Google acquires Jambool’s Solid Gold virtual currency platform - August 16, 2010
Internet search services provider Google Inc. has announced that it has acquired Jambool, developer of the Solid Gold virtual currency platform that competes with Facebook Credits. Jambool CEO Vikas Gupta and CTO Reza Hussein, who previously worked on Amazon.com, announced the deal in a company blog… Read More
PLoS goes live with Editorial Manager for PLoS ONE publication - August 16, 2010
Online submission system provider Aries Systems Corporation, US, has announced that Public Library of Science (PLoS) has gone live with Editorial Manager for its PLoS ONE publication, with additional PLoS publications to follow in the coming months. The system launch in July, 2010 was the result… Read More
Pearson Education India launches its first online book store - August 16, 2010
Education publisher Pearson Education India has announced the launch of its first 'Online Bookstore' through its online retail partner, VRVBookshop. The online bookstore will include the complete catalogue of all Pearson Education India publications. These include imprints like Prentice Hall, SAMS, Longman, Addison Wesley, QUE, Wharton… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - August 16, 2010
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Philip Davis (Ending the Supplemental Data “Arms Race”); Joe Wikert ( Digital Publishing & POD: What's "Good Enough"?); Kent Anderson (It’s Going Too Fast — Can Embargoes Manage the Real-time Web?); and Ronald Firquain (Publishing Formats for Digital Books). Blogspeak… Read More
ARL publishes E-Science and Data Support Services: A Study of ARL Member Institutions - August 13, 2010
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published E-Science and Data Support Services: A Study of ARL Member Institutions, which synthesises data collected in a 2009 survey with subsequent interviews of several responding libraries. Authored by Catherine Soehner, Catherine Steeves, and Jennifer Ward, the study was… Read More
ACS and Council for Chemical Research to host R&D symposium - August 13, 2010
The American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Council for Chemical Research (CCR) will hold a special half-day symposium to address the critical challenge of keeping the US' chemical enterprise competitive, and the central role research and development (R&D) will play in this process. Entitled 'Translational Chemical… Read More
