Targeting metals to fight Staphylococcus aureus (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission)

Edit Public Technologies 30 May 2016
The researchers from CEA, CNRS and Aix-Marseille Université, at Cadarache (Bouches-du-Rhône, France) and from INRA , in collaboration with Université de Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France), and the Umeå University in Sweden, highlighted the role of the key players that allow the pathogen to acquire a wide range of essential metals in the environment, such as nickel, zinc, cobalt, copper and iron (Figure 1)....

Cold calling: how to survive and excel

Edit The Miami Herald 30 May 2016
I recently answered a cold call from a gentleman pitching me on advertising at a Hollywood golf club. When he completed his spiel, I told him that my boutique business-to-business consultancy doesn’t advertise at all because it focuses exclusively on a small, concentrated industry. In other words, the cold caller didn’t qualify his lead ... An IBM performance study showed that only 3 percent of traditional cold calls are effective ... Adlib....

Upcoming OS/2 Release Will Be Called ArcaOS 5.0

Edit Slashdot 29 May 2016
"The significance of the version number relates to IBM OS/2 4.52 -- the last maintenance release of the platform released by IBM in 2001," reports TechRepublic. martiniturbide writes ... ....

Student robot-designers show off their creations

Edit Canada Dot Com 29 May 2016
Integral to the success of the competition was IBM Ottawa. The company sponsored the participation of four schools and 70 students for the event, said Andrew Lee, vice-president and senior location executive for IBM Ottawa. [caption id="attachment_821066" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Students dance with the NAO, the Watson Powered IBM Robot, at ......

Welcome to ROBOTtawa! Students show off robot creations

Edit Toronto Sun 29 May 2016
Designing, building and programming a robot that can navigate an obstacle course sounds like it should be a task for highly trained engineers ... “It doesn’t really matter how old you are ... Integral to the success of the competition was IBM Ottawa. The company sponsored the participation of four schools and 70 students for the event, said Andrew Lee, vice-president and senior location executive for IBM Ottawa.   ....

The price of bitcoin just surged to a 20-month high

Edit Quartz 29 May 2016
Bitcoin is having a great weekend. Since Friday morning, the price of bitcoin has increased 15% and briefly reached $530 ... Another potential factor is ethereum, a digital-finance platform that has attracted the interest of Microsoft, IBM, and consulting giant Deloitte....

Is Denver The Next High-Tech Center?

Edit Slashdot 29 May 2016
An anonymous reader write ... "Though the city isn't the headquarters for any big tech companies -- like Dell in the Austin area or Microsoft and Amazon in Seattle -- several of them, including IBM and Oracle, have offices here ... The regulations. The pension deficit. The traffic ... Read more of this story at Slashdot. ....

Alan Bell obituary

Edit The Guardian 29 May 2016
My friend and brother-in-law, Alan Bell, who has died aged 67 after a motorcycle accident on holiday in Laos, was a world expert on DVD security and copyright protection who was granted more than 20 US patents ... He stayed for nine years, and then spent several years on storage development at IBM’s Almaden Research Centre in San Jose, California ... It was then that he went to take up a one-year research fellowship at RCA ... ....

India to scale up steel output to 300mn tonnes, says minister

Edit The Times of India 29 May 2016
Nagpur. India has made tremendous progress in steel sector and has now become the world's third largest producer, with the Narendra Modi government working towards ramping production up to 300 million tonnes per annum by year 2025 ... The minister was in the city to inaugurate the new ore dressing laboratory of Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM) at MIDC ... Bookmark or read stories offline - Download the TOI app. RELATED. From around the web....

Inquirer editorial: N.J. Democrats should choose Clinton, Law

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 29 May 2016
With Donald Trump unopposed on the Republican side, New Jersey Democrats will cast some of the season's last votes on a contested presidential nomination on June 7 ... Inquirer editorial. N.J. Democrats should choose Clinton, Law. Advertisment. of. Gallery.. Facebook icon ... Rep ... Law, of Voorhees, is the epitome of an upstart, having just turned 25, the minimum age to serve in the House, and quit his IBM consulting job to seek the nomination ... ....

England defeat Wales to win Old Mutual Wealth Cup (The RFU - Rugby Football Union)

Edit Public Technologies 29 May 2016
(Source. The RFU - Rugby Football Union) England win Old Mutual Wealth Cup Eddie Jones maintains unbeaten record England next take on Australia in three-Test series. England overturned a three-point half-time deficit to defeat Wales 27-13 and win the Old Mutual Wealth Cup at Twickenham ... Biggar sent over a penalty nine-minutes later before England came back into the game ... Launchbury was also IBM Try Tracker's Key Influencer on the day....

Full metal scrubs: IT security for surgical robots could save your life

Edit Venture Beat 29 May 2016
Which is beyond fantastic ... But there’s a problem ... Or maybe not ... But let’s not forget that these surgical and non-surgical robots operate and will continue to do so within the boundaries and the privacy and security means of the healthcare industry — an industry that is so plagued by breaches, data theft, and ransomware that IBM named 2015 “The Year of the Healthcare Breach” in its Cyber Security Intelligence Index ... @themuli....

Department of Homeland Security Still Uses COBOL

Edit Slashdot 28 May 2016
nuclear arsenal with floppy disks "by the end of 2017" ... Another serious COBOL user is the Department of Homeland Security, who employs it to track hiring operations, alongside a 2008 IBM z10 mainframe and a Web component that uses a Windows 2012 server running Java ... ....
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