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Cambridge City Council has earmarked up to £29,400 from their £250,000 'climate change' budget to buy 42 of Apple's latest gadget. They claim it will improve their eco-credentials by helping to get rid of some of the thousands of pages of printed documents used in meetings each year. The £250,000 climate change budget was approved by the council in March last year to reduce the carbon footprint of internal projects.  

There were many themes that popped up in this year's batch of Super Bowl ads. Several ads exhibited nostalgia for the 1980s, with icons of the era including the 1985 Chicago Bears, "National Lampoon's Vacation" stars Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo and "Golden Girls" star Betty White all making appearances. And back-to-back commercials featuring people in their underwear aired in the first half.  

CHANGES to the skilled migration program will not protect vulnerable students who have spent thousands of dollars and many years trying to gain residency in Australia, an advocacy group says. Carolina Schwinden, 24, a spokeswoman for Almost Australian, said the group had been formed to support the thousands of people who were agonisingly close to gaining residency in Australia before changes in the skilled migration program announced this week meant their applications may no longer be successful. It wou

There were a lot of people taking courses with the sole reason of wanting to get permanent residency   -Chris Evans

 

Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday gave the thumbs down to the commercialisation of Bt Brinjal and imposed a moratorium on it till further study. Ramesh said, " It is my duty to adopt a cautious approach on Bt Brinjal." "Moratorium has been issued till the study confirms safety of the product," he added.

It is my duty to adopt a cautious approach on Bt Brinjal.   -Jairam Ramesh

 

THE federal government's plan to extend income management of welfare payments beyond the Northern Territory is a "clumsily disguised and cynical attempt" to perpetuate racial discrimination against indigenous Australians, a former chief justice of the Family Court of Australia said yesterday. Alastair Nicholson, now an honorary professorial fellow in law at the University of Melbourne, said he considered it "highly unlikely" the proposed powers would ever be used against welfare recipients generally.  

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/09/10 -- ON24, Inc. , the global leader in webcasting and virtual event solutions, announced today that its new strategic partner in Japan, Softbank Group's ITmedia, Inc., will be hosting the first virtual event sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Japan.

We are pleased that our partnership with ITmedia is already benefiting customers in the Asian market   -Denise Persson

 

NEW YORK , Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- NeoStem, Inc. (NYSE Amex: NBS) ("NeoStem" or the "Company"), an international biopharmaceutical company with operations in the U.S. and China , announced today that its stem cell collection network has expanded into the southwestern region of the U.S. with the addition of the physician group at Westlake Orthopaedics Spine & Sports ("Westlake") in Austin, TX. The Company is on track to achieve its target of 10 collection centers in its national netw

We are excited to add a premier spine & sports orthopaedics practice in Central Texas to our expanding stem cell collection network and look forward to working with Drs. Spann, Burns, Moore and Crawford and their team of professionals   -Robin Smith

 

A student activist was killed and around 50 others injured in a clash between two student political groups at Rajshahi University (RU) in Bangladesh' s Rajshahi district on Monday night, according to the university sources Tuesday. The activists from Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student front of Bangladesh's biggest Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami, which was the key partner of former Prime Minister Khaleda's government, carried out attacks on supporters of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student wing of  

The Downtown Tupelo Main Street Association on Wednesday will hold a public forum to discuss the Main Street improvement project, which includes beautifying sidewalks and restriping a section of Main Street to three lanes. The meeting is geared toward downtown business owners and stakeholders. DTMSA said the informal discussion will start at noon in the Walnut Room of the Hilton Garden Inn. In the invitation, the group said a full understanding of the history and purpose of the proposed project is cri