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• Spiderhost Sets New Standards in Web Hosting

  - 2008-06-17

  ORLANDO, Fla. -- Spiderhost, Inc., Central Florida's IT and Internet Solutions Partner, introduces a softer side to Web Hosting. Today, the Company announced a recent partnership with the University of Florida, Gainesville UF to host the Aspergillus Technology Consortium's AsTeC website through their Non-Profit Program. AsTeC was created to...

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• Fenced-off trees drop their friends

  - 2008-01-26

  On Kenya's savanna, good fences make bad neighbors. Protecting acacia trees there from giraffes and other browsers sets off a chain reaction that ruins the partnership between trees and their bodyguard ants, says Todd Palmer of the University of Florida in Gainesville. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] He first noticed something...

  Tags: fence, FINANCE, INTERNET, species, University of Florida

• More Evidence that Being a Jerk Doesn't Work

  - 2008-01-25

  Stanford professor, Bob Sutton, has built a small industry around telling business people not to be assholes. You can check him out explaining the basic idea of his book, "The No Asshole Rule," in this BNET Book Briefing: working with rude, self-obsessed people isn't just aggravating, it's a drain on...

  Tags: Researcher, Professor, Tools & Techniques, Workforce Management, Blogging, Management, Human Resources, Internet, Jessica Stillman, University Of Florida

• Police use stun gun on student as Senator John Kerry looks on

  - 2007-09-18

  MIAMI AFP — Videos posted on the Internet Tuesday show police shocking a Florida university student with a controversial electric stun gun during a speech by US Senator John Kerry, prompting the former presidential candidate to express regret over the incident. The footage shows the young man yelling Monday...

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• Green answers.(Florida Trend.com: THE WEBSITE OF FLORIDA BUSINESS)

  - 2007-03-01

  A national expert in "green" building, University of Florida professor Charles Kibert, answers questions from TREND readers about green building trends and practices.

  Tags: INTERNET, professor, University of Florida

• UTEK Completes Technology Transfer with Fuel FX International, Inc

  - 2006-01-25

  PLANT CITY & GAINESVILLE, Fla. & SAN DIEGO -- UTEK Corporation (AMEX:UTK) (LSE-AIM:UTKA), an innovative technology transfer company, and Fuel FX International, Inc., a developer of proprietary products for improving fuel economy and reducing emissions in vehicle engines, today announced that Fuel FX International has acquired Emissions-Detection Technologies, Inc. EDTI,...

  Tags: emission, FINANCE, INTERNET, Investment, sensor, technology, University of Florida

• Asia America MultiTechnology Association Appoints Serial Entrepreneur as New President

  - 2005-02-02

  SAN JOSE, Calif. -- William A. Chen to Guide Silicon Valley Networking Organization's 2005 Initiatives to Foster Growth of High-Tech Enterprises The Asia America MultiTechnology Association AAMA, which has fostered business ties between the Silicon Valley and the Pacific Rim for more than 25 years, today announced the appointment...

  Tags: Asia, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, INTERNET, Pacific, payment, Portals, University of Florida

• A Million Minutes of Mitzvot.

  - 2004-11-02

  By IsraelNationalNews.com Jewish students at the University of Florida have launched a unique program with a highly ambitious goal: getting their fellow classmates and community members to perform a million minutes worth of mitzvot by the end of the school year....

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• RASIG's top student papers

  - 2004-05-01

  The Institute for Operations Research and Management Science/Rail Special Interest Group has announced the winners of its 2003 Student Paper contest, co-sponsored by Railway Age. First place: New Approaches for Solving the Block-to-Train Assignment Problem, by Krishna Jha, University of Florida. Second place: Bicriteria Train ,Scheduling for Intercity Passenger...

  Tags: Institute for Operations Research, INTERNET, University of Florida

• Helping disabled veterans with college life is this man's goal

  - 2003-06-24

  WASHINGTON - John Gebhardt has a dream, and he's looking for a million dollars to make it come true. Gebhardt is the veterans' service office on the campuses of the University of Florida and Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville, Fla. He works with 700 to 800 young...

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