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Meet Xbox Music, Microsoft’s New All-in-One Music Service

By Guest PostOctober 15, 2012TechnologyAmazon, android, beautiful, cd, digital, entertainment business, free streaming, internet, ios, iTunes, launch, madonna, Microsoft, mp3, music catalog, music experience, music life, music pass, music service, music subscription, pandora, pc, personal collection, phone, platform, playlist, radio, radio station, scott porter, smart dj, tablet, windows 8, xbox 360, xbox live, xbox music, yusuf mehdi

Xbox Music is Microsoft’s brand new all-in-one music service that enables users to listen to music how, when, where and on what device they want. It is included in a rolling update to Xbox LIVE that starts Tuesday and will be expanded when Windows 8 launches.

REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 14, 2012 — If music makes the people come together, as Madonna says, the new Xbox Music gives people all the music they love, every way they want it.

Xbox Music, Microsoft’s new all-in-one music service, specially designed to let users listen to music in exactly the way they want, begins rolling out to millions of people around the world Oct. 16 on the Xbox 360, then to the masses with Windows 8 on Oct. 26. (more…)

UA Study Examines How News Spreads on Twitter

By Guest PostOctober 15, 2012Media, Technologyarizona, arstechnica, bbc, bbcbreaking, bbcworld, bloomberg, delicious, devi bhattacharya, digg, financial news, financial times, fireworks, Forbes, global news, guardian, mashable, microblogging website, network analysis, new york times, news agency, news articles, npr, online content, paulo goes, reddit, retweets, Reuters, social media, sudha ram, technology news, twitter account, twitter activity, twitter effectiveness, twitter feeds, university, us news, washington post, wired

A study of the Twitter activity of 12 major news agencies shows varying levels of success for the social network as a news-sharing tool, based on factors like article lifespan and number of retweets.

Nearly every major news organization has a Twitter account these days, but just how effective is the microblogging website at spreading news? That’s the question University of Arizona professor Sudha Ram set out to answer in a recent study of a dozen major news organizations that use the social media website as one tool for sharing their content.

The answer, according to Ram’s research, varies widely by news agency, and there may not be one universally applicable strategy for maximizing Twitter effectiveness. However, news agencies can learn a lot by looking at how their news diffuses once it is posted on Twitter, said Ram, McClelland Professor of Management Information Systems in the UA’s Eller College of Management. (more…)

Football Scores a Health Hat Trick for Hypertensive Men

By Guest PostOctober 15, 2012Healthblood pressure, body fat, british men, cardiovascular disease, control group, copenhagen, coronary artery, cycling, denmark, disease, exercise capacity, exeter, fat burning, fifa, gentofte university, gps, heart rate, high, hospital, hypertension, maximal, men, middle aged, mmhg, moderate hypertension, oxygen uptake, peter krustrup, peter riis hansen, physical exercise, playing football, risk, soccer, stroke, university

Playing football (soccer) could be the best way for people with high blood pressure, known as hypertension, to improve their fitness, normalise their blood pressure and reduce their risk of stroke, according to research published today (Monday 15 October 2012) in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise.

Research from Universities of Exeter and Copenhagen, and Gentofte University Hospital in Denmark suggests football training prevents cardiovascular disease in middle-aged men with hypertension and is more effective than healthy lifestyle advice currently prescribed by GPs.

After six months of football training, three out of four men in this study had blood pressure within the normal, healthy range. (more…)

Engineered Flies Spill Secret of Seizures

By Guest PostOctober 15, 2012Healthdisease causing mutations, disease mutation, engineered flies, febrile epileptic seizures, febrile seizures, homologous recombination, secret of seizures

Scientists have observed the neurological mechanism behind temperature-dependent — febrile — seizures by genetically engineering fruit flies to harbor a mutation analogous to one that causes epileptic seizures in people. In addition to contributing the insight on epilepsy, their new study highlights the first use of genetic engineering to swap a human genetic disease mutation into a directly analogous gene in a fly.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — In a newly reported set of experiments that show the value of a particularly precise but difficult genetic engineering technique, researchers at Brown University and the University of California–Irvine have created a Drosophila fruit fly model of epilepsy to discern the mechanism by which temperature-dependent seizures happen. (more…)

Despite First Debate Drubbing, Obama Can Rebound Against Romney

By Guest PostOctober 15, 2012Politicspolitical advertising, political career, political experts, presidential debate, verbal showdown

EAST LANSING, Mich. — A strong showing in the final two presidential debates could help Barack Obama regain some of the ground lost to Mitt Romney after the first verbal showdown in Denver, argues Michigan State University’s head debate coach. (more…)

First Digital Resource Explores 1918 Flu Epidemic

By Guest PostOctober 14, 2012Healthamerican influenza epidemic, digital encyclopedia, influenza epidemic

ANN ARBOR — The University of Michigan has established the largest digital collection of materials relating to the 1918 influenza epidemic in the United States. (more…)

How to Hunt a Space Rock

By Guest PostOctober 14, 2012Scienceairborne fireball, battle mountain meteorite, how to hunt, remnants of asteroids, rocks from space, space rock

Peter Willis and his team of researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., had a problem. Actually, more like they had a solution that needed a problem. Confused? Let’s let Peter give it a shot… (more…)

Bright Outlook for Fall Foliage

By Guest PostOctober 14, 2012Naturedropping leaves, fall foliage, green pigment, leaf colors, pigments in leaf, western mountains

North Carolina’s fall foliage should put on a vivid show as it washes over the state this month. With color already beginning to pop in the western mountains, the foliage forecast is bright, says Dr. Robert Bardon, forestry and environmental resources professor at North Carolina State University. (more…)

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