items tagged with United States
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts
2009-03-25 23:27:42
Cyber risks and actual attacks have grown significantly in the past two years and are expected to continue to grow in the next two years, with many organisations experiencing tangible losses as a result of the attacks.
Read More About Cyber Threats And Attacks Grow While Losses Mount...
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-03-25 10:04:15
According to a U.S. research team study, the thinning of the cortex of the brain means that you may have inherited an increased risk of depression from your ancestors.
Read More About Thin Brained People More At Risk For Depression...
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals & Wheels - Government
2009-03-25 06:54:06
Macquarie Telecom has called on the Australian Government to ensure its data centre strategy, planned in response to the Gershon data centre recommendations, includes clear, environmental standards for individual data centres to be measured against.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts
2009-03-24 06:58:17
Milliman Care Guidelines, a US provider of e-health tools for hospitals and health systems, is introducing its web-based and interactive clinical care guidelines into Australian hospitals.
Read More About New E-Health Tool Take-Up By Australian Hospitals...
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals & Wheels - Outsourcing
2009-03-23 08:18:31
As the economic climate hits a new low, one of Australia’s business incubator groups reckons that as businesses scale down we’re likely to see more of what they call ‘forced entrepreneurship’, where those employees made redundant seize the opportunity to put a long held new business idea into practice.
Read More About Business Incubators Proving Popular In Difficult Times...
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Commerce
2009-03-19 16:16:44
HD movies are available for purchase as well as rental from Apple's iTunes Store.
Read More About ITunes Movie Sales Go HD...
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-03-19 10:13:32
Based on a study conducted by U.S. researchers with 14-month-old children, the more hand gestures and signals that a child makes the better his or her vocabulary will be when they enter kindergarten.
Read More About Got Babies Making Hand Gestures? That’S GOOD!...
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-03-19 08:34:06
The Terrafugia company successfully completed its first test flight earlier in March 2009 for what they hope to be the first commercially successful flying car or, conversely a “roadable” aircraft. Wouldn't Felix Longobardi be proud! Who? Please read on!
Read More About Is It A Car? Or, Is It An Airplane? It's The Transition!...
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2009-03-18 23:54:35
On-demand business software provider NetSuite has expanded its developer program and introduced an online marketplace. The company has also announced the first two add-ons that specifically address the Australian and New Zealand markets.
Read More About NetSuite Expands SaaS With Add-On Marketplace...
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-03-17 11:40:26
According to new U.S. research, humans reach their peak of mental abilities at the age of 22 years, and begin to age with respect to their brain’s ability to think and reason in their twenties. The research is not without its critics, but it does make a person think--or, at least, try to think on a subpar level if you're over 27 years of age.
Read More About Brain Drain: Hey, Look At The Elderly 20somethings!...
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2009-03-16 08:05:24
According to U.S. researchers, if peanut-allergic children are introduced to peanuts very, very gradually some of them will eventually build up a tolerance to the peanut-buttery legume.
Read More About Study Starts Small To Build Peanut Tolerance...
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts
2009-03-15 03:29:13
Verizon Business will provide network and data services at U.S. Department of Defense installations around the world under a new contract awarded by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).
Read More About Ten Year $2.5b Military Contract Win For Verizon...
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2009-03-14 07:59:04
According to a computer simulation from the AHA, if Americans used just one gram of salt less each day, they could see one-fourth million fewer cases of heart disease. However, the largest health benefit in using less salt doesn’t come from the salt shaker but in the highly-processed foods we eat.
Read More About American Heart Association Says To Shake Less Salt...
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2009-03-12 15:53:01
According to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, Americans are under stress as never before—and it began to show up as the economy also became stressed out in the last quarter of 2008.
Read More About It's A Stressful Time Out There, And Now It's Proven...
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: Consoles
2009-03-11 22:55:49
The 100 millionth Nintendo DS system has been shipped. That's quite a milestone.
Read More About Nintendo DS Now 100 Million Strong...
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-03-11 08:25:55
According to tracking data from the U.S. Strategic Command, the first fragments of the destroyed Russian satellite Cosmos 2251 will be entering the atmosphere of Earth in the last half of March 2009, with more debris following in April 2009.
Read More About First Pieces Of Destroyed Cosmos 2251 Reentering Earth...
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Reports & Surveys
2009-03-11 01:21:30
Despite generally strong support for remote working among employees and employers, a new survey suggests the practice isn't catching on as strongly as it might.
Read More About Support Growing For Remote Working...
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-03-10 11:57:05
On March 9, 2009, U.S. president Barack Obama enacted the executive order "removing barriers to responsible scientific research involving human stem cells," which lifts the federal funding ban on embryonic stem cell research.
Read More About President Obama Lifts Stem Cell Research Ban...
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2009-03-10 08:38:18
If you think the weather causes your headaches, you can now back up your medical claims with a scientific study of U.S. researchers on the relationship between headaches and outside changing temperatures.
Read More About Do You Blame Headaches On The Weather? Maybe You're Right!...
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-03-08 10:48:39
According to research by U.S. and Chinese researchers, the world’s hardest material is no longer diamond or nanomaterials. Lonsdaleite has taken over the top hardness spot here on Earth, and wertzite boron nitride is the second hardest material known on Earth. Even though both are very hard, they are also very hard to find in nature.
Read More About W-BN, Lonsdaleite Harder Than Diamond, Even Nanomaterials...
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