MAINZ and BAD SEGEBERG, Germany, July 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- My Camp D 2008 offers Inspiration to Participants From Across Germany

700 young people with diabetes visited the second My Camp D, once again turning this unique event into a huge success. Regardless of whether in information workshops, in exchange with other young people affected by the illness or at sport and play - participants joined in the action with enthusiasm and fun.

HOUSTON, July 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Accretive Transaction Strengthens ION's Portfolio of Land Seismic Imaging Systems

- Conference Call Scheduled for Wednesday, July 9th at 9 AM EDT

ION Geophysical Corporation (NYSE: IO) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of ARAM Systems Ltd., a Canadian-based provider of cable-based land seismic recording systems, and its affiliate company, Canadian Seismic Rentals, Inc. Of the gross purchase price of CDN $350 million, US $275 million will be paid in cash while the remainder will be paid in ION common stock. The transaction is expected to be earnings neutral for the remainder of 2008 and accretive to ION's consolidated pro-forma earnings in 2009.

A research team has for the first time discovered evidence of water that came from deep within the Moon, a revelation that strongly suggests water has been a part of the Moon since its early existence – and perhaps ever since it was created by a cataclysmic collision between the early Earth and a Mars-sized object about 4.5 billion years ago.

The team, led by Alberto Saal, assistant professor of geological sciences at Brown, believes that the water was contained in magmas erupted from fire fountains onto the surface of the Moon more than 3 billion years ago. About 95 percent of the water vapor from the magma was lost to space during this eruptive "degassing," the team estimates. But traces of water vapor may have drifted toward the cold poles of the Moon, where they may remain as ice in permanently shadowed craters.

If we told you that men in the morning had a better response to vaccinations for hepatitis A and influenza, you might think there was some biology bias at work, but that's what a study led by Anna Catriona Phillips of the University of Birmingham found. They assessed the response to a hepatitis A vaccine in young healthy adults and also examined responses to the annual influenza vaccination in older community-based adults.

In the first study, participants consisted of 75 University of Birmingham students who were vaccinated with the hepatitis A vaccine during a morning session (10 am to 12 pm) or early evening session (4 pm to 6 pm). In the second study, 90 older adults attended their medical practice for the annual influenza vaccination and received the vaccination in the morning between 8 am and 11 am or in the afternoon between 1 pm and 4 pm.

SANTA MONICA, California, July 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Suretone.com was built in partnership with Flux, Mozes, and BKWLD. Designed by BKWLD, the site's online community was constructed by Flux, allowing fans to interact directly with Suretone artists, while Mozes brought the two together through mobile updates and phone messages.

Santa Monica-based record label, Suretone, presents the launch of their unprecedented and innovative online music destination, http://www.suretone.com.

Most people who find a seashell during their summer holiday on the coast will probably not be aware that they have found a unique record of the climate. For paleontologists, those hard calcium shells provide a profound insight into the history of our earth and especially into the climate of the past.

Shells are a unique climate archive. The shells have clearly delineated growth patterns that show changing nutritional conditions, temperature fluctuations and environmental pollution. Shells are found all over the world, in the polar regions and at the equator, on land and in the ocean, in deeper waters and on ocean shelves, in tidal zones and in rivers, streams and lakes. "Shells are simply everywhere and, depending on their location, they provide us with important information about climatic developments.

They serve as records of volcanic eruptions in Iceland or the occurrence of a hurricane in Florida; they can, for example, even tell us whether the early Indian tribes on the western coast of Canada collected mollusks during full moon, crescent moon or new moon periods," states Schöne. Even though many types of shell are durable and survive for thousands of years, the mollusks themselves are extremely sensitive: In the presence of environmental pollution, they respond by lowering their rate of shell growth, which is why they can also be used for longer-term monitoring of water quality.

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, July 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- While European and North American Banks are Struggling on Security Issues, a Korean Software Company Successfully - for Many Years Already - Delivers Online Security for Banking, e-Commerce and Governments in Asia and Latin America.

OTTAWA, July 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Free Software Update Offers New Features, Enhanced VoIP Service Provider Integration, and Extended Diagnostics to Simplify Installations

TalkSwitch(R), the leader in the design and manufacture of innovative telephone systems for small and multi-location businesses, and its United Kingdom distributor Intramation, today announced the release of TalkSwitch management software 6.10 in the UK & Ireland.

The free software update offers TalkSwitch users new features for enhanced call handling flexibility and increased productivity, including the ability to integrate with multiple Internet Telephony Service Providers, with fail-over to PSTN for added security, plus more extensive diagnostic capabilities to simplify VoIP deployment.

OXFORD, England, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- t+ Medical is delighted to announce the acquisition of Vivatec Ltd. Following a period of rapid expansion including a successful launch of t+ Clinical into the clinical trial market, the purchase of Vivatec will allow t+ Medical to aggressively expand by offering an integrated solution covering medical devices, communication technology and nurse call centres to its customers.

t+ Medical is the leading global supplier of mobile phone based technology for capturing patient data for long term condition management and clinical trials. t+ Medical's clinically validated solution offers a unique combination of simplicity and effectiveness which delivers impressive economic and healthcare returns for its customers.