Google signs commitment to improve data handling - November 22, 2010
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, has signed a commitment to improve data handling to ensure breaches like the collection of WiFi payload data by Google Street View vehicles do not occur again. Senior Vice President of Google, Alan Eustace, has signed an undertaking… Read More
IEEE looking to address engineering education’s role in new economy - November 22, 2010
Members of technical professional association IEEE are seeking to encourage traditional university-based engineering educators to think about engineering education's role in the new economy, and how the present curriculum can influence tomorrow's engineers. IEEE members are promoting a cultural change to drive a more holistic… Read More
NLM Catalog and Journals Databases to merge - November 22, 2010
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has announced that the NLM Catalog will soon be redesigned to provide users with a streamlined interface and enhanced search and display of the 1.4 million bibliographic records in the NLM database. The NLM Catalog will contain detailed MEDLINE indexing… Read More
SirsiDynix launches BookMyne 2.0 iPhone application - November 22, 2010
Library automation solutions provider SirsiDynix, US, has announced the 2.0 release of the BookMyne iPhone application. BookMyne claims to be one of the most comprehensive iPhone applications available to libraries today. It features mobile access to in-demand library information, holdings and services. Version 2.0 expands… Read More
Two-thirds of Wiley-Blackwell’s journal portfolio now has an Impact Factor - November 22, 2010
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that two thirds of its journals (68.8% and 1,013 titles) have an Impact Factor, according to the revised Thomson ISI 2009 Journal Citation Reports (JCR). Of these ranked titles, nearly a… Read More
Google leads search market in comScore’s ranking for October 2010 - November 22, 2010
comScore, Inc., a US-based provider of digital marketing information, has released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the US search marketplace. Google sites led the explicit core search market in October with 66.3 percent of searches conducted, an increase of 0.2 share points from September 2010.… Read More
