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The Pitfalls of Standardized BYOD
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by Donovan Griffin
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In businesses around the world, 24-hour access to employees via phone has become the standard in workplace communication. Although the era dominated by company BlackBerries has largely gone by the wayside in favor of bringing your own device (BYOD), a return to corporately owned, personally enabled (COPE) devices is making a comeback in certain sectors.
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Associations Team Up for Research-Tracking Service
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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) received a joint $1 million grant from IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which will help ARL develop and launch the SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE) notification service for tracking the releases of research results such as articles and data.
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HID Global Reaches Settlements in Patent Lawsuits
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HID Global, a provider of secure identity solutions, settled its patent-infringement lawsuits against Apollo Security, Applied Wireless IDentifications Group, Inc. (AWID), and Secura Key.
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The New York Times Adds Subscription Options
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The New York Times Co. announced new options in the New York Times digital subscription portfolio: NYT Now and Times Premier. These options are designed to offer more Times content to existing subscribers and to bring in new readers.
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Chat Apps: Six Top Messaging Platforms Post WhatsApp
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by Donovan Griffin
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Tired of paying for unlimited text messaging? Have relatives in countries not easily reachable by phone? Or maybe you're suspicious of WhatsApp Messenger now that the notoriously info-hungry Facebook has gotten its hands on the app? There are plenty of reasons for someone to download a mobile messaging service in 2014, even if the basic functionality of the internet messenger hasn't changed much from AOL Instant Messenger's heyday at the start of the second millennium. ... Here's a collection of WhatsApp's peers, some smaller and some larger, that are worth checking out (and getting your friends to check out too).
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Download Our April Editorial Sampler
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Want to review some articles from our library publications? Download the free April content sampler (PDF) of recent articles and an exclusive subscription offer.
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How KM Is Redefining Federal Records Management
GSA KM specialist and senior records officer Dave Simmons discusses the role of KM in the future of federal records management in this clip from his presentation at KMWorld 2022.
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