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Version 3.0 Of Opsview, The Leading Open Source IT Monitoring Tool Is Released

Version 3.0 Of Opsview, The Leading Open Source IT Monitoring Tool Is Released

Feb 05 2009 | comment(s)

LONDON, February 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Opsera Limited, a leading provider of Open Source software and services, today announced the release of Opsview version 3.0.

This release represents a major milestone in Opsview's development and provides the foundations for significant new functionality currently under development. Opsview is a mature, stable and scalable application suite used for monitoring business critical IT systems in a wide number of organisations such as Allianz, Brittany Ferries, Irish Revenue, Plusnet, Winterflood Securities and The University of Surrey. Opsview is Open Source and made available under the GNU General Public Licence.

Beyond The Search Box, The New Blinkx Brings You Better Ways To Browse Web Video And TV With New 'Entertain Me' And 'Inform Me' Options

Beyond The Search Box, The New Blinkx Brings You Better Ways To Browse Web Video And TV With New 'Entertain Me' And 'Inform Me' Options

Feb 05 2009 | comment(s)

SAN FRANCISCO, February 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Video Search Leader Enhances Site with New Tools to Allow You to Explore and Discover Online TV and Video Using Speech, Facial and Concept Recognition

blinkx, the world's largest video search engine, today unveiled new functionality that puts all of its powerful technologies at the fingertips of users, unlocking new ways for users to search, explore and discover video on the Internet.

'Team Nevada' Formed To Attract Renewable Energy Industry, Leveraging State's Natural Resources Incentives

'Team Nevada' Formed To Attract Renewable Energy Industry, Leveraging State's Natural Resources Incentives

Feb 05 2009 | comment(s)

CARSON CITY, Nevada, February 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Private-public initiative debuts March 10-12 at Las Vegas Global Expo

Sun. Wind. Steam. Nevada has plenty of each and it's taking a major step to become a leader in developing renewable energy by attracting businesses large and small, while supporting new and proven technology.

Team Nevada debuts at the Renewable Energy World Conference Expo-North America March 10-12 in Las Vegas.

Led by the Nevada Commission on Economic Development (NCED) and NV Energy -- the energy expo's host utility sponsor -- Team Nevada includes many county and regional development agencies in Nevada. Team Nevada will be in NV Energy's Expo Booth #906.

Cash-Strapped Companies Put The Brakes On Business Travel

Cash-Strapped Companies Put The Brakes On Business Travel

Feb 05 2009 | comment(s)

LONDON and DUBLIN, February 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Demand for videoconferencing surges as businesses implement cost containment strategies -

Business travelers are trading in their suitcases and boarding passes for a trip to a videoconferencing studio. The Regus Group, operator of the world's largest network of public access studios with 1,000 locations in 75 countries, reported a 40% spike in videoconferencing bookings as cutbacks in business travel forced companies to change the way they do business.

NGC 4921 Gets Its Close Up

NGC 4921 Gets Its Close Up

Feb 05 2009 | comment(s)

An unusual spiral galaxy in the Coma galaxy cluster has been imaged using data obtained by the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope. It reveals fine details of the galaxy, NGC 4921, and an extraordinary rich background of more remote galaxies stretching back to the early Universe.
 
The Coma galaxy cluster, in the northern constellation of Coma Berenices, the hair of Queen Berenice, is one of the closest, very rich collections of galaxies in the nearby Universe. The cluster, also known as Abell 1656, is about 320 million light-years from Earth and contains more than 1000 members. The brightest galaxies, including NGC 4921 shown here, were discovered back in the late 18th century by William Herschel. 
Darwin's Sacred Cause - Ending Racism And Slavery

Darwin's Sacred Cause - Ending Racism And Slavery

Feb 05 2009 | comment(s)

One testament to the pervasive nature of evolution is that so many varied groups, even ones in opposition to each other, found an endorsement in his work.    Proponents of eugenics, slavery and even Hitler could rationalize their views saying it was just evoluti0n while abolitionists saw just the opposite.
Recipe For Making Adult Stem Cells Behave Like Embryonic Just Got A Little Simpler

Recipe For Making Adult Stem Cells Behave Like Embryonic Just Got A Little Simpler

Feb 05 2009 | comment(s)

The simple recipe scientists earlier discovered for making adult stem cells behave like embryonic-like stem cells just got even simpler. A new report in the February 6th issue of the journal Cell shows for the first time that neural stem cells taken from adult mice can take on the characteristics of embryonic stem cells with the addition of a single transcription factor. Transcription factors are genes that control the activity of other genes.
Statin Therapy Ineffective In Breast Cancer Prevention, Says Study

Statin Therapy Ineffective In Breast Cancer Prevention, Says Study

Feb 05 2009 | comment(s)

Laboratory work in animals showed limited activity when statins were given to prevent breast cancer, according to a report in the February issue of Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. 

Statins, sold under brand names like Lipitor and Zocor, are primarily given to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease, and prominent cardiologists almost universally agree that their use has changed the landscape. 

The use of these drugs in cancer prevention has been more controversial. Results of epidemiology studies, which rely on looking backward rather than forward and thus are subject to confounding factors, have yielded mixed results when examining breast cancer. 
Black Wolves - Man's First Experiment With Genetic Modification

Black Wolves - Man's First Experiment With Genetic Modification

Feb 05 2009 | comment(s)

Emergence of black-colored wolves is the direct result of humans raising dogs as pets and beasts of burden, according to new research by a University of Calgary biologist in Science. The dark coloring may also aid the survival of the species as wolf habitat is affected by climate change in the future, the study suggests.
Schinderhannes Bartelsi - The Origin Of Claws In A 390-Million-Year-Old Fossil

Schinderhannes Bartelsi - The Origin Of Claws In A 390-Million-Year-Old Fossil

Feb 05 2009 | comment(s)

A missing link in the evolution of the front claw of living scorpions and horseshoe crabs was identified with the discovery of a 390 million-year-old fossil by researchers at Yale and the University of Bonn, Germany.
The Amphibious Ancestors Of Whales

The Amphibious Ancestors Of Whales

Feb 05 2009 | comment(s)

Show Me The Science Month Day 9

In what is now central Pakistan, an eight-and-a-half foot long, pregnant aquatic mammal went belly-up, and sank to the bottom of the shallow coastal waters. 47 million years later, a huckster by the name of Duane Gish denied that such mammals ever existed:

There simply are no transitional forms in the fossil record between the marine mammals and their supposed land mammal ancestors . . . It is quite entertaining, starting with cows, pigs, or buffaloes, to attempt to visualize what the intermediates may have looked like. Starting with a cow, one could even imagine one line of descent which prematurely became extinct, due to what might be called an “udder failure” (Gish DT. Evolution: The Challenge of the Fossil Record. El Cajon (CA): Creation-Life Publishers, 1985 p.78-9, quoted at Talk Origins).


Gish may have found it entertaining to imagine what a half-whale, half-buffalo looked like, but today's scientists don't have to imagine the appearance of land-based ancestors of whales. The fossil series leading up to whales tells a very detailed and remarkable story of how furry, four-legged land mammals eventually gave rise to behemoth marine descendants. A spectacular fossil find, reported yesterday in PLoS One, reveals some amazing details from the evolutionary history of whales.



Figure 5A from Gingerich, et al.
International Customer Management Institute (ICMI(R)) 2008 Contact Center Operations Report Reveals The Good, The Bad And The Ugly In Customer Care

International Customer Management Institute (ICMI(R)) 2008 Contact Center Operations Report Reveals The Good, The Bad And The Ugly In Customer Care

Feb 04 2009 | comment(s)

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, February 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Report Sheds Light on Opportunity for Call Centers to Enhance the Customer Experience Through Better Tracking of Customer Satisfaction and Increased Agent Retention

Think Services' International Customer Management Institute (ICMI(R)) (http://www.icmi.com) announced the release of the industry's most comprehensive study of contact center people management and operations. The ICMI 2008 Contact Center Operations Report compiles responses from a critical mass of contact center professionals from around the world.

GOCE - An Aerodynamic Satellite That Will Map The Geoid

GOCE - An Aerodynamic Satellite That Will Map The Geoid

Feb 04 2009 | comment(s)

In physics classes, we are all taught that the acceleration due to gravity on Earth is 9.8 meters/second2. For the purpose of basic physics education, this value is fine - it represents the average value of the gravitational attraction every object experiences at sea level, and is always directed straight down toward the center of the planet. However, the actual gravitational attraction an object experiences is influenced by the presence of irregularities in the shape of the Earth, the non-uniform distribution of mass beneath the crust, and even large buildings.
TAEUS Europe, Ltd. Wins Euro 9M European Commission Contract

TAEUS Europe, Ltd. Wins Euro 9M European Commission Contract

Feb 04 2009 | comment(s)

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, February 4 /PRNewswire/ --

TAEUS International Corporation, one of the world's leading intellectual property professional services firms, announced today its award by the European Commission of a euro 9M (US$13.2M) contract to its European subsidiary, TAEUS Europe, Ltd., to continue its investigation of Microsoft's interoperability data for communication protocol technology.

The contract was competitively bid and was won by TAEUS Europe, Ltd. As a result of previous work performed by TAEUS, the European Commission, levied fines against Microsoft totaling euro 1.3B for failing to comply with Article 82 of the European Union Treaty.

Unite's Statement On The Lindsey Oil Refinery Dispute

Unite's Statement On The Lindsey Oil Refinery Dispute

Feb 04 2009 | comment(s)

LONDON, February 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- ATTN: News, Industrial and Political Correspondents

Unite joint general secretary, Derek Simpson said:

The workers involved in the unofficial dispute at the Lindsey Oil refinery will vote on a deal tomorrow morning to end the unofficial walkouts. Unite has assisted in attempting to broker a deal.

We hope this deal will be accepted by the workers at the refinery.

No Italian worker will lose their job as a result of this deal. Unite officials emphasised the importance of this throughout the negotiations.

Lindsey is part of a much wider problem that will not go away if the unofficial strikers go back to work.

Gwynedd Vet Suspended For False Certification

Gwynedd Vet Suspended For False Certification

Feb 04 2009 | comment(s)

LONDON, February 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The Disciplinary Committee of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons last week ordered a month's suspension for a veterinary surgeon from Dolgellau for dishonest certification of bovine tuberculin testing in the Gwynedd area in early 2007.

At a hearing that concluded on Friday [30 January 2009], Iwan Parry, a partner of The Veterinary Surgery, Bala Road, Dolgellau, and an Official Veterinarian, was charged with serious professional misconduct for certifying on eight separate occasions that he had tested and inspected cattle for clinical signs of bovine tuberculosis (TB), when he had not done so. At the outset of the hearing, Mr Parry denied the charges.

Jerry Coyne: A Letter To Darwin - Here's What Has Happened In The Last 150 Years

Jerry Coyne: A Letter To Darwin - Here's What Has Happened In The Last 150 Years

Feb 04 2009 | comment(s)

My Dear Mr. Darwin,

Happy 200th birthday! I hope you are as well as can expected for someone who has been dead for nearly 130 years. I suppose that your final book, the one about earthworms, has a special significance for you these days. Are the worms of Westminster Abbey superior to the ones you studied so carefully in the grounds of your home at Downe in Kent?   They’ve certainly mulched some distinguished people over the years!
The pendulum swings again - green tea and cancer

The pendulum swings again - green tea and cancer

Feb 04 2009 | comment(s)

First green tea may have anti-cancer properties. Now it turns out, according to a pre-pub in the ASH journal Blood, that polyphenols in green tea can interfere with cancer treatments.

Researchers in California wanted to determine whether multiple myeloma patients taking Velcade (bortezomib, a proteasome inhibitor) and self-medicating with green tea to add to the anti-cancer fight would yield increased antitumor efficacy in MM and glioblastoma (of Ted Kennedy fame), or if it was just placebo.
Shelton Canada Corp. Announces Addition To Portfolio Of Projects In Ukraine

Shelton Canada Corp. Announces Addition To Portfolio Of Projects In Ukraine

Feb 04 2009 | comment(s)

CALGARY, Canada, February 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Shelton Canada Corp. (Shelton) (TSX VENTURE:STO) is pleased to announce that it has signed a Joint Investment Activity agreement with National Joint Stock Company Chornomornaftogaz (Chornomornaftogaz), a 100% state owned enterprise of Ukraine, to acquire, jointly develop and operate a concession known as the Arkchangelske Field located on the west side of the Crimean Peninsula in the shallow water shelf of the Black Sea. The working interest acquired by Shelton is 50% of the entire concession. The agreement is now going through the registration process with regulatory authorities of the Ukrainian Government.

CADNA's Policy Forum Discusses The US$1.5 Billion Business 'Tax' Brands Are Not Expecting

CADNA's Policy Forum Discusses The US$1.5 Billion Business 'Tax' Brands Are Not Expecting

Feb 04 2009 | comment(s)

WASHINGTON, February 4 /PRNewswire/ --

The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) held a policy forum for government experts and brand owners yesterday, February 3, in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the forum was to explore the state of the Internet and discuss the shortcomings of existing Internet governance and policy development. Attendees shared their ideas about what actions brand owners and the US government can take to change the current course of the domain name space and prevent the Internet from becoming increasingly dangerous and unruly.

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