Archive for November, 2009

Best Cyber Monday Deals For You

November 30th, 2009

San Francisco- With the unprecedented success of Black Friday, online retailers are keeping no stones unturned to attract prospective buyers by offering the best Cyber Monday Deals for you on various items with the aim of gaining extensive profits.

If you want to get the best Cyber Monday deals, you should look out for the online … Original source on Gaea Times at : Best Cyber Monday Deals For You.

Smartphones may help diagnose acute appendicitis

November 30th, 2009

WASHINGTON – Using a handheld device or mobile phone equipped with special software, radiologists can accurately diagnose acute appendicitis from a remote location, according to a new study.

Asim F. Choudhri, lead author and fellow physician in the Division of …. Source article on Gaea Times at  : Smartphones may help diagnose acute appendicitis.

Newspapers might yearn for a financial boost from shunning Google, but it seems unlikely

November 30th, 2009

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Don’t bet newspapers will get rich shunning Google
SAN FRANCISCO — There’s an intriguing idea floating around the media: Microsoft Corp. wants to undercut Google so badly in Internet search that it might pay newspapers to withhold their content from Google.
Just don’t count on that turning into a lucrative plan for newspapers.
The unorthodox strategy …. Original article on Gaea Times at  : Newspapers might yearn for a financial boost from shunning Google, but it seems unlikely.

Twitter named ‘top English word’

November 30th, 2009

LONDON – Twitter, the popular phenomenon of social networking, has been named the top English word this year in a survey.

Texas-based Global Language Monitor put together a list of the top words and phrases and found that the word was more popular than Obama and H1N1, commonly known as the “swine flu”.
Wrapping up the top …. Source article  : Twitter named ‘top English word’.

Brit shoppers thronging Internet sites on ‘Cyber Monday’

November 30th, 2009

LONDON – Today has been dubbed as “Cyber Monday” by Brit Internet retailers, who reckon that it will be their busiest Christmas shopping day.

Last year, Britons spent 4.67 billion pounds shopping online in the run-up to Christmas
However, the Centre For Retail Research (CRR) has said that the figure could rise to 8.9 billion pounds this … Read more »».

Microsoft Silverlight is Going to be Available in Apple iPhone

November 30th, 2009

 Microsoft demonstrated beta version of Silverlight 4 at its developer conference last week.  Basically Silverlight users server side coding and HTML5 video tag to display Silverlight content in a native H.264/MPEG-2 v8 format, which is recognized by the iPhone’s Quicktime player.
“The promise of Silverlight is that it’s a cross-device, cross-browser, cross-platform solution, and it works …. Read the original article  : Microsoft Silverlight is Going to be Available in Apple iPhone.

Economy hampers plan to convert WWII ammo bunkers to high-tech computer centers in Nebraska

November 30th, 2009

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Recession slows plan to build bunker data centers
HASTINGS, Neb. — The precise spacing between the mounds of earth that decorate miles of central Nebraska farmland east of Hastings hint at their original purpose as Naval ammunition bunkers during World War II.
After the base closed in 1966, more than half of the 49,000 acres … Read more »»».

Drug companies conducting their own clinical trials leads to Conflict of Interest a Debate

November 30th, 2009

Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre argues that the financial interests of drug companies lead to distorted evidence, but Vincent Lawton believes that adequate safeguards exist to keep bias in check. Full text of the article is published on BMJ

Dr Goldacre and Prof Lawton faced each other on the same issue recently as opposing speakers at PharmaTimes’s Great Oxford Debate in September, when Dr Goldacre told drugmakers that, by withholding or distorting data, “you shoot yourself in the foot, you undermine your own credibility and mine as a doctor.”

The Pharmatimes review is available at their website http://www.pharmatimes.com/clinicalnews/article.aspx?id=16978&src=EWorldNews

This is interesting , I had written about an actual initiative taken by The Massachusetts Institute of Technology  and 12 Major drug makers to share clinical trial data called NEW Drug Development ParadIGmS or NEWD. details on my earliar post – collaborative clinical trials

World Ecconomic Forum India Economic Summit | Collaborative strategy for drug discovery

November 30th, 2009

The Coverage of the World Ecconomic Forum India Economic Summit is available at  http://blog.livemint.com/wefindia/

I was more interested in the Collaborative Strategy for Drug Development read the interview with Suven Lifesciences a prefered partner to Eli Lilly and Co in Drug Discoverya dn Development in India. http://www.livemint.com/2009/11/10204140/India-Economic-Summit–Collab.html

 

The New Banking Trojan to Make Havoc of Your Bank Account

November 29th, 2009

URLzone Trojan, the recently invented Trojan is very technology savvy and advanced Malware which is found by Finjan Software. It can tamper your bank pages and empty your account.  The sophisticated command-and-control feature allows the hacker to conduct clandestine transaction of your bank account. RSA researchers says that this malware uses several techniques to …. Original article  : The New Banking Trojan to Make Havoc of Your Bank Account.

Elections in Equatorial Guinea to extend rule of 30-year leader accused of gross corruption

November 29th, 2009

Eq. Guinea vote to reinstall leader denying graft

JOHANNESBURG — Elections in Equatorial Guinea on Sunday were certain to extend the 30-year rule of Teodoro Obiang Nguema, a man accused of draining his nation’s oil wealth to fabulously enrich family and cronies while his people suffer in slums.
Western governments that have promised to fight corruption so … Original article on : Elections in Equatorial Guinea to extend rule of 30-year leader accused of gross corruption.

‘Too white’ BBC Radio 4 plans to chase Hindu, Muslim, Black audience

November 29th, 2009

LONDON – After facing criticism that it was “too white” to appeal to the ethnic minorities, BBC Radio 4 is reviewing its programming in order to expand its reach among blacks and Hindus and Muslims.

Managers at the station are … Read more >>.

Kerala’s Infopark at Kochi to provide 50,000 jobs

November 29th, 2009

KOCHI – Once completed by the year 2011, the Infopark at Kochi will offer a low cost plug, play the BPO part and provide over 50,000 jobs in the IT/ITES sector.

Developed over 160 acres of land at the Kunnathunadu and Puthencuruz village near Kochi, the Infopark will also to promote eco-tourism.
Laying the foundation stone for …. Source article on Gaea Times at  : Kerala’s Infopark at Kochi to provide 50,000 jobs.

SUN and AST Announced Cloud Based Desktop ServiceSUN

November 29th, 2009

SUN and Ashbourne Technology Group (ATG) unveiled cost effective cloud solution that can be accessed anytime, anywhere through internet. This type of service is suitable for schools and Govt institutions who can save thousands of dollar of their IT expenses with the help of this service. The cloud based computing is going to offer …. Source  : Gaea News Network.

New Figures Show CIRM Spending $1.2 Million-plus for Grant Management

November 29th, 2009

In its first-ever public accounting of spending for its grant management system, the California stem cell agency this week disclosed it has already laid out more than $1.2 million, with substantially greater expenditures to come in the near future.Overseeing CIRM’s largess is no small task. The agency has approved 320 grants and one loan worth more than $1 billion. It is expected to approve

CIRM Grant Management Info and Costs

November 29th, 2009

Here is a rundown on key documents related to CIRM’s $1.2 million-plus expenditures on its grant management system.Articles from the California Stem Cell ReportCost Overruns and Candor from CIRM – May 29, 2008Vagueness in CIRM budget, June 2009, with some info on the system:“The budget does not appear to contain a straight-forward accounting of all the past costs associated with the Grantium

Apple’s iPhone arrives to rousing welcome in tech-savvy South Korea

November 29th, 2009

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Apple’s iPhone arrives in tech-savvy South Korea
SEOUL, South Korea — South Koreans got their first taste of the iPhone on Saturday as the multifunctional communication and entertainment device made its long awaited debut in one of the world’s most technologically sophisticated societies.
Though already available in other Asian countries such as Japan — where …. Source article  : Apple’s iPhone arrives to rousing welcome in tech-savvy South Korea.

Cyber Monday 2009

November 29th, 2009

San Francisco- Cyber Monday 2009, sponsored by the National Retail Federation’s shop.org is to hit the online stores in Monday, Nov. 30. The goods on sale are meant for every kind of buyers and include clothes, jewelery, gadgets, shoes, books etc.

Around 30% is being put-off on the items like branded footwear and jewelery and brands … Read more : Cyber Monday 2009.

Blocking and filtering software ‘cuts exposure to explicit Internet content’

November 29th, 2009

WASHINGTON – Using filtering and blocking software can significantly lower exposure to online sexual material among youth, say researchers.

The research team from University of New Hampshire Crimes against Children Research Centre showed that unwanted exposure to sexual material occurred in 32 percent of youth in homes with pop-up/spam blockers and 25 percent of youth in … Read more »».

How Facebook gives rise to new words

November 29th, 2009

WASHINGTON – With the advent of new modes of communication, such as Facebook, language and social interaction have gone through a major change, says an expert.

Recently, the New Oxford American Dictionary picked the Facebook term “unfriend” as 2009 Word of the Year.
Ananda Mitra, professor and chair of the Department of Communication, has now revealed how … Read more »»».







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