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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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Amazon.com Books Editors Announce “Best Books of the Year… So Far”

By Guest PostJuly 7, 2010TechnologyAmazon, Baltimore, best books of the year, big love, brady udall, China, country driving: a journey through china from farm to f, daphne durham, just kids, justin Cronin, karl marlantes, kindle, lisa grunwald, matterhorn: a novel of the vietnam war, michael lewis, patti smith, peter hessler, rebecca skloot, stieg Larsson, Sweden, the big short: inside the doomsday machine, the girl who kicked the hornet's nest, the immortal life of henrietta lacks, the imperfectionists, the irresistible henry house, the lonely polygamist, the passage, tom ranchman, top 10 best books, Vietnam

SEATTLE, Jul 07 – Amazon.com today announced its picks for the annual Best Books of the Year… So Far list (www.amazon.com/bestbooks2010). This midyear retrospective highlights the best books that have been released in 2010 between January and June.

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Goooal! World Cup of Tech Competitors Score in Warsaw

By Guest PostJuly 6, 20104 commentsTechnologybrazil, christian piechnick, daniella bal, dice, England, germany-argentina, Holland, ignatius lopez, imagine cup, it, jasper baljeu, Johannesburg, jon perera, kieron ekron, malissa, malta, olympics, poland, royal bafokeng stadium, simulacrum, South Africa, stefan lia, vuvuzela, warsaw, wearth, world cup, world cup of technology

*As their favorite soccer teams battle to win the World Cup in South Africa, students from across the globe are in Warsaw, Poland, to find out who will win the World Cup of technology.*

WARSAW, Poland – July 6, 2010 – Just weeks after catching a World Cup soccer game in their home country, two students from South Africa brought 40,000 football fans with them to Warsaw, Poland, for the “World Cup of technology.”

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‘Arctic Climate May be More Sensitive to Warming than Thought’

By Guest PostJuly 6, 2010Environmentanthropogenic greenhouse, Arctic, ashley ballantyne, atmospheric, beaver pond site, british columbia, canada, carbon dioxide, dara finney, ecosystem, ellesmere island, geology, natalia rybczynski, permineralization, pliocene, strathcona fiord, vancouver

A new study shows the Arctic climate system may be more sensitive to greenhouse warming than previously thought, and that current levels of Earth’s atmospheric carbon dioxide may be high enough to bring about significant, irreversible shifts in Arctic ecosystems.

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2 new frog species discovered in Panama’s fungal war zone

By Guest PostJuly 5, 20101 commentNatureand, Central Panama, chytridiomycosis, colombian border, darien province, deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA, el cope, frogs, fungal disease, karen lips, omar torrijos national park, pacific coast, panama, panama amphibian rescue conservation project, pristimantis adnus, pristimantis educatoris, p_adnus

Trying to stay ahead of a deadly disease that has wiped out more than 100 species, scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute continue to discover new frog species in Panama: Pristimantis educatoris, from Omar Torrijos National Park, and P. adnus from Darien Province near the Colombian border.

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Thin May Not be in for African-American Women

By Guest PostJuly 3, 2010Healthblack women, body shape, size, white women

COLUMBIA, Mo. —Many women today are dissatisfied with their weight, body shape and size, and often strive to be unrealistically thin. (more…)

Man-made Global Warming Started With Ancient Hunters

By Guest PostJuly 2, 2010Environmentclimate simulation, global warming, man made, natural climate change

WASHINGTON — Even before the dawn of agriculture, people may have caused the planet to warm up, a new study suggests. (more…)

NASDAQ MarketSite Evolves Stock Ticker With Microsoft’s Silverlight Technology

By Guest PostJuly 2, 2010Technologymicrosoft silverlight, nasdaq marketsite, silverlight technology, stock ticker, stock ticker display

REDMOND, Wash., and NEW YORK — NASDAQ’s popular stock ticker display — seen by hundreds of thousands of investors daily at the NASDAQ MarketSite^® in Times Square and used as the backdrop for its television broadcast to a variety of broadcast outlets worldwide — is getting a hi-definition redesign with Microsoft Silverlight. (more…)

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