Recent developments in the development of social search focus on better decision making and trusted networks.
Posted 24 May 2011
Google has signed a six-month agreement with French publisher Hachette Livre to scan books.
Posted 24 May 2011
Amazon.com has announced that its customers are purchasing more Kindle books than all print formats.
Posted 19 May 2011
A new app enables 'commuters' to drive at speed across - and even crash from - the Bay Bridge.
Posted 19 May 2011
Libraries Thriving aims to help libraries communicate their value in all areas of education.
Posted 19 May 2011
Elsevier challenge calls for information discovery solutions ideas from librarians and information professionals.
Posted 19 May 2011
Reuters Live Stream will provide live video coverage of news events worldwide.
Posted 12 May 2011
Three French publishers are suing Google for nearly 10 million euros.
Posted 11 May 2011
Nature Publishing Group expands online availability of Scientific American archive material.
Posted 10 May 2011
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office has published guidance on staying compliant with new EU cookies regulations.
Posted 10 May 2011
The UK's Press Complaints Commission regulations look set to extend to newspaper and reporter Twitter feeds later this year.
Posted 9 May 2011
France move will allow for price fixing for e-books.
Posted 5 May 2011
The report shows Dutch and UK users spend the most time online.
Posted 5 May 2011
The Publishers Association annual Yearbook shows UK digital sales accounted for 6% of all 2010 sales.
Posted 3 May 2011
White paper from IAB Europe looks at the current state of mobile internet access across Europe.
Posted 29 April 2011
TomTom to review data sharing after public backlash.
Posted 29 April 2011
The National Library of France digitisation programme continues.
Posted 28 April 2011
News Corp sets $100 million asking price for MySpace.
Posted 28 April 2011
Delicious has been sold to the founders of YouTube for an undisclosed sum.
Posted 28 April 2011
The Dutch are the top users of both Twitter and LinkedIn, new study shows.
Posted 28 April 2011
UK's Digital Economy Act complies with EU law says judicial review.
Posted 21 April 2011
Semantic search will help identify multiple concepts within single search queries.
Posted 15 April 2011
Autonomy's new search technology Aurasma embeds images and videos onto images of 'real objects'.
Posted 15 April 2011
Microsoft's 'rival to StreetView' will launch in Europe.
Posted 14 April 2011
Kobo, the wireless e-reading service, has announced it is expanding in Europe.
Posted 12 April 2011
The most popular activities include game playing, information searching and emailing.
Posted 11 April 2011
Elsevier is offering $35,000 in an international competition to develop apps to 'accelerate science'.
Posted 8 April 2011
New conference will focus on practical aspects of enterprise search in Europe.
Posted 7 April 2011
Google found guilty of 'defamation' against Italian businessman.
Posted 7 April 2011
The LISRC review is now underway.
Posted 5 April 2011
Microsoft has filed a formal complaint against the internet search giant.
Posted 31 March 2011
Europeana project to document the first World War is seeking German material.
Posted 31 March 2011
The Royal Society of Chemistry has launched RSC Advances in response to the growth in research across the chemical sciences.
Posted 31 March 2011
The UK edition will launch this summer.
Posted 30 March 2011
The quarterly online publication features thought pieces and interviews with industry leaders.
Posted 25 March 2011
Google fined €100,000 in France for data protection breach.
Posted 24 March 2011
Europe leads Firefox 4 download figures
Posted 23 March 2011
Google's legal settlement with publishers and authors challenged in the US.
Posted 23 March 2011
European magazine publishers publish a five point appeal to policy makers.
Posted 21 March 2011
Copyright law in Europe is evolving at a 'dazzling pace' and more change is expected.
Posted 18 March 2011
The New York Times digital subscription model has been announced, and widely debated.
Posted 18 March 2011
French authors and publishers have failed to reach an agreement regarding electronic rights.
Posted 17 March 2011
The European Information Association has announced the winners of its awards for Excellence in European Information Provision.
Posted 16 March 2011
The microblogging service celebrates its birthday by blogging some boggling statistics.
Posted 15 March 2011
The site, dedicated to librarians, offers new features and the chance to win a Kindle!
Posted 14 March 2011
Research report looks at the current usage figures and predicts trends in social networking in the EU5 countries.
Posted 14 March 2011
Mendeley, the academic research tool, is offering a $10,001 prize for a winning app.
Posted 10 March 2011
Talis Information, the library software division of the Talis Group, has been acquired by Capita Software Service.
Posted 4 March 2011
Thomson Reuters' 'Research in View' aggregates and standardises data from disparate sources to provide a unified database.
Posted 4 March 2011
Unannounced antitrust inspections held in e-book companies.
Posted 2 March 2011