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Google, Apple Expand Micropayment Systems for Web Content and Mobile Purchasing
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by Nancy K. Herther
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Efforts to monetize web content have largely failed in the past, with users preferring to switch rather than pay for information. Earlier this month, Google Wallet expanded its micropayment capabilities to include web content. Websites can now set up their pages so that users can sample some portion of the web content and then see a banner that tells them that seeing more of the content will require paying a fee. The system also works for buying other types of products over the web.
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Thomson Reuters Adds Web of Science Content to Patent Prior Art Research Tools
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The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters added 21 million more scientific journal articles to Thomson Innovation. The nonpatent collections now comprise 85% of the World Intellectual Property Organization's minimum documentation requirement.
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Treasury Department Data Heading Toward GPO’s FDsys Portal
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The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury are partnering on a pilot project to make digitized content from the Treasury library available on GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys), a one-stop site to authentic, published government information. Through the pilot project, the Treasury Reporting Rates of Exchange, 1956-2005, which list the exchange rates of foreign currencies based on the dollar, are now available on FDsys.
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New MuseGlobal Version Empowers Partners
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MuseGlobal, Inc., provider of content integration and data virtualization platforms worldwide, released Muse version 2.6.0.0, which includes a new module and a variety of enhancements. The Partner Source Factory, a new licensable module available from MuseGlobal, includes the Partner Source Build Environment, which allows Muse Partners to build their own Source Packages.
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Pew Research Center Provides Research and Data on Campaign 2012
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by Paula J. Hane
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As Barack Obama and Mitt Romney prepared for their first debate on Oct. 3, 2012, the issues at the top of the voters' agenda have changed little since 2008, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Conducted Sept. 12-16 among 3,019 adults, including 2,424 registered voters, the results show that 87% of registered voters say that the economy will be very important to their vote, while 83% say jobs will be very important to their vote.
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