US Supreme Court to hear case on limiting use of prescription records for marketing - April 26, 2011
The US Supreme Court is slated to hear a case that could put an electronic silence on the use of some pharmacy data to target physicians based on their identifiable prescription records. Data mining firms and their drug company clients reportedly use… Read More
Johns Hopkins University Press names Gregory M. Britton as editorial director - April 26, 2011
The Johns Hopkins University Press has announced the appointment of Gregory M. Britton, who has led the publishing programme at the Getty Museum and related institutions since 2008, as editorial director. Effective May 16, Britton will become a senior member of the Press's Executive Committee.… Read More
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra to keynote 2011 Government IT Leadership Forum - April 26, 2011
UBM TechWeb's InformationWeek Government, a media brand focused on serving government IT professionals, has announced that Federal CIO Vivek Kundra will be a keynote speaker at the 2011 Government IT Leadership Forum. The event is expected to bring together chief information officers, chief technology officers and… Read More
Attention Subscribers – www.myscoope.com lets you access Knowledgespeak using your mobile devices - April 26, 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
ProQuest’s OA journal adds visualisation tools to capture and illuminate fast accumulation of data - April 25, 2011
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that its peer-reviewed, open access e-journal Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy (SSPP) is introducing new visualisation tools that make it easier for researchers to observe, compare, and manipulate the vast amounts of data being generated by the… Read More
US jury passes verdict against Google in Linux patent suit - April 25, 2011
A Texas jury has reportedly ruled against Internet search services provider, Google, Inc., US, in a suit that alleged some of its use of open source Linux code amounted to patent infringement. In the verdict, the jury decided that Google should pay… Read More
