XanEdu launches iPad publishing programme for Educators - July 26, 2010
CoursePacks and custom textbooks provider XanEdu Publishing Inc, US, has launched an iPad publishing programme. The move, conducted in concert with several major institutions in North America and Harvard Business School Publishing, is expected to allow students and instructors greater flexibility in accessing course materials. Instructors… Read More
NPG and InnoCentive award Solver in the DNDi Challenge to fight infectious diseases - July 26, 2010
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, and InnoCentive, which built the first global web community for open innovation, have announced that Solver Sandip Bharate has been awarded $10,000 for his solution to a Challenge posted on the nature.com Open Innovation Pavilion (Read More
New England Journal of Medicine revamps website to take better advantage of current technology - July 26, 2010
The New England Journal of Medicine has redesigned and rebuilt NEJM.org to take better advantage of the current technology. Each week, half a million readers reportedly access the Journal electronically. According to an editorial published on July 24, the journal's content is… Read More
Mobile computing solutions expected to become primary revenue driver for the CE industry by 2011, says CEA report - July 26, 2010
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has released the semi-annual US Consumer Electronics Sales and Forecast (July 2010) report, according to which, the consumer electronics industry will exceed initial revenue projections for 2010, with growth of three percent over 2009 and overall shipment revenues of $174.9 billion… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - July 26, 2010
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (E-book Sales Beat Hardcover Sales at Amazon: Tipping Point or Fluke?); MB Quirk (E-Readers Getting Rolled Under Tablet Juggernaut); Tom Webb (Privatising the Peer Review Process?); and Philip Davis (No Deposit, No Diploma: How Graduate Schools and Libraries… Read More
Mobile access for Knowledgespeak now available - July 26, 2010
Knowledgespeak subscribers, on the move, can now access quality STM News of their choice any time any where with the all new SCOOPE service. SCOOPE is the only mobile application that allows subscribers to customise content. Advantage of SCOOPE - Newsletters are now downloadable into local memory and read at… Read More
