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Photo Proof: Super Stars of the Universe Have Humble Beginnings

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—The first close-up picture of a nascent super massive star and its surroundings has shown that the highest mass stars in the universe form just like their smaller counterparts. They are born from swirling disks of gas and dust, rather than from violent stellar collisions. 

“How these high mass stars form has been a debate for 20 years,” said Stefan Kraus, a research fellow in the University of Michigan Department of Astronomy who is first author of a paper on the findings published July 15 in Nature.

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Report Names IBM No.1 in Global Middleware Software Market

ARMONK, N.Y.: IBM announced, on July 16, that industry analyst firm International Data Corporation (IDC) has ranked it the worldwide leader in the middleware software market.   

According to IDC, IBM was the leading worldwide application deployment software vendor with 31.9 percent market share based on revenue, nearly double that of its closest competitor.  

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IBM Expands Cloud Computing Capabilities With New Cloud Competence Center in Ehningen, Germany

*New Facility Delivers Commercial Development and Test and Desktop Cloud for European Clients*  

EHNINGEN, Germany & ARMONK, N.Y.: IBM announced, on July 15, a new IBM Cloud Computing Competence Center in Ehningen, Germany, which will provide a broad range of cloud solutions and services to clients locally and internationally.  

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Brooding Russians: Less distressed than Americans

ANN ARBOR, Mich.Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy portrayed Russians as a brooding, complicated people, and ethnographers have confirmed that Russians tend to focus on dark feelings and memories more than Westerners do.  

But a new University of Michigan study finds that even though Russians tend to brood, they are less likely than Americans to feel as depressed as a result.

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comScore Launches Video Metrix 2.0 to Measure Evolving Web Video Landscape

*Next Generation Online Video Measurement Service Features Video Ad Reporting*  

*New Metrics Enable Cross-Media Comparability and Help Improve Monetization of the Online Video Medium* 

RESTON, VA, July 15, 2010 – comScore, Inc. a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the introduction of Video Metrix 2.0, the next generation of comScore’s industry leading online video measurement service.

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Peking University People’s Hospital Partners with IBM to Build China’s First Evidence-Based Patient Centric Care System

BEIJING – 15 Jul 2010: IBM and Peking University People’s Hospital (People’s Hospital) have built an evidence-based patient centric care (ePC3) system to enable cooperation and resource sharing among medical services providers for improved patient care.

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Microsoft Awards Top Performing Partners at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference

WASHINGTONAt the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) on July 14, 2010 in Washington, D.C., Microsoft Corp. honored the strongest performing Microsoft Dynamics partners for demonstrating significant customer impact by developing and delivering innovative solutions that help customers drive their businesses forward.

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