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Framed and Booked (Free subscription) | yesterday
After reading six books straight from the Narnia series, I felt I needed a good dose of adult realism. Ahh, Jodi Picoult, just the ticket, get myself immersed in some real life issues and away from children's fantasy and C. S. Lewis' Biblical retelling. Like the other Picoult books I have read, this one deals with some social, medical, political; and, to my dismay, religious issues. While it is certainly...
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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
An update to our post in late October about OneRiot and Yahoo partnering to build real time search results into Yahoo : OneRiot CEO Kimbal Musk now confirms the relationship. The new search engine will go live tomorrow. In the email, Musk says that OneRiot results will appear in the main Yahoo search results page for certain queries: Today, we are pleased to confirm that OneRiot is working with Yahoo...
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FREELANCE RIGHTS (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
We're waiting for the Supreme Court ruling in "Freelance" ( Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick ) and for the revised Google Books settlement in federal district court. In the meantime, blogger Eric Rumsey has posted a must-read piece, "Google Books Integrated into Google Search Results," http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardinmd/2009/10/30/google-books-integrated-into-google-search-results/ . I...
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
So Thomson Reuters’ involvement in the BusinessWeek bid was even deeper than I first reported . Peter Kafka reports, based on a source, about ZelnickMedia’s plans if the PE firm would have been successful at buying the troubled magazine, including closing the print edition, dumping all staff and replacing with Reuters stories , and keeping 20 or so journos to work on the website. The Reuters...
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HomeATM (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
New York, Oct. 29, 2009 - PIN Payments News Blog - American Banker and Bank Technology News, SourceMedia’s renowned publications for banking and financial services professionals, and IDC Financial Insights, an independent research services firm, today released the 2009 FinTech Top 25 enterprise technology vendor rankings. Now in its sixth year, the FinTech Top 25 is comprised of leading horizontal...
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Arts Alerts (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
News Alert 27 October 2009 Company: Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (RBS:LSE) Frequency: Immediately October 27, 8:25pm Lexis Nexis sentiment boosts Reed Elsevier Reed Elsevier, the Anglo- Dutch publishing group, was in demand on Tuesday, its shares rising 3.3 per cent to 473p on the view that concerns about the performance of Lexis-Nexis, its content archive service, had been overplayed. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/731faa30-c2c7-11de-8eca-00144feab49a.html...
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Zada News (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Copyright 2009 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. [1] For 75 years, Taylor Summers Rhodes Rasmussen Brooke & Woodard LLP has been providing high quality, personalized legal services in Los Angeles County. [2] Jennifer Mitkus allegedly lied to investigators shortly after Summers’ disappearance, saying that she had been present at the final photo [...]
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My Christian Fiction Blog (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Gone To Green by Judy Christie Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Abingdon Press (August 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 1426700245 ISBN-13: 978-1426700248 From Amazon.com: Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Lois Barker, a successful big-city journalist, never imagined ending up in the tiny town of Green, La. She never guessed that within months she would unexpectedly inherit a...
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Slaw (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
A couple of releases from Thomson-West and Reed Elsevier that may interest Slaw readers. The first radical search innovation in a while from Dayton is the use of semantic search methodology to enrich searching for prior patent art. Here is a slide show advert – which sadly doesn’t explain how it all works. [...]
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Fergie's Tech Blog (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Grant Gross writes on PC World : Data broker ChoicePoint , the victim of a 2004 data breach affecting more than 160,000 U.S. residents, has agreed to strengthen its data security efforts and pay a fine for a second breach in 2008, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Monday. ChoicePoint, now a subsidiary of Reed Elsevier, will pay US$275,000 to resolve the newest FTC complaint. The FTC accused the...
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Security Fix (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
ChoicePoint Inc., one of the nation's consumer data brokers, agreed to pay $275,000 to federal regulators as a result of a data breach last year that exposed Social Security numbers and other personal information on 13,750 people. The agreement comes in response to claims by the Federal Trade Commission that ChoicePoint violated the terms of a settlement reached following a separate data breach at...
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Data broker ChoicePoint, the victim of a 2004 data breach affecting more than 160,000 U.S. residents, has agreed to strengthen its data security efforts and pay a fine for a second breach in 2008, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Monday. ChoicePoint, now a subsidiary of Reed Elsevier, will pay US$275,000 to resolve the newest FTC complaint . The FTC accused the company of failing to implement...
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FREELANCE RIGHTS (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
On Wednesday I was interviewed on the KRON 4 Evening News in San Francisco about my new book CHRIS & NANCY: The True Story of the Benoit Murder-Suicide and Pro Wrestling's Cocktail of Death . At the beginning of the interview is a quip about Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick . The link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGuVVszpep4 .
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Beyond Search (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Pure Discovery, a Dallas based search and content processing company, has landed a mid-sized tuna, LexisNexis. Owned by publishing giant Reed Elsevier, LexisNexis faces some strong downstream water. The $1 billion plus operation is paddling its dugout canoe upstream. Government agencies, outfits like Gov Resources, and the Google are offering products and services that address [...]
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FREELANCE RIGHTS (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
In a revealing exchange, Justice Ginsburg pressed Charles Sims, representing Reed Elsevier and the other petitioner-defendants, on whether the publishers had taken inconsistent positions: “That is, back in the district court before there was a settlement, you urged before the district court that 411(a) was a jurisdictional bar and that that precluded certifying a class that included the non-registered...