascular diseases, today announced that Oye Olukotun, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, has agreed to join the Board of Directors of the Company. Dr. Olukotun is the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of VIA Pharmacueticals (NASDAQ: VIAP) a company focused on cardiovascular disease treatments. He will replace Dr. Douglass Given, who is retiring from the Board of SemBioSys after serving for seven years.

LONDON, December 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Germany is lagging in seasonal online retail shopping

comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the second in a series of three studies of the online shopping activity of U.K., French and German consumers this Christmas season. This study tracked the number of visits to online retail sites each week since October 29, using data collected from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service.

Online Retail Site Visits Increase in November