Information Today articles from February 2009

Information Today archives from February 2009

Identity thieves hit a new low.
February 1, 2009... While dealing with the emotional trauma of the death of a loved one, an increasing number of families are learning that the deceased are prime targets for identity theft, as one tragedy in Philadelphia recently illustrated. [ILLUSTRATION...

Campus crackdown: law targets music pirates.(Editorial)
February 1, 2009... Ever since Shawn Fanning created the original Napster in a Northeastern University dorm room, colleges have struggled to keep students from illegally downloading music over school internet networks. Over time, anti-piracy strategies have...

Patently undecided: the Bilski case.(Bernard Bilski)(United States. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit)(United States. Patent and Trademark Office)(Case overview)
February 1, 2009... For more than a decade, critics of the U.S. patent system have decried that it is too easy to obtain patents on business methods. They say opportunists have been usurping exclusive rights to "obvious" and entrenched practices and adding...

Twitter trouble.(Twitter Inc.)(Column)
February 1, 2009... In January, the steady stream of Tweets was interrupted briefly when Twitter succumbed to two major internet glitches in a big way. Right after the new year, Tweet warnings began circulating that some direct messages that contained a link...

Nature Publishing Group prints its first 3D figure, publishes Polymer Journal.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... The Nature Publishing Group (NPG) published its first PDF with a 3D, interactive figure in the Jan. 1 issue of Nature. The figure, featured in a paper by Alyssa Goodman and colleagues, lets readers view and rotate maps of molecular clouds....

Library of Congress preserves 25,000th brittle book.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... The Library of Congress digitized the 25,000th book in its $2 million Digitizing American Imprints at the Library of Congress program, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The project, which preserves brittle books through digital...

Day Software parts with MarketingNet.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Day Software sold MarketingNet, Ltd., a U.K.-based agency-services business, to WAA, Ltd. Day sold the company, which it acquired in October 2000, to refocus its U.K. operations on its core business: global content management software. All of...

Oppenheimer, SunGard renew partnership.(NewsBytes)
February 1, 2009... Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. is extending its partnership with SunGard, which helps Oppenheimer's equity capital markets group serve its clients, reduce trading costs, and improve productivity and overall performance. The group uses SunGard's Brass...

MindLeaders' online training courses come to ePath Learning.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... MindLeaders is working with ePath Learning as a strategic content partner, providing ePath clients with more than 2,200 new online courses. ePath's integrated Learning Management Service (iLMS) lets organizations move training online, and with...

SEC makes interactive data the standard for financial information.(Securities and Exchange Commission)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to require public companies and mutual funds to use interactive data for financial information. These companies now need to label all of the facts in their financial statements with...

Wikimedia Foundation meets $6 million fundraising goal.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... The Wikimedia Foundation surpassed its fundraising goal of $6 million, receiving more than $6.2 million to support Wikipedia from about 125,000 donors as of Jan. 2. The money will be used to maintain and expand the foundation's technical...

Gale purchases HighBeam Research.(NewsBytes)
February 1, 2009... Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, acquired HighBeam Research, Inc. to expand its userbase to general web users. Gale will take control of the subscription-based HighBeam Research service and Encyclopedia.com, which includes free reference...

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation targets library internet connections.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is providing $6.96 million in funding to Connected Nation and the ALA's Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) to implement secure, faster internet connections at public libraries in Arkansas,...

Books, books, books: going, going, Google.(Up Front With Barbara Quint)
February 1, 2009... Editing a magazine can have its nervous moments. For example, I have awoken many times in the middle of the night in a nightmare panic that I have forgotten to book any articles beyond the current issue. Actually, it's usually the next one that...

M&A, Ebook readers, and the future of the Internet.(NewsBreak Update)
February 1, 2009... In mid-December, just before the holiday rush, the Pew Internet & American Life Project issued its third report on the future of the internet. The survey reveals some fascinating expectations for technological advances, but the respondents...

Blue Ribbon Task Force report examines economically sustainable digital access.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access released its "Interim Report," which examines economically sustainable digital preservation, identifying and explaining the conditions necessary for economic...

AIIM survey focuses on document digitization.(Association for Information and Image Management)(Survey)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... A new survey from the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) shows that more than half of the organizations that participated are manually rekeying some of the content they received from customers, suppliers, and partners. In...

NISO gathers recommendations with thought leader meetings.(National Information Standards Organization)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Throughout 2008, the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) held a series of Thought Leader meetings, which gathered experts to discuss topics such as institutional repositories, digital libraries and collections, elearning and...

Independent News and Media selects Nstein for article tagging.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... The Independent News and Media (U.K.) selected Nstein Technologies' Text Mining Engine to organize its media assets. The engine semantically analyzes and automatically tags the organization's news articles, making them more accessible via...

Thomas Telford unites publications with pub2web.(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Thomas Telford, Ltd., the publishing subsidiary of the Institution of Civil Engineers, chose Publishing Technology's pub2web publications platform to group its publications within a single econtent site. With pub2web, all of the entities'...

Letter from the editor.
February 1, 2009... Now that the holiday rush has ended and the glories of spring are still weeks away, 2009 is officially here and bringing a host of topics with it that will be highlighted within the upcoming issues of Information Today. In this issue, the...

Journal publishers' report card.
February 1, 2009... I have blogged about it, written about it in Computers in Libraries magazine, and yet I still want to talk about it some more. The "it" is ALPSP's longitudinal study better known as the "Scholarly Publishing Practice" by researchers John and...

Infotoons.(Cartoon)
February 1, 2009... WHAT'S WITH THE STACK OF BOOKS? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] GOTYA GET RID OF THEM NOW. I GOT A KINDLE FOR CHRISTMAS. YOU LIKE IT? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SURE DO. I HAVE ZOO BOOKS STORED ON MINE ALREADY AND I CAN EVEN READ MY...

Deciphering open data.(Focus on Publishing)(Viewpoint essay)
February 1, 2009... Last fall, one of the students in my Social Informatics seminar asked me a question: How many parts of the open movement are there? Since I didn't have an accurate number on hand, I started listing them on the board: open data, open source,...

Science on the march.(Internet Waves)
February 1, 2009... Well, social science is certainly on the march. So let's take a look at some recent scholarly and survey research that swirls around the intersection of people and technology. The Pew Internet & American Life Project is a good fishing hole...

The fences of a patent.(Research in Motion Ltd.)
February 1, 2009... What's the deal about patents on "Black" products? Research in Motion, the manufacturer of the BlackBerry portable communication device, spent years and hundreds of millions of dollars defending--and ultimately settling--claims that it had...

Attivio brings order to data.(IT Spotlight)
February 1, 2009... Here's a high-tech company that offers a next-generation product to consolidate data and eliminate enterprise silos. FOUNDER Attivio was founded in August 2007 by a team of about a half-dozen individuals with vast experience in...

Public Knowledge Project Opens registration for second international conference.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Registration is now open for the second international Public Knowledge Project conference, which will be held July 8-10 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The conference targets anyone interested in trends and developments in scholarly...

Knowing is half the battle.(Library Stuff Revisited)(Personal account)
February 1, 2009... With little fanfare around the Cohen household, I deleted my Twitter and FriendFeed accounts in October 2008. My usage of these tools had increased exponentially over the past 6 months, and they were slowly taking over my online world. I...

Gmail gets gadgets.(COOL TOOLS)
February 1, 2009... As web-based applications became more popular over the last few years, email was one of the first spaces to take advantage of this shift. For personal use, the benefits of web-based email are readily apparent: It's easy to access your...

Why copyright isn't property.(Intellectual Property)
February 1, 2009... Copyright is commonly referred to as one of the broader forms of legal regimes called "intellectual property." By itself, this is not a novel or particularly controversial claim. The more contentious claim considers copyright as a form of...

We stand corrected.(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... In the January 2009 issue, the write-up on ThomasNet's Online CAD Solutions in the "Applause, Applause" article listing the winners of the People's Choice Awards for 2008 was incorrect. Here is the corrected information for the winner in the...

Redouble or retrench? Reacting to the financial crisis.(Insider's Perspective)
February 1, 2009... [This column lets experts in the information technology industry discuss the challenges and trends in their special niche in the marketplace. --Ed.] 'The stock market losses that have recently hit the global markets might be taking some...

Galvanizing the scientific community.(INTERVIEW With John Haynes)(Interview)
February 1, 2009... John Haynes is making a big move. He's not just changing jobs; he's changing countries. This month, he'll be moving from the U.K. to Long Island to become vice president of publishing at the American Institute of Physics (AIP). AIP is a...

Ingram content companies.(Ingram Book Group Inc.)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Ingram content companies announced that James Gray is now chief strategy officer for the content group. In this new role, he will identify new opportunities in all of the companies' content areas, including physical...

LexisNexis.(LexisNexis to appoint Carol DiBattiste as senior vice president)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] LexisNexis announced the appointment of Carol DiBattiste as senior vice president of privacy, security, compliance, and government affairs. In this role, she will represent the company on privacy matters, set the...

Exalead.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Gregory Grefenstette )(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Exalead announced that Gregory Grefenstette is its new chief science officer. In this role, he will be responsible for developing products and accelerating the growth of the company's partner ecosystems in the...

Thomson Reuters.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Pamela Graff )(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Thomson Reuters announced that Pamela Graff is joining the company as general manager of its new Federal Government Initiative. In this position, Graff will lead the new initiative and build a leadership team. She will work across the company's...

Swets.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Jose Luis Andrade appointed by Swets Subscription Service)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Swets has announced the appointment of Jose Luis Andrade to the board of directors of the Friends of the National Library of Medicine (FNLM). While on the board, he will assist with increasing public awareness about...

Collexis Holdings, Inc.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Andrew Sorensen )(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Collexis Holdings, Inc. announced that Andrew Sorensen has joined its board of directors. Previously, Sorensen was president of the University of South Carolina, retiring in June 2008. He continues to serve as a distinguished professor at the...

Joe Wikert, General Manager, O'Reilly Technology Exchange.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Joe Wikert)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As the information industry continues to evolve, Joe Wikert is keeping an eye on what he considers his company's chief competitor--Google. "Over the past several years, I've lost more sales to Google than I have...

Broadband reaches access limits in Europe.(International REPORT)
February 1, 2009... The European Union (EU) released survey results about internet use by businesses across the 27 member states. The survey, which was conducted by Eurostat (the Statistical Office of the European communities), polled companies that had at least...

Swets bids adieu to CEO.(NewsMakers)(Arie Jongejan)(Swets Subscription Service)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Arie Jongejan, who served as CEO of Swets for the past 4 years, decided to start the new year as a retired man. During the time Jongejan was at the helm, Swets rolled out "excellent" financial results and solidified its spot in the industry...

JEGI's year-end report.(NewsMakers)(Jordan Edmiston Group Inc.)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... At the end of 2008, the Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. (JEGI) sliced and diced its facts and figures to offer a financial barometer of the IT industry, past and future. The result? JEGI sees revenue growth flowing into growth sectors, including...

We the people of the Content Nation.(NewsMakers)(John Blossom)
February 1, 2009... Industry pundit John Blossom, president of the research and executive consulting firm Shore Communications, Inc., has a new book to add to the shelves. Blossom's Content Nation: Surviving and Thriving as Social Media Changes Our Work, Our...

What's your 'netscuse'?(NewsMakers)
February 1, 2009... Here's another term to add to your internet repertoire: netscuse. It's a slang term from the Webopedia Daily newsletter to describe any general internet or ISP outages that can be used as an excuse for not finishing a task.

Society meetings lead the early spring conference scene.(Conference Circuit)(Calendar)
February 1, 2009... As winter begins to ease its grip on the Northern Hemisphere and traveling gets easier, many information professionals have already started thinking about conferences. While many professional societies have scheduled their meetings in...

Conference dates for 2009.(Conference Circuit)(Brief article)(Calendar)
February 1, 2009... Internet@Schools East March 30-31 Hyatt Regency, Crystal City * Arlington, Va. Computers in Libraries March 30-April 1 Preconference workshops begin March 29; postconference workshops begin April 2) Hyatt Regency,...

Found: a new platform for developers.(Conference Circuit)(Brief article)(Conference notes)
February 1, 2009... Co-organizers Vanessa Fox and Nathan Buggia are in the process of collaborating on the first-ever O'Reilly Found Conference, which will be held June 9-11 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott in Burlingame, Calif. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...

Words at work.(Conference Circuit)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Go ahead and impress your colleagues in your next meeting by using any one of these new corporate buzzwords. digital amnesia: The result of being so overwhelmed by the availability, speed, and volume of digital information that you can't...

Mark Logic Digital Publishing Summit.(REPORT FROM THE FIELD)(Conference notes)
February 1, 2009... While the U.S. Army, O'Reilly, and JetBlue Airways may not seem to share any common ground at first glance, they actually do: They all rely on the MarkLogic server for their XML content. Mark Logic Corp. continues to add new names to its...

Conferences around the world.(Conference Circuit)(Calendar)
February 1, 2009... February 2-6: Sydney, Australia (University of Technology, Sydney). Digital Futures: From Digitization to Delivery is a training event that focuses on the creation, delivery, and preservation of digital resources from cultural and memory...

Israeli spam law may have global impact.
February 1, 2009... A broad new law in Israel regulating commercial solicitations, including those sent by email, went into effect Dec. 1, 2008. The law, called Amendment 40 to the Communications Law, regulates the practice of sending commercial marketing...

Hoover's Mobile, MobileSP now available.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Hoover's, Inc. launched Hoover's Mobile for iPhone, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile smartphones and Hoover's MobileSP for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile. Both products, now available in the U.S., let users access customer, prospect, and partner...

Scitable puts Nature Education on the map.(Product News & Reviews)(Nature Publishing Group)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Nature Education, a division of the Nature Publishing Group, released its first product, Scitable, a free online resource for undergraduate biology students and educators. The service includes more than 180 overviews of key genetics concepts as...

BUDDIE 'fact tank' explores Zeitgeist.(Database Review)(Pew Research Center)(awards for Best Unknown Database)
February 1, 2009... It's a somber awards season this year as the entire world suffers economic, political, and climatic catastrophes. Sarah Palin is back in Alaska, so even the fun is gone. But amid this rampant dysfunction, it's even more important to celebrate...

Ex Libris Rosetta hits the market.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Ex Libris Rosetta, the latest version of the Ex Libris Group's Digital Preservation System, is now available. The product supports the acquisition, validation, ingest, storage, management, preservation, and dissemination of digital objects,...

Dow Jones gives Apple-loving sales professionals a boost.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dow Jones & Co.'s new mobile application, Dow Jones Sales Triggers for iPhone and iPod touch, is now available in the Apple App Store. The program helps sales professionals stay on top of prospects and customers in...

Thomson Reuters updates NetClient CS; 'HCUP Facts and Figures' report released.(Product News & Reviews)(Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Thomson Reuters' Tax & Accounting business released a new version of NetClient CS that adds Reuters news widgets and enhanced functionality, including the ability to share data in real time, send invoices to clients, collect credit card...

ChemSW software development services available for outsourcing.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... ChemSW is offering its software development services--including requirements analysis, specification development, design, development, testing, and system documentation--as an IT outsourcing solution. The company can also develop tracking...

EBSCO: managing e-resources.(Product News & Reviews)(EBSCO Information Services)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... EBSCO has added another tool to its suite of products that is designed to help libraries manage their e-resource-related data. EBSCO's ERM Essentials was showcased as one of the company's highlights at ALA Midwinter 2009, according to Susan...

Quickoffice's MobileFiles Pro app enables Excel editing on-the-go.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Quickoffice, Inc. unveiled MobileFiles Pro, which features editable Microsoft Office functionality for the iPhone and iPod touch. The application lets users edit and save Microsoft Excel files in .xls format, transfer files to and from PC and...

EBSCO adds new features to EBSCOhost Content Viewer.(Product News & Reviews)(EBSCO Publishing )(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] EBSCO Publishing released a new EBSCOhost Content Viewer to coincide with the launch of three historical digital archive collections that make use of its new capabilities. The viewer provides a visual overview of the...

Mimosa Systems gains 150,000 new NearPoint users.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Mimosa Systems added 150,000 users to its customer base, the company's largest enterprise deployment. The new users received the Mimosa NearPoint archive solution, which is used by its enterprise customers and global partners, including...

Google Book Search tosses magazines into the mix.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Google Book Search is expanding to include magazines, hundreds of which are already available. A list of titles has not been provided, but all entries carry a "Magazine" tag, which lets users find them with the service's Advanced Search mode....

Oce Business Services: discovery made easy.(Product News & Reviews)(Oce-Business Systems Inc.)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... For attorneys and legal professionals who want to keep legal briefs brief, Oce Business Services, a document process management and electronic discovery provider, launched CaseData as part of its repertoire of legal management solutions. ...

Gale/Cengage Learning: archiving chapters in history.(Product News & Reviews)
February 1, 2009... The State Papers Online, one of Gale/Cengage Learning's latest digital collections, turns back the hands of time. The latest collection brings a host of British primary documents to life from the Tudor and Stuart government and society from...

Serials Solutions launches 360 Resource Manager Consortium Edition.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Serials Solutions is targeting consortia, groups, and their member libraries with its new e-resource management service, Serials Solutions 360 Resource Manager Consortium Edition. The product lets consortia managers consolidate e-resource...

Shelf2Life project brings older collections into the digital age.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The BCR library network, BiblioLife, and Ingram Digital are helping libraries preserve pre-1923, U.S.-published monographs in digital and print-on-demand formats. The Shelf2Life process begins with BCR, which works...

Vivisimo joins forces with Health Sciences Online portal.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Vivisimo's Velocity Search Platform is powering Health Sciences Online, a new medical-information portal created by Erica Frank, a medical doctor and researcher at the University of British Columbia. The free portal provides up-to-date,...

Imprezzeo tackles image search with new solution.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Imprezzeo is approaching image search in a new way with its Imprezzeo solution, launched in beta form in early December. Imprezzeo generates image-specific results sets using proprietary content-based image retrieval and facial-recognition...

ticTOCs unveils scholarly journal table-of-contents aggregator.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... ticTOCs, a new scholarly journal table-of-contents service, is giving scholars, researchers, and academics a new way to stay up-to-date with their favorite journals. The free service provides the most recent tables of contents for more than...

Publishing Technology introduces IngentaConnect Mobile.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Publishing Technology is targeting college undergraduates with its newest publisher product, IngentaConnect Mobile.The platform, unveiled at the Online Information 2008 conference in London, lets subscribers read articles and abstracts on their...

NursingCenter.com gets a makeover.(Product News & Reviews)(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins )(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Lippincott Williams & Wilkins updated its NursingCenter.com website, adding several new features including improved navigation and search functions as well as new interactive media tools. The site now provides free access to 11,000 articles...

AdmitOne Security: keeping an eye on usage.(Product News & Reviews)
February 1, 2009... As enterprises try to get the biggest bang for their buck these days, AdmitOne Security, Inc. has found one solution that works strictly by the numbers. Since enterprises can lose revenue when the number of users exceeds the number of...

Expert System introduces search engine that speaks your language.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Expert System unveiled its new semantic search platform, COGITO Answers, which uses a natural language interface to provide more accurate results. Using the product, which takes acronyms and other company lingo into account when performing...

SirsiDynix, ChiliFresh take aim at community review.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... SirsiDynix is teaming up with ChiliFresh to improve community review features for libraries. SirsiDynix OPACs, SirsiDynix Enterprise, and the ChiliFresh Review Engine can now be integrated seamlessly, enabling users to read and write book...

Sage Colleges test training mannequins for nursing students.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... In an effort to combat the current nursing shortage, nursing department officials from The Sage Colleges and St. Peter's Hospital and representatives from STS International and Simulaids tested new, high-tech mannequins that simulate real...

Credo Reference: top honors for e-reference.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Credo Reference's pursuit of excellence in the e-reference world is working. In fact, Credo Reference is basking in the glow of its recent award for winning the highest scores of 176 titles from 60 publishers in Library Journal's new 2009...

Skylink targets the Angst-Ridden with garage door closer.(Product News & Reviews)(Skylink Group)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... The Skylink Group wants to make garage door worry a thing of the past with its Garage Door Closer system. Part of the company's Garage One product line, the wireless system consists of a monitor attached to a garage door that can sense whether...

Create your business cards online: today's business cards are ancestors of the visiting cards (also known as calling cards)....(Link-Up@Home: Your Personal Guide to the Web)
February 1, 2009... Despite the vast range of digital technologies powering today's business world, a small piece of paper printed with ink still remains a basic tool of commerce. Today's business cards are ancestors of the visiting cards (also known as...

Columnist promises not to 'sukumb to kuteness'.(CyberSports)(LOL Jocks)(Field Correspondent )(Column)
February 1, 2009... Being underemployed these days, your Field Correspondent has more time than usual on his hands. That means he has more opportunities to take the sausage-shaped dog to the vet, launder the household's underthings, or surf the web for you, Gentle...

A new way to improve your library.(The Quality Library: A Guide to Staff-Driven Improvement, Better Efficiency, and Happier Customers)(Book review)
February 1, 2009... The Quality Library: A Guide to Staff-Driven Improvement, Better Efficiency, and Happier Customers by Sara Laughlin and Ray W. Wilson Chicago: ALA, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-8389-0952-2 144 pages; $55 Sometimes I have a hard time...

Getting on track with Stephen Nathans-Kelly.(Meet the Editor)(Stephen Nathans-Kelly)(Column)
February 1, 2009... To kick off my new column last issue, I interviewed Barbara Quint, world-renowned info pro and editor-in-chief of Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals. Having worked with bq for 16-plus years, I could have written the article...