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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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CONFERENCE CALENDAR March 2–4, SPARC 2014 Open Access Meeting March 4–7, iConference 2014: Breaking Down Walls: Culture, Context, Computing March 5, ALPSP Training Course: Developing Open Access and Hybrid Journals March 5–6, Library Publishing Forum 2014 March 11–13, SMX West (Search Marketing Expo) March 11–15, PLA 2014 Conference March 13–16, Leipzig Book Fair March 18–20, The Fourth International Conference on Digital Information Processing and Communications (ICDIPC2014) March 18–20, ILLiad International Conference March 19–20, The Seventh Annual Library Technology Conference March 21–24, Paris Book Fair March 22–24, The 4th International Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (ICIST 2014) March 25–26, SMX Munich (Search Marketing Expo) March 26–28, Research Data Access and Preservation Summit 2014 (RDAP14) March 27–28, The 2nd International Conference on Information Technology and Science (ICITS 2014) March 28–April 7, The 12th Bangkok International Book Fair 2014 |
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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. Covers 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: Deborah Poulson Website: http://www.infotoday.com/NewsLink Email: dpoulson@infotoday.com |
