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Rome, Naples and Bari in Italy are now connected with Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt by Air Cairo. This is good news for Sharm El Sheikh tourism.
The deal represents the first acquisition since Dell formed its software division under former CA CEO John Swainson.
Dell said Friday that it has acquired AppAssure, a backup and recovery software company.
Dell is actively working to focus on higher margin businesses such as software and services over PCs.
AppAssure provides application backup software for cloud, virtualized and physical infrastructure. Dell said AppAssure will fit in with the company's overall storage strategy.
According to Dell, AppAssure delivered 194 percent revenue growth in 2011. AppAssure supports physical servers and VMware, Hyper-V and XenServer virtualized ones.
Dell added that it will keep AppAssure's 230 employees and invest in the company.
Suddenly, Dell is a Software Company!
A tiny wood-eating crustacean could hold the key to sustainably converting wood into biofuel, researchers say.
Gribble are voracious consumers of timber and have all the enzymes needed for its digestion. Image credits: Claire Steele-King and Katrin Besser, University of York.
Gribble (Limnoriidae) play an important ecological role, but they can also be quite a nuisance — on one hand, they help degrade and recycle driftwood, but on the other hand, they can be devastating for wooden ships or piers. Any piece of timber that they can get a hold of can be seriously damaged. They bore into wood a...
Now, a new study has shown how these small invertebrates break down the lignin, the key material in the formation of wood and bark. The team, led by the University of York researchers, studied the hindgut of gribble, finding that the key to this digestive process is a class of proteins called hemocyanins.
Hemocyanins are respiratory proteins that use copper binding sites to bind and transport oxygen — providing a somewhat similar role to what haemoglobin does for humans and other mammals. While haemoglobin binds oxygen through its association with iron atoms (which gives blood its red color), hemocyanins do this with co...
However, researchers believe this can do more than help us figure out one of nature’s wondrous mechanisms: they believe that the process might be replicated at an industrial scale, enabling a better usage of wood as a biofuel.
With the effects of climate change becoming more and more drastic, countries are looking at alternatives for more eco-friendly tools to substitute the usage of fossil fuels. Among them, using wood as biofuel is an idea that has been thoroughly explored. However, producing biofuels is hardly always a sustainable alterna...
Still, researchers say that using what they’ve learned from gribble, this process could become much greener. Unlike food crops (which are also used to produce biofuels), woody mass doesn’t come into conflict with global food security.
The study has been published in Nature Communications.
Janet is a full-fledged molecular biologist who got her doctorate for her work on the actin cytoskeleton. She also can’t stand the site of blood.
Sensing there had to be something better than stick figures (the way biologists usually drew their ideas), Janet began studying computer animation and has since created illustrations and animations that have appeared in “Nature,” “The New York Times” and the Boston Museum of Science.
Janet Iwasa animates other biologists' ideas and research and creates a beautiful and useful way to communicate about the molecular world.
Janet Iwasa studies animation in Hollywood and starts to think that the characters in "Lord of the Rings" behave a lot like proteins.
Janet Iwasa uses her mad animation skills to depict HIV cells and hopefully help researchers get closer to a cure.
Janet Iwasa got her PhD in Molecular Biology at the University of California, San Francisco and is now a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Utah. She’s also an award-winning animator and illustrator who brings biological research to life in her amazing animations. Not satisfied to do all the animating he...
As CEO of Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Mike Bonney spent a decade building a mid-cap biotech company that eventually accepted a massive buyout.
Now he’ll be helping start new companies from scratch. Bonney (pictured) has joined Boston-based Third Rock Ventures, which specializes in launching startups in cutting-edge areas of biomedicine. Third Rock also tends to start companies, either on its own or with a handful of other investors, with tens of millions of d...
Bonney joins the firm as a partner. It’s his first full time gig since stepping down from Cubist at the end of 2014. He joined Cubist in 2002.
While his Cubist work focused on steering an ever-expanding ship, he knows a bit about early stage investing. Last year, Bonney put angel funds in a Cambridge, MA, startup called X4 Pharmaceuticals, which Xconomy wrote about here.
Cubist became profitable off of daptomycin in 2007, which the company bought from Eli Lilly well before Bonney joined. It invested some of those profits in its own antibiotic discovery efforts, but in its later years much of the revenue stream flowing into dealmaking to diversify the pipeline. Cubist co-marketed the cl...
If Bonney is on board to mentor antibiotics developers among Third Rock’s portfolio companies, Revolution could be one candidate. The company is first proving its technology by rewiring an antifungal compound.
Bonney’s CEO experience was likely attractive to Third Rock, whose partners typically work as interim CEOs for the companies they launch, then cycle back into the firm after a year or two. And with ample public market experience, Bonney might be a candidate to run a Third Rock company on a permanent basis. Several comp...
According to a new study around one in ten people in the U.S. are estimated to have food allergy while nearly twice that number mistakenly think themselves to be food-allergic. The findings of the study are published in the journal JAMA Network Open.
Over 26 million are estimated to have a food allergy. However, researchers found that 19 percent of adults think they are currently food allergic, although their reported symptoms are inconsistent with a true food allergy, which can trigger a life-threatening reaction.
Results are based on a nationally representative survey of over 40,000 adults.
"While we found that one in 10 adults have food allergy, nearly twice as many adults think that they are allergic to foods, while their symptoms may suggest food intolerance or other food-related conditions," says lead author Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH, from Lurie Children's, who also is a Professor of Pediatrics at Northwes...
Researchers discovered that only half of adults with convincing food allergy had a physician-confirmed diagnosis, and less than 25 percent reported a current epinephrine prescription.
Researchers also found that nearly half of food-allergic adults developed at least one of their food allergies as an adult.
"We were surprised to find that adult-onset food allergies were so common," says Dr. Gupta. "More research is needed to understand why this is occurring and how we might prevent it."
The study data indicate that the most prevalent food allergens among U.S. adults are shellfish (affecting 7.2 million adults), milk (4.7 million), peanut (4.5 million), tree nut (3 million), fin fish (2.2 million), egg (2 million), wheat (2 million), soy (1.5 million), and sesame (.5 million).
"Our data show that shellfish is the top food allergen in adults, that shellfish allergy commonly begins in adulthood, and that this allergy is remarkably common across the lifespan," says Dr. Gupta. "We need more studies to clarify why shellfish allergy appears to be so common and persistent among U.S. adults."
Choose any of the DAL videos above to watch, by clicking the associated image or headline. These results are drawn from the library of videos produced here at Market News Video, that have been tagged by an editor with the dal symbol. The date of each video is listed underneath the headline. Beneath the listing of dal v...
Bearden’s Open Chord Music, on Kingston Pike, is a combo venue, bar/coffee shop, music shop and school.
West Knoxville has the unfortunate (and incorrect) reputation for having a limited number of live music venues. Sure, there’s no shortage of bars offering singer-songwriter nights, but the assumption is that in order to have a “real” concert experience you need to go downtown. A combo venue, bar/coffee shop, music shop...
On a stretch of Kingston Pike just past the Walker Springs exit, Open Chord’s purple exterior and floor-to-ceiling windows are hard to miss. The space used to be a Rik’s Music before reopening in 2014 as Open Chord, and since then I’ve heard lots of praise about the quality of the venue’s sound. When I saw one of my fa...
The first thing I noticed when walking into Open Chord — to see bands Fruit Bats and Vetiver — is what an amazing job the team has done with the lighting, layout and general vibe of the space. The band had already started when we arrived, and the sound, combined with the dozens of hanging Edison bulbs and bistro-style ...
Beyond live music, Open Chord’s bar and venue area is starting to shape itself as a laid-back gathering spot. “We have a full kitchen, coffee bar and cocktail bar. Our menu is filled with killer sliders and wings, but our tacos are the real deal,” says McAteer, who also points out the spot has started regular themed tr...
Going forward, McAteer and the Open Chord team hope to continue changing folks' minds about what it means to see, experience and love live music in West Knoxville — and beyond.
The actor and model was 40.
Sam Sarpong Jr., the former co-host of MTV’s “Yo Momma,” died on Monday (Oct. 26) in Pasadena, Calif., of an apparent suicide. The actor and model was 40.
Us Weekly reports that a representative from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner - Coronor has confirmed Sarong died after jumping off a bridge. According to Deadline, the Pasadena Police Department said they received a witness report on Monday of an adult male standing on the Colorado Bridge in Pasadena.
“While conversing with the individual, members of his family arrived and provided background regarding his emotional state. Tragically, after approximately seven hours of communication, the male jumped from the bridge,” the police statement reads.
Sarpong’s former “Yo Momma” co-host, Wilmer Valderrama, took to Instagram on Wednesday night to pay tribute to his friend with a touching message.
Valderrama continued by imploring anyone “in a dark place” to reach out for help.
Despite George Bush's problems, as Bill Clinton headed into the final 2 1/2 weeks with a fairly comfortable lead, his advisors were "scared to death." The debates preoccupied Washington. The spectacle of the Vice-Pres. debate, in Atlanta, was disheartening, with Dan Quayle's manic mad-dog attack & Al Gore's wooden perf...
Valeria Golino is an Italian actress and director and a finalist – along with Felix Van Groeningen of Belgium (2012) and Clio Barnard of Britain – for the Lux Award with the film 'Honey'. The 'Rain Man' and 'Hot Shots' star spoke to EURACTIV Italy's Viola De Sando.
What is the message you want to convey to the Italian and European public about your film 'Honey'?
I didn’t want to convey any message; more than anything else I wanted to ask intimate questions that relate to each of us more than political or existentialist questions.
The film was born of reading a book by a writer from Trieste, Mauro Covacich. Reading the book, I thought the topic tackled could have been told also in a personal way.* It seemed to me it was a fascinating story, good for a movie. I read the story for my team and we decided to write a screenplay.
The film tackles the issues of assisted suicide and euthanasia, a serious issue in Italy and the EU. What do you think about these issues and how does 'Honey' fit into an Italian and European context?
As a citizen, more than a director, I'm in favour of euthanasia. I think everyone should be able to decide what to do with his own body and his own life. I have even signed a petition to protect this right. I think every human being who makes a decision so painful and so extreme, perhaps the most serious in life, shoul...
My film is political, even though I don't want it to be that, because in Italy if one wants to be helped in his efforts of dying, he can only do so illegally. It's outside of the law, with that kind of shame that you have when you do something illegal.
I think it's something inhuman, against the human being, not having a law that's fair and equitable.
What should the EU do for culture and cinema?
Europe should do more, even customising cultural aid for each country. Europe is its cultures. More than any other continent in the world our culture is what represents us. It's really mortifying the fact that in my country the culture at the moment is so little protected by the institutions.
Do you feel like a European citizen?
I feel like a European citizen even if I do not agree with everything that is happening in Europe, especially the economic policies of the recent years that have put us in serious difficulties. I am proud to be European, but not proud of belonging to a system that is mortifying my country and others, such as Greece and...
*The book, 'I Forgive You', tells the story of a 30-year-old woman who assists the terminally ill to die.
“Europe before being a military alliance or an economic entity must be a cultural community in the highest sense of the expression.” Robert Schuman, one of the Founding Fathers of today’s European Union (EU) – Pour l’Europe (1963), p 35.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed a bill reshaping parts of the new health care overhaul law, and is sending it back to the House for final congressional approval.
Democrats eager to get the contentious issue behind them had hoped that the Senate’s 56-43 vote Thursday would finish lawmakers’ work on the measure.
But Republicans managed to kill a minor provision on grants for low-income students that violated Congress’ budget rules. So now, the House has to approve an identical bill before President Barack Obama can sign it.
House leaders predict their chamber will complete the bill by day’s end. The measure boosts health care subsidies for low-income people and reduces new taxes on high-cost health insurance policies.
Who killed our dear monarch?” This is the question that indigenes of Ijurin, an ancient community in Ekiti State have been asking in the past six days.
The traditional ruler of the town, which is in Ijero Local Government Area of the state, Oba Adeyinka Isaac Ayeoba, the Adejutepa 11, Ojurin of Ijurin-Ekiti, died last Wednesday in circumstances his subjects believe, are strange. He was said to have spent six years on the throne before his mysterious death.
Since his death, the town and the people have been mourning his loss. He was described as a treasure to the community.
The late monarch was said to been driving himself to Ado, the state capital, late last Tuesday, for “an important assignment,” when he had an ‘attack’.
According to a source close to the monarch, “something strange suddenly hit him (the monarch), prompting him to scream in pains.” Unable to continue with the driving, Oba Ayeoba was said to have tacitly told his co-occupant of the car to fetch a driver to take him home. Therefore, the man wasted no time in looking for ...
Efforts by medical personnel at the infirmary normalise his condition failed; hence, he was moved to the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Oyo State, where he eventually died the next day (Wednesday) after blood oozed out of his nostrils and mouth. He was said to have since been buried.
“He established a very big block-making industry at Ado-Ekiti where many are gainfully employed. In 2010, when Ijurin Day was celebrated, some delegates came to visit him from Spain, all in a bid to fast-track the town’s development. They were led on the visit by the Mayor of Noblejas, Agustin Crespo. He (the late mona...
Archives\|GODDARD ROCKETS TO TAKE PICTURES; Scientist Believes Photographs Could Be Obtained Above the Earth's Atmosphere. MUST FIRST EXPLORE AIR He Suggests a Fund to Enable the Smithsonian Institution to Carry On Experiment.
GODDARD ROCKETS TO TAKE PICTURES; Scientist Believes Photographs Could Be Obtained Above the Earth's Atmosphere. MUST FIRST EXPLORE AIR He Suggests a Fund to Enable the Smithsonian Institution to Carry On Experiment.
A Dutch electronics engineer reckons Japanese auto-maker Subaru isn't acting on a key-fob cloning vulnerability he discovered.
Tom Wimmenhove claims to have discovered that Subaru's electronic keys don't use a random number. The “rolling code” instead merely increments codes.
Wimmenhove says he's built a cloning device (described here on GitHub) and used it on a 2009 Subaru Forester, but believes it would also work on a 2006 Baja, Forester models from 2005 to 2010, Impreza models from 2004 to 2011, the "Legacy" sedan's 2005 to 2010 models and the Outback from 2005 to 2010.
His test rig is only worth about US$25, comprising a Raspberry Pi, a DBV-T USB dongle to provide the radio receiver, and rpitx software (here) that turns the RPi into a transmitter. A suitable antenna is required so the receiver can detect signals at 433 MHz.
Because the key fobs simply increment the rolling code exchanged between car and key, all an attacker needs is to be close enough to capture the code used when the owner locks the car; incrementing that code lets the attacker unlock the car.
The attack has another nasty aspect: the attacker can brick the owner's key fob with an integer overrun: “increasing the rolling code with a sufficiently high value [will] effectively render the user's key fob unusable”, Wimmenhove writes.
On the 63rd minute, Peruvian right winger Andre Carrillo caught a short rebound close to the Chilean area, outran defender Jeraldino, and shot a lob with the outer part of his foot before it went out of bounds.
The sidespin confused center-back Roco, who put it past goalkeeper De Paul.
Peru thrived on the counterattacks, led by Yotún’s ball recovery and Advíncula’s speed on the right side.
Chile’s defense could not handle the Peruvian attacks.
On the 75th minute, only 44 seconds after entering the field, midfielder Aquino received the ball after a run by Flores, and scored to make it 2-0.
He followed that up 10 minutes later with a cross past De Paul. Overjoyed by its team’s play, Peruvian fans in the stands started the traditional ‘oles’ after Aquino’s second goal.
Peru’s coach Ricardo Gareca underlined the importance of a win after two losses in their previous friendlies.
“The important thing is to get over the losses. Now on to recover and moving on,” he said.
Chile’s coach Reinaldo Rueda lamented the turn the game took after Chile’s own goal.
“Peru just gained confidence and we allowed them the space to take over, that is what stays,” Rueda said.
Peru will go on to play the U.S. national team next Tuesday in East Hartford, Connecticut. Chile will play against Mexico next Tuesday in Queretaro.
Six Detroit police officers have been charged with extortion, accused of demanding bribes from collision shops in exchange for steering stolen and abandoned vehicles their way, the U.S. Attorney's office announced Wednesday.
Four of the accused officers, however, have already pleaded guilty in the case after cutting deals that were kept secret for months, according to federal prosecutors and newly unsealed court documents.
Detroit Police Chief James Craig said this type of behavior -- officers extorting money from collision shops -- has been a problem for about 12 years at the DPD. But there "was never enough information" to charge anyone in the early years, he said, noting an FBI probe that started three years ago finally weeded out the...

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