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No silver lining in Tiffany's infringement case.
Sep 01, 2008; Kupferschmid, Keith ... Is eBay liable for direct or contributory trademark infringement when individual sellers post auction listings on the site to sell counterfeit products? A French court recently answered yes in holding eBay liable for $61 million. However, any grieving that eBay executives did ...
New Israeli copyright law--a 'slight' update from 1924.
Sep 01, 2008; Mirchin, David ... In 1924, George V was king of England and Calvin Coolidge was president of the U.S. That was also when the current Israeli Copyright Law went into effect. From 1924, before the creation of the State of Israel, until 2008, Israel depended on an ordinance enacting the 1911 British ...
Going green: why helping the environment won't hurt your bottom line.
Sep 01, 2008; Greenwood, Bill ... With global warming becoming a bigger concern throughout the world, many IT companies are taking steps to "green up" their operations. Though green initiatives are often associated with additional costs, these companies are discovering that what's good for the environment isn't necessarily ...
Forrester Research acquires JupiterResearch.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Forrester Research, Inc. recently acquired JupiterResearch,LLC, along with its parent company, JUPR Holdings, Inc., from MCG Capital Corp. The terms of the acquisition were $23 million in cash and assumed liabilities, ...
JEGI: good news, bad news regarding 2008 M&A activity.(NewsBytes)(Jordan Edmiston Group Inc)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. released its findings regarding M&A activity in the first half of 2008. While the overall picture looked increasingly cloudy, several areas, especially the Online Media & Technology and Marketing & Interactive Services sectors, continued to perform well ....
Collexis, JISC reach out to U.K. researchers.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Collexis Holdings, Inc. and JISC Collections are teaming up to encourage greater collaboration and expand scientific knowledge in the biomedical research community in the U.K. For a specially negotiated subscription fee, researchers, teaching staff, and students at U.K ....
Columbia University Libraries to preserve historical interviews, memoirs.(NewsBytes )(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will give $371,000 to Columbia University Libraries for a 2-year project designed to preserve 820 recordings containing nearly 1,200 hours of sound. The tapes are part of the Oral History Research Office's collection ...
Ask.com teams up with Photobucket.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Ask.com and Photobucket are pooling their resources with a multiyear, strategic agreement. Now, the Ask search box will be displayed on Photobucket.com ...
Vivisimo case studies focus on innovation in enterprise search.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Vivisimo is helping customers and medical practitioners get the most out of search technology with three case studies it recently published on its website. The case studies discuss innovative ...
Thomson Reuters boosts access to patent index and more.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Thomson Reuters will improve access to English-language versions of Asian patents by adding registered Japanese Utility Models to its Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) database. Chinese Utility Model Registrations were added to the DWPI in October 2007. In other news, investors ...
OCLC report addresses library funding issues.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... OCLC released "From Awareness to Funding: A Study of Library Support in America," a research study funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The study found that most people are unaware of how their local libraries are funded, that library ...
So what's wrong with good, old-fashioned metadata?(Up Front With Barbara Quint)
Sep 01, 2008; Quint, Barbara ... Excuse the geezering, but what happened to the simple things in life? How about the daily realities of a sunny sky in September or even November (here in Southern California)? Or a relaxing ride through the country un-plagued by the vision of running out of gas and actually having to stuff ...
Social networking and collaboration platforms lead the news.(News Break Update)
Sep 01, 2008; Hane, Paula J. ... I wrote about several new initiatives in the last issue that enabled social networking and fostered collaboration. Now there seems to be no end in sight for such news. Over the last month, my inbox has been filled with information about new tools, new sites, upstart companies, and ...
New titles, publishers join ALPSP Learned Journals Collection.(NewsBytes)(Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers )(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) is beefing up its collection of journals with the launch of the 2009 ALPSP Learned Journals Collection. The collection includes 122 new titles, bringing the total to 773, and two new publishers, bringing the total to ...
MetaPress earns right to work with KnowledgeWorks.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... MetaPress completed the Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks Certification Program, joining the ranks of 12 other organizations that have successfully passed ....
Flock: an integrated interface (errr, browser).(WEB 2.0)
Sep 01, 2008; O'Neill, Jill ... In June, updates on two browsers were released: Firefox version 3 and Flock version 2 (beta). Those in the know are already aware that the Flock browser (www.flock.com) was built (at least in part) with Firefox 3 (www.mozilla.com/ firefox) code as its foundation. So ...
State Library of Queensland adopts Primo solution.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) switched to the Ex Libris Group's Primo discovery and delivery solution. The service will provide a single search ...
Accessible Archives revamps search for database users.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... To improve its users' search experience, Accessible Archives, Inc. added two new features to its online databases of 18th- and 19th-century American newspapers, periodicals, and ...
Wilton Re Services catches the Tidal (Enterprise Scheduler) wave.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Wilton Re Services, Inc., citing the need to automatically drive each step of the process of aligning IT with its business, decided to standardize on Tidal Enterprise Scheduler. The program ...
Nature tops '2007 Journal Citation Report'.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Thomson Reuters' "2007 Journal Citation Report" features good news for several publishers. Eight of the top 20 science journals ranked by impact factor are published by Nature Publishing Group, including Nature, which was the No. 1 multidisciplinary science journal, and Nature ...