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1 December 2011 0 Comments

Beware phishing attempt: Google Wallet for Business Beta

We are all aware of the dangers of installing programs that can be harmful to our computers: here is one that will be harmful to the pocket!

29 September 2011 0 Comments

Google at thirteen

Google celebrated its thirteenth birthday on Tuesday 27 September 2011. Danny Goodwin reminds us that the “terrible teens” can affect companies and organisations as well as people.

13 September 2011 0 Comments

Citation mapping

A new technique for mapping patterns of citations reveals how knowledge in a domain develops.

3 September 2011 0 Comments

DuckDuckGo receives plaudits

The search engine has been selected as one of the top fifty websites of 2011 by Time Magazine.

17 August 2011 0 Comments

Happy birthday PC . . . but is it also “Goodbye”?

The IBM PC is thirty years old but is the “PC” concept in decline?

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16 August 2011 0 Comments

Computer, give me . . .

Has conventional searching reached a plateau of development? If so, what could be next?

4 August 2011 0 Comments

A fresh round of cuts at Google!

Under Larry Page’s management, Google seem to be redefining its business and slimming down the facilities offered by the company.

30 July 2011 0 Comments

Journal package costs and benefits

The Research Libraries UK Group (RLUK) has announced the development of a tool to analyse the cost-benefit of various approaches to journal subscription.

28 July 2011 0 Comments

The skill set is changing!

Are knowledge management and information management set to merge to form a new discipline?

27 July 2011 0 Comments

Enterprise risk: the role of information management

Information can be harmful as well as beneficial to an organisation — it all depends on how it is managed!