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Thursday, September 20, 2012
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APDU 2012 Conference Explores the Future of Federal Survey Data
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by Peggy Garvin
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While the tech community has been buzzing about public data, open data, and Big Data for the past several years, the Association of Public Data Users (APDU), founded more than 40 years ago, has had a relatively low profile in discussions happening outside of its own community of statisticians and demographers. Connections made at APDU's 2012 conference, held at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 12-13, could begin to change that. Speakers included representatives from the federal government (including the White House and leadership from the federal open data portal Data.gov), open data advocacy groups, and private sector data analysts and suppliers. Librarians, and especially data librarians, joined the statisticians in attendance.
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Elsevier Launches Ebook Legacy Collection on ScienceDirect
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Elsevier announced it has digitized its Legacy Collection in seven disciplines, significantly expanding its content on ScienceDirect. With the addition of the Legacy Collection to ScienceDirect, highly relevant, scientific books from the mid-20th century to the present will be accessible online as early as December 2012.
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Microsoft Introduces My Bing News on Facebook
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Bing announced a new My Bing News Facebook app that essentially brings Bing News search to your Facebook experience. My Bing News, currently in beta, is a customizable news page that lives on Facebook and lets users subscribe to generic topics such as Politics or Sports, and/or create more specific topics such as Seattle Seahawks or U2. My Bing News will automatically pull the most important stories based on your interests from sources across the web into a personal My News homepage tailored just for you.
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Access Innovations Announces New Initiative: Access Integrity, Inc.
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Access Innovations, Inc. is bringing its patented and trademarked technology to the medical compliance arena with the launch of its newest business endeavor: Access Integrity, Inc. "Utilizing Access Innovations' Data Harmony software suite, Access Integrity employs a natural-language, rule-based taxonomy application—Medical Claims Compliance—to search, analyze, and verify electronic medical records (EMRs), procedure notes, and submission forms simultaneously to improve billing compliance, identify discrepancies for over and under billing, and speed the submission and reimbursement process with fewer errors and rejections," said Marjorie M.K. Hlava, president of Access Innovations and co-founder of Access Integrity.
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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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