Patent Awarded for Audio Search

By Melody Smith | August 27, 2010

Nexidia has received its 10th United States Patent Award for original research. This latest award adds to the company’s previous patents covering phonetic indexing and search technology.

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SAS Product Named 2010 Trend Setting Product

By Melody Smith | August 26, 2010

SAS Text Analytics was named a Trend Setting Product for 2010 by KMWorld magazine. SAS’s product locates and retrieves relevant data and lets customers obtain insights from electronic text, improve search results and derive intelligence to determine their best course of action.

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Semantic Web Gone Wild

By Melody Smith | August 25, 2010

The original vision for the semantic web was that digital information would be just as readable and understandable to a person or to a machine. Some software currently has a limited understanding of simple metadata. But there seems to be a log jam in the semantic world.

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Social Reprieve

By Melody Smith | August 25, 2010

In this day and age of social media infiltrating every area of our lives, for good or bad, there is one area that has resisted this trend – books. Perhaps the last refuge from social media, many go to find shelter from the friending and tweeting in their comforting pages and worn binding. Unfortunately, this once solitary refuge is looking to join the social realm as companies like Copia and BookGlutton look to jump on board.

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Meta-Who?

By Melody Smith | August 25, 2010

Metadata is defined as data providing information about one or more other pieces of data. Metadata has been used in various forms as a means of cataloging archived information. A perfect example of metadata usage is the Dewey Decimal System that has been employed by libraries for years for the indexing of books.

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