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Amazon to Acquire LOVEFiLM International Limited

By Guest PostJanuary 20, 2011Technologyacquire, Amazon, denmark, enjoyment, european subscription entertainment service, games, Germany, greg greeley, internet to pc, internet-enabled tv, lovefilm, lovefilm international limited, movie rental, norway, online dvd, playstation, rental by post, simon calver, Sweden, uk

LUXEMBOURG & LONDON – January 20, 2010 – Amazon.com, Inc. today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire the remaining shares in LOVEFiLM International Limited (www.LOVEFiLM.com). LOVEFiLM is a leading European subscription entertainment service which combines the benefits of online DVD and games rental-by-post as well as streaming films and TV shows instantly over the internet to PCs, internet enabled TVs and Playstation®3. LOVEFiLM operates today in the UK, Germany, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Amazon already has a significant minority shareholding in LOVEFiLM and does not itself operate any similar business in Europe. (more…)

Parental Divorce Linked to Suicidal Thoughts

By Guest PostJanuary 20, 2011Healthadult stressors, childhood poverty, parental depression, parental divorce, suicidal ideation, suicidal thoughts

Adult children of divorce are more likely to have seriously considered suicide than their peers from intact families, suggests new research from the University of Toronto. (more…)

Shrinking Snow and Ice Cover Intensify Global Warming

By Guest PostJanuary 19, 2011Environmentalbedo feedback, atmospheric cooling effect, climate perturbations, cryospheric albedo feedback, frozen surface area, shrinking snow, summer sea ice

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— The decreases in Earth’s snow and ice cover over the past 30 years have exacerbated global warming more than models predict they should have, on average, new research from the University of Michigan shows. (more…)

A Nanoscale Rope, and Another Step Toward Complex Nanomaterials That Assemble Themselves

By Guest PostJanuary 19, 2011Scienceblock copolymer, molecular scale, nanoscale ropes, nanoscale wires, synthetic polymers

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have coaxed polymers to braid themselves into wispy nanoscale ropes that approach the structural complexity of biological materials. (more…)

Researchers Discover How Progesterone May Increase Breast Cancer Risk

By Guest PostJanuary 19, 2011Healthbreast cancer risk, hormone, hormone dependent cancers, hormone replacement therapy, mammary cancers

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Researchers have identified how the hormones progesterone and estrogen interact to increase cell growth in normal mammary cells and mammary cancers, a novel finding that may explain why postmenopausal women receiving hormone replacement therapy with estrogen plus progestin are at increased risk of breast cancer. (more…)

Amazon Web Services Introduces AWS Elastic Beanstalk

By Guest PostJanuary 19, 2011Technologyamazon web services, aws elastic beanstalk, aws services, elastic beanstalk

Easy to begin and impossible to outgrow, Elastic Beanstalk enables developers to deploy applications to AWS in minutes without giving up the ability to take back control of the underlying resources

SEATTLE, Jan 19, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon.com company, today announced AWS Elastic Beanstalk, an even easier way for developers to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud. Developers simply upload their application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring. (more…)

Oil and Gas Industry Sees Boom in High-Tech Collaboration

By Guest PostJanuary 18, 2011Technologygas, global energy forum, industry, microsoft lync, microsoft partners, microsoft streaminsight, oil

The adoption of real-time collaboration technologies continues to grow among oil and gas professionals, according to a Microsoft and Accenture survey released today at Microsoft’s Global Energy Forum

HOUSTON – Jan. 18, 2011 – The oil and gas industry has realized that keeping information flowing among its workers is key to continued flow in its pipelines. (more…)

Scientists: Big City Life May Alter Green Attitudes

By Guest PostJanuary 18, 20111 commentCulture, EnvironmentBeijing, center for systems integration and sustainability, China, chinese citizens, csis, economic, employment status, Environment, environmental behavior, environmental problems, environmental values, environmentally friendly activities, human behavior, jianguo jack liu, large cities, pro environmental behavior, rapid economic growth, shanghai, thomas baerwald, tianjin, united states, urban areas, urban china, xiaodong chen

*Study of Chinese citizens says jobs more important than salary when it comes to pro-environmental behavior*

People with good jobs found in large cities are more likely to engage in pro-environmental activities. So says a new study of China’s environmental behavior published this week in the British journal Environmental Conservation.

For the first time, scientists weighed employment and leadership when considering how people act regarding their natural surroundings. They found the status and political power of companies in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin strongly influence the conservation practices of their employees. (more…)

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