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BigTent Acquired by Federated Media
Federated Media Publishing has acquired BigTent, the leading platform for trusted parenting groups. Millions rely on BigTent to stay connected with local school, community and shared-interest groups.
Read MoreSlipBox Thinks Outside of the Box
Intentionally avoiding the use of a keyword ontology, SlipBox is based on traditional slip boxes and manages the notes in a similar manner as the human memory.When taking notes, SlipBox actively discourages the use of categories like they are required by most note-taking applications and just focuses on tags.
Read MoreGoogle of Audio Digitizing
One-half million audio recordings have been digitized by Memnon Archiving Systems relying on NOA systems. NOA systems support multiple Memnon projects, including migration of 250,000 digital audio tapes for Danish Radio and 350,000 CDs for BnF.
Read MorePatent Awarded to Guid
The United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded Guid with a patent for its method of helping organizations quickly and efficiently search for data within the corporate universe. This system is better known as EnCase(R) Enterprise.
Read MoreTripbase Takes Travel Planning to Another Level
A new travel database, Tripbase, has taken artificial intelligence into the world of travel planning and beyond. Travel planning isn’t like shopping where you can download a product catalog. People want to know more details about their location, whether it be the color of the sand on the beaches or the local etiquette de jour.
Read MoreDigital Storage Streamlines Museum Data
London’s Imperial War Museum is renovating its technology infrastructure to take advantage of the benefits of digital storage. As part of the process, they implemented a Front Porch Digital SAMMAsolo. The SAMMAsolo system, which incorporates a SAMMAcleaner, is a compact, single-stream appliance that automatically migrates content from videotape to digital files in multiple formats while also monitoring and quality-controlling the process. The migration preserves source time code and links indexing and technical metadata.
Read MoreMetaViewer Automation Produces ROI
Metafile Information Systems launched its Microsoft Dynamics Partner Program at the Dynamics GP User Group (GPUG) Summit in October. Metafile is a leading paperless accounts payable, accounts receivable and human resources document management and workflow solution provider.
Read MoreIt’s All in the Facts
AdSense creator, Gil Elbaz, scores big with another software tool called Factual. Beginning service to the public in October, Factual organizes bits of useful data strewn across the Internet. Every day, names, numbers, dates, addresses, and other unstructured data are added to the Web. Since it doesn’t follow any standard formatting, this data is useless to most computers. Machines can’t readily grasp concepts such as “middle school” or “junior high,” let alone distinguish how they’re related…at least until now.
Read MoreGrant Given to Build Database and Image Library
The LSU AgCenter has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to support developing a database and image library at the Louisiana State Arthropod Museum and consolidating data from five additional arthropod collections.
Read MoreAutomating Document Retrieval
Extol has integrated its B2B integration platform with S4i Systems. This joint effort will offer a seamless integration of event-driven real-time communications between companies using EXTOL’s EDI system and a S48 complete document delivery system and will optimize supply chain communications.
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