| Living life on the Internet
On Oct. 9, Google bought YouTube -- an Internet site used primarily for the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material and minute-long clips of people singing karaoke in their basements. This titan of new media, we're told, is worth US$1.65 billion. It's just the latest step in our long descent into cyber-madness. After 15 years and a trillion dollars of corporate investment, just about everything we've been told about the Internet and what the information age would mean has come up short. The numbers will just get worse and more terrifying. The idealists, engineers and programmers who conceived, pioneered, and engineered the Web described a kind of enlightened utopia built on mutual understanding, a world in which knowledge is limited only by one's curiosity. Instead, we have constructed a virtual Wild West, where the masses indulge their darkest vices, pirates of all kinds troll for victims, and the rest of us have come to accept that cyberspace isn't the kind of place you'd want to raise your kids.
Cegedim Strategic Data (CSD) acquires 3ES
PARIS, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Cegedim Strategic Data, leading provider of Pharmaceutical Market Research has completed its acquisition of 3ES, a CRO (Contract Research Organisation) member of the AFCRO (French Association of CROs), specializing in Clinical Studies and post-AMM studies, notably through online tools. 3ES was founded in 1998 to meet the needs of its partners in areas such as organization, data management, and analysis of medical data, thus providing multidisciplinary expertise in the medical research field. 3ES has developed in-house its software INES, which is dedicated to the management of clinical and online studies, in order to leverage new technologies in the domain of Clinical Research. 3ES benefits from an established experience in the management of various studies with CRF (Case Report Form) either online or on paper, and on a national and international basis.
NJ motorists may want to get red-light smiles ready
Violators would get tickets through the mail featuring high-resolution, color digital images of their vehicle driving through an intersection when the light is red. While such cameras were rare just 10 years ago, they're now used in more than 300 U.S. communities, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. That includes major cities such as Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington. New Jersey's proposal would establish a five-year pilot program to test its effectiveness. The state transportation commissioner could let as many municipalities participate in the program as the commissioner deems appropriate. The state assesses two points against a license for motorists who fail to obey a traffic signal and charges fines ranging from $85 to $140.
Command Tooling Systems Chooses Microsoft Technology to Power Its ...
REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- America's technology leader in the manufacturing of toolholders for high-precision machining operations has selected Microsoft Dynamics(TM) NAV to serve as the technology backbone for its global expansion. Microsoft Corp. today announced that Command Tooling Systems LLC, headquartered in Ramsey, Minn., chose the Microsoft(R) technology to replace its previous enterprise resource system from Epicor Software Corp. Command Tooling serves a wide range of industries, including automotive, aerospace, computers, defense, electronics, medical equipment and job shops. Since 2004, the company has been evolving from one focused on domestic customers into a global enterprise that requires a system that manages multiple warehouses, a variety of currencies and other issues associated with globalization.
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