LONDON, February 6 /PRNewswire/ -- A company which has over a decade of experience providing information, advice and guidance services to young people across the country will soon be helping young people in Leeds make important decisions about their future.

Prospects Services Ltd. is to take over the delivery of Connexions Services in Leeds from 1st April for the next three years (with options to extend this for a further two years), following a rigorous procurement and assessment process by Leeds City Council's Integrated Youth Support Service.

Councillor Stewart Golton, the executive member for Children's Services, welcomed the appointment saying:

REDHILL, England and BOSTON, Massachusetts, February 6 /PRNewswire/ -- BlueBridge One Business Solutions Limited, a leading provider of on-demand business solutions and MaxMind Inc.a leading provider of IP geolocation and fraud detection solutions, today announced a partnership aimed at helping BlueBridge One's ecommerce users reduce their risk of processing fraudulent webstore orders.

As part of the partnership BlueBridge One has integrated MaxMind's Fraud Protection service with its on-demand ecommerce solution providing much wanted fraud screening controls for ecommerce users. The integrated solution is seamless and provides users with a comprehensive riskScore as well as a host of real-time fraud checks for each web order processed.

PORSGRUNN, Norway, February 6 /PRNewswire/ -- On behalf of the future partnership of the European CO2 Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM), StatoilHydro has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with Aker Clean Carbon AS for an amine plant at TCM. The contract has a value of approximately NOK 525 million.

Aker Clean Carbon won the contract in an international competition with other contractors.

According to plans, TCM shall test two different technologies for capturing CO2 from two flue gas sources with respectively low and high CO2 contents. The contract with Aker Clean Carbon AS for amine technology lasts until the end of 2011.

HAMBURG, Germany, February 6 /PRNewswire/ -- ePages - http://www.epages.com - Europe's leading provider of SaaS e-commerce solutions for hosting providers and SMEs, announces the availability of a Webservices interface to connect its software with Parallels Operations Automation SaaS module. The company delivers RPM packages for the Red Hat Package Manager, which go in line with the Application Packaging Standard (APS). With this solution, the web development software is now seamlessly integrated with Parallels http://tinyurl.com/bg4cjm.

LONDON, February 6 /PRNewswire/ -- A Tyne and Wear carer has won over GBP33k in the past year, simply by betting on the fluctuating pound and the volatile financial markets on fixed-odds financial betting site http://www.BetsForTraders.com.

In 2007, Phil Brazier, 49, gave up his job in the capital to return to the North East to look after his elderly parents. He sold his London flat at the height of the property boom and moved back to Tyne and Wear where he now spreads his time in between caring, sales consulting and managing a number of buy-to-let properties.

Throughout history, scientists, philosophers, mathematicians and PhD students lacking funding for actual research have turned to the thought experiment in hopes of discovering something publishable, thereby retaining tenure and/or attracting the admiration of comely undergraduates.



The best thought experiments throw light into dark corners of the universe and also provide other scientists, philosophers, mathematicians and destitute PhD students a way to kill time while waiting for the bus.



Below is a classic thought experiment, pillaged from my book The Geeks' Guide to World Domination (Be Afraid, Beautiful People). I'll post a new thought experiment each day this week.

Cooperation, despite being now considered the third force of evolution, just behind mutation and natural selection, is difficult to explain in the context of an evolutionary process based on competition between individuals and selfish behaviour. But this puzzle, that has haunted scientists for decades, is now a little closer to be solved by research about to be published on the journal Physical Review Letters.

LONDON, February 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Latest 8.2 Version Offers New Compensation Management Module, Reporting Architectures and Unified Talent Development Workflows

LONDON, February 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Den senaste versionen 8.2 inbegriper en ny kompensationshanteringsmodul , rapporterings- arkitekturer och förenade arbetsflöden för talangutveckling

Scientists can easily explain the structural order that makes steel and aluminium out of molten metal and they have discovered the molecular changes that take place as water turns to ice, but glass blowers have been plying their trade since the first century BC and we have only just begun to understand what makes molten glass solid.

One hundred and fifty years after the construction of Crystal Palace at the Great Exhibition, scientists at The University of Nottingham and the University of California, Berkeley in collaboration with the University of Bath, have presented an explanation of how atoms behave as glass cools and hardens. Their research has just been published online in Science Express, in advance of publication in Science.