Richard Hawkins, Canada Research Chair in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, says there is no evidence that information technologies necessarily reduce our environmental footprint. His research will provide input into the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) initiative on IT and sustainability at the United Nations' Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark later this year.

"It was once assumed that there was little or no material dimension to information technology, thus, it should be clean with minimal environmental impact," says Hawkins who is also a professor in the U of C's Faculty of Communication and Culture. "However, we are finding that reality is much more complicated."

PUNE, India, DETROIT and LONDON, February 24 /PRNewswire/ --

- Retraining of employees adds to work force stability

INCAT, a Tata Technologies company and a global leader in Engineering Services Outsourcing (ESO) and Product Development IT services, today announced that the Company's worldwide work force has surpassed 4,000 employees.

INCAT employees work throughout India and the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, and North America, providing engineering, design and enterprise solutions in SAP and Sibel CRM systems, as well as other consultancy services to the world's most ambitious automotive and aerospace manufacturers and their suppliers.

THE WOODLANDS, Texas, February 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- NEW INTEGRATION ENABLES ESTIMATORS TO DRAW TAKEOFFS ON SCREEN

On Center Software, an industry-leading construction software producer, recently unveiled the Digital Takeoff Table solution at the World of Concrete industry tradeshow in Las Vegas, NV. The Digital Takeoff Table is the latest On Center Software solution integrating their On-Screen Takeoff(R) program with Wacom's interactive pen display. The solution is offered exclusively by On Center Software and it is another step toward a more productive takeoff method for estimators.

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GAITHERSBURG, Maryland, February 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- The micro-sized CopperLink(TM) Model 2110 Ethernet Booster cuts infrastructure costs and simplifies deployment of Wireless Access Points (WAPs), IP cameras and VoIP handsets by extending IEEE 802.3af Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) up to 5 times the standard reach

Patton -- the leader in business and carrier-class network access, connectivity, Voice-over-IP and triple-play equipment -- announces their latest innovation in network extension -- the CopperLink(TM) Model 2110 Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) Booster series.

Patton's Ethernet Booster transparently extends 100-Mbps Ethernet traffic along with IEEE 802.3af PoE up to 200 meters (656 feet) -- twice as far as the 100-meter (328-feet) standard.

SUNNYVALE, California and MANSFIELD, Massachusetts, February 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Exclusive NEM Technology Partnership Delivers Most Advanced Video Quality Test Suite Available

Spirent Communications plc (http://www.spirent.com) (LSE: SPT), the global leader in network testing and IneoQuest Technologies, Inc. (http://www.ineoquest.com), the leading global supplier video quality solutions today announced that they have entered into a technology agreement. This exclusive global partnership will offer the industry's only end-to-end video quality test suite that allows network equipment manufactures (NEMs) to ensure that their solutions provide the highest possible Quality of Experience (QoE).

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Show Me The Science Month Day 20



Tumor cells wield the enzyme heparanase like a machete to cut a swath
through the dense forest of carbohydrates that make up the sticky
matrix that helps hold communities of cells into tissues. Aggressive,
metastatic tumor cells have to break free of the confines of this
extracellular matrix in order to both grow and colonize new parts of
the body. In humans, heparanase is expressed at high levels in tumor
cells, and it therefore makes an attractive drug target: knock out
heparanase, and tumor cells can't bushwhack their way out of the
confines of the extracellular matrix.

A group of Israeli researchers has discovered a defective form of heparanase in blind mole rats, animals which spend their whole lives underground and as a result have adapted to deal with low oxygen conditions that parallel conditions experienced by tumor cells. This defective form of heparanse could become a new tool in the cancer treatment toolbox.

Hurry! Don't let [random eBay item here] get away! Increase your max bid before someone else steals away your item.

There are a few ways in which the creation of eBay was absolute genius; it played upon the needs and wants of society as a whole, combining them and providing easy access to previously unavailable or difficult to find items.

REDMOND, Washington, February 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- New reference architectures from Bull, Dell and HP make it faster, easier and more affordable for companies to deploy enterprise-class data warehousing projects.

LONDON, February 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- First Aid Charity Implements Autonomous Web-Based SMS Solution to Communicate With Staff and Volunteers Quickly and Effectively

BILLERICA, Massachusetts, February 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Vertica Analytic Database running on VMware helps data centers consolidate tera-mart and data warehouse deployments in virtualized private cloud environments

Will virtualization of data centers spell the end of specialized hardware-based data warehouse appliances? If Vertica has anything to say about it, the answer is yes.

Vertica today unveiled a new version of its Vertica Analytic Database packaged as a virtualized appliance to run in VMware environments. The new Vertica Virtualized Analytic Database is a simple-to-deploy, self-contained software package that runs its own operating system and copy of Vertica, on any VMware-supported hardware as if it were a physical computer.