The Stratford Institute, located 30 km away from the school well known for its cooperative education and engineering programs, will prepare students for jobs that combine creativity and content management
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AIIM’s survey of users reveals a poor understanding of what one of the industry’s latest terms actually means, while a large Canadian vendor is using it as a way of describing its latest products
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Quanser is working on haptic controls to build a control system for unmanned military vehicles looking for improvised explosive devices. Find out how they plan to solve the wireless communications problem, and why the NRC is interested
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A BitTorrent-based application looks for Internet communications interrupted by reset packets, so users can figure out if their ISP is manipulating traffic. There may, however, be a way around it
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Power is an important consideration in the datacenter, where according to IDC every single watt used by computers represents an energy and cooling spend of $2 per year. The newly lauched 45nm Intel low voltage Quad-Core Xeon L5400 series processors have raced to the top of the ladder in record fashion for a key industry standard power metric. “SPECpower” is the first and so far only industry standard energy efficiency benchmark. Check it out, and see who holds spots 2-20, too. For more information please read the blog entry.
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Last week, Numedeon–the virtual world company behind Whyville–launched a brand new, virtual world focused on sports, called SportsBlox (www.sportsblox.com). We spoke with the firm’s COO, Jay Goss, about the new site and the firm’s expansion into new virtual world’s.
Tell us a little bit about SportsBlox, and what it is?
Jay Goss: It’s a site that is basically taking a page out of the playbook of sports talk radio, and is targeted at guys and gals who like to talk, debate, and argue about sports. Especially this week, with March Madness, every person in a sports bar in the country is talking about last night’s games, games from thirty years ago, and the phenomenon of sports. That’s why sports talk radio exists, and why this is the perfect audience to build a virtual world around. The company, Numedeon, is best known for Whyville, which we’ve been running for over the last nine years. In fact, Whyville turned nine just this month…. (more)
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Aliso Viejo-based AVANIR Pharmaceuticals said this morning that it has raised $40M in a registered direct offering from its venture investors. The funding was led by ProQuest Investments, and also included Clarus Ventures, Vivo Ventures, and OrbiMed Advisors. Piper Jaffray & Co. was the sole placement agent on the offering. AVANIR, which is developing biopharmaceuticals for the treatment of chronic disease, said the funding would go to Phase II STAR trials of its Zenvia compound. Zenvia is targeted at treating diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain.
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San Diego-based Novatel Wireless said today that it has partnered with Autonet Mobile to create a wireless service focused on automobiles. Novatel will supply cellular data modules to connect Wi-Fi networking systems in cars for Autonet Mobile’s Internet services. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to the firms, the solution will allow multiple users to connect to the Internet to check the web, email, and to play games while connected to the Internet. Autonet Mobile will use Novatel’s E725 embedded modules to connect the firm’s hardware to EV-DO Rev. A networks for wireless connectivity; the system is apparently being rolled out with Avis Rent a Car as the “Avis Connect” service.
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Santa Barbara-based Internet FAX and messaging service CallWave said today that it has added Manny Rivelo to its board of directors. Rivelo is currently the Senior Vice President of Cisco’s Development Organization Operations. Rivelo oversees Cisco’s technical operations, systems engineering organization, and field process and technical operations. Rivelo has been at Cisco since 1992, and has previously served in engineering roles at JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and Bell Labs.
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Irvine-based Blizzard Entertainment said Wednesday that it has taken its popular massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG), World of Warcraft, to Latin America. The firm said it would localize the game based on its existing, European Spanish version, with entirely re-recorded in-game speech. The new version of the MMORPG is slated for release in the first half ot the year. As part of the effort to launch into Latin America, Blizzard said it is hiring a dedicated, Spanish-speaking team in its Irvine and Austin, Texas offices to handle customer service, quality assurance, community releations, and web teams. The firm has not yet released pricing details or country specific availability of the games.
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