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The Long-Term Fate of the Oil Spill in the Atlantic

By Guest PostJuly 13, 2010Environment, Scienceapril 20, axel timmermann, buoyant particles, chemical, computer simulations, deepwater horizon, fabian schloesser, florida, florida current, gulf of mexico, gulf stream, honolulu, jamstec, microbial degradation, ofes, oil spill, oliver elison timm, rig, soes, straits of florida, university of hawaii at manoa

Honolulu, HI – The possible spread of the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon rig over the course of one year was studied in a series of computer simulations by a team of researchers from the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

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Microsoft and NASA Bring Mars Down to Earth Through the WorldWide Telescope

By Guest PostJuly 13, 20102 commentsScience, Technologyames research center, Baltimore, california, california institute of technology, earth, energy, Environment, fay, high resolution imaging science experiment, hirise, hubble, intelligent robotics group, irg, mars, mars orbiter laser altimeter, martian surface, michael broxton, Microsoft, mola, NASA, nebula, pasadena, red planet, san josé, WorldWide Telescope

*Dramatic imagery from NASA Mars missions creates new user experiences in the Microsoft Research WorldWide Telescope.*

REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft Research and NASA are providing an entirely new experience to users of the WorldWide Telescope, which will allow visitors to interact with and explore our solar system like never before.

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Amazon Web Services Introduces Cluster Compute Instances

By Guest PostJuly 13, 20101 commentTechnologyadaptive computing, Amazon, amazon web services, cluster compute, cpu, ec2, high-performance computing, hpc, keith jackson, lawrence berkeley lab, linpack, matlab, michael jackson, nersc, peter de santis

*New Cluster Compute Instances provide scalable, elastic, cost-efficient AWS cloud resources for advanced HPC workloads*

SEATTLE, Jul 13, 2010 – Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon.com company, today announced Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2, a new instance type specifically designed for high-performance computing (HPC) applications and other demanding network-bound applications.

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Google Sites Has Largest Audience in Asia Pacific Region While Tencent Captures Highest Share of Online Minutes

By Guest PostJuly 12, 20101 commentTechnologyasia-pacific, baidu, Comscore, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, nhn corporation, tencent, top online properties, webinar, will hodgman, yahoo! Sites

*comScore to Host Webinar: State of the Internet with a Focus on Asia Pacific on July 13*

Singapore, July 12, 2010 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its May 2010 ranking of the top online properties in the Asia-Pacific region based on data from its comScore Media Metrix service.

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Study Shows Age Doesn’t Necessarily Affect Decision-Making

By Guest PostJuly 12, 20102 commentsCulture, Sciencedecision-making, gut instincts, intuitive decisions, north carolina state university, tara queen, thomas hess

Many people believe that getting older means losing a mental edge, leading to poor decision-making.

But a new study from North Carolina State University shows that when it comes to making intuitive decisions – using your “gut instincts” – older adults fare as well as their juniors.

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comScore Reports May 2010 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share

By Guest PostJuly 10, 20101 commentTechnologyandroid, apple, Comscore, digital world, Google, iphone 4, oem, operating system, original equipment manufacturers, os, smartphone

*Google’s Android Platform Continues to Snatch Smartphone Market Share*

RESTON, VA. – comScore, Inc. a leader in measuring the digital world, released data (8th July) from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending May 2010 compared to the preceding three-month average.

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Students Get First Preview of Windows Phone 7 Devices

By Guest PostJuly 9, 2010Education, Technologyadvanced technologies academy, anand Iyer, barbara kudrycka, christian hood, eric lo, hypo team, imagine cup, indonesia, jon perera, las vegas, malaysia, Microsoft, microsoft education, rock star, silverlight, tar college, team beastware, tselina, windows phone 7, windows phone developer, xbox, xna frameworks, zune

WARSAW, Poland – July 9, 2010 – Christian Hood and Eric Lo already knew that they had won the contest to see who had built the best application for the new Windows Phone 7, so they didn’t think it would be any big deal when they walked on stage to get their prize.

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Internet Users Age 6-14 in Brazil Spend 60 Percent of their Online Time on Entertainment and Communication Sites

By Guest PostJuly 9, 20102 commentsCulture, Technologyalex banks, brazil, Comscore, digital world, Entertainment, instant messengers, latin america, online population, Social networking

Sao Paulo, Brazil – comScore, Inc. a leader in measuring the digital world, released (June 30) a study of online behavior among 6-14 year-old consumers in Brazil, a recent addition to comScore’s demographic segmentation capabilities in the market.

The study found that Internet users 6-14 years of age accounted for 12 percent of the total online population in Brazil in May 2010, spending the majority of their time on Entertainment, Instant Messengers and Social Networking sites.

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