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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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‘Rise in New Terror Groups Globally, Fewer Coordinated Attacks’

By Guest PostJuly 9, 2010General, Politicsbali nightclub bombings, global terrorism database, gtd, ideological variation, london, madrid, metro stations, mumbai, national consortium, responses to terrorism, start, study of terrorism, university of maryland

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The deadly, coordinated terror strikes in London five years ago – the 7/7 transit attacks – reflect emerging global trends, reports the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), based at the University of Maryland.

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Hollywood’s Latest 3-D Animation Film ‘Despicable Me’ Advances Smarter Movie Production With IBM

By Guest PostJuly 8, 20101 commentMedia, Technologyalvin and the chipmunks, animated 3-D feature film, chris meledandri, despicable me, dr. suess horton hears a who, france, gru, hollywood, ibm, ice age, idataplex, illumination entertainment, mac guff ligne, moche et mechant, moi, MySpace, rear door heat exchanger, steve canepa, steve carell, studios, the simpson, universal studios, US

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – 08 Jul 2010: IBM announced today that it has collaborated with Illumination Entertainment to help it meet the massive production requirements involved in creating its new computer-animated 3-D feature film, “Despicable Me.”

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Chimpanzee Gangs Kill for Land, New Study Shows

By Guest PostJuly 8, 2010Natureanthropology, behavioral ecologist, chimpanzees, david watts, detroit zoological institute, ecologist, james n spuhler, jane goodall, john mitani, kibale national park, little rock, little rock zoo, ngogo, primate, sylvia amsler, uganda, wenner-gren foundation

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Bands of chimpanzees violently kill individuals from neighboring groups in order to expand their own territory, according to a 10-year study of a chimp community in Uganda that provides the first definitive evidence for this long-suspected function of this behavior.

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IBM and European Union Join to Develop New Collaborative e-Business Model Extending Open Source and Cloud Technologies

By Guest PostJuly 7, 20101 commentTechnologyacsi, artifact-centric service interoperation, cloud, dynamic artifacts, e-services, environments, European Union, fabiana Fournier, guiseppe de giacomo, haifa, ibm research manager, Israel, it, richard hull, saas, software as a service, university of rome la sapienza

*Aims for 40% cost reductions in the design, deployment and management of e-service blends*

HAIFA, Israel – 07 Jul: IBM today announced, in collaboration with the European Union, industry and academia, the launch of a research consortium which aims to help businesses more easily take advantage of Internet-based services – or “e-services” – to create collaborative business operations and achieve shared business goals.

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