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| • | No lazy summer days for legal info providers | | Even through the sleepy month of August, legal, tax and regulatory information rivals Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis continue to innovate furiously. The arrival of the potentially disruptive Bloomberg on the scene may be one factor – but another one is likely to be the increasing availability of free legal ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
30/Aug/10
15:32 |
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| • | Mobile penetration shapes emerging markets | | Mobile communication devices with access to online information and connection via social media platforms are drastically carving out new markets in countries with growing middle classes. Nielsen (http://digbig.com/5bcghp) recently reported that the demand for mobile (cell) communication is following a less than predictable growth pattern with explosive demand in ... |
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Joanna Ptolomey |
30/Aug/10
13:52 |
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| • | Warm welcome to ProQuest Dialog's new release | Well, it has finally happened – ProQuest Dialog’s much heralded new search service (see our posting on the subject in July at http://www.vivavip.com/go/e29767) was launched last week and, so far, has received very positive reviews.
What ProQuest Dialog called the “long-standing dream of professional searchers for simplified access and a unified ... |
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Penny Crossland |
30/Aug/10
13:24 |
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| • | OTC or prescription: drug info languages | | In the world of healthcare we are all on our own individual patient journeys to varying degrees. In a recent report from the US Department of Health and Human Services, Healthy People 2010 (http://www.healthypeople.gov/), the efficacy and outcomes of any drug intervention you may take could be highly ... |
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Joanna Ptolomey |
30/Aug/10
12:45 |
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| • | What happens on Facebook stays in Germany | | Employers in Germany may be barred from trawling Facebook for background on job applicants if a new law goes through. Quite a few jobseekers may breathe a sigh of relief – but it could be the thin end of the wedge for both online job sites and due diligence ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
27/Aug/10
15:02 |
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| • | News Resources - A VIP Editorial | Business is driven by news. Every day, leaders review what's happening in their industry, amongst their competitors and around their marketplace to inform their decisions. Across all areas of business, news content is essential.
With so much importance laid on the category, VIP regularly covers news publishers, content and aggregators. ... |
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Robin Neidorf |
26/Aug/10
10:18 |
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| • | Less could be more at Nexis | Over 2,000 global newspapers feature on Nexis – but earlier this year came word that News International’s offerings would soon not be among them. Now it seems that selected News International content may continue to feature on Nexis, not as full text but as abstracts.
It was last March that ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
24/Aug/10
17:13 |
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| • | Visual searching and map sharing made easier | | This summer, search engines and software developers have been paying a lot of attention to online image display and visual searching. Improved image searching is undoubtedly driven by increased online shopping activity, however visual search engines can also help information professionals in their work. Researchers looking for information on products ... |
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Penny Crossland |
24/Aug/10
11:55 |
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| • | Paywall rights and wrongs | Media monitoring services provider BurrellesLuce has just agreed a new licence with the Financial Times. From 1 October it's authorised to deliver links to FT.com content through its portal, which allows clients to monitor and measure their media coverage in both free and subscription sources.
The actual deal ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
22/Aug/10
14:26 |
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| • | OK for employees to tweet? | | Have you tweeted today? What did you tweet about? And if you are an employee of an organisation did your tweet represent the values or message of your employer? In fact does the organisation that you work for allow you to tweet as a company employee? ... |
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Joanna Ptolomey |
20/Aug/10
11:51 |
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| • | ‘Absolutely beautiful’ future for B2B publishing? | Business-to-business journals are the information manager’s staple diet, and they’re starting to innovate. A new report suggests that interactive periodicals are due for lift-off, and e-readers could be the catalyst.
It was LiveWire’s Penny Crossland who drew attention recently to Haymarket’s new B2B web magazine Windpower Intelligence, which pulls together ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
18/Aug/10
12:56 |
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| • | Elsevier ‘bites’ into health specifics | | In Scotland the months from June to August can prove to be a bad time to visit any of our beautiful rural locations due to nasty insects called ‘midges’. It is ‘our mosquito of Scotland’ and can leave many nasty bites – they can make your time outdoors hell ... |
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Joanna Ptolomey |
17/Aug/10
12:30 |
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| • | Is the future of news on e-readers? | | Another month, another update on paywalls. LiveWire reported in July (see http://www.vivavip.com/go/e29823 ) on the initial uptake of online subscriptions to The Times and Sunday Times (http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news) after the introduction of its paywall. At the end of July, NewsCorp would only reveal the uptake of iPad applications, presumably because these ... |
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Penny Crossland |
16/Aug/10
18:28 |
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| • | Can SaaS save B2B? | Haymarket has launched a new B2B web magazine called Windpower Intelligence, intended to sit alongside its well-established printed title called Windpower Monthly. The online version however will also contain content from third party sources, aggregated by Strategyeye Publisher (http://digbig.com/5bcekr) via its software-as-a-service publishing platform.
As paidcontent (http://digbig.com/5bceks) and Marketingweek (http://digbig.com/5bcekt) ... |
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Penny Crossland |
14/Aug/10
21:59 |
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| • | Smartphones - which ones are winning? | | Last week IDC released 2nd quarter statistics on global smartphone sales and if there was any doubt whether Google's Android has achieved traction, it's been dispelled. According to the IDC press release (http://digbig.com/5bcejt), the market for smartphones as a whole continues to boom, climbing 50% in 2Q 2010 over the ... |
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Nancy Davis Kho |
13/Aug/10
15:52 |
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| • | Survival strategies by cloud or courier | Two new e-discovery tools offer yet more opportunity for companies to strengthen their compliance capability and squeeze the maximum amount of juice out of their customer data. But regulatory issues continue to emerge and, as ever, the cloud is at their heart.
First comes enterprise feedback management specialist MarketTools, with ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
13/Aug/10
10:50 |
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| • | Social media use in European Libraries | | On 8th August, as part of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) marketing satellite event in Stockholm, EBSCO unveiled the results of its survey of 1200 participants on the use of social media in libraries in Europe. It found that users in the European library community have ... |
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Nancy Davis Kho |
9/Aug/10
17:54 |
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Ed Han |
12/Aug/10
13:44 |
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| • | Social Platforms as News Powerhouse | Despite the doom and gloom predictions, it seems that the appetite for news hasn't really changed - only the platforms on which they're shared.
A new series on Mashable.com sponsored by IDG shows just how social news is becoming (http://mashable.com/2010/08/10/personalized-news-stream/). With recent figures from the Pew Internet & American Life ... |
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Nancy Davis Kho |
11/Aug/10
17:30 |
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| • | Big vendor results – a more level playing field? | Latest financial results from Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis and Dow Jones show a pretty uniform picture of flat or reduced revenues and profits. But there are some bright spots nevertheless.
Thomson Reuters’ second quarter legal services revenues were unchanged from the previous period but operating profit dropped by 10%. Seventeen ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
11/Aug/10
12:35 |
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| • | LexisNexis links with Microsoft | Soon after the announcement that LexisNexis is revamping its legal research services comes the news that it has formed a partnership with Microsoft.
In a press release, LexisNexis described the move as “First-of-its-kind integration with Microsoft applications transforms the way legal research is conducted.” (http://digbig.com/5bbbmh)
With the integration of Lexis ... |
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Michele Bate |
8/Feb/10
23:30 |
| • | Re: LexisNexis links with Microsoft | | LexisNexis has announced that Lexis for Microsoft office is now ‘broadly available’ – either through a standard downloadable installation or through a custom installation and deployment that includes integration of an enterprise document management system or SharePoint site. This follows a period since spring during which the company has ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
9/Aug/10
13:26 |
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