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Scientists Discover a Climate Change Warning Deep Under The Dead Sea

By Guest PostDecember 8, 2011Environment, Scienceadi torfstein, africa, basin, biblical overthrow, california, climate change, climate projections, dead sea, dead sea level, drilling deep, earthquakes, egypt, emi ito, environmental history, future mideast conflicts, Germany, human development, Israel, Japan, jordan, jordan river, lakebed cores, mideast, mideast cave deposits, migration of early humans, mordechai stein, muddy sediment, natural phenomena, near east politics, palestinian authority, salt, salty waters, san andreas fault, sea, sea level, seismic risks, short on water, steven goldstein, stone age people, syria, united nations, united states, volatile region, walls of jericho, war against israel, warm period, zvi ben avraham

*University of Minnesota professor is part of international team that predicts the volatile region’s water may once again vanish*

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL — An international team of scientists drilling deep under the bed of the Dead Sea has found evidence that the sea may have dried up during a past warm period similar to predicted scenarios for climate change in coming decades. Emi Ito, professor of earth sciences in the University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering, is a research team member. (more…)

Facebook Users in Argentina Spend 9 Hours a Month on Site, Second Only to Israel in User Engagement

By Guest PostJune 9, 2011Technologyalejandro fishman, Argentina, bernardita valencia, Comscore, comscore media metrix, demographic analysis, Facebook, Google, growing digital industry, iab argentina, internet users, Israel, microsoft sites, online population, university of palermo

*comScore to Host Complimentary Webinar “The State of the Internet in Argentina” on June 14*

Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 9, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study on Internet usage in Argentina from its online audience measurement and media planning solution comScore Media Metrix. The study found that Microsoft Sites led all web properties in audience size in April reaching more than 95 percent of the online population, while visitors averaged the most time on Facebook.com at 8.8 hours per visitor during the month. These findings and others will be presented via a live webinar, The State of the Internet in Argentina, on June 14. For more information and to register, please visit: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/698116824 (more…)

Trojan Horse for Russian Defense Industry

By PravdaJanuary 4, 2011Weaponsamerican, antiaircraft guns, baghdad, black sea, cruising endurance, defense deals, drones, f 16 fighters, france, french weaponry, georgia, innovative technologies, Israel, konstantin sivkov, latin america, military hardware, mistral, mistral helicopter carriers, russia, russian navy, state of the art combat ships, trojan horse, united states, Venezuela, vessel

Russia has finally decided to purchase two Mistral helicopter carriers from France in the total amount of 1.37 billion euros. It is not the first time when Russia concludes defense deals with France. However, the Mistral deal is the largest one in Russia’s recent history when Russia purchased military hardware from a foreign state. (more…)

Fossilised Tooth Changes Human History?

By PravdaJanuary 2, 2011Scienceacheulo yabrudian cultural complex, avi gopher, aycc, cave, deciduous teeth, fossilised teeth, homo sapiens, human being, human evolution, Israel, israeli team, lower paleolithic, middle pleistocene, new evidence, qesem cave, university of tel aviv

A research article presented by an Israeli team has unearthed new evidence on the history of the human being – namely that Homo sapiens may be far, far older than we imagined. A research team from the University of Tel Aviv has discovered fossilised teeth 400,000 years old. (more…)

Russia Has Most Engaged Social Networking Audience Worldwide

By Guest PostOctober 20, 2010TechnologyComscore, comscore media metrix, dst, Facebook, internet in russia, internet usage, Israel, mail, mike read, moscow, odnoklassniki, online video landscape, rosbusinessconsulting, ru, russia, russian federation, russian internet audience, russian population, social networkers, social networking site, turkey, vkontakte, web users, yandex

*Yandex Reached Nearly 80 Percent of Russian Internet Audience in August 2010*

London, U.K., 20th October, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study of internet usage in Russia based on August 2010 data from the comScore Media Metrix service. The study revealed that Russians are the heaviest social networkers worldwide in terms of time spent per user and that Yandex is the leading property in the Russian Federation. (more…)

Rare Gold Coin in Israel

By Guest PostAugust 17, 2010Culture, Science2, 200-year-old coin, alexandria, andrea berlin, andrew booz, antiquities, donald ariel, egyptian ptolemies, hellenistic age, Iraq, Israel, israel museum, james r wiseman, Jerusalem, john g pedley, kelsey museum, kelsey museum of archaeology, lisa cakmak, ptolemaic egyptian queen, ptolemaic mint, seleucid empire, sharon herbert, sharon webb, tel kedesh, university of michigan, upper galilee

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Sharon Herbert and her team were wrapping up their dig at the Tel Kedesh site in Israel, sweeping the site in the 140-degree heat, when a student showed University of Michigan doctoral instructor Lisa Cakmak what he first thought was a gold candy wrapper.

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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.