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 According to a pan-European survey conducted among members of global association ISACA, nearly 40% of business and IT leaders believe that employees at their organisations will spend more time shopping online during the upcoming holiday season using work computers and mobile devices than they did a year ago, negatively impacting productivity and creating increased security risks. Sixty-three percent of respondents predict that employees will spend 3 hours or more shopping online during company time over the next two months and a quarter of respondents believe employees will shop for a total of more than a full work day—9 hours or more.

 London UK - Aster Data, a market leader in big data management and advanced analytics, today disclosed the results of research conducted among attendees at the Company’s Big Data Summit conferences. The Summits have drawn over 800 attendees and were held in major US cities including New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, and Washington DC over the past year. The Company will be hosting the next event—rebranded as the “Data Analytics Summit” to reflect the increased focus on both advanced analytics as well as big data management —in New York City on November 18.  The opportunity that harnessing big data presents, the data challenges facing companies, and the advanced analytical techniques brought by Aster Data’s solution were outlined by Summit participants and attendees including industry leaders, partners, and analysts from the data warehousing, business intelligence, and analytics markets.

London, United Kingdom, November 10 2010 – DNA Electronics Ltd, a fabless provider of semiconductor solutions for real-time DNA and RNA detection, announced today the company has been awarded three key patents for semiconductor-based nucleotide detection. These latest patent allowances in the United States, China and Europe build upon DNA Electronics’ strong semiconductor IP portfolio, relevant parts of which have been licensed non-exclusively to Roche and Life Technologies in recent months.

The core platform is based on an invention by semiconductor healthcare pioneer Professor Chris Toumazou FRS – founder and CEO of DNA Electronics – and a research student of his. In 2001, they found that when two complementary nucleotides bind together, protons are released, which generates a pH change, and that this pH change could switch on a microchip-based transistor known as an ion-sensitive field-effect transistor (ISFET).

London, UK  (9th November 2010)—Employees plan to spend less time shopping online from a work-supplied computer this holiday season than they did a year ago, but more of them are engaging in risky behavior, according to ISACA’s annual “Shopping on the Job: ISACA’s Online Holiday Shopping and Workplace Internet Safety Survey”, which includes responses from 365 workers in the UK and 638 workers in the US.

Employees are expecting to spend an average of 6 hours shopping from a work computer or mobile device, with a quarter planning to spend 9 hours or more (20% USA and 33% UK). But, there is an increase this year in the number of employees who take risky actions online, such as clicking on an e-mail link or providing their work e-mail address when shopping online, and 45% report accessing social network sites from their work-supplied computer or mobile device (42% USA and 49% UK).