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IBM Acquires PSS Systems

By Guest PostOctober 14, 2010Technologyabbott, analyzing enterprise content, basf, bp, calif, cgoc, compliance, conocophillips, data management, david stryker, deidre paknad, devon energy, e-discovery, emails, energy, first data, ge, governance and oversight council, healthcare, ibm, information governance policies, information lifecycle governance software, mountain view, petro-chemical, pfizer, pharmaceutical, pss systems, records, ron ercanbrack, search and analytics, williams

ARMONK, N.Y. – 14 Oct 2010: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it has acquired PSS Systems, a privately held company based in Mountain View, Calif. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

PSS Systems’ software helps organizations analyze, automate and implement information governance policies across massive amounts of electronic business information and dispose of that information in an automated way. These capabilities are critical elements to remaining responsive to legal obligations while reducing data storage costs. (more…)

comScore Releases September 2010 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

By Guest PostOctober 13, 2010Technologyalgorithmic explicit searches, aol llc, ask network, bing, Comscore, comscore qsearch, Google, google instant search, Microsoft, mywebsearch, organic search, qsearch, query, u.s. search marketplace, Yahoo

RESTON, VA, October 13, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in September with 66.1 percent of searches conducted, an increase of 0.7 share points from August 2010. (more…)

Research Shows a Promising New Method to Reduce Graft-Versus-Host-Disease After Bone Marrow Transplantation

By Guest PostOctober 13, 2010Health, Sciencedamon runyon cancer research foundation, global immunosuppression, graft-versus-host disease, immune attack, immune system, ivan maillard, leukemia

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—University of Michigan researchers have discovered a new method to prevent the immune-system attacks that often occur following bone marrow transplants.

Bone marrow transplantation can cure patients with leukemia and other cancers even when the disease is resistant to other treatments. The success of this procedure relies on killing cancer cells by using immune cells from a bone marrow donor while avoiding an immune attack against the patient’s organs, which causes a dangerous complication called graft-versus-host disease. (more…)

Nicotine May Play Key Role in Promising Alzheimer’s Therapy

By Guest PostOctober 13, 2010Health, Sciencea-beta, alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, alpha7 receptor, alzheimer, angela lee, bace-1 knockouts, bace1, brain nicotine receptors, calcium uptake, disease, enzyme, fiona laird, hey kyoung lee, hui wang, lihua song, neurological disorder, neurons, neuroscientists, neurotransmitters, nicotine, normal brain function, peptide, philip c wong, schizophrenia, sixth-leading cause of death, united states, university of maryland

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — A team of neuroscientists has discovered important new information in the search for an effective treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, the debilitating neurological disorder that afflicts more than 5.3 million Americans and is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States. Hey-Kyoung Lee , associate professor in the University of Maryland Department of Biology, and her research team have shown that they may be able to eliminate debilitating side effects caused by a promising Alzheimer’s drug by stimulating the brain’s nicotine receptors. (more…)

Cloud-Based Computing System Helps Scientists Study the Breathing of the Biosphere

By Guest PostOctober 13, 2010Environment, Technologybiometeorology, biosphere breathing, california, carbon dioxide, carbon-climate science, chloroplast, climate change, climate science, cloud-based dataset, cycles, dennis baldocchi, ecosystem, evapotranspiration, factors, fluctuations, global scale, ground-based sensor data, humans, microsoft research escience workshop, modisazure, planet, plant life, sacramento river delta, satellite imagery, state-of-the-art biophysical modeling, water systems

*Researchers at University of California, Berkeley, work with Microsoft Research to analyze vast amounts of data without supercomputers.*

BERKELEY, Calif. — Studying the environment would be simple if it weren’t for one thing: Even an isolated ecosystem is unbelievably complicated. Factors to study include water systems, plant life cycles, carbon dioxide fluctuations, resource use by humans, and far more — and each can be studied at the scale of a plant or of the planet, and measured in an instant or over decades. (more…)

Listen Up: Ocean Acidification Poses Little Threat to Whales’ Hearing

By Guest PostOctober 13, 2010Environmentabsorption, acidic, animals, atmospheric carbon dioxide, boric acid, CO2, decibel, hearing, ilya udovydchenkov, ivan lima, mathematical models, noise levels, ocean, ocean acidification, scott doney, seawater, sound propagation, sound waves, tim duda, whales, whoi, woods hole oceanographic institution

Contrary to some previous, highly publicized, reports, ocean acidification is not likely to worsen the hearing of whales and other animals, according to a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientist who studies sound propagation in the ocean. (more…)

IBM Helps Organizations Boost Business Performance With New Informix Database Software

By Guest PostOctober 13, 2010Technologyanalytics, data management, database, donny helm, gary quirke, gillani solution, hal maner, hector de santiago ramirez, ibm, informix database software, informix flexible grid, informix software, linux, mac, mid-market customers, oncor, os, quebit, queries, storage, unix, windows

*DHL, Rol Manufacturing, Oncor and M Systems International reduce costs, work more efficiently*

ARMONK, N.Y. – 13 Oct 2010: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled new Informix database software designed to help clients cut costs and respond quickly to market trends. The new version of IBM Informix software helps clients and partners speed the deployment of critical business solutions at lower cost while boosting performance by as much as 50%. (more…)

One Step Closer to a Drug Treatment for Cystic Fibrosis, MU Professor Says

By Guest PostOctober 13, 20101 commentHealth, Scienceatp, cell, cftr, chloride channels, cystic fibrosis, cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator, drug, fatal genetic diseases, genetic mutations, paper of the week, protein, tzyh chang hwang, university of missouri

*Study recognized for significance and importance in the world’s most common genetic disease*

COLUMBIA, Mo. – A University of Missouri researcher believes his latest work moves scientists closer to a cure for cystic fibrosis, one of the world’s most common fatal genetic diseases. (more…)

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