Is MySpace considered fun or a growing addiction? This new trend of socialization has blown up since it’s launching in 2003. Yet it’s kind of taken the direction of becoming rather addictive with some people who spend all day long surfing the site and adding people on their friends lists, and collecting profiles like it’s […]
World’s Largest Seed Collection Receives a Multimillion Dollar Grant from Gates
A series of multi-million dollar grants have made it possible for few dozen of the world’s major food crops, almost always propagated clonally, to be stored as seed in Norway’s famous Svalbard (also called the “Doomsday Vault” in popular media) facility. Originally opened in 2006, Svalbard is just one of many germplasm repositories of valuable […]
Low Cost Technology Saves Poor
Most Zimbabweans – about 70 per cent of the population – live in rural areas and are engaged in smallholder agriculture. These smallholder farmers, particularly in the country’s low rainfall areas, are extremely food insecure and have little or no access to new technology. They suffer from low incomes and a generally low standard of living, […]
OpenVZ Open Source Software Virtualization Project Delivers New Features
HERNDON, Va., February 15, 2007 — The open source project, OpenVZ (www.openvz.org) announces the availability of features in its operating system server virtualization software that include: – Delivery of checkpointing and live migration support for IA64 processors, which brings a capability that no other open source operating system virtualization software offers. This allows system administrators […]
Adaptive Planning Releases Version 3.5 of Business Performance Management Suite
Latest Release of Budgeting, Forecasting, and Reporting Software Further Improves Ease of Use and Enhances Reporting and Analysis MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – February 7, 2007 – Adaptive Planning, the leader in collaborative business performance management (BPM) solutions, today announced Adaptive Planning 3.5, the latest release of its award-winning software. This release marks […]
Training Camp Launches New MCTS: .NET 2.0 Course
Latest Changes Keep Pace with Vendor Updates and New Technologies Philadelphia, PA (February, 2007) — Training Camp, the leading provider of accelerated information technology "boot camps," announced today that it has introduced a new course entitled Microsoft® Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): .NET 2.0, as well as updated three existing courses: MCSE 2003: Security, Security+, Cisco […]