Fears cited for IBS drug's lagging sales (USATODAY.com)

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Memo Cited Fears of Attacks in U.S. (Los
Angeles Times)

Memo Cited Fears of Attacks in U.S. (Los
Angeles Times) 04/11/2004 05:35 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — The White House took the extraordinary step Saturday of releasing a top-secret intelligence briefing President Bush received five weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks, declassifying a document that contained no specific warning of the looming strikes in New York and the Pentagon but provided fresh information that Al Qaeda was bent on hitting targets in the United States.

CEO says Raytheon Co. might consider
sales of lagging units

CEO says Raytheon Co. might consider
sales of lagging units 12/06/2003 02:44 AM
Boston Globe Dec 6 2003 1:51AM ET

CIA personnel, civilians cited in abuse
(USATODAY.com)

CIA personnel, civilians cited in abuse
(USATODAY.com) 08/20/2004 08:54 AM
USATODAY.com - More than two dozen U.S. military intelligence personnel and at least five civilian contractors will be implicated in the Army's latest investigation of prisoner abuse in Iraq. Among the allegations against some of those individuals will be what military officials described as the most serious cases of sexual abuse and sodomy yet made public.

Sales, support issues cited by Quest
members

Sales, support issues cited by Quest
members 06/25/2004 05:21 PM
In addition to voicing concerns over PeopleSoft's software licensing, some attendees at this week's Quest conference for J.D. Edwards users said changes made by the company have left them uncertain about where to turn for sales and support help.

Flu vaccine fears flare up
(USATODAY.com)

Flu vaccine fears flare up
(USATODAY.com) 09/22/2004 06:33 AM
USATODAY.com - If the pediatrician's office seems more crowded than usual this fall, blame the flu. Not the virus, but the vaccine, which is recommended this year for all babies 6 months to 23 months old.

Police fears over uniform net sales

Police fears over uniform net sales 01/18/2004 12:34 PM
The Advertiser Jan 18 2004 4:03PM GMT

Genetic Link Seen in Cancer Drug's Power

Genetic Link Seen in Cancer Drug's Power 04/29/2004 11:11 PM
Two groups of scientists say people with a genetic mutation in their lung cancer tumors improve sharply when given a drug called Iressa.

Women hot target for DVD sales
(USATODAY.com)

Women hot target for DVD sales
(USATODAY.com) 05/04/2004 03:31 PM
USATODAY.com - What do women want? DVDs, and Hollywood studio executives are taking notice.

War games launch all-out sales assault
(USATODAY.com)

War games launch all-out sales assault
(USATODAY.com) 06/10/2004 12:52 PM
USATODAY.com - Shooting and strategy titles based on battles have always been steady sellers in the world of gaming. But in recent months, with series such as Medal of Honor and Tom Clancy dotting the best-seller charts, developers are sensing a growing appetite for war games with complex action and cinema-realistic images. (Related story: Big selling war games may carry bigger cost)

PDA sales slowing PDQ as cell phones add
features (USATODAY.com)

PDA sales slowing PDQ as cell phones add
features (USATODAY.com) 06/02/2004 05:30 AM
USATODAY.com - Sony said Tuesday that it plans to stop selling its Clié personal digital assistants in the USA - a big blow for the already shrinking PDA market.

Kerry slams president over national
sales tax (USATODAY.com)

Kerry slams president over national
sales tax (USATODAY.com) 08/13/2004 06:50 AM
USATODAY.com - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry attacked President Bush on Thursday for endorsing a proposal to abolish the federal income tax and replace it with a national sales tax. The Bush administration already had disavowed the idea soon after the president promoted it.

Siebel ousts CEO Lawrie after warning on
sales (USATODAY.com)

Siebel ousts CEO Lawrie after warning on
sales (USATODAY.com) 04/14/2005 06:25 AM
USATODAY.com - Troubled software maker Siebel Systems ousted Michael Lawrie as CEO on Wednesday, days after it warned that quarterly sales would be the lowest in five years. Longtime company board member George Shaheen, a former CEO at Andersen Consulting (now called Accenture) replaced Lawrie.

Rosy chip sales bode well for economy
(USATODAY.com)

Rosy chip sales bode well for economy
(USATODAY.com) 05/04/2004 06:37 AM
USATODAY.com - Sales of PCs, cell phones, DVD players and other electronic devices should be even stronger than expected this year, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said Monday.

Cube Management Sales Consultants:
Increase Sales Online With Sales
Consulting and Sales Acceleration

Cube Management Sales Consultants:
Increase Sales Online With Sales
Consulting and Sales Acceleration 12/19/2004 03:14 PM
A long-term, ongoing Search Engine Optimization Campaign is a critical step in your efforts to bulk up your company’s online lead generation program. [PRWEB Dec 15, 2004]

"wages lagging behind prices - "

"wages lagging behind prices - " 04/12/2005 05:29 AM

Thunderbird Adoption Lagging

Thunderbird Adoption Lagging 04/08/2005 12:50 PM

Thunderbird Finds It Hard To Mimic Firefox's Rapid Rise, Says Report: A report has been released which indicates that Thunderbird is not flourishing the way Firefox is.

Thunderbird's major shortcoming is the absence of an integrated calendar, the report says. A future release is expected to fill that void. Once calendaring becomes available, Thunderbird will be much more competitive, the report suggests.

Even so, the study notes that Outlook's position is strengthened by third-party developers. With hundreds of plug-ins available, Outlook users may be reluctant to switch until Thunderbird offers a greater range of expansion options.

I say give it time. Lightning will help.

Wages Lagging Behind Prices

Wages Lagging Behind Prices 04/12/2005 05:55 AM
the first across-the-board wage decline since 1991 .. wages lagging behind prices -

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Corporate adoption of Windows XP SP2
lagging

Corporate adoption of Windows XP SP2
lagging 04/05/2005 02:26 PM
Windows XP Service Pack 2 has been out for nearly eight months. However, as many as 75 percent of companies using XP have yet to install SP2.

Computer studies lagging behind in the
information age

Computer studies lagging behind in the
information age 09/02/2004 07:36 PM
PA News via The Scotsman Online Sep 3 2004 0:27AM GMT

Report: DHS cyber security lagging

Report: DHS cyber security lagging 12/17/2004 06:27 PM

Offshoring and IT skills gap leave UK
lagging behind

Offshoring and IT skills gap leave UK
lagging behind 02/18/2004 01:21 PM
Silicon.com Feb 18 2004 5:17PM GMT

Charter Schools Lagging Behind, U.S.
Data Reveal

Charter Schools Lagging Behind, U.S.
Data Reveal 08/16/2004 10:30 PM
The first comparison of test scores in charter schools and public schools shows charter school students often doing worse than students in regular public schools.

Skyworks Solutions Spanked for Lagging
Rivals

Skyworks Solutions Spanked for Lagging
Rivals 10/31/2003 09:35 PM
TheStreet.com Oct 31 2003 8:39PM ET

US domestic security efforts lagging,
says report

US domestic security efforts lagging,
says report 12/03/2003 07:32 AM
Computer Weekly Dec 3 2003 7:03AM ET

Microsoft CEO moves to oversee lagging
division

Microsoft CEO moves to oversee lagging
division 06/05/2004 01:10 AM
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is moving to directly oversee the unit that makes software for small and midsize businesses, a division that had one of the worst performances within the company last quarter.

Europe's chip makers lagging behind
rivals

Europe's chip makers lagging behind
rivals 12/08/2003 03:29 PM
Scotsman Online Dec 8 2003 12:53PM ET

Intel to speed lagging Linux support

Intel to speed lagging Linux support 02/18/2004 04:06 PM
CNET Feb 18 2004 8:15PM GMT

Microsoft to aid lagging Japanese Mac
games market?

Microsoft to aid lagging Japanese Mac
games market? 09/21/2004 06:46 AM
In an article published today on Wired, Nobuyuki Hayashi takes a look at the Mac gaming slump in the Japanese market and reports that Microsoft may soon come to the rescue...

Nation's Charter Schools Lagging Behind,
U.S. Test Scores Reveal

Nation's Charter Schools Lagging Behind,
U.S. Test Scores Reveal 08/16/2004 11:43 PM
The findings dealt a blow to supporters of the charter school movement, including the Bush administration.

Slow Learning: Sri Lanka is still
lagging behind intellectual property
rights game

Slow Learning: Sri Lanka is still
lagging behind intellectual property
rights game 03/14/2005 06:00 PM
Lanka Business Online Mar 13 2005 2:23AM GMT

More SCO Misrepresentations Cited

More SCO Misrepresentations Cited 03/06/2004 01:58 AM
Infoworld reports that two companies SCO claims as Linux licensees are denying it, or else saying SCO is misrepresenting the circumstances. Since one the companies, Computer Associates, has its own history of somewhat sleazy financial dealings, I don't take for granted the accuracy of its statements. But SCO's consistent unfamiliarity with ethics gives no one the slightest confidence that it's telling the truth this time.

Operators Need to Overhaul Pricing
Strategies to Kick-Start Europe’s
Lagging Mobile Content Market, Says
Analysys

Operators Need to Overhaul Pricing
Strategies to Kick-Start Europe’s
Lagging Mobile Content Market, Says
Analysys 12/19/2004 03:08 PM
The Western European mobile content market has been slow to take off, reaching just EUR2.3 billion in 2003, well behind Japan and Korea. Revenues could reach EUR15.0 billion by 2009 if operators resolve pricing and billing issues. New services are taking centre stage, such as mobile music, video clips and downloadable information applications. Java will increasingly displace SMS and WAP as the method of delivery for text-based information. Report includes forecasts for service adoption, spend, ARPU and revenue in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, the UK and Western Europe as a whole. [PRWEB Dec 19, 2004]

Sales Outsourcing Provider, Sales
Partnerships Agrees to Provide Sales
Outsourcing Services to Tech Leader
Level 3 Communications

Sales Outsourcing Provider, Sales
Partnerships Agrees to Provide Sales
Outsourcing Services to Tech Leader
Level 3 Communications 03/28/2005 03:27 AM
Salaes Outsourcing Provider, Sales Partnerships, Inc. agrees to provide sales outsourcing services to Colorado-based Level 3 Communications. [PRWEB Mar 28, 2005]

Short-Cited Insights about RSS

Short-Cited Insights about RSS 02/07/2005 01:41 AM

On page six of the February issue (PDF) of Cites & Insights (“Rss hub-bub”), Walt Crawford pooh-poohs the idea of ILS vendors providing native RSS feeds out of the catalog. It’s a difficult assertion to challenge because nowhere in his comments does Walt use the word “because,” thereby directly stating his objection(s). There are implications, though, so let’s examine them since they are all we have to go on.

First of all, Walt seems to think that someone has advocated libraries replace their email alerts with RSS alerts. That’s a statement Walt can’t back up, although I’m sure he’ll note it if he has proof of *anyone* ever in the history of the world using the word “replace” or a synonym. If he backs off from that statement, I’ll be curious to know why his first assumption was that the two can’t live happily ever after together, side by side, especially since RSS would be the driving force behind the new titles lists he claims will vanish into the olden days of yesteryear.

In reality, the only time I’ve ever received an email from my catalog is when I had a book that was really, really, really, really, really overdue and I think they were about to send Guido after me. That they’ll email me about. But the convenience notice when it’s a couple of days overdue (or even a couple of weeks or months)? Fuggedaboutit. So SWAN libraries, consider this me begging for email alerts! Oh, and I guarantee you that none of my libraries went to Innovative (or before that GEAC) asking for email alerts. It’s just something that made a lot of sense, the vendor understood what was happening in the outside world, and the code was relatively easy to implement. Just like RSS.

Next, Walt seems to advocate that libraries shouldn’t offer a service for what he asserts is 1% or less of your population. I’m not challenging the mathematical figure, but I can think of lots of services that libraries provide for users that comprise less than 1% of our patrons. Let’s use my home library as an example. They serve a population of about 30,000 people right now. One percent of the current population would be 300 people, and 1% of actual users would probably be closer to 150. So what services do they offer that only 149 or fewer people use? Here’s a list just to name a few:

• Homebound service (even though we have a lot of senior housing in our area);
• Sign language translators for patrons who are deaf and might attend their programs;
• Night Owl telephone reference service;
• A form for challenging “offensive” titles in the collection.
• A web site that is accessible to blind users.
• The ability to use a USB flash drive with the library’s computers (I’m sure that figure is rising, but I don’t see tons of patrons picketing libraries over this one and yet a lot of libraries are now offering this).

I don’t think Walt would quibble that these are all valuable, even essential, services, but then he’d probably be basing those decisions on factors other than how many people are using the service. Nowhere in his comments does Walt use any other criterion for RSS, so why the double standard?

In addition, far less than 1% of 1% of a library’s RSS users actually go to the trouble of programming for themselves services the library’s catalog doesn’t offer. However, I can name three off the top of my head (from across North America), the most obvious example being Peter Rukavina who rolled his own RSS but is [rightly] too busy to help the rest of us who would like to provide that service but aren’t programmers. If his home library wanted to, they could download his script and start displaying the list of their new DVDs on their own web site, but they can’t get it natively from their own ILS. What’s wrong with that picture?

Of course, you could also flip this example and argue that you really should be providing a service that your users want badly enough that they resort to hacking your catalog and then noting it on their very public blog. There are at least three examples of users who are running scripts against catalogs, and there are a lot more who have signed up with Library ELF, probably without their librarys’ knowledge. Disclaimer: I love ELF, and I use it myself. I’m willing to give my personal data to a guy in Canada in order to get the email and RSS alerts my catalog refuses to give me. I can’t imagine that Walt thinks that a non-programmer like myself should be forced to do that just to get an RSS feed of what I have checked out, but he also doesn’t seem to care about RSS in the context of patron data. I assure you there is no one at MLS or at a SWAN library that can code this themselves to offer it to patrons, which means we’d be forced to have someone else do this. Why shouldn’t that be the vendor?

But just because Walt doesn’t do it, doesn’t mean I won’t look at other criteria to discuss reasons to implement RSS. In a previous post, I noted that in my library system alone, we could conceivably save 924 hours of actual librarian work each year if our vendor, Innovative, provided native RSS feeds out of the catalog. Let’s take it a step further and come up with the number of potential saved work hours for just half of the 3,700 libraries in Illinois. Let’s say that only half of them might actually take advantage of RSS feeds to change how they display new titles on their web sites. If this saved just one hour per month for 1,850 libraries, native RSS feeds would save Illinois librarians 22,200 hours in just one year.

So even if there was never a single patron that subscribed to a single feed, it would save Illinois librarians 22,200 hours, and let me tell you something: other than funding, the biggest thing we could really use more of is time (which can also be translated into more staffing, but on a personal level, I feel very constrained time-wise). So now we’ve freed up 22,200 hours of librarians’ days, thanks to relatively easy programming on the part of the major vendors. How awesome is that?! And if my vendor can’t understand that kind of savings, then I have to question them as my vendor. Sometimes you really can make a big difference with just “a flip of the switch.”

Other ways I think native RSS feeds would be used, furthering the benefit to libraries:

• I think there are users who would display queues (if we offered queues) or lists on their sites, just like they do now with NetFlix and Amazon. I’m even willing to bet my hat that some of them (yes, less than 1%) would display what they have checked out at this moment, just like they do with NetFlix and Amazon (“what I’m reading now”). While you’re at it, throw music in there, too, since a lot of people (less than 1%) like to post what they’re listening to as they’re composing their blog posts.
• Library holdings could be displayed on third-party web sites, like a school’s site, an academic department’s site, or a community’s site. In fact, libraries could partner with newspapers, area sports clubs (a brilliant idea from Stephen Abrams), and other groups to more easily display material on their web sites. The content would update automatically, thereby keeping those librarian hours free for other tasks.

And yet, Walt doesn’t think it’s exciting that ILS vendors are starting to offer this type of support to libraries. In fact, Walt doesn’t seem to think that ILS vendors should be providing RSS feeds here and now at all. I don’t see any of my member libraries clammoring for Z39.50 compliance with the Bath Profile, but that doesn’t mean Innovative shouldn’t be compliant or working on it (number of patrons who are requesting this or even know about Z39.50: zero). I don’t hear about any of my member libraries doing anything with Dublin Core metadata, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be (number of patrons who are requesting this or even know about DC: zero). Should vendors offer only those services that are formally requested by 50% of library users (the implication Walt makes by noting that even in his high-tech community, less than half the residents probably know about RSS)? What’s the magic number at which Walt would consent to let ILS vendors start working on providing RSS feeds? 40%?  25%?  10%?  Hopefully he will leave a comment so the vendors will know when to start.

 I don’t know if he was just lobbing a softball over the plate in order to help prove the point that native RSS feeds would be valuable right now or if he truly believes the position he declines to actually support, but either way, this one clearly demonstrates Walt’s bias against RSS. That’s okay, because everyone has their biases. This time, though, Walt’s just asking for trouble.

Search Paper Fun: Most Cited

Search Paper Fun: Most Cited 12/19/2004 03:37 PM

IT Role Cited in Blackout

IT Role Cited in Blackout 04/19/2004 12:32 PM
The worst electric power failure in U.S. history could have been avoided in part through better business continuity planning and IT management.

Eco-Terror Cited as Top Threat

Eco-Terror Cited as Top Threat 06/16/2004 05:13 AM
Wired News Jun 16 2004 9:39AM GMT

Parade Rider Cited for Roping Man (AP)

Parade Rider Cited for Roping Man (AP) 07/27/2004 05:58 PM
AP - A horse-mounted parade official roped a tow truck driver and pulled him about 250 feet during a confrontation before the Cheyenne Frontier Days parade last weekend, police said.

Most-Cited Researchers, 1983-2002

Most-Cited Researchers, 1983-2002 11/03/2003 02:32 PM
Most-Cited Researchers, 1983-2002
http://www.sciencewatch.com/sept-oct2003/sw_sept-oct2003_page2.htm

A very interesting page from ScienceWatch listing the top 25 most-cited researchers from 1983 - 2002. The Number one spot goes to Ber t Vogelstein of HHMI/Johns Hopkins in the field of Molecular Biology & Genetics with 361 papers and 106,401 citations!
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