ANN ARBOR, Mich.— A boldly striped mural designed by a prominent New York artist will decorate the University of Michigan Aerospace Engineering Department’s wind tunnel dome on North Campus. (more…)
*Starting today, authors and publishers worldwide can earn more royalties from every Kindle book sold in the UK*
LUXEMBOURG, Oct 06, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that the 70 percent royalty option for the Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) is now available in the UK. For each book sold from 
the Amazon.co.uk Kindle Store, authors and publishers can choose this option immediately and start earning a 70 percent royalty, net of delivery costs. The Kindle Digital Text Platform (https://dtp.amazon.co.uk) is a fast and easy tool which allows publishers and authors around the world to add their books and start selling in the UK Kindle Store (and Amazon’s global Kindle Store on www.amazon.com) in minutes. (more…)
For Trick or Treaters
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct 05, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) today announced the company has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Dapper (www.dapper.net), a technology platform providing dynamic display ad creation and optimization. Dapper enables advertisers and agencies to quickly and easily build dynamic ad creative, leveraging data to automatically show the right product, offer, or message with each impression. Dapper’s capabilities combined with Yahoo!’s already deep consumer insights will further enhance Yahoo!’s ability to deliver customized and relevant advertising. (more…)
REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 5, 2010 — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT”) today announced that Microsoft Dynamics SL 2011, its enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution designed for midsize project-driven organizations, will be generally available in the second quarter of 2011 in English in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean and Puerto Rico. Availability of a Spanish version for Latin America will be announced later. (more…)
*MU scientist compares classical singing to traditional Indian singing to find speech disorder treatment*
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Hindustani singing, a North Indian traditional style of singing, and classical singing, such as the music of Puccini, Mozart and Wagner, vary greatly in technique and sound. Now, speech-language pathology researchers at the University of Missouri are comparing the two styles in hopes of finding a treatment for laryngeal tremors, a vocal disorder associated with many neurological disorders that can result in severe communication difficulties. (more…)
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, – 05 Oct 2010: In an effort to enhance the Danish Ministry’s international defense operations, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the Danish Defense have signed a seven-year services agreement in which IBM will provide high availability, technology infrastructure and management services for the Ministry’s Resource Management System, DeMars. (more…)
*AWS also introduces lower prices for high memory Database Instances*
SEATTLE, Oct 05, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced Read Replicas, a new feature for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) that makes it even easier to scale MySQL database deployments to meet the 
performance demands of high-traffic web applications. Read Replicas allow customers to create one or more copies of a given MySQL Database Instance, which allows an application to serve read traffic from multiple database replicas. Customers can create or delete replicas in minutes using the intuitive point-and-click interface of the AWS Management Console. To get started using Read Replicas for Amazon RDS, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/. (more…)
