Through an international, competitive bidding process, the University of Oklahoma was recently selected by the Meteorological and Hydrological Service of the Republic of Croatia to undertake a comprehensive modernization Feasibility Study for the DHMZ. Led by Regents Professor Ken Crawford, Director of the Oklahoma Climatological Survey, the study team consists of a diverse collection of meteorological experts from the National Weather Center.

The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), the country's top think tank, published its eighth annual report on Monday and introduced a new international strategy.

HP and Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), in collaboration with Intel Corp., today announced that their Application Modernization Initiative is gaining momentum as customers increasingly migrate away from legacy systems to drive business growth with more reliable and efficient IT infrastructures.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new software to help companies around the world modernize their IT environments. As an extension of IBM's $100 million Mainframe Simplification investment announced in 2006, the new software portfolio helps System z clients shorten deployment cycles and helps developers with diverse technical backgrounds to jointly create higher-value technology solutions.

Retail stores and other branch locations now have new options for making dial-up connections a thing of the past as Verizon Business brings headquarters capabilities to the extended enterprise.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and ZAO Medit Profi have successfully completed a massive newsroom modernization project at TV Channel 5 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

In a speech before the Dallas Chamber of Commerce Thursday, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates cautioned against allowing weariness with the war in Iraq to provoke a withdrawal that he said would bring chaos to the Middle East. VOA's Greg Flakus has more from our Houston bureau.