I wrote about the opening of the World Science Festival 2009 and Edward O. Wilson's 80th birthday at the Lincoln Center in New York City but he was not the only august personage in attendance.  Present to give tribute to him was also molecular biologist, Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, James Watson.

BLAINVILLE, Quebec, June 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Merger of Xebec Adsorption and QuestAir Technologies Completed

Xebec Adsorption Inc. (TSX: XBC) (Xebec), the company formed by the merger of QuestAir Technologies Inc. (QuestAir) and Xebec Adsorption Inc. (Xebec Adsorption), today announced that the previously approved statutory plan of arrangement (the Arrangement) involving QuestAir and Xebec Adsorption, has been completed.

Xebec, the merged company, will immediately leverage the available synergies in gas purification, global distribution and manufacturing to expand its market share in clean energies, such as hydrogen purification, biogas upgrading and natural gas dehydration.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 12 /PRNewswire/ --

Radio access networks will evolve to provide solid platforms for new services and applications, making mobile broadband the main driver of revenue growth for mobile operators in Latin America, according to a new report from Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com), the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network (www.lightreading.com).

BANGALORE, India, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) today announced that it was named a leader in SOA System Integrator space in the recently published market assessment report The Forrester Wave(TM): North American System Integrators, Q2 2009 (May 2009) and The Forrester Wave(TM): EMEA System Integrators, Q2 2009 (May 2009).

LONDON, June 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Startling New Research Reveals the Mental Torment of the Nation's Informal Carers - New Research Reveals the True Picture of Depression Amongst Informal Carers in the UK, With Over 54% of women classified as Informal Carers in the UK, Being Depressed - Informal Carers Have Double the Likelihood Of Moderate Depression (or More) Than the General Population (32% versus 16%) - The Research Also Reveals That Informal Carers Have Three Times the Likelihood of Moderately Severe Depression (or More) Than the General Population (16% Versus 5 %)

According to new research out this week informal Carers in the UK are some of the most depressed in Europe.

AMSTERDAM, June 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Improving Research Discoverability and Productivity

Elsevier today announced a new partnership agreement with NextBio, provider of an innovative platform that enables life science researchers to search, discover, and share knowledge locked within public and proprietary data to enrich ScienceDirect content. This agreement allows for an integration of NextBio's unique set of ontology-based semantic tools and a compilation of high quality sources of public data on ScienceDirect, providing health science, life science and chemistry researchers with a dynamic platform to improve discoverability and research productivity.

YORK, England, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Varlink, the York based mobile computing and data capture specialist distributor, will offer Janam's XG100, the new Windows CE 6.0, rugged IP64 gun-shaped mobile computer that scans barcodes and communicates wirelessly. The addition of the XG100 augments Janam's line of rugged PDA-style mobile computers. Varlink carries the full range of Janam's rugged mobile computers to cover almost any barcode-based application within the four walls of the enterprise.

LONDON, June 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Partnership With Welcome Real-time Announced

Barclaycard, a leading payment provider in the UK, has announced that it has taken a step forward with its plan to introduce a retailer rewards scheme by signing an agreement with Welcome Real-time to provide the scheme's IT infrastructure.

Welcome Real-time will work with Barclaycard to develop the software that will enable Barclaycard customers to benefit from a retailer rewards scheme that is expected to encompass retailers ranging from sole traders to major high street names.

ICKENHAM, England, June 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Transforming Wound Care With the Power Behind the Company's Advanced Dressings

ConvaTec, a world-leading provider of innovative medical technologies for community and hospital care, today announced the launch of a new website, http://www.Hydrofiber.co.uk, demonstrating how the company's proprietary Hydrofiber(R) Technology is transforming wound care.

GIBRALTAR, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Online poker players who qualified for the WSOP Main Event through MansionPoker.com's satellite poker tournaments have automatically been entered into a special freeroll for a chance to win a place at the WSOP Celebrity Bounty Bash. Up for grabs is prize money of US$20,000, a US$13,000 package to the WSOP 2010 Main Event, and the opportunity to play against some of poker's greatest players.

MansionPoker.com players qualified for the WSOP Main Poker Event through buy-ins ranging from 77 cents to US$535. One online poker player even qualified via a freeroll, having won entry by simply playing for 20 days during a promotion.