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Microsoft Services Helps Mission-Critical Customers Achieve Business Continuity

By Guest PostAugust 10, 2010Technologyadd-on, biztalk, elaina stergiades, it department, mcs, Microsoft, microsoft consulting services, microsoft platform, microsoft services, microsoft sql server, mission-critical, norm judah, premier mission critical

REDMOND, Wash. — Aug. 10, 2010 — Microsoft Services today announced enhanced mission-critical capabilities for customers with business-critical solutions.

As part of today’s announcement, Microsoft Services also announced the availability of an expanded Premier Mission Critical add-on aimed at helping customers tackle the support requirements of their most demanding solutions.

An add-on to Premier Support, Premier Mission Critical provides a service and support program, with services spanning from solution validation and architectural reviews to proactive services and problem resolution resources.

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The Salp: Nature’s Near-Perfect Little Engine Just Got Better

By Guest PostAugust 10, 2010Environmentcarbon containing pellets, feat of bioengineering, food particles, microbial loop, ocean-dwelling salps, particle aggregation, salp, self propelling mechanism

What if trains, planes, and automobiles all were powered simply by the air through which they move? Moreover, what if their exhaust and byproducts helped the environment? (more…)

UM Advanced Bio-Filtration System Promises Less Chesapeake Pollution

By Guest PostAugust 9, 2010Environmentallen p davis, anacostia watershed, bio-filtration system, bioretention, bioretention projects, chesapeake bay, comcast center, denitrification, nitrogen, nitrogen removal, office of sustainability, phosphorous, rain gardens, runoff, scott lupin, stormwater, university of maryland, urban pollutants, urban runoff pollution

COLLEGE PARK – Technological advances developed by University of Maryland researchers promise significant reductions in urban runoff polluting the Anacostia watershed and the Chesapeake Bay. The researchers say their work represents the next generation of “low impact development” technologies.

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The Horrific Derivatives Bubble That Could One Day Destroy The Entire World Financial System

By Guest PostAugust 9, 20101 commentEconomyAIG, city of london, congress, credit default swaps, derivatives, derivatives bubble, financial instruments, french president, global economy, jacques chirac, quadrillion, taxpayer, tsunami, u s economy, Wall Street, Warren Buffet, world financial system

Today there is a horrific derivatives bubble that threatens to destroy not only the U.S. economy but the entire world financial system as well, but unfortunately the vast majority of people do not understand it. When you say the word “derivatives” to most Americans, they have no idea what you are talking about. In fact, even most members of the U.S. Congress don’t really seem to understand them. But you don’t have to get into all the technicalities to understand the bigger picture.

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Monster.com’s New Book Available Exclusively in the Kindle Store

By Guest PostAugust 9, 2010Technologykindle store, lifelong career, monster, monster worldwide, six fundamentals

“Six Fundamentals to Building a Lifelong Career” is Available Exclusively as an E-Book in the Kindle Store for Download in Under 60 Seconds

SEATTLE, Aug 09, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) – Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that Monster.com has released the book “Six Fundamentals to Building a Lifelong Career” exclusively in the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore). (more…)

For the First Time Ever, Scientists Watch an Atom’s Electrons Moving in Real Time

By Guest PostAugust 7, 20106 commentsScienceabdallah azzeer, atom, attosecond absorption spectroscopy, berkeley lab, electron motion, electrons, eleftherios goulielmakis, garching, graham fleming, krypton atom, laser light, lawrence berkeley national laboratory, max planck institute, mpq, oscillations, quantum optics, robin santra, stephen leone, zhi-heng loh

An international team of scientists led by groups from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching, Germany, and from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley has used ultrashort flashes of laser light to directly observe the movement of an atom’s outer electrons for the first time.

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Global Tropical Forests Threatened by 2100

By Guest PostAugust 6, 20101 commentEnvironmentclimate change projections, forest ecosystems, model projections, tropical drought, tropical forests

Palo Alto, CA — By 2100 only 18% to 45% of the plants and animals making up ecosystems in global, humid tropical forests may remain as we know them today, according to a new study led by Greg Asner at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology. (more…)

MU Researchers Develop Motion Tracking Technology to Reduce Injuries for Older Adults

By Guest PostAugust 6, 20102 commentsHealthcardiovascular function, computing innovation, elders, exercise, gregory alexander, illness, injury, motion tracking technology, rehabilitation routines, surgery, tim havens

*Technology provides interactive feedback while patients exercise*

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Exercise is an important part of recovering from an injury, illness or surgery, but many older adults lack the knowledge and guidance needed to properly perform exercises.

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