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CfMC Announces Entry Into Telephony For Research

CfMC Announces Entry Into Telephony For Research

Feb 09 2009 | comment(s)

SAN FRANCISCO, February 9 /PRNewswire/ --

CfMC is rapidly approaching its 2009 release of an interface with Asterisk-based solutions for predictive dialing of participants in opinion research. This entry into telephony services continues CfMC's pioneering ways in the research world which began with developing the first software packages for CATI interviewing and data analysis.

Opinion research is dependent on the vitality and affordability of functional products such as CfMC's core Survent and webCATI data collection and predictive dialer modules. This development will give CfMC users a combined software solution for data collection with predictive dialer efficiencies.

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On "Barriers to Innovation": NASA isn't allowed 'hail marys'

Feb 09 2009 | comment(s)

The recent video "Barriers to Innovation" has some great thoughts about the culture of NASA and its barriers to innovation. Arriving from a Johnson Space Center study, the 10 minute video is worth a look. Ultimately, yes, I wish NASA had more of a mad scientist component. I think they're risk averse because that's part of their mandate. Google's founders gave Google "do no evil". Congress gave NASA "don't screw up".
Tiger Acquires 30% Working Interest In Producing Oil Property

Tiger Acquires 30% Working Interest In Producing Oil Property

Feb 09 2009 | comment(s)

HONG KONG, February 9 /PRNewswire/ --

Tiger Renewable Energy Limited (OTCBB: TGRW.OB) announces that it has acquired a 30% working interest in the GP Project located in Northern Texas for a total purchase price of US$1,000,000.

The project consists of 7 leases covering approximately 323 net acres and has over 50 existing well bores. The acquisition was made from Wellington Capital, a portfolio management company with substantial investments in the Oil and Gas sector.

QinetiQ Extends Its TALON(R) Robot Family To Meet Challenges Of Mine Detection And Counter-IED In Afghanistan

QinetiQ Extends Its TALON(R) Robot Family To Meet Challenges Of Mine Detection And Counter-IED In Afghanistan

Feb 09 2009 | comment(s)

LONDON, February 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- With Photos

QinetiQ has extended its TALON family of robots, 2,500 of which have already been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, to ensure it continues to meet the ever-changing demands of detecting and clearing mines, unexploded ordnance and dangerous improvised explosive devices (IEDs) from a safe distance.

Syncsort And Harte-Hanks Trillium Software Combine Data Management With Data Quality

Syncsort And Harte-Hanks Trillium Software Combine Data Management With Data Quality

Feb 09 2009 | comment(s)

BILLERICA, Massachusetts and WOODCLIFF LAKE, New Jersey, February 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Alliance helps customers reduce project costs while providing high-speed transformation and aggregation -

Telepresence Leader Teliris Receives US$11 Million In New Capital From Fidelity Ventures And Columbia Capital

Telepresence Leader Teliris Receives US$11 Million In New Capital From Fidelity Ventures And Columbia Capital

Feb 09 2009 | comment(s)

NEW YORK, February 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Investment Will Help Drive Telepresence Innovation and Market Leadership As Telepresence Deployments Continue to Grow

Teliris, the leading provider of telepresence solutions, announced today it has secured US$11 million in new equity capital from Fidelity Ventures, Columbia Capital and an additional strategic investor. This investment is in addition to the Fidelity Ventures and Columbia Capital initial US$40 million funding in 2007.

Teliris will use the additional funding to capitalize on increased demand for its current products and services, as well as fund research and development (RD) projects.

Explosive Speciation

Explosive Speciation

Feb 09 2009 | comment(s)

Show Me The Science Month Day 13

The grant writing has reached a fever pitch as the deadline closes in. Tomorrow 30 Days of Evolution Blogging will get back on track, but for today, a title and abstract will have to do. Today's paper is a DNA comparison study of the class of birds known as white-eyes (the Zosteropidae), which have demonstrated an amazing capacity for evolutionary diversification.


Zosterops japonicus, Courtesy the Wikipedia Commons


Explosive Pleistocene diversification and hemispheric expansion of a “great speciator”
Allot Launches Service Gateway Sigma: Network Intelligence Supercharged For Mobile Broadband Next Generation Networks At 40Gbps

Allot Launches Service Gateway Sigma: Network Intelligence Supercharged For Mobile Broadband Next Generation Networks At 40Gbps

Feb 09 2009 | comment(s)

BOSTON, Massachusetts, February 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Enables Creation of new Services and Revenue Streams; Reduces Capex/Opex

BOSTON, Massachusetts, February 9 /PRNewswire/ --

Life as a Daytime Astronomer: Street Cred

Life as a Daytime Astronomer: Street Cred

Feb 09 2009 | comment(s)

I gave a talk on my dissertation work.  Several of the more senior scientists were amazed at the bonafide science it contained.  They'd had me pinned as someone who did 'service work'-- programming, project management, all the stuff that enables science for others (them). This is the kiss of death to scientific collaboration.  Once you're marked with the taint of 'service', everyone assumes you're a scientific moron. 

You can tell the difference in how they explain something.  If you're a service person, they give you analogies ("imagine if...").  If they see you as a fellow scientist, they go right to authors and citations so you can read the original paper.

Neither approach is particularly efficient.
NCP Engineering Provides First Windows 7 Universal IPSec VPN Client

NCP Engineering Provides First Windows 7 Universal IPSec VPN Client

Feb 09 2009 | comment(s)

NUREMBERG, Germany, February 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Beta Users Called for 30-day Trial in UK and Europe

NCP engineering today announced that it has developed the first universal IPSec VPN client for Windows 7. Now available, the beta version of the NCP Secure Entry Client will provide users and IT administrators with a flexible, intuitive solution for secure remote network access. Beta users have full access to the Windows 7 client for 30 days, and are encouraged to provide feedback through the company's blog, VPN Haus.

Shire Receives FOSRENOL Paragraph IV Notice Letters From Barr Laboratories And Mylan

Shire Receives FOSRENOL Paragraph IV Notice Letters From Barr Laboratories And Mylan

Feb 09 2009 | comment(s)

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania and DUBLIN, Ireland, February 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY), announces that it has received Paragraph IV Notice letters from Barr Laboratories, Inc. (Barr) and Mylan, Inc. (Mylan) dated 2 and 4 February 2009 respectively, advising in each case of the filing of an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for a generic version of 500mg, 750mg and 1gm FOSRENOL(R), (lanthanum carbonate).

Full Year 2008 Results Date Notification - 19 February 2008

Full Year 2008 Results Date Notification - 19 February 2008

Feb 09 2009 | comment(s)

PHILADELPHIA and DUBLIN, Ireland, February 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, will announce full year 2008 earnings on Thursday 19 February 2009.

Results press release will be issued at: 12:00 GMT / 07:00 EST Investor meeting and conference call time: 14:00 GMT / 09:00 EST

Investor Analyst meeting and conference call:

Angus Russell, Chief Executive Officer, Graham Hetherington, Chief Financial Officer, Mike Cola, President, Specialty Pharmaceuticals and Sylvie Gregoire, President, Human Genetic Therapies will host the investor and analyst meeting and conference call at 14:00 GMT/9:00 EST.

GDF SUEZ Places A EUR 750 Million Bond Issue With Belgian And Luxembourg Retail Investors

GDF SUEZ Places A EUR 750 Million Bond Issue With Belgian And Luxembourg Retail Investors

Feb 09 2009 | comment(s)

PARIS, February 9 /PRNewswire/ -- GDF SUEZ has successfully issued EUR 750 million in bonds placed on the Belgian and Luxembourg markets. The issue represents the largest offering to date to the Belgian and Luxembourg retail investors.

Originally announced for a minimum amount of EUR 150 million, the issue was oversubscribed four times and finally closed two weeks in advance of its initial closing date. The market reception confirms the quality of the creditworthiness of GDF SUEZ as an issuer and the confidence of both public and private investors in the Group's long-term prospects.

The issue's main terms and conditions are: - Term, 6 years - Coupon 5% - Issue price 102% - Maturity, February 23, 2015

Japanese Plant Design Company Continues Long Term Partnership With AVEVA

Japanese Plant Design Company Continues Long Term Partnership With AVEVA

Feb 09 2009 | comment(s)

YOKOHAMA, Japan, February 9 /PRNewswire/ -- AVEVA (LSE:AVV) and Shinsei Giken have signed a USD300,000 contract that sees AVEVA supplying more of their flagship product - AVEVA PDMS -- to the specialist plant design company.

Shinsei Giken first subscribed to AVEVA solutions in 1998 and is one of Japan's pioneer 3D plant design companies. The company, founded in 1987, has been involved in various new and brownfield projects in the nuclear, semiconductor, oil gas, chemicals and other plant-related industries. Shinsei Giken is noted in Japan's power industry for its use of photogrammetry and 3D laser scanning to capture as-built data and convert it into fully intelligent PDMS models for revamp and retrofit projects.

Finjan Announces New Secure Web Gateway - Unified Web Security Solution For Enterprises

Finjan Announces New Secure Web Gateway - Unified Web Security Solution For Enterprises

Feb 09 2009 | comment(s)

SAN JOSE, California, February 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Finjan's Secure Web Gateway v9.2 Provides a Unified web Security Solution Combining Multi-Layered web Security, DLP, Content Caching, Application Control, URL Filtering and Web 2.0 security, Enabling Lower TCO and Higher ROI

Finjan Inc., a leader in secure web gateway products, announced today the launch of its unified Secure Web Gateway (SWG) version 9.2. It combines multi-layered web security, productivity, compliance, liability and bandwidth control on one dedicated appliance.

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080618/309345 )

NetDragon Partners With SaigonTel To License Zero Online In Vietnam

NetDragon Partners With SaigonTel To License Zero Online In Vietnam

Feb 09 2009 | comment(s)

HONG KONG, February 9 /PRNewswire/ --

NetDragon Websoft Inc., a leading game developer and operator in the PRC (NetDragon, with its subsidiaries collectively known as the Group; stock code: 777), announced that it has signed an agreement with Saigon Telecommunication Technologies Corporation (SaigonTel), a listed company in HOSE stock exchange in Vietnam (Symbol: SGT), to license Zero Online in Vietnam market.

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090206/CNM004 )

Nexperience Selected By Vodafone To Support Delivery Of Mobile Applications On New Handsets

Nexperience Selected By Vodafone To Support Delivery Of Mobile Applications On New Handsets

Feb 09 2009 | comment(s)

TEL AVIV, Israel, February 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Nexperience System Provides Access to Pre-launched Vodafone Devices via the web, for Pre-deployment Testing and Monitoring by Vodafone and its Premium Partners

Frost Sullivan Believes The Future Points To Private Investors In Africa's Energy Sector

Frost Sullivan Believes The Future Points To Private Investors In Africa's Energy Sector

Feb 09 2009 | comment(s)

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, February 9 /PRNewswire/ --

Sub-Saharan Africa is home to 14% of the global population, but its electricity generation capacity is less than 2% of the world's total. Only around 25.0% of Africa's population has access to electricity. The South African National Energy Association said recently that the continent's energy supplies would have to increase at least fourfold by to meet demand.

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081117/FSLOGO)

Sorry Cupid: The Behavioral Economics Of The Human Mating System

Sorry Cupid: The Behavioral Economics Of The Human Mating System

Feb 09 2009 | comment(s)

What do men want?

Biology’s simple answer is that men want to survive to pass on their genes. But when you throw this goal into a complex society of competing men, discerning women and morality, biology gets confused.

For better or for worse, behavioral economics has the answers.
Get A Slice Of The Least Action!

Get A Slice Of The Least Action!

Feb 09 2009 | comment(s)

I have been working in research for 36 years now.  As the millennium turned, and our department found itself being starved of staff like the Hodja’s Donkey, I found myself being called upon to assume some small teaching roles.  I found two incompatible things: one, that I really enjoy teaching, even more than research; two, that there is so much physics that I never had learned properly.