Google to surrender Street View Data - June 7, 2010
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, will reportedly surrender the data it illegally collected over unsecured wireless networks. Google's chief executive, Eric E. Schmidt, has said that the company would share the data with regulators in France, Germany and Spain. The data is thought to… Read More
Kno Inc launches digital textbook and learning platform - June 7, 2010
Digital textbook and learning platform developer Kno Inc., US, recently announced a beta programme with four higher education publishers including Cengage Learning, McGraw-Hill Education, Pearson and Wiley. Under the new initiative, publishers participating in the beta programme will provide select digital resources and content for an… Read More
NASA announces cloud computing collaboration with Japan’s National Institute of Informatics - June 7, 2010
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Japan's National Institute of Informatics (NII) have announced plans to explore interoperability opportunities between NASA's Nebula Cloud Computing platform and Japan's NII Cloud Computing platform. NASA's Chief Technology Officer for Information Technology, Chris C. Kemp, launched this effort… Read More
Picis selects Clinical Architecture’s Symedical to support new medication decision support capabilities - June 7, 2010
Healthcare consulting and software solutions company Clinical Architecture, US, has announced that Picis, a global provider of innovative information solutions for acute care settings, has selected its Symedical interoperability solution. Symedical enables clinical applications to share patient information as actionable discrete data. Picis chose to integrate… Read More
Bowker unveils enhanced versions of library resources - June 7, 2010
Bibliographic information provider Bowker, US, a business unit of ProQuest, has announced enhancements to its suite of library resources. These include Books In Print, Syndetics Solutions, and Library Thing For Libraries products. The efforts are designed to enhance the bibliographic content found in library online catalogues.… Read More
OSA’s new journal to focus on novel optical materials - June 7, 2010
The Optical Society (OSA) has announced the launch of a new journal on optical materials. The journal, Optical Materials Express (OME), will launch in spring 2011. David Hagan, associate dean for academic programs and professor of optics and physics at CREOL, The College of Optics &… Read More
