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Thursday, September 13, 2012
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| Regulatory Compliance Shifts the mHealth Applications Market |
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by Joanna Ptolomey
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| You are communicating with your doctor, and your prescription (an app) arrives on your smartphone. This is no frivolous app. It could help manage your chronic health condition—measuring, collecting, and managing your key personal health data. But is this app really a medical device, and if so, what are the issues around regulatory compliance? The Greater New York Hospital Association just announced Happtique, a mobile health application store for prescribing medical, health, and fitness apps to patients. How is the industry approaching quality and safety issues in one of the toughest regulatory markets? With downloadable health apps available at a few dollars or less, why is the industry now shifting to higher cost models and more complex tools? |
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| Europeana’s Huge Cultural Dataset Opens for Free Re-Use |
| The digital portal Europeana opened up its dataset of more than 20 million cultural objects for free re-use. The massive dataset is the descriptive information about Europe's digitized treasures. For the first time, the metadata is released under the Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain Dedication, meaning that anyone can use the data for any purpose—creative, educational, commercial—with no restrictions. |
| Summon Discovery Service Expands Coverage of Open Access Scholarly Content |
| Thanks to new agreements with three publishers of scholarly open access (OA) journal and book content, libraries using the Summon service from Serials Solutions can offer researchers more access to freely available resources outside of their own collections. Making these resources accessible through the library discovery interface broadens the number of highly relevant and appropriate results returned to researchers, while further making the library the "go-to" resource for credible content. The publishers are Libertas Academica, eScholarship@McGill, and the Directory of Open Access Books. |
| FirstRain Announces New Customer Intelligence Solution |
| FirstRain announced the official launch of FirstRain Performinator, a new subscription-based solution for easily adding strategically tuned customer intelligence to the daily lives of major accounts sales and marketing pros within their existing CRM systems, social enterprise platforms, tablets, and smartphones. |
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| Apple-Samsung Case Highlights America’s Troubled Patent System |
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by Paula J. Hane
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| It's clear that Apple scored a major victory over Samsung in its recent and highly publicized patent dispute. A jury found that a number of Samsung's mobile devices infringed on Apple's patented designs and awarded damages of $1.05 billion to Apple. The jury also found that Apple had not violated any of the five patents Samsung asserted in the case. Apple then requested a ban on the sale of eight models of Samsung smartphones. Both companies are considering their next steps, while the media and blogosphere continue to buzz with reactions. |
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INTERNET LIBRARIAN INTERNATIONAL THE LIBRARY INNOVATION CONFERENCE October 17 & 18, London ILI's Programme Director, Val Skelton, celebrates librarian superpowers. THE NEW LIBRARY, THE NEW LIBRARIAN – exploring some of the strategies, structures, teams, skills, services and collaborations librarians are using to ensure they stay at the cutting edge. USERS, UX, AND USAGE – understanding how libraries are working with users to redesign services, spaces, and to understand usage. CONTENT CREATIVITY – investigating how libraries are creating, curating, and marketing digital collections, how librarians are publishers in their own right, and how they are driving collaborative content creation. FIGHT THE FAKE, FIND THE FACTS – celebrating two of the librarian's super powers--advanced search techniques and nurturing information integrity--in a post-truth/multi-truth era. MARKETING THE LIBRARY – sharing stories of librarians who are influencing use and expanding audiences for their services and collections from the DJ librarian to the digital storyteller. NEW SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS – exploring why the scholarly communications landscape is changing, and what this means for libraries and information professionals. In addition to a series of one-hour workshops - ILI Extra - covering a wide range of specialised skills and topics, from tech topics to personal development, ILI also hosts two one-day pre-conference workshops: Websearch Academy 2017 explores the intricacies of research on the web. Our global expert speakers look at advanced search, evaluation of search engines, apps relevant to serious research, social media search, and analysis of search results. Marketing Your Library Service: Principles and Actions--In libraries we spend so much time curating our content and services that sometimes we don’t put enough focus on telling people about what we do. We do so much, but how do we ensure people hear about what we offer and understand what we do?
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If you regularly read blogs, add these to your reader: ITI Books Blog – booksblog.infotoday.com – news, observations, and commentary from the authors, editors, and publishers of Information Today, Inc.'s many book offerings. ITI Conference Blog – libconf.com – covering ITI's library conferences worldwide. SpeechTech Blog – speechtechblog.com – updates on speech technology and its applications in daily life, covering everything from ASR to VUI, with lots of links, threads, and even a few pictures thrown in for good measure. |
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This newsletter is published by Information Today, Inc. Editor: Brandi Scardilli Website: http://www.infotoday.com/NewsLink Email: bscardilli@infotoday.com |
