Science Education & Policy
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BOXBOROUGH, Massachusetts, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --
- X-Series Platform Enables Delivery of 'In-the-Cloud' Virtualised Firewall Services to Enterprise Customers
Crossbeam Systems, Inc., a leading provider of next-generation security platforms for high-performance networks, today announced that BT has deployed Crossbeam's X-Series Next Generation Security Platform to help protect its internal network as well as deliver a new generation of "in-the-cloud" virtualised firewall security services to enterprise customers.
Ray Stanton, global head of BT's business continuity, security and governance…
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OTTAWA, Canada, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --
- Bridgewater to Deploy Integrated Solution to Help Verizon Wireless Manage Data Services Delivery
Bridgewater Systems (TSX: BWC) today announced that it has been awarded a three-year contract to supply Verizon Wireless with a fully integrated subscriber data management and service control solution for its award-winning network. The agreement will result in an initial value of approximately CND$30 million.
The integrated solution combines Bridgewater's carrier-grade software with third-party hardware and software, and services to provide the performance…
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TUCSON, Arizona, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --
You can lose 6.8 kg (15 lbs), 68 kg (150 lbs) and more, or even gain weight if you are below your ideal weight according to a new weight management system designed by Michael Dow, a new author.
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Dow says anyone can learn to manage their weight with this diet. It's described in The Pen and Paper Diet and available at http://stores.lulu.com/thepenandpaperdiet.
"The Pen and Paper Diet is based on the known fact that your body requires a certain amount of calories to maintain a certain weight.…
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LEGAU, Germany, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --
- Germany/ Ethiopia /India /Sri Lanka/ Taiwan/ Turkey. The Finalists of the First, International "One World Award" Have Been Announced. The Visit of the Five Selected Projects has Confirmed That the Activities of the Prize Winners Agree to the Aims of the "One World Award"
The five finalists of the "One World Award" 2008 carry their parts with extraordinary engagement and have all shown commitment to showing that the future of globalization is positive. The finalists are:
Harald Schützeichel, he started the foundation for solar energy in Ethiopia in…
WATERLOO, Ontario, June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- In a new and generous act of personal philanthropy, Mike Lazaridis has provided an additional $50 million (Canadian) to Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI). This private donation increases his personal contributions to $150 million in the research institute.
The private funding announcement, delivered by The Honourable John Wilkinson, Ontario Minister of Research and Innovation, was celebrated by over 600 people just prior to a PI Public Lecture. The donation was acknowledged by all dignitaries representing the Province of Ontario and…
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BOXBOROUGH, Massachusetts, June 4 /PRNewswire/ --
- X-Series Platform Enables Delivery of 'In-the-Cloud' Virtualised Firewall Services to Enterprise Customers
Crossbeam Systems, Inc., a leading provider of next-generation security platforms for high-performance networks, today announced that BT has deployed Crossbeam's X-Series Next Generation Security Platform to help protect its internal network as well as deliver a new generation of "in-the-cloud" virtualised firewall security services to enterprise customers.
Ray Stanton, global head of BT's business continuity, security and governance…
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ISTANBUL, Turkey, June 4 /PRNewswire/ --
- Experts report on progress and explore promise of rotavirus vaccines
Over 350 of the world's leading scientific experts, policymakers and leading public health professionals from 67 countries convened today during the 8th International Rotavirus Symposium in Istanbul, Turkey, to present new data about rotavirus -- a disease which causes acute diarrhea and often leads to death among young children.
"Regardless of where they live, virtually all children become infected with rotavirus by the age of three. Yet, 90 percent of child deaths due to…
Many scientists have expressed the belief that if they only had a chance to explain the facts, they could convince intelligent educated people (at least) of the validity of a neo-Darwinian approach to understanding life. As the following email exchange suggests, this conventional assumption is wrong. Not all people - even intelligent ones - have minds that operate according to the same principles of rationality.
The following email conversation took place between me and a reader of an article called "Life 2.0" that I published in Newsweek International about synthetic life.
The…
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PARIS, June 4 /PRNewswire/ --
- Alcatel-Lucent has Already Announced the Deployment of More Than 50 TPSDA Networks
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext: Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced several new enhancements to its Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture (TPSDA) which pave the way for new, sophisticated and innovative multimedia services. Going beyond the initial, mass-market solution requirements for IPTV, voice and Internet services, the new architecture enhancements now enable consumers and business partners to choose the quality of experience they want, for the content they care about and…
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AUSTIN, Texas, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Ringdale, Inc., a technology leader in network enhancing connectivity solutions, today announced the integration of fax receiving functionality with the document routing engine of FollowMe(R) to provide enhanced workflow capabilities.
FollowMe, Ringdale's industry leading secure document output management solution, utilizes a powerful policy and rules based printing engine to enforce document output conditions such as black and white and page count, to reduce costs associated with toner and paper usage. Ringdale's ModuLAN(R) FaxReceiver MFR-200 and the…