Sun Microsystems has put its weight behind up and coming web 2.0 companies with the launched this week of a new initiative designed to provide UK startups with discounts on Sun technology and services.

"They will also get free technical support – the idea is to help startups make good decisions up front so as their needs go up they can sustain higher traffic," said Sun's Juan Carlos Soto.

Maya Production Leads in Israel Website Design, Marketing

Tel Aviv-----January 27.......Maya Production Israel, Israel's leading website design and development organization announced today that it is expanding their services both in website design, creative and production for Israel. Maya Production and Website Development Services Israel is also offering the most potent Internet marketing, search engine optimization and web promotion solutions through it's partnership with Leyden Communications Israel.

Julian Lennon Invests in MyStore.com

LAS VEGAS, Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Today MyStore.com confirmed Julian Lennon, son of Beatles icon John Lennon, is among the group of private investors behind yourStore, LLC. The company owns and operates http://www.mystore.com/, an online marketplace. "In addition to his monetary investment, Julian has contributed some great ideas to the options MyStore.com offers to musicians and artists who want to resell or self distribute their music and art online. As an independent artist himself, Mr. Lennon was an early user of MyStore.com, setting up his own MyStore and linking it to several places he has a presence online including his MySpace page. We are glad to have him involved. He's been a friend for a long time," stated Todd Meagher, the company's CEO.

MyStore.com is owned by yourStore, LLC (http://www.yourstore.com/) which is a virtual real estate company and application service provider offering individuals and businesses with FREE online "retail" space and software usage in the form of personalized web stores located within the company's marketplace http://www.mystore.com/ and an e-commerce service provider offering seller support and software services; including web hosting, site design, marketing, fulfillment and inventory and customer management tools.

Co-terminal Illness:Silent on frosh expansion

President John Hennessy's column in Stanford Magazine last fall advocating an increase in undergraduate students seemed poised to start a healthy debate within the University. Since then, however, there's been no new information or discussion about the proposal from either the administration or The Daily.

Slater breaks Rockford College’s all-time assist record

Point guard Chelsea Slater (Forreston) broke Rockford College's career assists record Saturday as she led the Regents (13-5, 9-3 NAC) to 74-52 victory over Marian. Slater's six-assist performance in the game gave her 456 overall. She broke the record on a dish into the post to Angie Butler (Forreston). "Chelsea obviously has had a terrific senior year. She's clearly our team leader on the floor," first-year head coach Steve Cochran said. "Those two (Chelsea and Angie) have such a great connection. They've been incredible together." Slater is fifth nationally in Division III with 6.6 assists per game, and she is fourth in the country with a 2.46 assist-to-turnover ratio. The Regents, third in the Northern Athletics Conference behind Concordia, Wis., (12-1) and Wisconsin Lutheran (10-2), have seven games left in the regular season, but they are already assured of a winning season after going 8-17 last year.

UK MPs reject referendum on EU Treaty

Brown has been under severe pressure from opposition parties and campaign groups to hold a popular vote on the treaty ever since he signed the text last December (seeEurActiv 21/01/08). Meanwhile, parliamentary committees have already been discussing the treaty on an issue-by-issue basis for a month.

The issue split the Liberal Democrat party, whose leader Nick Clegg had ordered his MPs to abstain from yesterday's vote. Yet aquarter of Lib Dem MPs defied the orderand voted in favour of a referendum, with three frontbenchers resigning to do so.

The way it used to be, kids...

I would not have liked to live back then," laughs 10-year-old Jack Heap, a Year 6 pupil. "Going on the walk was great, especially looking at the old wells."Fellow classmate, Kiera Janicwiez, 11, agrees."It must have been quite hard living back then but I have enjoyed finding out all about it. "It was especially interesting to learn about a pub that was called The Anchor which used to be a field that belongs to my grandad."The book contains descriptions of what it was like to be a child in the village in an age when there were few cars and they could safely play in the streets, sledging in winter all the way from the chapel to the stream.There are descriptions too of how the village sounded with church bells ringing out and cartwheels and clogs clattering over the cobbles, as well as the "knock-upper" who woke mill workers by rattling a long pole against their windows.Other topics include health, families, the home, washing, communications, clothes, play and entertainment, community, transport and travel and religion.Head teacher of St Mary's, Simon Scott, said the book had been enjoyed by all children at the school."It was Year 5 and Year 6 who went on the walk and have been involved in the main but we have put other copies in our library and all the children, of all ages have been interested.

Forsberg ready to return to NHL

Drury and Avery that are carrying the team; when the rangers lose it is not from a lack of effort from those guys; Renney deserves credit and the players (we know who) deserve the jeers. 3) Question 1 - doesn't Vallequette deserve to play tonight? he has been good if not great all year. only one bad effort from recollection - and one bad angle goal that oh by the way King Henry let in twice. Valley deserves back to back games - other teams ride the hot hand even if it is short lived. 4) Question 2 - ever think about an AARP line - Let Straka center Jagr and Shanahan - move Drury to wing to make the move - could it be any worse? - at least we would have two complete lines Hungry for the puck with pressure.

EFI Inks Licensing Agreement for Paid Inc.'s Patented Online Shipping ...

BOSTON & FOSTER CITY, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- EFI, the world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation, and Paid, Inc. (OTCBB:PAYD) announced today that the two companies have signed a license agreement that enables EFI to integrate Paid's real-time online shipping calculation technology into its PrinterSite order system via an application protocol interface (API). The licensing agreement with EFI marks the first API integration since the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued the patent for portions of Paid's online shipping calculation technology in January 2008. Under the annual renewable contract, EFI will pay Paid, Inc. an annual licensing fee that will allow EFI's system to access Paid's AuctionInc server to calculate or recalculate shipping costs in real time for customer orders.

Obama, McCain declared winners in primaries (2nd Roundup)

First of all, the pre-program entertainment Infinite Groove, thank you so much. I want to thank the wonderful young lady who said the Pledge of Allegiance, Melissa Atkins (ph). That's not easy to do when you're 6 years old in front of 20,000 people. So thank you, Melissa. There are many great elected officials state and local here, but I've got to give a special shout-out to three of my fellow members of Congress who are just great supporters, Congressman Al Green... (APPLAUSE) ... Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, and Congressman Chet Edwards, thank you so much. (APPLAUSE) I want to thank all the wonderful faith leaders who are here who gave me a little circle of prayer before coming out here today. I want to thank some wonderful union supporters. SEIU in the house. (APPLAUSE) The United Food and Commercial Workers and the Transport Workers, thank you so much for your wonderful support.

'First' iPhone Trojan rolls into town

Hackers have created Trojan horse malware targeted at Apple's much-hyped iPhone device.