Google Wave drowned by apathy
Google Wave was truly collaborative. It enabled users to manage their total communication on the web...
Liberating the NHS with intelligent informatics
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Will Open Source Boost SAP?
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Welsh Assembly government staff lost over 50 data devices, FOI reveals
Technology equipment valued at £21,000 has been lost by or stolen from Welsh Assembly government sta...
Wiley-Blackwell appoints marketing director to promote open access initiatives
STM publisher Wiley-Blackwell has appointed Natasha White to the role of associate director, open ac...
Legal firm uses LexisNexis Streamline for a bespoke networking solution
Law firm Farrer and Co has used LexisNexis Streamline, LexiNexis UK’s rapid application development ...
Berlin Academic appoints Jan-Peter Wissink as editorial director
Berlin Academic, the newly-established academic and professional division of publisher Berlin Verlag...
The banned books library tour
London Libraries’ reader promotion, Banned Books, will go live in 28 library services across the cou...
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Generic drug sector gets better information on API manufacturing costs

Thomson Reuters has collaborated with Rondaxe Enterprises, the software applications provider for pharmaceutical companies, to enable professionals working in the generic drug sector to better estimate the cost of manufacturing active pharmaceutical ingredients (API)

Berlin Academic appoints Jan-Peter Wissink as editorial director

Berlin Academic, the newly-established academic and professional division of publisher Berlin Verlag has appointed Jan-Peter Wissink as its editorial director

JISC Collections drives through library deal

JISC Collections has procured an agreement that makes Theory Test Pro, the online study programme for the UK's driving theory test available to English public libraries at special subscription rates

Scottish Natural Heritage goes for transparency

Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) says it is leading the way in making Scotland’s public data transparent. It is making information, that is not confidential or subject to the Data Protection Act, available to the general public as part of a drive to make the Scottish public sector more transparent

The banned books library tour

London Libraries’ reader promotion, Banned Books, will go live in 28 library services across the country, including 16 in London. The promotion goes live on September 25, 2010 to coincide with the American Library Association’s (ALA) annual Banned Books Week campaign

Welsh Assembly government staff lost over 50 data devices, FOI reveals

Technology equipment valued at £21,000 has been lost by or stolen from Welsh Assembly government staff in the past two years, a freedom of information request revealed

Thomson Reuters acquires Healthcare Data Management

Thomson Reuters has acquired Healthcare Data Management, the organisation that established the modeling of employee health benefit plans and using data-driven metrics to monitor plan performance

Vodafone UK receives information security management system certification

Vodafone UK has received a globally recognised certification relating to the provision of IT services such as application hosting, data management, technical support and consultancy for its business customers

JISC Collections and DataSalon develop licence comparison site

JISC Collections will be working with DataSalon to specify and build an online licence comparison site enabling librarians to view, compare and export the terms of licences expressed in ONIX-PL format

Journal publisher Inderscience appoints PCG for marketing

Inderscience, the academic, scientific and professional publisher of peer-reviewed journals, has appointed Publishers Communication Group (PCG) for comprehensive sales and marketing representation in Europe and North America
Thomson Reuters acquires Healthcare Data Management
Thomson Reuters has acquired Healthcare Data Management, the organisation that established the model...
Vodafone UK receives information security management system certification
Vodafone UK has received a globally recognised certification relating to the provision of IT service...
Journal publisher Inderscience appoints PCG for marketing
Inderscience, the academic, scientific and professional publisher of peer-reviewed journals, has app...
Semantico launches dictionary app for iPhone and iPad
Semantico, the provider of services and technology for online publishing, has launched an app called...
South China Morning Post launches native iPad app
It is the only Hong Kong-based newspaper as well as the only Asian English daily to launch such an a...
OUP’s latest dictionary edition includes social web terms, vuvuzela
Oxford University Press (OUP) has launched the third edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English. Th...
Google Wave drowned by apathy
Google Wave was truly collaborative. It enabled users to manage their total communication on the web...
ICO clears Google’s personal data collection during its Street View project
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has cleared internet giant Google’s collection of person...
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