PARIS, December 7 /PRNewswire/ -- At the prize-giving ceremony for the UJJEF 21st "Communication and Enterprise" Annual Contest, on Thursday 29th November at Cirque d'Hiver-Bouglione in Paris, prizes were awarded for companies' most innovative communication strategies. SPIE was nominated in the e-communication category for its virtual library.

Constituting a vector for the Group image and a user-friendly tool benefiting from media convergence, the SPIE virtual library offers a new way of consulting and optimising the content of publications (brochures, activity reports, magazines, etc.) for uses both on-line (Internet, Intranet, Extranet) and off-line (interactive terminals, digital printing, etc.).

When paper becomes interactive

WAALWIJK, The Netherlands, December 7 /PRNewswire/ -- DOCdata N.V. today announces that DOCdata (UK) e-Holding Limited has increased their interest of 76% in the issued share capital of Braywood Holdings Limited in Witney (UK) with 9.6% to 85.6%. This share transaction results from the agreement with one of the three minority shareholders on the sale of his full remaining share interest in Braywood Holdings Limited, after he had resigned from his service with Braywood. The transaction deviates from the option agreement signed in November 2006, by which DOCdata would acquire over the four year period from 2007 to 2010 the remaining 24% of the issued share capital in four equal tranches of 6% each year from the minority shareholders.

LONDON, December 7 /PRNewswire/ -- David Brennan, AstraZeneca CEO, and senior management from AstraZeneca (LSE: AZN) (NYSE: AZN) and MedImmune discuss opportunities in the biologics field, R&D and portfolio progress plus the Group's current focus and priorities. Video interviews and transcripts are available now on http://www.cantos.com.

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DUSSELDORF, Germany, December 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kythera Award, founded in 2001 by the author and artist Gabriele Henkel, is awarded annually to particularly deserving artists with respect to cultural exchange between Germany and the Latin countries of Europe. The former recipients are publisher Klaus Wagenbach, film director Patrice Chéreau, conductor Claudio Abbado, architect Renzo Piano as well as art historian Dr. Sylvia Ferino in the K.H.M. in Vienna.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil and AMSTERDAM, December 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Petrobras and Avantium announced today that they have started a research collaboration for the development of new catalysts for emerging technologies within Petrobras, Brazil's largest energy company.

Avantium specializes in experimental methodologies that enable scientists to conduct parallel experiments on a very small scale and at a very high speed. This increases productivity and allows scientists to explore and compare very large numbers of experimental conditions and catalytic materials. Statistical techniques are applied to direct the experimental program into the most promising areas and to extract knowledge from the data that can be used to optimize industrial processes.

BERLIN, December 7 /PRNewswire/ --

CONNECTIONS(TM) Europe has finished following three full days of interactive panels with top international executives discussing new business models and growth opportunities in the digital living markets.

Parks Associates, in partnership with CEA(R), hosted CONNECTIONS(TM) Europe on December 4-6, 2007, at the Adlon Kempinski, Berlin, Germany. Sponsors included IBM, io-homecontrol, Radialpoint, AwoX, Casero Inc., Design of Systems on Silicon, Intamac Systems Ltd, Invest in Germany, NDS, Netineo, NXP Semiconductors, SiConnect, Thomson, Yitran Communications Ltd., Zensys Inc., Macrovision, SmartLabs, Inc., Smart Design, and Universal Electronics.