Public access lobbyists seeking support for passage of US bill - April 19, 2010
US Congress Representatives Doyle, Waxman, Wasserman-Schultz, Harper, Boucher and Rohrabacher recently introduced the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA). The bill is expected to ensure free, timely, online access to the published results of research funded by 11 US federal agencies. All supporters of public access… Read More
Israel bans Apple’s iPad over Wi-Fi concerns - April 19, 2010
Israel recently announced a new regulation which bans imports of the iPad, Apple Inc.'s latest product, citing concerns that the gadget's wireless signals could disrupt other devices. Customs officials have recently confiscated about 10 of the lightweight tablet computers. The ban does not allow anyone, including… Read More
Reed Business Information concludes the divestment of US controlled circulation magazines - April 19, 2010
Publisher Reed Elsevier has announced that it has concluded divestment of US controlled circulation magazine titles. In July 2009, Reed Elsevier announced that the RBI-US controlled circulation magazines and certain other print titles, representing about 45 percent of the revenues of RBI-US, were to be divested.… Read More
Google launches Cloud Printing plan for Chrome OS - April 19, 2010
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, is set to launch early-stage designs, software code and documentation of a project called Google Cloud Print. The new initiative will allow users of the company's Chrome OS operating system print documents to any printer from any application. The… Read More
Quark joins RIXML consortium as associate member - April 19, 2010
Publishing software provider Quark, US, has announced that it has become an associate member of RIXML.org, a consortium of buy-side, sell-side, and vendor firms committed to the development and implementation of the first open standard for investment research. Quark offers Quark XML Author, an XML authoring… Read More
Latest issue of Clinics in Perinatology covers quality improvement in Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine - April 19, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the March 2010 issue of the journal Clinics in Perinatology provides Neonatologists and Maternal-Fetal-Medicine specialists with the tools and concepts necessary to understand Quality Improvement (QI) methodology and to initiate QI projects within their own practices and neonatal intensive… Read More
