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Brain Connections Break Down as We Age

By Guest PostAugust 19, 2010Health, Scienceage, age-related degeneration, brain connections, corpus callosum, functional mri, gerontology, multiple, neuroscience, parkinson, rachael seidler, two-sided motor, university of michigan

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—It’s unavoidable: breakdowns in brain connections slow down our physical response times as we age, a new study suggests.

This slower reactivity is associated with an age-related breakdown in the corpus callosum, a part of the brain that acts as a dam during one-sided motor activities to prevent unwanted connectivity, or cross-talk, between the two halves of the brain, said Rachael Seidler, associate professor in the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology and Department of Psychology, and lead study author.

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Australian Bureau of Statistics Adopts IBM Social Software to Boost Employee Collaboration

By Guest PostAugust 18, 20101 commentTechnologyabs, alistair rennie, australian bureau of statistics, dale chatwin, gershon review, ibm, ibm lotus connections, lotus platform, social software market, vendor shares

ARMONK, N.Y. – 18 Aug 2010: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is adopting IBM social software to support the way thousands of employees connect and interact.

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In India, Traffic to Business and Finance Web Sites Surged 45 Percent in Past Year

By Guest PostAugust 18, 2010Economy, Technologybanking sites, business, category, comscore media metrix, finance, India, web financial, will

*Banking Sites See Strong Growth as More Indians Turn to the Web for their Personal Financial Needs*

Mumbai, India, August 18, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its June 2010 ranking of the top Business/Finance sites in India based on data from its comScore Media Metrix service.

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One in Four Missouri Families Worries about Food for their Children

By Guest PostAugust 18, 2010Economycenter for food security, colleen heflin, food insecure, food insecurity, foreclose, home loans, matt foulkes, missouri families, missouri hunger atlas, missouri population, missourians, nikki raedeke, nutrition, recession, sandy rikoon, sociology, university of missouri

COLUMBIA, Mo. — As the recession continues, economic casualties continue to mount. Daily, the media report that banks continue to foreclose on home loans and people are still losing their jobs.

Missing from the headlines, however, is the growing number of people that are having more difficulty feeding themselves and their children. According to the 2010 Missouri Hunger Atlas, which was released by a University of Missouri research team, one in four Missouri families with children living at home worries about putting enough food on the table.

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IBM Breaks Double Digit Performance Barrier With 10 Million Transactions Per Minute

By Guest PostAugust 17, 2010Technology10 million transactions per minute, arvind Krishna, hp, ibm, ibm db2 database software, ibm power7-based system, ibm system storage, key computing performance, oracle, tpc performance benchmark, tpc-c, tpmc, transaction processing

ARMONK, N.Y. – 17 Aug 2010: IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today an IBM POWER7-based system with IBM DB2 database software and IBM System Storage broke all previous records and topped the 10 million transactions per minute mark using the industry standard TPC performance benchmark, easily besting all results previously achieved by competitors such as HP and Oracle.

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comScore Releases July 2010 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

By Guest PostAugust 17, 20101 commentTechnologyanalysis, aol, ask network, Comscore, Google, Microsoft, qsearch, search engine rankings, search marketplace, u.s search engine rankings, Yahoo

RESTON, VA, August 17, 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. With the July 2010 qSearch data release, comScore will now be reporting “Explicit Core Search” results alongside its standard “Total Core Search” results in order to provide transparency around the impact of contextually driven searches.

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18 Signs that America is Rotting Right in Front of our Eyes

By Guest PostAugust 17, 2010Economy, Politicsamerica is decaying, budget cuts, economic collapse, economic downturn, government debt, government subsidized housing

Sometimes it isn’t necessary to quote facts and figures about government debt, unemployment and the trade deficit in order to convey how badly America is decaying. The truth is that millions of Americans can watch America rotting right in front of their eyes by stepping out on their front porches. Record numbers of homes have been foreclosed on and in some of the most run down cities as many as a third of all houses have been abandoned. Unemployment remains at depressingly high levels and the number of Americans on food stamps continues to set new records month after month. (more…)

Microsoft Heralds a New Age of Gaming With “Age of Empires Online”

By Guest PostAugust 17, 2010Technologyage of empires, fable III, games for windows, gamescom 2010, greek civilization, halo, live, Microsoft, microsoft flight, microsoft flight simulator 1.0, microsoft game studios, phil spencer, robot entertainment

COLOGNE, Germany — Aug. 17, 2009 — On the eve of gamescom 2010, the world’s largest consumer-oriented games showcase, Microsoft Corp. unveiled the newest addition to the famed “Age of Empires” franchise, “Age of Empires Online.” Microsoft also announced the development of “Microsoft Flight,” a new entry inspired by the best-selling “Microsoft Flight Simulator” franchise. Published by Microsoft Game Studios, these new titles, along with the previously announced “Fable III,” fully integrate the free* Games for Windows – LIVE online service to deliver compelling socially connected gameplay experiences.

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