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LEIDEN, NETHERLANDS -- (Marketwire) -- 08/17/10 -- PRESS RELEASE Crucell Reports Record Revenues in Second Quarter 2010 Total revenues and other operating income of EUR128.6 million, a 63% growth compared to the same period in 2009 (EUR78.7 million). Strong sales of Quinvaxem® drive record second quarter revenues. Operating profit of EUR13.1 million compared to EUR3.2 million in Q2 2009. Net profit of EUR9.2 million compared to net loss of EUR1.8 million in Q2 2009. Undiluted EPS of EUR0.11 compared to minus EUR0.03 in the same quarter of 2009. 2010 Revenue Guidance Increased As a result of strong sales in the first half of the year, we expect total revenues and other operating income[1] for the full year to exceed 2009 levels. Leiden, the Netherlands (August 17, 2010) - Dutch biopharmaceutical company Crucell N.V. (NYSE Euronext, NASDAQ: CRXL; Swiss Exchange: CRX) ... (more)

Launch of IMIDIA - An Innovative Medicines Initiative Project for Diabetes

FRANKFURT, Germany and LAUSANNE, Switzerland and PARIS, June 14, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- IMIDIA ("Innovative Medicines Initiative for Diabetes"), a public private consortium funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), announced today the launch of a project focusing on pancreatic islet cell function and survival. Academia, biotech and pharma industry have joined forces to develop biomarkers and tools to pave the way for improved disease management and ultimately provide a cure for diabetes. Leading European experts from 14 academic institutions, 8 pharmaceutical research o... (more)

How to Create a Simple Java J2ME Application for BlackBerry

Having employees constantly connected to one's enterprise is vital to many companies. This is one of the reasons Research in Motion's BlackBerry has mustered a massive following (over three million users at the time of this article's writing) in recent years. BlackBerry addiction has become pandemic. In this article, you'll learn how to build, test, and deploy applications to Blackberry devices using WebSphere Studio Developer. WebSphere Studio Device Developer (hereafter called Device Developer) provides you with an integrated development environment (IDE) in which you can buil... (more)

IBM to Collaborate with Leading Australian Institutions to Push the Boundaries of Medical Research

MELBOURNE, Australia, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a Research collaboratory in Melbourne, Australia, where scientists from the Victorian Life Sciences Computational Initiative (VLSCI) at the University of Melbourne and the IBM Research Computational Biology Center will use high performance computing - including IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer - to study human disease. View Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr2bB_2g_Uc (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO) The collaboratory - where IBM Researchers co-locate with a ... (more)

Wales, U.K., to Pioneer ‘Borderless’ Broadband

Wales, U.K., will become the first country in the world to connect all its public agencies through a “borderless” broadband network. Through a groundbreaking project known as Public Sector Broadband Aggregation (PSBA), using Cisco Systems technology, the Welsh Assembly Government is creating a national network covering all hospitals, doctors’ offices, local governments, universities and colleges. Already 2,000 public sector sites are connected to this network. The figure is expected to rise to 10,000 over the next few years as other public services such as schools, police, fire ... (more)