SAN JOSE, California, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Atmel's QTouch Technology wins in Capacitive Touchscreen Controller ICs Category

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced that its multi-touch devices, the AT42QT5320 and AT42QT5480 have been awarded the 2008 Product of the Year by the influential electronics magazine, Electronic Products China (EPC). Atmel's devices for genuine dual-finger touch were selected by EPC's highly experienced judging panel in the Capacitive Touchscreen Controller ICs category.

AMSTERDAM, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- ATIR(TM) Data Presented at the Annual EBMT Presidential Symposium

Biopharmaceutical company Kiadis Pharma reported preliminary clinical data on ATIR(TM) showing its potential in mismatched bone marrow transplantations. Data was presented by the company's principal investigator Dr. Denis Claude Roy during the prestigious Presidential Symposium at the Annual European Bone Marrow Transplantation meeting (EBMT) in Goteborg, Sweden, on Monday, March 30, 2009. Only the 6 highest ranked presentations, representing the most promising new developments in the transplantation field, were selected for this Symposium.

Before the invention of boxed chocolates, Corvettes and bling-bling, all a man had to do for sweet lovin' was provide his special ladies with meat.  Studies of extant hunter-gatherer societies show that literally bringing home the bacon leads to greater reproductive success.  Highly skilled hunters also partake in more extra-marital affairs and in polygamous societies, have more wives. 

LONDON, April 8 /PRNewswire/ -- An attack by the National Secular Society (NSS) on the NHS chaplaincy service has been described as 'erroneous and simplistic' by Unite, the largest union in the country.

Unite, which embraces The College of Health Care Chaplains, called for more independent research and study, instead of the NSS's 'sweeping generalisations' and calls for the end to funding.

This follows the NSS's demand today (Wednesday, 8 April) that religious groups fund their own presence in hospitals, thus saving an alleged GBP40m per year.

BANGALORE, India, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Placement Based on a Sound Current Offering, Good Market Presence, and an Excellent Strategy

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) today announced that it was named a leader in global IT Infrastructure Outsourcing in the recently published market assessment report The Forrester Wave(TM): Global IT Infrastructure Outsourcing, Q1 2009 (March 2009).

PARIS, April 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Uzbekistan's permanent representative to UNESCO, Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva, launches Uzbekistan 2020 - a charity fund dedicated to developing cultural, intellectual and human exchanges between Western Europe and Uzbekistan.

Uzbekistan 2020 will be inaugurated on April 8th 2009, during a gala dinner with many eminent personalities, at Paris' Museum of Modern Art: amongst them, Former First Lady Mrs. Bernadette Chirac and Professor Khayat. These personalities will take part in an auction which will benefit to the Claude Pompidou Foundation.

HOUSTON, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

PRINCETON, New Jersey, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

BioWa, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a license agreement with sanofi-aventis (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY), providing the global healthcare company with access to BioWa's POTELLIGENT(R) Technology platform for the research, development and commercialization of their antibody therapies with enhanced antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC).

PARIS, April 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Uzbekistan's permanent representative to UNESCO, Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva, launches Uzbekistan 2020 - a charity fund dedicated to developing cultural, intellectual and human exchanges between Western Europe and Uzbekistan.

Uzbekistan 2020 will be inaugurated on April 8th 2009, during a gala dinner with many eminent personalities, at Paris' Museum of Modern Art: amongst them, Former First Lady Mrs. Bernadette Chirac and Professor Khayat. These personalities will take part in an auction which will benefit to the Claude Pompidou Foundation.