Bora has posted an interesting draft policy on social media from an unidentified "Big Research Institution" (BRI).

It's already stimulating some good discussion (follow the link for more links) - no surprise, since the policy guidelines contain juicy quotes like these:

All BRI social media output is the intellectual property of BRI.

Whether you are setting up new BRI social media pages within the BRI website or on an existing social media site such as Flickr or Facebook, they need to follow the BRI interactive project process.

BROOMFIELD, Colorado, April 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Business Spin-off to Focus on Drug Development for Neurological Conditions

Accera, Inc., a biotechnology company delivering breakthrough therapies in central nervous system (CNS) diseases, announced today the formation of Neuera Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a drug development company. The new company will focus on the discovery and development of proprietary small molecule drugs for acute and chronic neurological conditions where the mechanism of defective energy metabolism or hypometabolism is involved.

ZURICH, April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Qnective, Inc., a U.S. public company, headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, is appointing Joseph Nançoz to its Advisory Board as of 15th of April 2009. This appointment will provide Qnective, Inc. with strong support to assist it with successfully expanding further its activities and market position.

Oswald Ortiz, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Qnective, remarked that, Qnective is absolutely pleased to be able to appoint another experienced telecom expert, Mr. Joseph Nançoz, as a new member of its Advisory Board as of 15th April 2009.

WILMINGTON, Massachusetts, April 15 /PRNewswire/ --

Analog Devices, Inc. (NYSE: ADI) and Digi-Key Corp. announce the following TechOnline/EETimes Webinar:

What: Understanding and Optimizing Sampled Data Systems (Part I) When: Wednesday, April 22, 2009, @ 9:00 a.m. (Pacific) / 12:00 p.m. (Eastern) Where: http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=139651s=1k=F17B3927B0DE7BDF7C383E84 E9AD117Dpartnerref=4PRN How: Broadcast over the Internet -- Simply log on to the web at the address above. Contact: Jim Surber (jim.surber@analog.com)

BOSTON, April 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Mimecast partners with Iron Mountain Digital to bring new Storage-as-a-Service solution for email archiving to market

EVRY, France, April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Novagali Pharma, a French pharmaceutical ophthalmic company, today announces successful completion of a new Phase II clinical study with Cyclokat(R), its formulation of Cyclosporine. The results demonstrate statistically significant improvement with signs and symptoms in patients suffering from moderate-to-severe dry eye syndrome.

SAN JOSE, California, April 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- More Than Six Times the Performance of any Similar Sized Microcontroller in the Market

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today its new picoPower(TM) AVR(R) ATtiny10, with 1K bytes of programmable Flash memory, and 32 bytes of internal SRAM. With up to 12 MIPS of processing throughput, 8-bit A/D converter, analog comparator, and a 16-bit timer with PWM, this 6-pin device is a perfect single-chip solution for size and cost constrained high volume consumer applications.

LONDON, April 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Facebook Captures #1 Ranking in Spain for the First Time in February

comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released an analysis of Facebook's growth in Europe during the past year. As the popular social networking site has increasingly focused its attention on global expansion and increased penetration across countries and regions, the site has catapulted to the #6 ranked Web property worldwide with 275 million visitors in February, a 175-percent increase versus year ago. One of the global regions that best illustrates Facebook's growth is Europe, where the site has seen a 314-percent increase to nearly 100 million visitors.

LONDON and KUALA LUMPUR, April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- AmBank (M) Berhad ('AmBank') has strengthened its trade services capabilities with a new trade services solution, provided by Misys International Systems Sdn. Bhd. ('Misys'), a global application software and services company.

BUDAPEST, Hungary, April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- ChemAxon, a software solutions provider for cheminformatics today announced the launch of version 5.2 of their cheminformatics toolkits, Marvin JChem. The release sees many new functionalities added, new integration options and improvements in search performance.

Marvin JChem is a software suite of application programming interfaces (API's) and graphic user interfaces (GUI's) used by life science informatics architects and developers to build chemically aware, platform independent and web ready enterprise informatics systems. Marvin includes structure and reaction editing, visualization and structure based property prediction; JChem includes structure management and search, library enumeration and library profiling.