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In Malaysia, Yahoo! News Tops List as Most-Visited News Site, The Star Leads Among Local Brands

By Guest PostAugust 27, 20101 commentTechnologyComscore, demographic composition, information, joe nguyen, malaysia, malaysiakini, malaysian internet, malaysians, media metrix, news, sites, southeast asia, thestar, user, Yahoo

*News Consumers Skew Heavily Towards Males Age 45 and Older*

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 27, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its July 2010 ranking of the top News/Information sites in Malaysia from its comScore Media Metrix service. The report found that more than half of Malaysians online visited a News/Information site in July 2010, reaching more than 5.5 million visitors. Yahoo! News led the category with the most unique visitors, with TheStar.com.my securing the position of most-visited local news brand. (more…)

Microsoft Engkoo Helps Teach English to Chinese Internet Users

By Guest PostAugust 26, 20101 commentTechnologybing, champagne, China, chinese, chor, engkoo, english, frank soong, internet, matt scott, ming zhou, natural language, phonetic search, search technology

*Engkoo, a new language assistance search technology released by Bing in China, helps Chinese speakers learn not just English words but the language itself, complete with slang and idioms.*

REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 26, 2010 — Teach someone a word and help them once. But teach a search engine linguistics, and it can help people learn an entire language.

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4 out of 5 U.S. Physicians Online Visited Health Care Professional Sites in Q1 2010

By Guest PostAugust 26, 20101 commentTechnologyhealth content, physician prescribing behavior, physicians online, top health sites

Medscape.com Ranks as Most-Visited Health-Related Destination by Physicians, Reaching More than Half of Doctors Online

comScore Releases First in a Series of Reports on Physicians’ Online Behaviors from its comScore/ImpactRx Physician Behavioral Measurement™ Solution (more…)

10 Practical Steps That You Can Take To Insulate Yourself (At Least Somewhat) From The Coming Economic Collapse

By Guest PostAugust 26, 20101 commentEconomyadvanced technology, atmospheric water generators, billions of dollars, economic collapse, get out of debt, good times, grow your own food, growing minority of americans, insulate yourself, non-perishable supplies, off the grid, political spectrum, recession, reduce your expenses, reliable water supply, sources of income, strong relationships, the trade deficit, the u.s. government, the u.s. national debt, the united states is getting poorer, u s economic system, u.s. dollar declines

Most Americans are still operating under the delusion that this “recession” will end and that the “good times” will return soon, but a growing minority of Americans are starting to realize that things are fundamentally changing and that they better start preparing for what is ahead. These “preppers” come from all over the political spectrum and from every age group. More than at any other time in modern history, the American people lack faith in the U.S. economic system.

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Study Shows Deepwater Oil Plume in Gulf Degraded by Microbes

By Guest PostAugust 26, 2010Environmentberkeley lab, biodegradation, bp, carbon, deep-sea psychrophilic, deepwater horizon drilling, degradation, gamma-proteobacteria, gulf of mexico, hoi-ying Holman, hydrocarbon-degrading enzymes, microbial ecologist, oil dispersant corexit 9500, oil plume, oxygen depletion, petroleum, petroleum-degrading microbes, terry hazen

In the aftermath of the explosion of BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, a dispersed oil plume was formed at a depth between 3,600 and 4,000 feet and extending some 10 miles out from the wellhead. An intensive study by scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) found that microbial activity, spearheaded by a new and unclassified species, degrades oil much faster than anticipated. This degradation appears to take place without a significant level of oxygen depletion.

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IBM and EU Partner to Enable the Digitization of Historic European Texts on a Massive Scale

By Guest PostAugust 26, 20102 commentsTechnologycrowd computing, eu, haifa, hildelies balk, ibm, impact, improving access to text, karl von eckartshausen, koninklijke bibliotheek, national libraries, ocr, ocr engine, optical character recognition, tal drory, Technology, universities

HAIFA, Israel – IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the EU have expanded their research collaboration, which now includes more than two-dozen national libraries, research institutes, universities, and companies across Europe to provide new technology that will enable highly-accurate digitization of rare and culturally significant historical texts on a massive scale. Unlike past digitization projects where the result has been static, online libraries of texts, this unique widescale effort, called IMPACT (IMProving ACcess to Text), will offer new tools and best practices to institutions across Europe that will enable them to efficiently and accurately continue to produce quality digital replicas of historically significant texts and make them widely available, editable and searchable online.

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Bacteria Make Thrift a Habit

By Guest PostAugust 26, 2010Scienceamino acids, bacteria, bacterial protein, bacterium, balance function, curli, daniel smith, e coli, economic cost, escherichia coli, fibers, flagellu, glycine, illness, matthew chapman, mbio, metabolic, microbes, proteins, smith and chapman, ssga, university of michigan

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— In these lean times, smart consumers refuse to pay a lot for throwaway items, but will shell out a little more for products that can be used again and again. The same is true of bacteria and other microbes, researchers at the University of Michigan have learned.

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Males Driving Europe’s Summer of Mobile Love

By Guest PostAugust 26, 2010Culture, Technologycomscore mobilens, dating sites, europeans, factor, french, germans, italians, jeremy copp, love, mobile, mobile consumption behavior, mobile phones, smartphone, sms, young adult males

*Mobile Dating Sites on the Rise, Males 25-34 Represent Nearly a Quarter of UsersItalians Lead European Countries in Seeking ‘Amore’ on their Mobiles*

LONDON, U.K., August 26, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from its comScore MobiLens service showing that young adult males factor prominently in the increase in Europeans accessing dating sites on their mobile phones. (more…)

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