Portal 2

5. March 2010 | 19:19

Treatment of portal hypertensive pulmonary lesions induced by schistosomiasis

( World Journal of Gastroenterology ) Calculus Bovis compound preparation can effectively prevent pulmonary complications of portal hypertensive rabbits with schistosomiasis. The successful development of Calculus Bovis and the preliminary study on portal hypertensive pulmonary lesions caused by schistosomiasis suggest that it is of great significance and prospects for further basic and clinical … (News Source: EurekAlert! - 15:34:07)

Chinese Internet portal Sina misses estimates with adjusted profit, which excludes gain

NEW YORK - Chinese Internet portal operator Sina Corp. on Wednesday missed analyst expectations with its adjusted fourth-quarter profit. Earnings surged to $372.1 million, or $6.03 per share, from $25.2 million, or 42 cents per share, in the year-ago quarter. (News Source: Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - 04:38:08)

UPDATE: Valve Alters Portal

UPDATE 2: Mystery solved! Well, sort of. Not all of the decoded info is entirely clear, but we do know one thing: Portal has a new ending. After a second update to the Steam version of Portal released this afternoon, Xfire user Exilion posted this video , which showcases the brief addendum to the traditional ending of the game. It is not necessary to get the new “Transmission Received … (News Source: Game Informer - 00:53:05)

AT&T Intros Mobile Apps Portal for SMBs

The nation’s No. 2 carrier raises the curtain on a new portal that helps small businesses find the mobile downloads that best suit their mobile computing needs. (News Source: InternetNews.com - 01:31:35)

News: Valve updates Portal end sequence

We’re already in the party position. Not content with teasing us last night with something potentially Apple-related, Valve has also added more tease to Portal. The latest PC patch for the developer’s excellent first-person puzzle game claims it has “Added valuable asset retrieval” - another cryptic description following on from last week’s transmission business, which left players scrambling … (News Source: Eurogamer - 09:09:01)

Brazil Embraces Digital Age With New Interactive E-Gov Portal - brasil.gov.br

BRASILIA, Brazil, March 3 /PRNewswire/ — In its latest move to increase engagement with the global public and promote democratic access to information, the federal government of Brazil today launched ‘Portal Brasil’ (www.brasil.gov.br) — the new official website of the Brazilian State. “The world has entered a new era of open, interactive, real-time communication and … (News Source: redOrbit - 23:48:22)

April Cover Revealed

Valve is known for making quality first-person shooters: The Half-Life series redefined how players think about the FPS genre, while titles like Team Fortress and Left 4 Dead took team-oriented multiplayer action to a whole new level. But among Valve’s stable of popular shooters, one game stands alone: the mind-bending puzzler, Portal. A small-scale experiment that was squeezed into 2007’s The … (News Source: Game Informer - 17:38:05)

Portal 2 ARG clues point to GDC announcement [Update]

It’s been two days since the Portal update was released , and the eager cryptologists on SomethingAwful and the Steam forums have mostly decoded the meaning behind the ARG. At least, they think they have. It’s impossible to tell with ARGs, thanks to just how strange they are. There have been a number of theories, some of them incredibly out there ( Gunman Chronicles sequel? Seriously?), but as … (News Source: Big Download Blog - 23:10:53)

How to evaluate hemodynamics of gastric varices effectively?

A research team from China investigated the afferent and efferent veins of different types of gastric varices (GV) according to their location, with multidetector computed tomography portal venography (MDCTPV). Their results indicated that MDCTPV could display the collateral circulation of GV. It could provide a valuable reference for the treatment of GV bleeding. (News Source: EurekAlert! - 15:41:06)

Portal update adds new achievement and Morse code messages

Leave it to the creators of Portal to deliver one of the strangest title updates ever. Players of Portal on the PC have noted that a new achievement called “Transmission Received” has been added to the game today. According to forum goers on Valve’s website, the achievement requires players collect 26 radios scattered throughout the Aperture Science laboratory. A new, very disturbing noise has … (News Source: Network World - 10:02:11)

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