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A technology and services company focused on global eClinical solutions for the clinical trials industry, today reported that it has signed Diverse Lynx to its CRO Connect program.

DATATRAK’s CRO Connect program is a non-exclusive enterprise agreement and accreditation relationship that empowers CROs to design and deploy their own EDC trials using DATATRAK’s unified eClinical platform. As a CRO Connect partner, Diverse Lynx will be able to offer eClinical services to its clients through a standardize offering.

“We are pleased to add Diverse Lynx to our CRO Connect program,” stated Dr. Jeffrey A. Green, Chief Executive Officer of DATATRAK International, Inc. “Collaboratively, this program allows Diverse Lynx to offer our standardized eClinical platform to best serve their sponsor’s clinical trial needs. Our CRO model allows them to offer very predictable research and development costs while eliminating wasted time involved with negotiation and contracting under the trial-by-trial mode. This model has tremendous advantages to DATATRAK and Diverse Lynx with solid visibility of revenues over a multi-year period of time combined with a greatly diminished cost of sales.”

“Our partnership with DATATRAK International is a big step towards offering absolute clinical data management services for data capture, processing, analysis and management services in the most cost effective approach with the highest quality. We now have a strong data management infrastructure to match our organization in Europe, Japan and Asian countries, covering over 20 countries,” said Shubhendra Varma, President of Diverse Lynx. “At Diverse Lynx, we take this partnership several steps further by emphasizing long-term, value-added relationships and a commitment to understand our sponsors’ business needs.”

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Sun Microsystems announced the release of the new GlassFish Enterprise Server V3 Prelude solution, which was developed as a lightweight Web application server based on a modular Open ServiceGateway ( News - Alert) Initiative (OSGi) architecture.

Important features of GlassFish include ease of installation and management, modularity and extensibility. The server allows developers to easily scale their projects from small Web-tier deployments to large-scale mission critical architectures and to simplify complex development and production tasks and increase productivity.

Sun Microsystems (News - Alert) also released a new preview of the upcoming Java Platform Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE) application. The new features offer access to the latest functionality in the upcoming Java EE 6 platform, such as EJB 3.1 Lite and Java Server Faces 2.0. It also supports JAX-RS 1.0 for building RESTful Web Services.
 
GlassFish Enterprise Server V3 Prelude offers dynamic language support and allows users to run development languages like Java, Groovy on Grails and JRuby on Rails at the same time without sacrificing performance. It allows JRuby applications to run without the Java technology-based servlet container, eliminating the need to bundle and deploy JRuby applications as Web archive.
 
The new GlassFish server is provided with a simple user interface with point-and-click configuration and also a feature-parity command line interface (CLI) for automated tasks. It simplifies the Web development cycle of Java-based applications to edit code, save and immediately refresh browser with no loss of application state.
 
When combined with the upcoming release of NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 6.5, GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude can offer more productivity, says the company.
 
According to Karen Tegan Padir, vice president of engineering, Software Infrastructure, Sun Microsystems, GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude, which is fully supported by Sun and targeted at Web-tier production environments, will be the basis for the GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 — a complete application server based on the OSGi standard and the upcoming Java EE 6 platform.

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“The secret is, we didn’t,” Ben Koski told a session at the Professional Ruby Conference here today. Instead, Koski and others in the Times’ interactive new media group used low level SQL commands for some key data-manipulation tasks. And while some Rails purists might frown upon choosing SQL over Rails’ own higher level interactions with data, Koski said the direct SQL commands helped slash the time needed to process thousands of records from 30 seconds to about 1 second a major boost when election result files were literally being updated by the minute.

Rails can help developers go from raw data to a working application in just a few hours, and it’s “tweak friendly” for multiple iterations of an already working app, Koski noted. Rails Web code can be used from a command line to run automated cron jobs, and there’s customizable built-in SQL for dealing with data that needs to be reformatted.

Even so, deployment while improving can be considered a weakness compared to other options, he noted. Also, installing and running Rails tools on Sun servers can be a challenge (Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing service is now hosting some nytimes.com Rails apps). And, available built-in administrative interfaces are not as robust in Rails as they are on a competing Python-based framework, Django. The Times interactive new media group which works largely on projects that offer added functionality beyond conventional text, audio and video plans to launch a Django application next month.

At YellowPages.com, one of the largest sites to be built with Rails, developers are looking to rewrite some services using another framework, Merb, said director of Web development Coby Randquist. That’s because the Merb version would use less than half the memory of the Rails version, allowing more instances to run on the same hardware.

Still, Randquist sounded bullish on the move last year to replace the Web site’s legacy Java code with Ruby on Rails. “We haven’t regretted that,” he said, scoffing at criticism that Rails doesn’t scale. YellowPages.com is one of the Web’s top 30 traffic sites, handling about 165 million page requests per month.

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Whoop, Inc. announced today its first ever Whoop Mobile Marketing Manifesto. A primer to some, white paper to others and blue print for how companies and their agencies can tackle the explosive mobile marketing arena, the Whoop Mobile Marketing Manifesto is chock full of solid, how-to information on rich media mobile applications, mobile web site development and simple SMS/text initiatives.

About Whoop. Delivered via a Web-based platform, Whoop makes it easy for everyone to create, publish and share text, mobile content or rich media to virtually every mobile device. Customers include large and mid-tier companies, publishers, ad agencies, PR firms, interactive studios and direct marketing agencies. Whoop has operations in the U.S., Europe and South America.

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ServerBeach, a PEER 1 company specializing in dedicated hosting, has been chosen by Natuba(TM) to provide web hosting and IT infrastructure for the rapidly growing site. Natuba is changing the way people document and share photos, by providing a simple way to capture and share single photos whether from a desktop or a mobile phone. Originally designed as an iPhone focused Web site, Natuba is now broadening its reach to support multiple mobile and Web platforms. These changes and growth require a reliable and flexible hosting solution that can address the growing demands of its community.

“Our goal is to provide a simple way for people to share their photos and to make this process quick and easy, all based on a stable online environment,” said Richard Yoo, chief executive officer of Natuba. “In order to achieve this, we needed to rethink our network and hosting needs, which brought us to ServerBeach. The level of service and support is higher than what we found elsewhere, and we feel confident that our hosting and network will continue to grow efficiently with us, as our community of users increases.”

Natuba experienced a seamless transition when it moved its business to ServerBeach in September of this year. Since that move, the Natuba site is processing at speeds nearly 16 times faster than before, meaning users now see their photos appear online almost instantly after uploading from their mobile phones.

Natuba, which was created by ServerBeach co-founder Richard Yoo, relies on having a usable, accessible site. With ServerBeach, its system is fully optimized for posting and viewing of photos that matter the most to people. In the first few weeks working with ServerBeach, the Natuba team has virtually seen no network challenges or any need for technical support outside of the transition.

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Mashups are the rock stars of personal productivity, allowing people to easily combine Web data to create new Web services, such as personalized news feeds and travel guides. Increasingly mashups are becoming serious business tools that can add significant value to an enterprise SOA.

Aiding mashups’ business cred is a new generation of mashup servers that deliver mashups as fully capable Web services, encouraging reuse through the separation of content from presentation. Now mashups can perform long-running activities, which previously required a workflow engine to drive. For instance, the mashup that rallies the company ski club to enjoy some fresh powder can be consumed in a mashup for the transportation division that initiates instant messaging alerts about possible travel delays any time it snows.

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