LocalResponse launches its long-awaited public beta of their new tool that allows business owners to respond to their customers to drive transactions. Localresponse.com allows businesses to track their consumers in real time by organizing, indexing and prioritizing various location-based services.
What would it be like to have search sites take your friends’ opinions into account when you look for restaurants? Newspaper sites that use their knowledge of what’s previously captured your attention online to display articles you are interested in? Sounds a lot like Amazon’s technology, doesn’t it?
Power of the Dream Ventures has announced they are going forward on a roadmap for iGlue to take the company public in the United States.
Expert System has been awarded a patient by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its Cogito® semantic platform. The patient safeguards Cogito, which relies on deep linguistic analysis and semantic disambiguation of text to ensure a complete understanding of a text without the use of statistics or keyword based technologies.
Intertainment Media Inc. has agreed to buy mobile software and app developer Commobility Inc.
A workshop on automated reasoning about context and ontology evolution will take place in Barcelona, Spain on July 17-18, 2011.
Emory University is soon to have a coffeehouse-like environment in which students can work in cross-discipline collaboration and allow researcher access to the library’s vast experts on all things library. This will differ from other digital research centers because of the cross-discipline collaboration potential.
A table of powerhouses gathered to discussion a slew of topics from the impact of cloud computing and open source ILSs to issues surrounding user engagement, the digital divide, and declining library budgets.
Fwix founder speaks about the challenges they have faced in location development and their solutions.