The U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been chosen to lead a consortium for a U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center on Building Energy Efficiency. The Center will develop technologies for low-energy residential and commercial buildings, as well as work on commercialization of those technologies and research how human behavior affects building energy use. (more…)
ARMONK, N.Y. – 08 Oct 2010: Information technology professionals predict that mobile and cloud computing will emerge as the most in-demand platforms for software application development and IT delivery over the next five years, according to a new IBM (NYSE: IBM) survey released today. (more…)
If you think global warming is bad, 11 billion years ago the entire universe underwent what might be called universal warming. The consequence of that early heating was that fierce blasts of radiation from voracious black holes stunted the growth of some small galaxies for a stretch of 500 million years. (more…)
Resulting ecological damage is serious, but could be reduced by wider use of more sustainable, time-honored practices
Humans are overloading ecosystems with nitrogen through the burning of fossil fuels and an increase in nitrogen-producing industrial and agricultural activities, according to a new study. While nitrogen is an element that is essential to life, it is an environmental scourge at high levels. (more…)
*Twitter.com Reaches 23 Percent of Brazilians Online, Highest Reach in the World
comScore Releases Study on Social Media Usage in Brazil Finding Traffic to Social Networking and Blog Sites Increased 50 Percent in Past Year*
São Paulo, Brazil, October 7, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a 
study on social media usage in Brazil during the month of August 2010. The study found that Orkut continued to lead Brazil’s social networking market, reaching more than 36 million unique visitors (15+ years of age, home and work environments only), while Facebook grew to nearly 9 million visitors, up from just 1.5 million visitors a year ago. Twitter.com also witnessed strong growth, nearly doubling its audience to 8.6 million visitors, with Brazil leading the world in terms of Twitter’s Internet user penetration at 23 percent. (more…)
*Japan Mobile Audience “Most Connected” with 3 of 4 Users Accessing Mobile Media in June
Social Networking Shows Highest Reach among U.S. Mobile Users, While Europeans Text the Most *
RESTON, VA, October 7, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study 
on mobile usage and behaviors in Japan, the United States and Europe from its MobiLens service. The report examined multiple dimensions of mobile usage including content consumption, demographic comparisons and top social networking brands across markets to provide a comparative look at how consumers interact with mobile media across various geographic markets. (more…)
comScore Expands Segmentation Capabilities in Malaysia to include Geographic Region-Based Reporting
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 7, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital 
world, today announced the availability of geographic region-based reporting in Malaysia, further enhancing comScore’s segmentation capabilities within the market. The new regional reporting gives advertisers, publishers and agencies increased insight into Internet usage across six regions within the country including the Central, Southern, East Coast, Northern, Sabah and Sarawak regions. (more…)
LUXEMBOURG & MADRID, SPAIN – Oct. 7, 2010 – Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that 
it has reached an agreement to acquire BuyVIP.com, a fashion and lifestyle online buying community with more than six million members in countries including Spain, Germany, and Italy. BuyVIP.com offers customers time-limited campaigns from top fashion and lifestyle brands at low prices. (more…)
