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<title>More ways for employers to poke around</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The precarious job market has hit one online employment site hard, although another is branching out with new data on hiring trends. All the same, what value your formal CV when Facebook has just made it so much easier for bosses to dig the dirt? 
 First the good news &ndash; in the United [...]]]></description>
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<title>Trust your supplier? Check with the Armadillo</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Mobile news and business information content is on the rise, as many of our contributors have been reporting. Newspaper publishers have long seen apps as the only way to keep their business afloat , while information users are expressing an increased interest in consuming content via mobile devices &ndash; link to a Freepint research [...]]]></description>
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<title>Cloudy with a chance of...</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ It seems hardly a day goes by, or a few days here on the LiveWire, when the cloud is not mentioned. My husband too announced, at the dinner table no less, that he was investigating the cloud for asset data management for the utilities sector. I nearly choked on my carrots there and then. [...]]]></description>
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<title>Seven Sins: making information fun &amp; meaningful</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ As a subscriber to IBISWorld Industry Reports , I recently received an email from the company with the title &ldquo;The Seven Deadly Sins&rdquo;. I have to admit to a few seconds of trepidation as I clicked on the link wondering what I was going to view. I had a pleasant surprise &ndash; no spam [...]]]></description>
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<title>Freemium: from razor blades to info vendors</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The information vendor business model which I&rsquo;ve often referred to as &ldquo;hybrid&rdquo; (those who offer both a free and fee-based tool) I just learned is actually called the Freemium model. It makes sense (Free+Premium=Freemium). I recently had to research the Freemium model as it relates to the software industry and I see many of [...]]]></description>
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<title>No European Super Cloud</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ &ldquo;Cloud Computing will change our economy. It can bring significant productivity benefits to all, right through to the smallest companies, and also to individuals. It promises scalable, secure services for greater efficiency, greater flexibility, and lower cost.&rdquo; So says Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda Setting up the [...]]]></description>
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<title>Privacy - you play by our rules</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Long anticipated, the European Commission has released its proposals for restructuring its data protection laws. They&rsquo;re tough &ndash; but recent actions by a couple of major American information companies suggest that they'll need to be. 
 To be sure, elements of the proposals are billed as pro-business. There will be a single set of [...]]]></description>
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<title>Checking in with Vin Gupta</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ In light of the recent departure of Clare Hart from InfoGroup USA, as reported by Tim Buckley Owen , I thought it might be time to check up on her predecessor, Vin Gupta. Gupta founded the company that came to be known as InfoUSA back in 1972, providing direct mailing lists and lead generation [...]]]></description>
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<title>Awards night at 2012 Information Industry Summit</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Last night, during a dinner at Pier 60 in New York at the Information Industry Summit, the Software and Information Industry (SIIA) announced this year's winners of its annual CODiE Awards , which recognise excellence in the business software, digital content and education technology industries. 
 The judging process involves several rounds and each [...]]]></description>
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<title>No Kodak moment, but what is it worth?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Kodak files for bankruptcy and already there are talks around the true worth of the intellectual property (patents) holed up in this organisation. The expected jockeying of position for the patent portfolio from smartphone manufacturers and other technology companies may not be as frenzied as first thought. 
 Patent experts are not expecting fever [...]]]></description>
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