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. (more…)
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.”
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.
*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.
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.
US President makes $400,000 a year, which equates about 12 million rubles, or one million rubles a month.
The earnings of Russian top officials pale in comparison.
*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.”
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.
