Blacksburg, VA (Scicasts) - A software package developed by a professor at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) and his colleagues to help researchers better understand the workings of biochemical networks now features an open source license, offering an ever wider range of benefits to its users.

Rochester, NY (Scicasts) - Digital archives of biomedical images could someday put critical information at doctors' fingertips within seconds, illustrating how computers can improve the way medicine is practiced. The current reality, however, isn't quite up to speed, with databases virtually overwhelmed by the explosion of medical imaging.

3D rendered image showing a heated nanoscale silicon tip, borrowed from atomic force microscopy that is chiselling away material from a substrate to create a nanoscale 3D map of the world. As reported in the scientific journal Advanced Materials, IBM Researchers used this new nanopatterning technique to create the smallest map of the world in 3D, measuring only 22 by 11 micrometers was 'written' – on a polymer - at this size 1000 world maps could fit on a grain of salt. In the relief, one thousand meters of altitude correspond to roughly eight nanometers (nm). It is composed of 500,000 pixels, each measuring 20 nm2 and was created in only 2 minutes and 23 seconds. (Image courtesy of Advanced Materials).

Zurich & San Jose, CA - scientists at IBM have developed a 3D map of the earth, so small that 1,000 of them could fit on one grain of salt, the company claims. This interesting development was accomplished through a new, breakthrough technique that uses a tiny, silicon tip with a sharp apex -- 100,000 times smaller than a sharpened pencil -- to build patterns and structures as small as 15 nanometers at greatly reduced cost and complexity. According to IBM, this patterning technique opens new prospects for developing nanosized objects in such fields as medicine, life sciences, electronics, future chip technology and optoelectronics. [See Video Below]

Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System

Maxiwill.com -- Cisco today announced the Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System (CRS), a major advancement in Internet networking designed to serve as the foundation of the next-generation Internet and set the pace for the astonishing growth of video transmission, mobile devices and new online servicesfor the coming decades.

With over 12 times the traffic capacity of the nearest competing system, the company says that Cisco CRS-3 is designed to transform the broadband communication and entertainment industry by accelerating the delivery of compelling new experiences for consumers, new revenue opportunities for service providers, and new ways to collaborate in the workplace.

The browser choice screen presents a list of leading browsers.

Maxiwill.com - As of today, Microsoft will begin offering a “Web browser choice screen” to Internet Explorer users in Europe, following demands from the European Commission.

In December last year, the European Commission and Microsoft arrived at a resolution of a number of long-standing competition law issues. Microsoft agreed to use Windows Update to provide a browser choice screen to Windows users in Europe who are running Internet Explorer as their default browser. This browser choice screen presents a list of browsers, with links to learn more about them and to install them. According to Microsoft, the design and operation of this choice screen was worked out in the course of extensive discussions with the Commission. Users who get the choice screen will be free to choose any browser or stick with the browser they already installed.

Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini and Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo attending the Intel-Nokia Press Conference at Mobile World Congress 2010.

Maxiwill.com -- Earlier this month, Intel and Nokia merged their popular Moblin and Maemo software platforms, creating a unified Linux-based platform called MeeGo. According to their announcement, MeeGo will run on multiple hardware platforms across a wide range of computing devices, including pocketable mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems. Intel says that this open software platform will accelerate industry innovation and time-to-market for a wealth of new Internet-based applications and services and exciting user experiences. MeeGo-based devices from Nokia and other manufacturers are expected to be launched later this year.

Fremont, CA (Scicasts) - SGI, a provider of HPC and data centre solutions, has announced the immediate availability of Cyclone, a large-scale, on-demand cloud computing service specifically dedicated to technical applications.

Maxiwill.com - Apple have announced today the release of what the company describes as the revolutionary device for browsing the web, the iPad. In addition to its advanced web browsing capabilities, the iPad was also designed for sending emails, browsing through photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading e-books and more.

The New iPad from Apple

“iPad is our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “iPad creates and defines an entirely new category of devices that will connect users with their apps and content in a much more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before.”

Fremont, CA and Reading, UK (Scicasts) - SGI, a global provider of HPC and data centre solutions, has announced that Imperial College London has selected the SGI Altix ICE 8200 EX, a Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) solution, to add to its central high performance computing (HPC) service.

Futuristic Intel Chip: Single Chip Cloud Computer has 48 Intel cores and runs at as low as 25 watts

Maxiwill.com -- Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental "single-chip cloud computer," a 48-core Intel processor that rethinks many of the approaches used in today's designs for laptops, PCs and servers. According to Intel's announcement, this futuristic chip boasts about 10 to 20 times the processing engines inside today's most popular Intel Core-branded processors. Intel's new experimental research chip uses a similar approach to cloud computing where cloud datacenters are comprised of tens to thousands of computers connected by a physically cabled network, distributing large tasks and massive datasets in parallel. The video below describes this process in detail.

Portland, Oregon (Scicasts) - Convey Computer Corporation, a hybrid-core computing company, has announced that three prominent scientific organizations – the Stanford Center of Computational Earth and Environmental Science (CEES), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) – have selected the company’s Convey HC-1 computers to power a fresh wave of scientific discovery.

Pleasanton, CA (Scicasts) – LeapFish, a Silicon Valley search and social media startup, unveiled the new multi-media and real-time search, communication, and sharing platform that provides users with an easy and personalized way to experience and share the traditional and real-time Web.

Sunnyvale, CA (Scicasts) - A new international study reveals that the use of social networking and collaborative applications for business purposes has skyrocketed in the last six month. According to the fourth Application Usage and Risk Report (Fall Edition 2009), increased adoption of Web-based applications poses new business and security risks that go far beyond potential productivity losses. Yet most companies still operate with outdated IT infrastructure and usage policies that may fail to protect them from such growing risks.

Vasteras, Sweden (Scicasts) – Twitter has become the tool of choice for millions around the world to express and share their thoughts. It has given users a voice, and companies are listening. When users are frustrated with a product or a company's poor services, they storm to Twitter and tell the world about it. This is also the case with online media. If a web hosting company has issues, for example, you would hear about it on Twitter.

Baltimore, MD (Scicasts) – Mobile advertising is a fast growing and an evolving industry, which seems to attract more marketers than ever before. This is according to a new survey produced by Millennial Media, the US-based mobile advertising network, and DM2PRO.com, a knowledge base for digital media and marketing professionals. Both companies collaborated to explore the attitudes and spending plans of leading agencies and brands towards mobile advertising.

Santa Monica, CA (Scicasts) – Business.com unveiled today the results of its 2009 Business Social Media Benchmarking Study. Based on insights from 2,948 professionals across North America, the study provides extensive information on how businesses and business people use social media in the workplace.

Jenkintown, PA (Scicasts) - Small and mid-size advertising agencies are scaling back as a result of the current recession, while still under tremendous pressure to meet client demands for the latest digital platforms. According to the 2009 Digital Marketing Outlook Survey, the economic crisis will accelerate the shift of focus and importance from traditional media to digital media.

Mountain View, CA (Scicasts) – In an announcement posted on Twitter's official blog, the company is revealed that they were putting the finishing touches on Twitter's new Lists feature, which allows users to create lists of specific interests or topics and group their tweets accordingly.

Nottingham, UK (Scicasts) – deSciner Business Network, an independent international business-to-business communication centre for scientific communities announced the official release of deScinerNET Publishers Network, their international advertising network for science and technology publishers and advertisers.