December 22, 2005 - Mirant to Deploy Enterprise-wide Environmental Compliance Management System from ESP; New Software System to Provide Streamlined Environmental Compliance Management across 20 Mirant Power Generation Facilities

ESP (Environmental Software Providers) announced today that Mirant, (Pink Sheets:MIRKQ) has selected its opsEnvironmental software for implementation throughout its U.S. power generation facilities. The software will be implemented to track environmental compliance throughout approximately twenty facilities.

December 21, 2005 - Thermo Launches New Rietveld-Based Clinker Phase Analytical Software Package for the Cement Industry

Thermo Electron Corporation introduces the ARL Clinker QuantTM, a new pre-calibration software package designed for use with Thermo's ARL 9900 Total Cement Analyzers. The new ARL Clinker Quant has been specifically developed to meet the evolving analytical requirements of the cement industry for quantification of all four clinker phases, simply and efficiently using only one instrument.

December 21, 2005 - Thermo Unveils Darwin – Commercial-Off-the-Shelf LIMS for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Thermo Electron Corporation, the world leader in analytical instruments and informatics, announces the commercial availability of Darwin LIMS™, the latest evolution in commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) laboratory information management systems for pharmaceutical manufacturing R&D and QA/QC.

December 21, 2005 - Symyx Technologies Announces Deployment of Symyx Renaissance Software at Pfizer

Symyx Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMMX) today announced that Pfizer Inc.’s Global Chemical Research and Development (CRD) group is deploying Symyx Renaissance® electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) software.

December 21, 2005 - Waters® Corporation Ships Enhanced MassLynx™ Software

Waters Corporation today announced the shipment of Waters MassLynx 4.1 Software, its market-leading solution for the company’s line of mass spectrometers. MassLynx Software has been enhanced and reconfigured to facilitate high-performance quantification and qualitative analysis so that users can process and review results, and generate reports more easily.

December 21, 2005 - Beta release of Geneious software for speeding up molecular research

A new software system that speeds up research in molecular biology and genomics has been released in a beta version today.

December 19, 2005 - LIMS in a Refinery

Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is positioned in an impeccable location in the maze of automation and computational systems in a refinery setup.

December 19, 2005 - If a computer holds a clue, this lab will find it

What’s the best way to get into a criminal’s head? One group of area sleuths knows: Get into their computers. That’s what the men and women assigned to the Heart of America Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory do every day in their high-tech search for evidence of crimes...

December 19, 2005 - MedChem Europe Provisional Agenda Released

Select Biosciences have again assembled a world class mixture of the best minds in this dynamic field. Over 400 attendees are expected and 50 exhibition booths will be presenting the latest technologies available. To be held 21-22 Feb 2006 in the beautiful city of Prague, this conference will provide a major networking opportunity and an un-missable event for those wishing to keep abreast of new developments in the field of medicinal chemistry.

December 19, 2005 - CSSC Awarded Oracle OPM ERP Implementation, Project Management and Validation at Major Cambridge-Based Biopharmaceutical Company; CSSC Will Partner with Whitbread Technology Partners, Specialists in Technical Implementation of Oracle Software

CSSC, a regulatory compliance and validation company, announced today that a major Cambridge-based biopharmaceutical company selected them to oversee Oracle OPM ERP implementation, project management and validation. CSSC will partner with Whitbread Technology Partners, a leading provider of Oracle consulting expertise, to deliver a turnkey solution for supply chain management.

December 18, 2005 - STARLIMS Congratulates the California Department of Health Services for its “Best of California Award”

“Demonstrated Excellence in Project Delivery– Best of California Award” Goes to CDHS for Implementation of STARLIMS Solution at the Richmond Laboratory Complex

December 16, 2005 - Wallingford Software releases Version 7.0 of InfoWorks

Wallingford Software announces today the release of Version 7.0 of InfoWorks, the leading software for modeling infrastructure planning and operational management in water distribution and supply, wastewater management and sewerage provision, river management and coastal engineering.

December 15, 2005 - Eidogen-Sertanty Licenses Target Informatics Platform to AstraZeneca

Eidogen-Sertanty, Inc., a San Diego-based computational drug discovery solutions provider, is pleased to announce that AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP (NYSE:AZN) has licensed access to its Target Informatics Platform(TM).

December 15, 2005 - Governor Perry Asks NI CEO Truchard to Chair the Texas Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Industry Advisory Council

Governor Taps Long NI History of Leadership in Improving Education to Ensure Future Economic Competitiveness

December 15, 2005 - Agilent Technologies upgrades Cerity CDS for pharmaceutical QA/QC

Cerity CDS A.02.03 reduces operation, validation costs through enhanced usability, instrument control, data exchange

December 14, 2005 - WinLIMS for the Food and Drink Industry

Quality Systems International, a global LIMS vendor, are pleased to announce a strategic business partnership with International Agencies Co. Ltd. (Intercol), a leading Bahrain based Private Limited Company who have been supplying and supporting IT solutions throughout the Gulf Region for over 10 years.

December 14, 2005 - InforSense Expands Ongoing Collaboration with AstraZeneca

InforSense Ltd, the leader in integrative analytics platforms, today announced that AstraZeneca has strengthened their strategic commitment to InforSense technology across their research and development organization through a new multi-year global licensing deal.

December 14, 2005 - Furmanite Announces Industry’s First Web-Based LDAR Compliance Management Solution

eCompliance™ solution now available nationwide after successful Pilot completed

December 14, 2005 - Elsevier MDL Introduces MDL(R) Notebook

Major Ongoing Initiative Delivers Electronic Lab Notebook For Simplifying R&D Tasks, Integrating Workflow and Translating Scientists' Data into Corporate-Wide Asset

December 14, 2005 - Commercial-Off-the-Shelf Solutions Highlight Thermo’s Informatics Exhibit at Pittcon 2006

Thermo Electron Corporation, the leading provider of analytical instrumentation and informatics, will showcase its purpose-built, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) LIMS and CDS solutions at Booth # 3733 at Pittcon 2006, March 13-16 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.