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Billion Dollar Bonanza: Cyber Monday Surpasses $1 Billion in U.S. Spending as Heaviest Online Shopping Day in History

By Guest PostDecember 1, 2010Culture, Technologybillion-dollar threshold, Comscore, cyber monday, gian fulgoni, holiday season retail e-commerce spending, online spending, us web sites

*Cyber Monday Shows 16 Percent Increase vs. Year Ago with Half of Online Spending Coming from Work Computers*

RESTON, VA, December 1, 2010 – comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 29 days of the November – December 2010 holiday season. For the holiday season-to-date, $13.55 billion has been spent online, marking a 13-percent increase versus the corresponding days last year. Cyber Monday reached $1.028 billion in online spending, up 16 percent versus year ago, representing the heaviest online spending day in history and the first to surpass the billion-dollar threshold. (more…)

Made in IBM Labs: Breakthrough Chip Technology Lights the Path to Exascale Computing

By Guest PostDecember 1, 2010Technologychip technology, cmos, cmos integrated silicon nanophotonics, computer chips, electrical, electrical signals, exaflop, ibm, nanophotonics, nanophotonics technology, optical devices, pulses of light, scientists, silicon, silicon nanophotonics, t c chen, terabits, yurii a vlasov

*IBM Silicon Nanophotonics uses optical signals to connect chips together faster and with lower power*

Yorktown Heights, N.Y. – 01 Dec 2010: IBM scientists today unveiled a new chip technology that integrates electrical and optical devices on the same piece of silicon, enabling computer chips to communicate using pulses of light (instead of electrical signals), resulting in smaller, faster and more power-efficient chips than is possible with conventional technologies.

The new technology, called CMOS Integrated Silicon Nanophotonics, is the result of a decade of development at IBM’s global Research laboratories. The patented technology will change and improve the way computer chips communicate – by integrating optical devices and functions directly onto a silicon chip, enabling over 10X improvement in integration density than is feasible with current manufacturing techniques. (more…)

Amazon.com and Penguin Group (USA) Announce Fourth Annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Competition

By Guest PostDecember 1, 2010Culture, TechnologyAmazon, amazon breakthrough novel award competition, competition, createspace, farishta, jeff belle, lev grossman, manuscripts, patricia mcardle, penguin, penguin group, popular novel, self-published authors, talented writers, the magicians, tim mccall

*Two grand prize winners, one for general fiction and one for best young adult novel, to be published by Penguin Group (USA)*

SEATTLE & NEW YORK, Dec 01, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Amazon.com, Inc. and Penguin Group (USA) today announced the fourth annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition, the international competition seeking the next popular novel. Due to the popularity of the additional young adult category in 2010, the competition will again award two grand prizes: one for general fiction and one for best young adult novel. Each grand prize winner will be published by Penguin Group (USA). The 2011 competition will again be open to unpublished and self-published novels. Writers around the world are encouraged to begin preparing their manuscripts for entry into the competition, which will launch on Jan. 24, 2011. (more…)

5.7 Million Californians Lack Access to Job-based Coverage

By Guest PostDecember 1, 2010Economyamericans, california, california health interview survey, california wellness foundation, californians, chis, employer, gary l yates, health insurance, los angeles, robert k ross, shana alex lavarreda

Most Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employer, or through an employed family member’s dependent coverage. Yet having a job is no guarantee of coverage, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Using data from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), the brief’s authors found that one-fifth of Californians under age 65 who lived in households with at least one employed family member — or 5.7 million – had no access to job-based health insurance in 2007. (more…)

Yahoo!’s Top Ten of Everything 2010

By Guest PostDecember 1, 2010Technologysearches on yahoo, top ten, year in review

– Analysis of billions of searches used to gauge the mood of the great British public (more…)

comScore Introduces Online Video Measurement Service in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Spain

By Guest PostNovember 30, 20102 commentsTechnologyadvertisers, alejandro fosk, Argentina, brazil, Chile, Comscore, comscore video metrix, Facebook, footprint, globo, Google, internet users, latin america, Mexico, publishers, spain, vevo, video properties, YouTube

*YouTube.com Makes Google Sites the Top Ranking Video Property across Latin America and Spain*

Santiago, Chile, November 30, 2010 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the launch of comScore Video Metrix in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Spain as comScore continues to expand its video measurement footprint across the globe. comScore’s industry-leading video measurement product is now available for 16 individual markets, with additional countries becoming available in the near future. comScore will be hosting a complimentary webinar How Latin America is Shaping Online Video’s Global Growth on December 1. For more details and to register, please visit: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/653852337 (more…)

Air Above Dead Sea Contains Very High Levels of Oxidized Mercury

By Guest PostNovember 30, 2010Environmentatmosphere, bromine, chlorine, daniel obrist, dead sea, fluorine, global ecosystems, halogens, hebrew, iodine, mercury, non-metal elements, oxidized mercury, polar regions, potent neurotoxin, sea of salt, yam ha-melah

*First such levels measured outside polar regions*

In Hebrew, the Dead Sea is called Yam ha-Melah, the “sea of salt.” Now measurements show that the sea’s salt has profound effects on the chemistry of the air above its surface.

The atmosphere over the Dead Sea, researchers have found, is laden with oxidized mercury. Some of the highest levels of oxidized mercury ever observed outside the polar regions exist there. (more…)

Contact With Dads Drops When Women Ovulate

By Guest PostNovember 30, 2010Scienceanimal behavior, behavior, biological forces, cell phone, cycle, debra lieberman, elizabeth pillsworth, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary inbreeding, high-fertility days, martie haselton, ovulating, period, sexual decisions, women

*Evidence of evolutionary protection against inbreeding in women?*

Through an innovative use of cell phone records, researchers at UCLA, the University of Miami and Cal State, Fullerton, have found that women appear to avoid contact with their fathers during ovulation.

“Women call their dads less frequently on these high-fertility days and they hang up with them sooner if their dads initiate a call,” said Martie Haselton, a UCLA associate professor of communication in whose lab the research was conducted. (more…)

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