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- Misconfiguration Named Number One Security Risk to Virtual Environments

Tripwire, a leader in configuration assessment and change auditing for virtual environments, (http://www.tripwire.com/europe) surveyed enterprise IT professionals to assess how vigorously virtualisation is expanding within production server environments and to measure how security, change controls and compliance requirements are keeping pace.

More than 90 percent of those interviewed said that virtualised servers are now deployed in their production environments. In fact, three of four respondents reported that up to half of all their production servers are now virtualised.

Scientific happenings, big and small, on this day in history.

For today’s quiz you’ll not only need to know a bit about science history, but need to have some familiarity with our military history as well. Which American aeronautics pioneer, born on this day in 1834, is the namesake for the Virginia military base that houses the United States Air Force’s 1st Fighting Wing? It’s not that hard really. Seriously, how many Virginia military bases do you know? But just to be sure, you can check the answer at the end of this article.

And more on this day in science…

HAMBURG, Germany, August 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Dangerous Bacteria Infect Three Million People in Europe Every Year

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- New 3D Gaming Solution Now Available Through Key European Retailer Media Markt

Spatial View Inc., a leading developer of 3D image processing and display technologies, today announced the availability of its Wazabee 3D glasses-free Gaming solution through Media Markt, a key European electrical goods retailer.

BAAR, Switzerland, August 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Manas Petroleum Corp. (MNAP.OB)

- Letter Agreement - Effective October 1, 2008 Phase 2 Work Period

Manas Petroleum Corporation announces that its wholly owned subsidiary DWM Petroleum AG has entered into a Letter Agreement for the Phase 2 Work Period on August 19, 2008.

DWM Petroleum AG has agreed to permit Santos to commence the Phase 2 Work Program prior to the end of the Phase 1 Work Period.

Households located in poor neighborhoods pay more for the same items than people living in wealthy ones, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. Author Debabrata Talukdar of Columbia University found that the critical factor in how much a household spends on groceries is whether it has access to a car.

According to the findings, those without access to cars—which are exclusively poor households, but include only 40 percent of poor households— pay higher prices for groceries than households with access to a car (whether wealthy or poor). Lacking mobility means consumers buy from the nearest neighborhood store rather than larger regional or national grocery chains, which have lower prices.

People are more than happy to fool themselves and nothing can make dieters who cheat happier than those `100 calorie' sized snacks.

As a result of that 'it is smaller so I can eat more of them' mentality, chronic dieters tend to consume more calories when foods and packages are smaller, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. The authors examined consumer behavior regarding "mini-packs," 100-calorie food packages that are marketed to help people control calorie intake.

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Azure Dynamics Corporation (TSX: AZD & LSE: ADC) ("Azure" or the "Company"), a leading developer of hybrid electric and electric powertrains for commercial vehicles, is pleased to announce a private placement offering of up to 100,000,000 common shares at a price of CDN$0.25 per common share (the "Issue Price") for gross proceeds of up to CDN$25,000,000 (the "Offering").

The systematics of celestial bodies needs to be revised, say researchers at the Argelander Institute of Astronomy of the University of Bonn. Brown dwarfs, to-date merely regarded as stars which were below normal size, may well be stellar ‘miscarriages' and need to be treated as a separate class in addition to stars and planets.

Brown dwarfs (or BDs) are what scientists call objects which populate the galaxies apart from the stars. Unlike the latter, they cannot develop high-yield hydrogen fusion as in the interior of our sun due to their low mass (less than about 8% of the sun’s mass). But in addition to this brown dwarfs and stars also seem to be different in their ‘mating behavior’.

A simple and primitive animal, Trichoplax adhaerens, appears to harbor a far more complex suite of capabilities than meets the eye. The findings, reported Nature, establish a group of organisms as a branching point of animal evolution and identify sets of genes, or a "parts list," employed by organisms that have evolved along particular branches.

Trichoplax adhaerens was first detected in the 1880s clinging to the sides of an aquarium but it just recently got characterized by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI)and they found that its ancient lineage was matched by its complexity.