ChewLeng Beh elected Vice President/President-Elect of OCLC Global Council - April 18, 2011
The OCLC Global Council has announced that ChewLeng Beh, Senior Director, Library and Professional Services, National Library Board in Singapore, has been elected Vice President/President-Elect. His term as Vice President will begin July 1, 2011, followed by a one-year term as President of Global Council beginning… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 18, 2011
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Rick Anderson (Who Will Referee the Referee? — The ACS As Publisher and “Approver”); Robin Lloyd (Electronic health records face human hurdles more than technological ones); Kent Anderson (Is Higher Education the Next Bubble to Burst?); Chris Meadows (Publishers cannot… Read More
Attention Subscribers – www.myscoope.com lets you access Knowledgespeak using your mobile devices - April 18, 2011
Mobile access for Knowledgespeak is now available via our new beta application, SCOOPE STM Mobile. Subscribers on the move can now gain easy access to Knowledgespeak through a reader-friendly mobile phone interface. This application is uniquely available in two versions:… Read More
Elsevier, EMBL and University of Copenhagen launch new app for SciVerse - April 15, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the availability of a new application, Reflect-Network, on SciVerse Applications beta. The application was developed in partnership with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany, and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research (CPR), University of Copenhagen, Denmark. … Read More
VMware unveils application platform for cloud computing environments - April 15, 2011
VMware, Inc., a US-based provider of virtualisation and cloud infrastructure, recently unveiled Cloud Foundry, claimed to be the industry's first open Platform as a Service (PaaS). Cloud Foundry is said to represent a new generation of application platforms, architected specifically for cloud computing environments and delivered… Read More
Korean firms file antitrust complaint against Google over Android use in mobile devices - April 15, 2011
Internet search services company Google, Inc., US, is reportedly facing antitrust complaints in South Korea due to the increasing dominance of its Android software for mobile phones. In a joint complaint to South Korea's Fair Trade Commission, Korean Internet portal operators NHN… Read More
