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comScore Releases ‘2013 Europe Digital Future in Focus’ Report

By Guest PostMarch 21, 2013Technology2013, abc news network, bbc, Comscore, dailymotion, digital investments, eu5, europe digital future, european consumers, european countries, european market, Facebook, focus, Germany, Google, hpmg news, mobile, oem, online video, online video audience, paul goode, release, report, russia, search, vce charter study, vevo, web usage, Yahoo, YouTube

Russia Has Europe’s Largest Internet Audience, Whilst Turkey Counts the Youngest Users

Highest Penetration in Europe: 2 in 3 Dutch Internet Users Visited Banking Sites

London, UK, 21st March 2013 – comScore, Inc., a global leader in digital measurement and analytics, today released the 2013 Europe Digital Future in Focus report. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the European market and identifies the prevailing trends in web usage, online video, mobile and search. There is also a special scorecard section, which shows the top sites for all 18 European countries measured by comScore as well as an overview of top news, retail and online banking sites per market.

“European consumers are more digitally-engaged than ever before and their usage of mobile, internet-enabled devices is re-defining the media landscape,” said Paul Goode, Chief Advisor Industry Relations for comScore in Europe. “Advertisers, agencies and media owners need to understand the rising number of multi-platform consumers and the more complex digital ecosystem that has developed over the past years. Insights about key trends and underlying drivers enable clients to manage their digital investments effectively.” (more…)

Male lions use ambush hunting strategy

By Guest PostMarch 21, 2013Nature3d maps, africa, african savanna, ambush style hunting, animal behavior, balance, cao aircraft, carnegie, carnegie airborne observatory, craig tambling, female lions, females, gps tracking, greg asner, habitats, hunting, kruger national park, lidar scanner, male lions, open grassy savannas, petr kratochvil, predators, prey, savanna vegetation, scott loarie, South Africa, species, university of pretoria, viewsheds

Washington, D.C.— It has long been believed that male lions are dependent on females when it comes to hunting. But new evidence suggests that male lions are, in fact, very successful hunters in their own right. A new report from a team including Carnegie’s Scott Loarie and Greg Asner shows that male lions use dense savanna vegetation for ambush-style hunting in Africa. Their work is published in Animal Behavior.

Female lions have long been observed to rely on cooperative strategies to hunt their prey. While some studies demonstrated that male lions are as capable at hunting as females, the males are less likely to cooperate, so there were still questions as to how the males manage to hunt successfully. The possibility that male lions used vegetation for ambushing prey was considered, but it was difficult to study given the logistics and dangers of making observations of lions in densely vegetated portions of the African savanna. (more…)

Perfectly mixed up

By Guest PostMarch 21, 2013Cultureamerica, american philanthropists, andrea davis, aspirational environment, austin, cowboy boots, devon county council, drama, emma payne, exeter, fiona macbeth, ian stewart watson, ma drama students, perfectly mixed up, shannon price, stetsons, texas, transition service, united states, university of exeter, young people

Drama has become a regular activity for Exeter’s young people in care who have joined forces with students from the University of Exeter to stage a play in Austin, Texas. Stetsons and cowboy boots are at the ready as Exeter’s creative gang of performers head to the United States.

This life changing experience will be the first time that the theatre company ‘Perfectly Mixed Up’ travel and perform outside of Devon. Throughout the week long stay the company will perform their show, More than the Sum, and run two workshops with young people in care in Austin, Texas. ‘Perfectly Mixed Up’ are guests of the University of Texas at Austin who have an exchange programme with the Drama department at University of Exeter. (more…)

A Telescope at the Bottom of the World

By Guest PostMarch 21, 2013Scienceantarctic plateau, interstellar space, molecular clouds, plateau observatory, star forming nebulae, terahertz telescope

Alone in a wilderness of snow and ice, 600 miles from the Earth’s South Pole, a solitary telescope watches the stars, searching for the origins of the colorful nebulae in which stars are born.

The brilliantly colored, sweeping nebulae featured on magazine covers and posters lining museum exhibits are the birthplaces and cradles of the stars in our galaxy. (more…)

Windows Embedded 8 Generally Available

By Guest PostMarch 20, 2013Technologyapplication model, arc, barb edson, craig resnick, getwindowsembedded8, hmi, intelligent systems, kevin dallas, Microsoft, neil jordan, oems, original equipment manufacturers, point of service, pos, solutions

Microsoft launches online resource getwindowsembedded8.com for enterprises and OEMs.

REDMOND, Wash. — March 20, 2013 — Microsoft Corp. today announced via its website the general availability of the Windows Embedded 8 family of operating systems. Extending Windows 8 technologies to a spectrum of edge devices, Windows Embedded 8 helps enterprises capitalize on the Internet of Things with the platform to capture, analyze and act on valuable data across IT infrastructures.

“Edge devices connected and working in unison with an enterprise’s broader IT infrastructure unleash the potential of the Internet of Things by yielding the actionable data and operational intelligence that drive businesses forward,” said Kevin Dallas, general manager of Windows Embedded at Microsoft. “From the rich, familiar experience of Windows to integrated management, analytics and cloud platforms, Windows Embedded 8 coupled with the full breadth of Microsoft technologies for intelligent systems helps enterprises gain lasting competitive advantages in retail, manufacturing, healthcare and a variety of industries.” (more…)

Strange phallus-shaped creature provides crucial missing link

By Guest PostMarch 20, 2013Natureacorn worms, burgess shale, fossil beds, hemichordate evolution, spartobranchus tenuis

Christopher Cameron of the University of Montreal’s Department of Biological Sciences and his colleagues have unearthed a major scientific discovery – a strange phallus-shaped creature they found in Canada’s Burgess Shale fossil beds, located in Yoho National Park. The fossils were found in an area of shale beds that are 505 million years old. (more…)

Curiosity Mars Rover Sees Trend in Water Presence

By Guest PostMarch 20, 2013Sciencealuminum, apxs, arizona state university, basalt like proportions, calibration target, curiosity mars rover, dan, drilled rock, evidence, hydrated minerals, iron, iron bearing rocks, jim bell, knorr rock, magnesium, mars, mast camera, mastcam, maxim litvak, melissa rice, mudstone rock, NASA, silicon, trend, veins, water bearing minerals, water presence, yellowknife bay

THE WOODLANDS, Texas – NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has seen evidence of water-bearing minerals in rocks near where it had already found clay minerals inside a drilled rock.

Last week, the rover’s science team announced that analysis of powder from a drilled mudstone rock on Mars indicates past environmental conditions that were favorable for microbial life. Additional findings presented on March 18 at a news briefing at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, suggest those conditions extended beyond the site of the drilling. (more…)

UW students create, harvest fog in campus ‘hoop house’

By Guest PostMarch 20, 2013Education, Environmentben spencer, botany greenhouse, canadian, Chile, doug ewing, economic systems, fog, fog chamber, fog collectors, green space, greenhouse, harvesting water, hoop house, irrigation, low cost materials, mike schwindeller, non profit fogquest, peru, plant vineyards, plants, power washer, rain falls, shu kuei, spanish colonizer, susan bolton, university of washington, vines, water condenses

In the fog chamber, a thick cool mist rolls from one end to the other blurring glasses, wetting caps and coats and sending water dripping down the latest test panel.

University of Washington students have been testing low-cost materials capable of harvesting water from fog in a temporary “hoop house” next to the Botany Greenhouse. They create the fog with a specially adapted power washer and record how much water condenses and drips off various panels of low-cost materials, such as shade cloth. (more…)

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