Datameer Analytics Solution Automates Log File Aggregation

June 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Datameer Responds to Customer Needs to Simplify Log File Integration and
Analytics
SAN MATEO, Calif.–(Business Wire)–
Datameer, Inc. (www.datameer.com) today announced DAS Log File Aggregator for
Datameer Analytics Solution (DAS), the first Hadoop-based solution for big data
that includes data source integration, storage, an analytics engine and
visualization. DAS Log File Aggregator is a new plug-in that dramatically
reduces the complexity of integrating log file data from hundreds or even
thousands of servers.

Web servers, network devices, operating systems and databases store a wealth of
information in log files. When properly aggregated, the information can offer
valuable insights into customer, user and technology behavior. However, log file
aggregation is one of the most difficult big data challenges because, in
addition to the sheer size of the data, the large number of data import jobs
that must be created to integrate this data is time consuming and difficult to
manage.

Datameer discovered that many customers in its DAS Early Adopter Program are
facing this log file aggregation issue. In response, Datameer has developed DAS
Log File Aggregator, a plug-in to DAS that makes it easy to import large numbers
of log files stored on disparate servers. Instead of having to create a separate
import job for every log file, users simply specify a list of server addresses
and log file names in a single import job to bring in all their data.

“DAS offers a highly agile approach to data integration, with no programming, no
modeling, no schema and no transformation requirements,” said Stefan Groschupf,
Datameer`s CTO. “With the addition of the DAS Log File Aggregator, our customers
now have an easy-to-use solution for large-scale log file collection as well as
integrating this data with other data sources.”

Using DAS and DAS Log File Aggregator, organizations can realize benefits such
as:

* Improving marketing campaign results by bringing together and analyzing
customer interactions on the Web and in the call center, sales data as well as
the latest buzz about the promotion on social media sites
* Detecting security threats and fraud more quickly by understanding user
activity across infrastructure components
* Anticipating consumer demand and improving products and services through
analysis of online behavior
* Expediting return to system health by analyzing the cascading affect one
system failure has on other systems through the merger and analysis of disparate
system log files

Datameer is a co-sponsor of BigDataCamp, a Hadoop Unconference taking place on
June 28, 2010 where it will demonstrate the power of DAS and DAS Log File
Aggregator.

DAS and the DAS Log File Aggregator will be generally available in the fall of
2010. For more information, please visit www.datameer.com.

About Datameer

Datameer offers the first data analytics solution built on Hadoop that helps
business users access, analyze and use massive amounts of data. Founded by
Hadoop veterans in 2009, the company`s breakthrough product, Datameer Analytics
Solution (DAS), provides unparalleled access to data with minimal IT resources.
DAS scales to 4,000 servers and petabytes of data and is available for all major
Hadoop distributions including Apache, Cloudera, Yahoo!, IBM, and Amazon.
Datameer is based in San Mateo, Calif.

Datameer
Teresa Wingfield, 650-286-9100
tw@datameer.com

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Users Must Stay Vigilant on Social Networking Sites, Says Punch

June 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment

LEICESTERSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, Jun 09 (MARKET WIRE)
–
Users of social networks must become more vigilant when it comes to their
personal privacy according to Search, Social Media and PR Agency Punch
Communications.

Social media has grown a vast amount over the past few years and has
gradually increased in complexity, which has had implications on users’
privacy.

Facebook recently announced that it has simplified its privacy settings
following increased concern that they were too complicated to understand.
The changes have been made in order to make it more straightforward for
users to pick and choose what information they want to be made public.

These changes have been a reminder that users need to be extremely
cautious when it comes to what content they display on their personal
social networking pages.

Pete Goold, Managing Director of Punch Communications, remarked;
“Users can follow a few basic steps to ensure that they are happy
with the amount of privacy they have on social networking sites. Firstly,
users must make sure that they have a comfortable understanding of the
privacy settings on their social network pages; this is the only way to
ensure complete control over what the public can view. They must make
sure that they can change and amend any settings with ease should they
wish to.

“Secondly, users must be sensible over what content is shared. It is
prudent to keep personal photos off social media such as images of
children, any content that could risk the safety of the user or those
around them. This leads on to step three, users should not post content
that might have a detrimental affect should a potential employer see
them. There is little doubt that employers are increasingly using social
media as a key tool in recruitment therefore it is important to filter
the amount of content shared in the public domain.”

Founded in 2003 by Pete and Emma Goold, Digital PR agency Punch
Communications offer traditional PR services as well as is being a
leading social media and SEO agency. Punch successfully uses social media
to enhance a brands online presence, and enable them to improve their
consumer engagement.

Punch is currently recruiting for a number of roles, from Account Manager
to Account Director. For more information regarding PR jobs at Punch,
please call +44 (0) 1858 411600 or visit punchcomms.com.

Contacts:
Punch Communications
Pete Goold
+44 (0) 1858 411 600
pete@punchcomms.com
www.punchcomms.com

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Users Must Stay Vigilant on Social Networking Sites, Says Punch

June 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment

LEICESTERSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, Jun 09 (MARKET WIRE)
–
Users of social networks must become more vigilant when it comes to their
personal privacy according to Search, Social Media and PR Agency Punch
Communications.

Social media has grown a vast amount over the past few years and has
gradually increased in complexity, which has had implications on users’
privacy.

Facebook recently announced that it has simplified its privacy settings
following increased concern that they were too complicated to understand.
The changes have been made in order to make it more straightforward for
users to pick and choose what information they want to be made public.

These changes have been a reminder that users need to be extremely
cautious when it comes to what content they display on their personal
social networking pages.

Pete Goold, Managing Director of Punch Communications, remarked;
“Users can follow a few basic steps to ensure that they are happy
with the amount of privacy they have on social networking sites. Firstly,
users must make sure that they have a comfortable understanding of the
privacy settings on their social network pages; this is the only way to
ensure complete control over what the public can view. They must make
sure that they can change and amend any settings with ease should they
wish to.

“Secondly, users must be sensible over what content is shared. It is
prudent to keep personal photos off social media such as images of
children, any content that could risk the safety of the user or those
around them. This leads on to step three, users should not post content
that might have a detrimental affect should a potential employer see
them. There is little doubt that employers are increasingly using social
media as a key tool in recruitment therefore it is important to filter
the amount of content shared in the public domain.”

Founded in 2003 by Pete and Emma Goold, Digital PR agency Punch
Communications offer traditional PR services as well as is being a
leading social media and SEO agency. Punch successfully uses social media
to enhance a brands online presence, and enable them to improve their
consumer engagement.

Punch is currently recruiting for a number of roles, from Account Manager
to Account Director. For more information regarding PR jobs at Punch,
please call +44 (0) 1858 411600 or visit punchcomms.com.

Contacts:
Punch Communications
Pete Goold
+44 (0) 1858 411 600
pete@punchcomms.com
www.punchcomms.com

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Intellifiber Partners With CENX to Expand Carrier Ethernet Services

June 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

RICHMOND, VA, Jun 07 (MARKET WIRE) —
Intellifiber Networks, serving the growing network needs of enterprise,
service provider and government markets, today announced it has partnered
with CENX, operator of the world’s first and most connected Carrier
Ethernet exchange, to provide expanded Ethernet services to service
provider customers. Through an initial connection at CENX’s New York
location, Intellifiber will offer its services, including Ethernet over
Copper (EoC) connectivity, and have access to CENX-connected providers.

“Ethernet services continue to be a rapidly growing market segment, and
our partnership with CENX allows Intellifiber and CENX members to broaden
Ethernet adoption,” said Clint Heiden, president of Intellifiber
Networks. “We can deliver cost-effective Ethernet services to more than
100,000 buildings across our network to any CENX-connected location
around the world. CENX’s expertise and global Ethernet reach were key
factors in our partnering decision.”

Through CENX, Intellifiber will offer its full suite of Ethernet
products, including Ethernet over Copper connectivity in its coverage
area. Intellifiber has more than 300 central offices directly connected
to its fiber network, providing dense EoC coverage in markets from
Norfolk to Philadelphia to Cleveland to Richmond. EoC allows Intellifiber
to leverage existing copper infrastructure to cost effectively deliver
midband Ethernet access directly to customers without having to match
demand to legacy circuit sizes.

“We are delighted to welcome Intellifiber into our rapidly growing CENX
membership. Our focus is to simplify and enable expanded carrier Ethernet
growth for our exchange members by eliminating the cost and complexity of
direct service connections,” said Eric Gillenwater, vice president,
Worldwide Development, CENX. “Connecting with CENX immediately creates an
even more extensive footprint while allowing all of our members the
opportunity to seamlessly purchase Intellifiber’s services.”

About Intellifiber Networks
Intellifiber Networks, a wholly owned
subsidiary of Cavalier Telephone, owns and operates a high-capacity fiber
network spanning 17,000 route miles. Its scalable, reliable connectivity
solutions for service provider, enterprise, and government customers
include custom built private networks, low latency routing, SONET,
wavelength, Ethernet and data services. For more information, please
visit www.intellifiber.com.

About CENX
CENX, Inc. is the first and most connected Carrier Ethernet
exchange provider to deliver carrier-neutral, location-neutral, Carrier
Ethernet exchange services to global telecom/internet service providers.
CENX interconnects service providers’ Carrier Ethernet networks worldwide
and enables vast revenue opportunities, dramatic cost-saving and Carrier
Ethernet global ubiquity — a foundation for next generation
telecommunications networks. Through its work in the MEF
(http://www.metroethernetforum.org) and in the industry, the CENX
management team has played a leading role in the definition of and
standards for Carrier Ethernet and the development of the Carrier
Ethernet market over the last eight years. For more information visit
www.cenx.com.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Lisa McCausland
Dahlia Public Relations
(303) 888-2137
lmccausland@intellifiber.com

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Rosslyn Analytics Makes Sense of HM Treasury`s Complex Public Sector Spend Data – Launches Portal for the General Public to View Government’s Expenditure

June 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Rapidintel spend analytics platform reveals the Department for Work and
Pensions’Christmas contribution bonus was £133 million in 2009
LONDON–(Business Wire)–
Taking the complexity out of analysing spend data, Rosslyn Analytics today made
available for the general public the UK government`s expenditure data recently
published from HM Treasury`s Combined Online Information System (COINS).

Using Rosslyn Analytics` cloud computing spend analytics platform to turn
complex raw spend data into actionable intelligence in days, the public may view
the government`s expenditure for the past two years by visiting
https://rapidgateway.rapidintel.com. Rosslyn Analytics will automatically
refresh the platform with additional data HM Treasury publishes in the future.

“The release on Friday of the country`s public sector spend data is a wake-up
call to everyone,” stated Charles Clark, CEO of Rosslyn Analytics.The Prime
Minister and the Chancellor began preparing the country for a period of “pain”.
Why? Because slowly but surely the facts are beginning to seep out of the
mountain of poor data the government creates.There is a saying `what you cannot
measure you cannot manage`.”

Organisations that use Rapidintel achieve faster and more sustainable savings
than those that relyon-premise or Excel-based spend analysis solutions. The
reason is because the platform quickly centralizes, categorises and enriches all
operational spend in days without the need to install software or employ
consultants. Rapidintel gives everyone one trusted source of spend visibility
for better, collaborative decision-making through the use of powerful drill-down
analytical reports.

By uploading 7 million lines of HM Treasury`s data into Rapidintel, Rosslyn
Analytics is demonstrating to the government the ease, speed and benefits of
improved spend visibility. A sampling of 2009 expenditures found that:

* The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills spent £400 million on its
Vehicle Scrappage Scheme
* The Scottish Government spent £78.6 billion on Landscape Protection
* The Ministry of Justice spent £95 million on a General Election Fund

Matthew Sinclair, Research Director at the TaxPayers` Alliance, said:”It is
great to see innovative tools allowing ordinary people to access the COINS data
and see how their money is spent.By publishing the data, the Government has
enabled entrepreneurs, skilled amateurs and campaigners to use their skills to
produce exciting new tools that can provide unprecedented insight into public
spending.This powerful new service from Rosslyn Analytics, making use of their
well established expertise in this area, makes the COINS data more accessible
and supports transparency and accountability.”

To support the government`s quest to reduce the deficit through intelligent
expenditure reductions, Rosslyn Analytics offers public sector organisations a
free self service spend analytics tool. People simply need to register at
www.rosslynanalytics.com.

“The government should follow in the footsteps of private sector organizations
by adopting the latest business technologies including advanced spend
analytics.Downing Street`s cost savings targets will be based on guesswork if
these practices are not adopted,” added Charles Clark.

Note to editors:
The data loaded into the Rapidintel comes directly from COINS for 2008-2010. If
there are any errors, it is due to the poor quality of the government`s data.

About Rosslyn Analytics
Rosslyn Analytics, the pioneer and leader in cloud computing-based spend
analysis as a service (SAaaS), is changing the way organisations see their
spend. Its award-winning web-based automated spend analytics platform,
Rapidintel, delivered as a service, aligns and empowers all employees that can
influence spend by delivering visibility of enterprise-wide spend in 10-20
business days. For more information, www.rosslynanalytics.com.

Rosslyn Analytics
Lance Mercereau
Director of Marketing
+44(0)7788-183273
lm@rosslynanalytics.com

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Rosslyn Analytics Makes Sense of HM Treasury`s Complex Public Sector Spend Data – Launches Portal for the General Public to View Government’s Expenditure

June 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Rapidintel spend analytics platform reveals the Department for Work and
Pensions’Christmas contribution bonus was £133 million in 2009
LONDON–(Business Wire)–
Taking the complexity out of analysing spend data, Rosslyn Analytics today made
available for the general public the UK government`s expenditure data recently
published from HM Treasury`s Combined Online Information System (COINS).

Using Rosslyn Analytics` cloud computing spend analytics platform to turn
complex raw spend data into actionable intelligence in days, the public may view
the government`s expenditure for the past two years by visiting
https://rapidgateway.rapidintel.com. Rosslyn Analytics will automatically
refresh the platform with additional data HM Treasury publishes in the future.

“The release on Friday of the country`s public sector spend data is a wake-up
call to everyone,” stated Charles Clark, CEO of Rosslyn Analytics.The Prime
Minister and the Chancellor began preparing the country for a period of “pain”.
Why? Because slowly but surely the facts are beginning to seep out of the
mountain of poor data the government creates.There is a saying `what you cannot
measure you cannot manage`.”

Organisations that use Rapidintel achieve faster and more sustainable savings
than those that relyon-premise or Excel-based spend analysis solutions. The
reason is because the platform quickly centralizes, categorises and enriches all
operational spend in days without the need to install software or employ
consultants. Rapidintel gives everyone one trusted source of spend visibility
for better, collaborative decision-making through the use of powerful drill-down
analytical reports.

By uploading 7 million lines of HM Treasury`s data into Rapidintel, Rosslyn
Analytics is demonstrating to the government the ease, speed and benefits of
improved spend visibility. A sampling of 2009 expenditures found that:

* The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills spent £400 million on its
Vehicle Scrappage Scheme
* The Scottish Government spent £78.6 billion on Landscape Protection
* The Ministry of Justice spent £95 million on a General Election Fund

Matthew Sinclair, Research Director at the TaxPayers` Alliance, said:”It is
great to see innovative tools allowing ordinary people to access the COINS data
and see how their money is spent.By publishing the data, the Government has
enabled entrepreneurs, skilled amateurs and campaigners to use their skills to
produce exciting new tools that can provide unprecedented insight into public
spending.This powerful new service from Rosslyn Analytics, making use of their
well established expertise in this area, makes the COINS data more accessible
and supports transparency and accountability.”

To support the government`s quest to reduce the deficit through intelligent
expenditure reductions, Rosslyn Analytics offers public sector organisations a
free self service spend analytics tool. People simply need to register at
www.rosslynanalytics.com.

“The government should follow in the footsteps of private sector organizations
by adopting the latest business technologies including advanced spend
analytics.Downing Street`s cost savings targets will be based on guesswork if
these practices are not adopted,” added Charles Clark.

Note to editors:
The data loaded into the Rapidintel comes directly from COINS for 2008-2010. If
there are any errors, it is due to the poor quality of the government`s data.

About Rosslyn Analytics
Rosslyn Analytics, the pioneer and leader in cloud computing-based spend
analysis as a service (SAaaS), is changing the way organisations see their
spend. Its award-winning web-based automated spend analytics platform,
Rapidintel, delivered as a service, aligns and empowers all employees that can
influence spend by delivering visibility of enterprise-wide spend in 10-20
business days. For more information, www.rosslynanalytics.com.

Rosslyn Analytics
Lance Mercereau
Director of Marketing
+44(0)7788-183273
lm@rosslynanalytics.com

Copyright Business Wire 2010

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Over 50 pct Facebook users could delete accounts over privacy worries

May 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment

London, May 20 (ANI): A security firm has suggested that more than half of Facebook users are considering deleting their profile from the site because of privacy concerns.

According to Sophos, a computer security organisation, concerns about privacy are running so high that 60 percent of the 1,588 Facebook users questioned said they were considering deleting their accounts.

A further 16 percent said they had already stopped using Facebook because they felt they had inadequate control over their data, while a quarter said that they would not be quitting the social networking site, which has almost 500 million users worldwide.

Facebook has attracted criticism in recent weeks for the perceived complexity of its privacy settings, and the fact that users have to opt-out of sharing some of their information with third parties, rather than give explicit consent by opting in.

Although Facebook is expected to look again at its privacy policy in the coming days, it may not be enough to halt an online campaign for a mass Facebook “suicide” on May 31, with thousands of users encouraged to delete their accounts.

“This poll shows that the majority of users are fed up with the lack of control that Facebook gives users over their data,” the Telegraph quoted Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, as saying.

“Most still don”t know how to set their Facebook privacy options safely, finding the whole system confusing.

“What”s needed is a fundamental shift towards asking users to ”opt-in” to sharing information, rather than to ”opt-out”.

“A mass exodus from Facebook seems unlikely, but users are clearly getting more interested in knowing precisely who can view their data.

“People use Facebook to share private information and are unlikely to want their holiday snaps or new mobile number accidentally popping up all over the Internet,” he added. (ANI)

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Indian doctor”s simple checklist for health at every age

May 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Washington, May 7 (ANI): An Indian doctor has organised a simple checklist for health at every age, by collecting some of the “generally accepted truths” on how to prevent disease.

Shantanu Nundy, MD, a second-year resident in internal medicine at the University of Chicago Medical Center, was driven by his mother”s health questions and the difficulty of providing simple, reliable answers.

After making the checklist, Nundy persuaded the Johns Hopkins University Press to publish them as Stay Healthy at Every Age: What Your Doctor Wants you to Know.

“We all know it is far better to prevent an illness than to treat it,” he said.

“Yet because millions of Americans don”t know these things, and doctors don”t take the time to tell or remind them, thousands die each year from preventable disease,” he explained.

Five well-established but little-used measures, he argues, could save 100,000 lives a year, things as simple as taking a daily aspirin or getting a flu shot.

Yet, misled by a system designed to treat the sick rather than preserve health, fewer than half of those who could benefit know about and bother to take those simple steps.

This guide gives readers the tools to understand and acquire the preventive services they need.

Checklists, the simpler the better, have recently gained status in the world of medicine.

First employed in intensive care units, where complexity is vast, stakes are high and errors can be lethal, they have helped caregivers establish a higher standard of performance.

Checklists serve to “make explicit the minimum, expected steps in complex processes,” according to Atul Gawande, MD, a surgeon who has written a book about their value in medicine.

They can lower infection rates, prevent complications and reduce time in the hospital.

Nundy has adopted the checklist approach but shifted it from the complex world of the ICU to primary care, and from the doctor to the patient.

The idea came from his mother. She struggles with type-2 diabetes. As a medical student, eager to help, he combed through his texts and patient encounters looking for ways to keep her healthy.

He found quite a few-nothing new or surprising, but a long list of established, verified recommendations.

He was surprised to learn, however, that although his mother saw a physician regularly, much of the standard advice was new to her.

“She has a doctor. She has insurance. She has a college education and worked for the World Bank. But she didn”t know a lot of the basic steps,” he said.

So he stepped in, with constant advice on medicines and tests, diet and exercise. Over time, thanks to his diligence, the suggestions piled up. They soon became overwhelming.

So Nundy began searching the medical literature for simple comprehensive lists of which steps to take, which tests to consider at each age and which ones to avoid.

He found pieces of what his mother needed, but they were spread over many sources, primarily guidelines from the United States Preventive Services Task Force and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

He could not, however find all the preferred advice in one place, so he set out to compile it himself. That led to the book.

The core of the 366-page book is 18 pages of lists, the current state of the art of preventive health through each phase of life.

There is a one-page checklist for early childhood and two pages for adolescents or those in their 20s.

With age comes extra pages: three each for the 30s, 40s, 50 to 64, and 65 and over. Some advice is for everyone, some just for women or men, with additional measures for people at greater risk for specific ailments.

Early childhood is mostly about screening and vaccinations. Sexually transmitted disease become a prominent health issue during adolescence and never quite goes away.

Diet and exercise, and alcohol and tobacco use, come to the fore in the 20s and 30s.

Cardiovascular issues gain prominence in the 40s, especially for men, and breast cancer prevention and detection for women. Colon cancer screening tops the list for the 50s.

After 65, vaccinations re-emerge as a crucial prevention tool. At age 80, those who started taking aspirin in their 40s or 50s can stop.

Some widely promoted health measures, on the other hand, don”t make the list. Despite nationwide campaigns for prostate cancer screening, the benefits remain uncertain, so no recommendation.

Nor do vitamin supplements help those who eat a healthy diet.

“They aren”t cheap. They aren”t covered by insurance. It”s just an extra pill,” Nundy said. (ANI)

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Rann holding on, Bartlett’s fate unknown

March 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Tasmania is heading for a hung parliament while Labor is clinging to power in South Australia as counting continues in elections in both states.

Labor has lost its majority in Tasmania, with the ABC’s election computer predicting that Labor will win 10 seats, the Liberals nine and the Greens six in the 25-seat parliament.

Premier David Bartlett says he will not enter a power-sharing agreement with the Greens and will stand aside if he wins fewer seats than the Liberals or a smaller percentage of votes should both major parties win the same number of seats.

Tasmania uses the Hare-Clark proportional representation system and given the complexity of preference distribution, it could take more than 10 days before the true picture there emerges.

In South Australia, with more than 44 per cent of the vote counted the swing against Labor is running at almost 7 per cent.

But the ABC’s election computer has Labor winning 25 seats – one more than is required for victory.

Labor Premier Mike Rann began the day with a 10-seat majority over the Liberal Party, but Liberal Leader Isobel Redmond ran a strong campaign to close the gap between the parties.

The swing in South Australia has been patchy. Labor’s vote is holding up in some marginal seats that pollsters were predicting it would lose today.

This may be enough for Mr Rann to win a third term. He has been Premier of South Australia for eight years.

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Autonomy Delivers New Innovations Across Meaning Based Marketing Platform

March 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Autonomy Reshapes Marketing Landscape with New Analytics Visualization,
Self-Service, and Multichannel Optimization Solutions
CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, March 3, 2010
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a
global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced
significant innovations across the company’s Meaning Based Marketing platform
- allowing businesses to understand, act on, and optimize all forms of
information. Based on Autonomy’s ability to automatically identify concepts
in structured and unstructured information, Autonomy’s Meaning Based
Marketing platform is uniquely enabled to handle the scale, complexity, and
speed required to succeed in the modern era. As a result, marketers are
increasingly turning to Autonomy’s end-to-end marketing platform as an engine
to engage customers, capitalize on emerging opportunities, and drive growth
and profits for their businesses.

“As host of CMO CLUB dinners around the world, I hear from Chief
Marketing Officers every day about how their job is becoming more and more
difficult,” said Pete Krainik, Founder, The CMO CLUB. “They are overwhelmed
with the exponential growth of new forms of information – especially social
networks and video – and how to bring all this data together to move quickly
on business opportunities and protect their brand. I’m hearing lots of
excitement from club members about Autonomy’s Meaning Based Marketing
platform for allowing marketers to see what is really happening inside and
outside their business, act quickly on the information, and deliver the
revenue and customer engagement results they need.”

Marketers today enjoy thrilling new opportunities – as well as
significant risks. A new world has opened up for marketers – in the form of
social media, video, and blogs – however businesses still struggle to
identify the useful information amidst the ocean of data generated in these
networks every day. Businesses have invested billions in CRM, business
intelligence, contact center, demographic, and campaign management systems,
but find it challenging to link data between these legacy systems and social
networks in order to act on new opportunities or risks to their business. A
small amount of chatter about a company’s product today can yield a sales
bonanza if recognized and acted on quickly, and likewise can turn into a
major reputation hit if overlooked and unmanaged.

Autonomy’s Meaning Based Marketing platform is built for the
next-generation of marketers looking to understand, act on, and optimize all
forms of information – linking together internal systems with external data
in order to deliver the most compelling and targeted data to customers across
every channel. Autonomy has delivered several significant innovations,
including new self-service modules, across every part of the company’s
integrated, comprehensive platform.

Automatically Understand All Forms of Customer Information

At the core of Autonomy’s Meaning Based Marketing platform is the
Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) which allows businesses to
automatically detect, analyze, and act on concepts, allowing computers to see
patterns in information the way people do. This unique technology is based on
hundreds of patents and powers a wide range of applications with over 20,000
customers around the world.

Autonomy has delivered a new console, called Explore, which provides
marketers with a visualization interface to Autonomy IDOL’s deep analytics
capabilities. Autonomy Explore provides marketers with the following:

– A new analytics visualization console, which connects to every
customer touchpoint, including social networks, contact centers, and
the web.
– Discovers patterns, trends, and sentiment across all channels inside
and outside an enterprise.
– Includes out of the box widgets for automatically categorizing and
understanding market trends and clusters of customers.

Automatically Act on Insights to Win Market Share and Manage Reputation

Autonomy provides the most comprehensive platform for allowing marketers
to automatically act on the insight obtained from all customer touchpoints,
whenever and wherever interactions take place. This includes information from
internal systems, like corporate websites, as well as external sources like
social media networks. Autonomy has added significant enhancements to the
company’s web content management, rich media management, and contact center
solutions.
Autonomy Interwoven Web Content Management

– Interwoven TeamSite – new dependency management and automatics
language detection capabilities to support global web deployments,
as well as several surf and edit enhancements such as keyword
shortcuts, fixed area layout and in-line editing for unsurpassed
usability. The product also includes new desktop tools to allow
seamless integration with Microsoft Office.

– Interwoven LiveSite – industry-first agnostic content delivery
capabilities which allow marketers to dynamically display content to
any display environment, including portal, Flash, AJAX, and .NET.
The new version of LiveSite also allows marketers to more easily
leverage Autonomy’s full spectrum of capabilities, including explicit
and implicit targeting.

– Editors note: to see today’s press release on the new version of
Autonomy TeamSite and LiveSite, please visit:

http://www.autonomy.com/content/News/Releases/2010/index.en.html.

Autonomy Virage Rich Media Management

– VirageMediaBin – Autonomy’s market-leading technology includes new
capabilities that automatically tag and classify any image or video,
regardless of format or language. This allows marketers to more
quickly and easily find the right image through a new rich media
interface, allowing them to deliver more accurate, relevant, and
brand-consistent content to customers.

Autonomy eTalk Contact Center Solutions

– eTalk Qfiniti – provides active “listening” across all customer
interactions – including contact center, website, email, in-store,
and social media. Autonomy etalk’s Qfiniti platform for the contact
center provides the most advanced speech analytics of enterprise voice
and chat interactions. Autonomy’s IDOL platform provides intelligent
connectors to all forms of data – including unstructured – to bring
back analysis that can be leveraged across an organization.

Automatically Optimize Customer Interactions Across All Customer
Touchpoints

Autonomy’s Multichannel Optimization solution combines meaning-based
technology with Autonomy Optimost’s multivariate testing technology to ensure
businesses deliver the most compelling combination targeted content to
customers across all channels.

– Autonomy has added an intuitive self-service console to its
Optimost offering, allowing customers to choose between managed
service offerings as well as self-service. The new user interface
includes a marketing dashboard, as well as a new experiment
authoring process.

– Now customers can more easily test and optimize content between
customer touchpoints. For instance, a marketer managing a potentially
damaging product recall can seamlessly test the most effective
message and content across the company’s contact center, web, and
in-store channels.

– Optimost Adaptive Targeting provides new analytics capabilities to
mine all major types of customer attributes to create customer
segments, including context (how the visitor arrives at the Website,
e.g. search keyword), geography, time of day, and demographic,
behavior, and account profile information. Once customer segments
are created, multivariate tests are conducted on an unlimited number
of copy ideas, offers, and layouts to determine the best solution
for each audience segment.

To learn more about Autonomy’s Meaning Based Marketing platform, please
visit http://www.interwoven.com/mbm.

About Autonomy

Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in
infrastructure software for the enterprise, spearheads the Meaning Based
Computing movement. IDC recently recognized Autonomy as having the largest
market share and fastest growth in the worldwide search and discovery market.
Autonomy’s technology allows computers to harness the full richness of human
information, forming a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece
of electronic data, including unstructured information, such as text, email,
web pages, voice, or video. Autonomy’s software powers the full spectrum of
mission-critical enterprise applications including pan-enterprise search,
customer interaction solutions, information governance, end-to-end
eDiscovery, records management, archiving, business process management, web
content management, web optimization, rich media management and video and
audio analysis.

Autonomy’s customer base is comprised of more than 20,000 global
companies, law firms and federal agencies including: AOL, BAE Systems, BBC,
Bloomberg, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Daimler AG, Deutsche Bank, DLA
Piper, Ericsson, FedEx, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyds Banking Group, NASA,
Nestle, the New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, Shell, Tesco, T-Mobile, the
U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. More than 400 companies OEM Autonomy
technology, including Symantec, Citrix, HP, Novell, Oracle, Sybase and TIBCO.
The company has offices worldwide. Please visit http://www.autonomy.com to
find out more.

Autonomy and the Autonomy logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of
Autonomy Corporation plc. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.

Autonomy Editorial Contacts:

Randy Cairns Ian Bain
Autonomy (US) The Red Consultancy (US)
+1-408-953-7111 +1-415-618-8806
randy.cairns@autonomy.com ian.bain@redconsultancy.com

Edward Bridges David Vindel
Financial Dynamics (UK) The Red Consultancy (UK)
+44-207-831-3113 +44-207-025-6529
edward.bridges@fd.com david.vindel@redconsultancy.com

SOURCE Autonomy Corporation plc

Autonomy Editorial Contacts: Randy Cairns, Autonomy (US), +1-408-953-7111,
randy.cairns@autonomy.com; Edward Bridges, Financial Dynamics (UK),
+44-207-831-3113, edward.bridges@fd.com; Ian Bain, The Red Consultancy (US),
+1-415-618-8806, ian.bain@redconsultancy.com; David Vindel, The Red
Consultancy (UK), +44-207-025-6529, david.vindel@redconsultancy.com

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Study links more gene mutations to autism risk

June 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Washington, June 26 (ANI): A collaborative team of geneticists from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and several other institutions say that they have found more autism susceptibility genes.

The researchers said that they identified 27 different genetic regions where rare copy number variations – missing or extra copies of DNA segments – were found in the genes of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), but not in the healthy controls.

The complex combination of multiple genetic duplications and deletions is thought to interfere with gene function, which can disrupt the production of proteins necessary for normal neurological development.

“We focused on changes in the exons of DNA-protein-coding areas in which deletions or duplications are more likely to directly disrupt biological functions,” said study leader Dr. Hakon Hakonarson, director of the Center for Applied Genomics at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and associate professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

“We identified additional autism susceptibility genes, many of which, as we previously found, belong to the neuronal cell adhesion molecule family involved in the development of brain circuitry in early childhood,” he added.

According to him, the study also revealed many “private” gene mutations, those found only in one or a few individuals or families-an indication of genetic complexity, in which many different gene changes may contribute to an autism spectrum disorder.

“We are finding that both inherited and new, or de novo, genetic mutations are scattered throughout the genome and we suspect that different combinations of these variations contribute to autism susceptibility,” said Dr. Maja Bucan, professor of Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Chair of the Steering committee for Autism Speaks’ Autism Genetic Resource Exchange (AGRE).

“We are grateful to families of children with autism spectrum disorders for their willingness to participate in genetic studies because family-based studies have many advantages. We have learned a lot both from genetic analyses of children with autism as well as analyses of their patents and their unaffected siblings,” the researcher added.

During the study, the researchers compared genetic samples of 3,832 individuals from 912 families with multiple children with ASDs from the AGRE cohort against genetic samples of 1,070 disease-free children from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

They said that their research also unveiled two novel genes in which variations were found, BZRAP1 and MDGA2. According to them, they were thought to be important in synaptic function and neurological development, respectively.

Key variants of these genes, say the researchers, were transmitted in some, but not all, of the affected individuals in families.

A research article on the findings has been published in the journal PloS Genetics. (ANI)

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Arousal molecule may hold key for Alzheimer’s, migraine treatment

June 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, June 26 (ANI): Scientists believe a molecule, which controls blood pressure and a man’s ability to have an erection, may also hold a key for treating Alzheimer’s disease, chronic pain, and migraine.

The University of Leicester team claims nitric oxide may have a profound impact on the brain, reports The BBC.

Researcher Adam Tozer said: “This prompts the question ‘Why is a molecule that can produce penile erections necessary in the brain?’

“It is hoped that this research will go some way to solving the complexity of communication between brain cells, and therefore provide openings for therapeutic strategies against debilitating conditions.

“It will also help to shed light on communication in the healthy brain and this will enable a greater understanding of how we think.”

The team will focus on the junctions between cells that enable them to “talk” to each other.

They will examine how nitric oxide can influence this communication.

Rebecca Wood, chief executive of the Alzheimer’s Research Trust said: “It will be interesting to find out what nitric oxide does in the brain, and if it has any role in Alzheimer’s.

“This study may help researchers understand how the brain works and how nerve cells communicate with each other.

“Understanding our thought processes and the brain is crucial to understanding and defeating diseases that affect it.” (ANI)

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Smoking more than 5 ciggies a day triggers migraine attacks

June 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Washington, June 25 (ANI): Smoking more than 5 cigarettes a day can provoke migraine attacks, claims a new study published in the Journal of Headache and Pain.

The research prior to the work published in The Journal of Headache and Pain indicated that smoking could improve migraines by reducing anxiety, one of the factors that triggers an attack.

“This study is groundbreaking in Spain as there are few studies on this topic, and all are very biased. This is due to the complexity and need for prior training of the participants”, Julio Pascual, one of the authors of this research and doctor at the Neurology Unit of Marqués de Valdecilla, University Hospital (Santander), explains to SINC.

One advantage of this study is that the sample used, 361 medicine students from the University of Salamanca, were fully aware what a migraine was.

The experts, who enquired about the presence or absence of migraine (and its characteristics) and whether or not they smoked, guaranteed the reliability of the results obtained, as most surveys for this type of study are done over the phone, randomly and in people without knowledge of the illness.

The results show that 16 percent of students fulfilled migraine criteria, while 20 percent smoked.

The percentage of smokers was higher (29 percent) in those who were also migraine sufferers and migraine frequency in those students who were migraine sufferers and smokers was clearly higher than in those who were non-smokers and migraine sufferers.

According to Pascual, “smoking is a precipitating factor of this type of headache, as the prevalence of active smokers is one third higher in migraine sufferers and there is a direct relationship between the number of cigarettes consumed and the frequency of migraine attacks”.

The results of the interviews reveal that the migraine sets in after five daily cigarettes. Furthermore, although the percentage of those who smoked was higher in people with migraines, they smoked less than those who did not suffer migraines. (ANI)

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Astronomers probe close to supermassive black hole’s edge

May 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Paris, May 28 (ANI): Astronomers have used new data from ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) XMM-Newton spaceborne observatory, to probe closer than ever to a supermassive black hole lying deep at the core of a distant active galaxy.

The galaxy – known as 1H0707-495 – was observed during four 48-hr-long orbits of XMM-Newton around Earth, starting in January 2008.

The black hole at its center was thought to be partially obscured from view by intervening clouds of gas and dust, but these current observations have revealed the innermost depths of the galaxy.

“We can now start to map out the region immediately around the black hole,” said Andrew Fabian, at the University of Cambridge, who headed the observations and analysis.

X-rays are produced as matter swirls into a supermassive black hole.

The X-rays illuminate and are reflected from the matter before its eventual accretion. Iron atoms in the flow imprint characteristic iron lines on the reflected light.

XMM-Newton detected two bright features of iron emission in the reflected X-rays that had never been seen together in an active galaxy.

These bright features are known as the iron L and K lines, and they can be so bright only if there is a high abundance of iron.

Seeing both in this galaxy suggests that the core is much richer in iron than the rest of the galaxy.

The direct X-ray emission varies in brightness with time. During the observation, the iron L line was bright enough for its variations to be followed.

A painstaking statistical analysis of the data revealed a time lag of 30 seconds between changes in the X-ray light observed directly, and those seen in its reflection from the disc.

This delay in the echo enabled the size of the reflecting region to be measured, which leads to an estimate of the mass of the black hole at about 3 to 5 million solar masses.

The observations of the iron lines also reveal that the black hole is spinning very rapidly and eating matter so quickly that it verges on the theoretical limit of its eating ability, swallowing the equivalent of two Earths per hour.

This new technique will enable the astronomers to map out the process in all its glorious complexity, taking them to previously unseen regions at the very edges of this and other supermassive black holes. (ANI)

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Changing climate make mockingbirds better singers

May 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Washington, May 22 (ANI): Mockingbirds tend to sing fancier tunes with changing climate, say researchers.

The research team from the National Evolutionary Synthesis Centre (NESCent), the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and McGill University showed that species in more variable climes also sing complex tunes.

“Survival and reproduction become more complicated when weather patterns are unpredictable because you don’t know when food will be available or how long it will be around,” said Carlos Botero, a postdoctoral researcher at NESCent in Durham, NC.

And the consequences of picking a mediocre mate are magnified in harsher climes.

“In really difficult or demanding environments you would expect females to be choosier,” he added.

Botero said that male mockingbirds sing primarily to impress mates and superior singing skills are a cue that a male is a good catch.

“Complexity of song display – how many song types a bird sings, how hard the songs are – is a good predictor of the quality of the individual,” he said.

“Males that sing more complex songs tend to carry fewer parasites, and have offspring that are more likely to survive,” he added.

Moreover, singing skills may be a sign that males are clever enough to cope with iffy environments.

“Individuals that are more intelligent tend to be better able to compensate for the difficulties of unpredictable climates,” said Botero.

“For example, if some individuals are able to invent new foraging techniques, then they are going to be better at surviving harsh winters than the poor guys who only know one way to forage.

“The more intelligent you are, the more resourceful you are, and the more curve balls you’re able to handle,” he added.

During the study, Botero and his colleagues studied nearly 100 tracks from 29 mockingbird species and found that species subject to more variable and unpredictable climates had more elaborate song displays.

The connection between birdsong and climate is new and somewhat surprising, Botero explains. “We’re connecting two dots that were far away before.” (ANI)

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‘Jacko set to undergo skin cancer surgery’

May 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, May 21 (ANI): Michael Jackson will reportedly undergo surgery on his skin cancer to clear his flesh of potentially lethal growths.

The King of Pop had been reported having spots of the disease on his upper body and pre-cancerous cells on his face.

But his spokesman dismissed the claims, insisting the singer, who was due to perform his 150-million pound comeback shows in London beginning from July 8, is in “perfect health”.

And now, recent reports suggest the 50-year-old will have a painful skin-shaving operation to remove layers on his chest and nose.

The news comes just hours after it was announced that his first four concerts at the O2 arena had been postponed.

But organisers of the star’s 50 gigs denied any link between the two stumbling blocks.

“The date change has nothing to do with his health. The truth is the show has grown in scope and complexity and size,” the Sun quoted Randy Phillips, head of concert promoters AEG Live, as saying.

Meanwhile, the postponed shows have left fans fuming.

Sarah Ketterer, who booked two 100-pound seats for July 10, said: “Michael Jackson has let down thousands of fans.”

Telecoms analyst Ben Wood, said: “I’m incensed. I’m not interested any more.” (ANI)

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‘Jacko set to undergo skin cancer surgery’

May 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, May 21 (ANI): Michael Jackson will reportedly undergo surgery on his skin cancer to clear his flesh of potentially lethal growths.

The King of Pop had been reported having spots of the disease on his upper body and pre-cancerous cells on his face.

But his spokesman dismissed the claims, insisting the singer, who was due to perform his 150-million pound comeback shows in London beginning from July 8, is in “perfect health”.

And now, recent reports suggest the 50-year-old will have a painful skin-shaving operation to remove layers on his chest and nose.

The news comes just hours after it was announced that his first four concerts at the O2 arena had been postponed.

But organisers of the star’s 50 gigs denied any link between the two stumbling blocks.

“The date change has nothing to do with his health. The truth is the show has grown in scope and complexity and size,” the Sun quoted Randy Phillips, head of concert promoters AEG Live, as saying.

Meanwhile, the postponed shows have left fans fuming.

Sarah Ketterer, who booked two 100-pound seats for July 10, said: “Michael Jackson has let down thousands of fans.”

Telecoms analyst Ben Wood, said: “I’m incensed. I’m not interested any more.” (ANI)

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Strong social networks benefit baboons

May 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Washington, May 9 (ANI): A monkey communication expert at the University of Pennsylvania has suggested that baboons benefit from strong social networks.

Robert Seyfarth came up with this proposition while delivering a lecture on May 5, the kick-off of the University of Delaware’s Year of Darwin celebration, where he told a true story about a female baboon that herded goats in an African village.

He revealed that the baboon knew all of the relationships between the goats so well that at night she would carry a bleating kid from one barn directly to its mother in another barn.

“For all the centuries we’ve bred dogs, no dog has exhibited this knowledge of kids and mothers. The question is where does this mind come from?” said the Psychology professor at the university.

Seyfarth revealed that he and his research partner Dorothy Cheney, who happens to be his spouse, studied the baboons of Botswana’s Okavanga Delta from 1992 to 2008.

He said that his study suggested that the baboon’s ability to recognize social relationships was due to natural selection.

The researcher revealed that the baboons studied live in groups of 80-90 individuals. Males would leave the group in which they were born, while females stayed in the group for their entire lives, with close bonds to female relatives.

He said that the females were arranged in a matrilineal hierarchy of families, with ranks maintained for years. Although once in a while a coup was attempted, such moves were not often successful.

In their experiments, the researchers observed that baboons with names like Sylvia, Champagne, and Helen, and recorded their language, which consisted of no more than 18 sounds, and the interactions of their families.

They found that baboons used certain calls only in certain contexts. Screams and fear barks were only given from a lower-ranking to a higher-ranking baboon, while threat grunts were given only from a higher-ranking to a lower-ranking baboon.

The researchers recorded the various calls, played them in situations that “break the rules”, and determined from the animals’ behaviour that baboons were able to put together the discrete elements of identity, kinship, and rank.

“The animals somehow see this world in all of its complexity. It’s an innate property of the baboon mind — done instantly and unconsciously,” Seyfarth said.

He and Cheney were also able to measure the animals’ stress levels by analysing faecal samples for gluccocorticoid stress hormones. They found that pregnancy and incidences of predation to be major stressors.

Also, some high-ranking males practice infanticide, targeting infants by rank. Mothers may form relationships with lower-ranking males who will help look after their babies.

“Females respond to stress by associating with their closest grooming relationships. They turn to their support network if they lose someone. They broaden and extend to replace old relationships with new ones. Female baboons with strong social bonds survive better,” Seyfarth said.

Seyfarth and Cheney’s work is highlighted in the award-winning book Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2007. (ANI)

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Hugh Jackman thought of quitting X-Men

May 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, Apr 29 (ANI): Hollywood actor Hugh Jackman contemplated quitting X-Men franchise after the third movie, because he felt his character ‘Wolverine’ had gone “too soft” and was lacking the much-hyped rage.

The Oz hunk thought of stepping down after he thought his character was not developing the way it was meant to.

“One thing I never felt we got with Wolverine that I really wanted to get is that berserker rage which is talked about in the comic books,” The Daily Express quoted Hugh, as saying.

“It felt like Wolverine had got a little soft by X-Men 3 and I wanted to take it back to that bad a** quality. He’s tough, he’s gruff, he’s not politically correct – he doesn’t say the right things.

“There has to be complexity to this character. He’s very tough but there’s a lot of pain, history to his life that you find out about. It’s not pretty.

“He’s a flawed character. That’s what I like about it, that’s why I’m doing it for the fourth time or else I wouldn’t,” he concluded. (ANI)

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