goBalto Partners with Maya Clinicals to Expand Its List of Investigator Sites

goBalto, an online drug development partnering site for the pharmaceutical development and drug manufacturing industry, announced today that Maya Clinicals is making its proprietary list of India-based Investigator Sites and hospitals available on goBalto.com.

Maya Clinicals is a leading Clinical Research Organization (CRO) in India, one of the foremost countries for clinical trials outsourcing. Its proprietary list of Investigator Sites listed on goBalto is divided into two categories: “Sourced by Maya Clinicals” and “Screened by Maya Clinicals.” “Sourced by” indicates Maya Clinicals has identified these Investigator Sites as actively operating in India and maintains information on the company. “Screened by” indicates Maya Clinicals has visited the facility, met with senior management and reviewed the company’s specific capabilities.

Since launching in April, goBalto has acquired over 2,000 members who represent, research, manufacturing and procurement professionals from leading pharmaceutical and biotech organizations from all over the world.
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Explosive Rise in Fraud Applications Addressed by Lavasoft Malware Labs

Lavasoft Malware Labs Releases New white paper: “Fraud Tools and the Malware Economy” addressing the explosive growth and dissemination patterns of fraud security tools, and illuminating the economic impact of these applications in order to pinpoint countermeasures.

Gothenburg, Sweden (PRWEB) — Lavasoft announced today the release of a new white paper addressing the explosive growth and dissemination patterns of fraud security tools, and illuminating the economic impact of these applications in order to pinpoint countermeasures.

Fraud tools, also called rogue security software, are tools, such as fake anti-spyware and anti-virus products, designed to mislead and deceive users into purchasing software that appears to be beneficial from a security standpoint, but in reality provides little or no protection. These applications are used by cyber criminals in order to lure customers into participating in fradulent transactions. Read more

Alcoa Transportation Products Wins 2009 Automotive News PACE Award

Alcoa Transportation Products was awarded a 2009 Automotive News PACE Award. The prestigious award recognizes automotive suppliers for superior innovation, technological advancement and business performance.

Alcoa Transportation Products was recognized for its Alcoa Vacuum Die Casting (AVDC) for Lightweight Door Assemblies developed as an integrated casting alloy, process and equipment “systems solution” which provides vehicle manufacturers within the passenger auto and commercial transportation market segments the opportunity to maximize weight savings (30-35%), consolidate parts (60-70% BOM/parts reduction) and reduce system costs of lightweight door systems. Read more

Report: Banks to get stress test results Friday

U.S. banks will be more informed by regulators on Friday how they place in government “stress tests” before the results are made public later, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing government officials.

Some estimates of the losses that may have been used in stress tests were stronger than expected, the newspaper said.

“In a less favorable scenario, which implies a 10.3 percent unemployment rate at the end of 2010, banks will have two years to calculate the losses of 8.5 percent of their first mortgage mortgage portfolio, 11% for home equity lines of credit, 8 percent for commercial and industrial loans, 12 percent of commercial real estate loans and 20 percent of credit card portfolios, “the paper said, citing a confidential document from the Federal Reserve. Read more

(Reuters) Telecom firms eager to help U.S. spend $7.2 billion

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Lobbyists, telecommunications industry officials and others crowded into a public meeting on Tuesday to influence the government’s $7.2 billion grant program for high-speed Internet expansion.

The meeting at the U.S. Commerce Department marked the first step in deciding which companies will benefit from broadband funding included in the Obama administration’s economic stimulus program valued at nearly $800 billion.

The funding aims to encourage broadband networks to connect rural and other unserved areas to the Internet.

“I think it’s safe to say that we are not as far ahead in this technology as we need to be,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, whose department will give out as much as $2.8 billion of the funds, told the meeting. Read more

iPhone features everywhere in rivals’ new phones

BARCELONA (Reuters) – Copying a few pages from the playbook of Apple Inc’s iPhone strategy, which brings many of the powers of the Internet to mobile phones, is no way to beat the computer interloper at its game.

But that’s exactly what many of the world’s biggest handsets makers are trying to do with new copycat phones and services that ape key features of the iPhone.

At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the world’s biggest annual trade show for the wireless industry, Apple is everywhere and nowhere. The company avoids such events, preferring to unveil products at its own venues.

The handset business will produce more than a billion phones this year, but is suffering a crisis of confidence brought on by sharply changing business models that has only been exaggerated by the global economic slump. Read more

Microsoft make an affordable table top surface computer

After 1.5 years of Microsoft Surface launch, Microsoft is still looking forward to make an affordable table top surface computer. Recently, Microsoft delivered a marketing research survey focused around a multi-touch computing device code named – Oahu. This survey intends to get inferences about Oahu which possibly is affordable surface computer for consumers.

The survey starts off with long foreword about Oahu which gives details about the device — an innovative multi-touch screen which can interact by touching the screen, instead of using a mouse, and more than one person can interact with Oahu at the same time. The device also works with other gadgets like digital cameras, cell phones, and MP3 players.
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