There are a few areas where computers cannot surpass humans and a new study says music is still among them.

Neuroscientists in a new study looked at the brain's response to piano sonatas played either by a computer or a musician and found that, while the computerized version elicited an emotional response – particularly to unexpected chord changes - it was not as strong as listening to the same piece played by a professional pianist.

Senior research fellow in psychology Dr Stefan Koelsch, who carried out the study with colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, played excerpts from classical piano sonatas to twenty non-musicians and recorded electric brain responses and skin conductance responses (which vary with sweat production as a result of an emotional response).

LONDON, July 8 /PRNewswire/ --

Planalytics Inc., the global leader in Business Weather Intelligence(R), released its June WeatherCall(SM) report highlighting shifting weather patterns throughout the month that resulted in equally inconsistent consumer demands. The conditions varied, with rain constantly threatening to interrupt the short periods of sunshine experienced throughout the country. Businesses were faced with disappointing sales on seasonal products, save for lawn and garden-based industries, who managed to profit from prime conditions for plant and lawn growth.

LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- In this special video edition of our podcast "Chemistry of Innovations" you will learn how energy efficiency helps to protect the climate.

Video at http://www.basf.com/climate

Energy efficiency is the most important single future source of energy to supply the growing energy demand and to protect the climate. Being energy efficient in industry, mobility and housing will offer the biggest potential to use energy more efficiently. Just through energy efficiency and with already existing technologies it's possible to curb our predicted increasing global energy demand and thus the CO2-emissions by the year 2030 significantly.

NEW YORK, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Gameloft(R), a leading publisher and developer of video games for mobile phones and consoles, announced today the launch of NFL 2009 as part of its mobile licensing agreement with the National Football League (NFL). The deal allows Gameloft to create an authentic NFL experience for fans by featuring all 32 NFL teams, NFL players, NFL stadiums and detailed stats.

"We are proud that the NFL recognized Gameloft's signature titles and granted us the license to develop NFL 2009," said Gonzague de Vallois, senior vice president of Publishing, Gameloft. "NFL 2009 is packed full of team-specific strategies and spectacular offensive moves that are guaranteed to please football enthusiasts and provide them with the excitement of a live game,"

Girls moving through adolescence may experience unhealthy levels of weight gain and a new study in The Journal of Pediatrics analyzes the effect of Internet usage, sleep, and alcohol and coffee consumption.

Dr. Catherine Berkey and colleagues from Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital, and Washington University led the Growing Up Today Study (GUTS), which surveyed more than 5000 girls between the ages of 14 and 21 years from all 50 states. They asked the girls to reflect on their weekly habits over the past year and report the following: 1) hours of sleep per night; 2) time spent on the Internet (excluding time for work or school); 3) number of alcoholic beverages consumed; and 4) number of coffee beverages consumed. The girls also reported their height and weight at the beginning and end of the one-year study.

AUSTIN, Texas, July 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Professional version includes profiler to highlight performance issues

REAL Software, maker of REALbasic, a cross-platform development environment for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux developers, will ship REALbasic 2008 Release 3 beginning today. This release adds the new Attributes language feature, an update to the project analyzer to include warnings of deprecated functionality and other code issues, and an integrated profiler that allows programmers to track down performance issues within their applications quickly without any additional coding.

BOSTON, July 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Initial Findings

OTOinsights, the research arm of One to One Interactive, has released its first t=zero report, entitled 'Serious Games for Marketing,' (available for free download: www.tzero-research.com). The study set out to find how the top 10 user-generated builds in SecondLife compared with the top 10 corporate builds. In making these evaluations, particular attention was paid to production quality, publicity and advertising, social infrastructure, role of commerce and population density. Based on their findings, the t=zero team offers five insights for the design of future branding and marketing-oriented builds in virtual worlds.

BASEL, Switzerland, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- With their nine-month extra-occupational intensive course in "Business Administration" the Betriebswirtschaftliches Institut und Seminar Basel (http://www.business-education.ch) addresses managers and self-employed professionals who require the management tools of Business Administration for the advancement of their careers. The start of the winter term for this flexibly structured Distance Learning Course is on 15 October 2008. According to Dr. Ralf Andreas Thoma, Director of Studies, "Nowadays receiving a consolidated, practice-oriented education in business administration leading to an additional professional qualification is absolutely necessary to further one's career and to improve one's job opportunities."

An increasing number of 70 year olds are having good sex and more often, and women in this age group are particularly satisfied with their sex lives, according to a study published today on BMJ.com.

Knowledge about sexual behaviour in older people (70 year olds) is limited and mainly focuses on sexual problems, less is known about "normal" sexual behaviour in this age group.

Nils Beckman and colleagues from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, studied attitudes to sex in later life among four representative population samples of 70 year olds in Sweden, who they interviewed in 1971-2, 1976-7, 1992-3, and 2000-1. In total, over 1 500 people aged 70 years were interviewed about different aspects of their sex lives including sexual dysfunctions, marital satisfaction and sexual activity.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, July 8 /PRNewswire/ --

Centrify Corporation, a leading provider of Microsoft Active Directory-based auditing, access control and identity management solutions for non-Microsoft platforms, today announced that Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) has selected Centrify DirectControl for a pilot deployment to optimize the efficiency and manageability of its UNIX- and Linux-based computing systems. Using Centrify DirectControl, SG CIB will be able to further optimize its IT management control by leveraging its existing, robust Microsoft Active Directory infrastructure to centrally administer user accounts and access controls for its UNIX and Linux server systems in addition to its Windows systems.