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Sizing Up the iPad for Healthcare
MobiHealthNews has produced a 25-page report on the iPad and tablet PCs in the healthcare field. Luckily for those of you still in light summer-reading mode, they were considerate enough also to offer a distillation of their findings in the form of an easy-to-understand infographic.
Game On: iPad’s Got Competition
It looks as though the iPad’s brief stint as the only must-have tablet device on the market may be coming to an end as competitors begin announcing their new “iPad-killers.”
Web Search Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smarter
Google’s recently-announced acquisition of Metaweb, a company that Google describes rather vaguely as maintaining “an open database of things in the world,” promises to realize the type of free, far-reaching human-language semantic web search that has up till now has been more speculative fantasy than reality.
Here Come the Enhanced E-Books
At the outset, e-books started out as little more than digital words on digital paper. But as many predicted would happen, the e-book boom has allowed the e-book to come into its own as a distinct medium.
Improving the E-Reader: Kevin Rose on What E-Books Should Offer Consumers
Kevin Rose shares some interesting suggestions for how e-readers could and should take advantage of technology they already have in order to become the socially oriented devices they were destined to be.
Canada Says Goodbye to the Phone Book
Print-lovers shouldn’t panic yet, though. Residents of Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa-Gatineau, Montreal, and Quebec City (in case you were wondering what Canada’s seven largest cities were) can still receive the typed tele-tomes by making a request to Yellow Pages — for now, anyway. While there’s still no word as to whether or not print production will be retired altogether, the list of cities is expected to expand, and will soon include Winnipeg.
Defending the Library: Librarians, a Linguist, and Lady Gaga Join Forces
Many libraries have begun turning to digitization efforts as a means to cut down on staff and overhead. But this has many people asking: now that we have a vast universe of information instantly accessible from home (or the car, the supermarket, wherever), what’s the point of continuing to house print books and archives in a physical space? We’ve assembled some answers to this question, direct from the lips of librarians (and one linguist) — and with a little help from Lady Gaga.
Boeing Secures $1.7 Billion FAA Contract
Boeing has secured a $1.7 billion contract with the FAA to produce the Next-Generation Air Transportation System. Among the system’s goals is updating the air traffic control system from radar-based tracking to safer and more accurate ADS-B GPS-based technology, as well as the integration of ground and air technologies to handle all types of traffic (commercial, military, unmanned, etc.).
DCL’s “Guide to Conversion Cost Variables” Published in Best Practices Newsletter
DCL’s Don Bridges is enjoying the honor of having been published in the most recent issue of the Center for Information-Development Management’s (CIDM) Best Practices Newsletter. His article, “How Much Does Document Conversion Really Cost? — A Guide to Conversion Cost Variables,” appears on page 64 of the June 2010 issue.
Digital Formats Annoy Book-Burning Extremists (Humor)
Geek-humor staple xkcd cleverly illustrates some implications of the rise of digital media.
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