Information Today articles from July 2008

Information Today archives from July 2008

You've got mail ... and security breaches.
July 1, 2008... When the FBI raided the home of a male TV news anchor for a Philadelphia-based station in early June, they seized his home computer. The raid came after a female co-anchor, who had previously been dismissed, charged that he had hacked into her...

Ahead in the clouds: the future of desktop search.(X1 Technologies L.L.C.)
July 1, 2008... For Christopher Walton, senior director of products for X1 Technologies, Inc., the term "desktop search" is more than a little misleading. According to him, the future of this field stretches far beyond the insular world of a user's personal...

The evolution of all things televised.
July 1, 2008... On June 18, 1939, The New York Times ran an editorial about the evolving technology of communications. On the subject of the newly invented television and the threat it posed to the entrenched medium of radio, The Times said: "The problem with...

ProQuest acquires dialog from Thomson Reuters.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... ProQuest inked the deal to acquire Thomson Reuters' Dialog business in mid-June. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. ProQuest CEO Marty Kahn says that Dialog is a respected source and trusted brand for librarians, and as...

Deep Web Technologies goes to school.(News Bytes)(Stanford University)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... In an effort to improve access to its online resources and create a new access point for digitized content, Stanford University Libraries commissioned Deep Web Technologies to create a federated search solution for the university. Federated...

Cognitive Science Society picks Wiley-Blackwell to publish two journals.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Wiley-Blackwell has teamed up with the Cognitive Science Society to publish the Cognitive Science journal and create the topiCS: Topics in Cognitive Science journal. They both seek to unite researchers from a broad range of fields who aim to...

M:Metrics to become part of comScore.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... comScore, Inc., in an attempt to become the go-to company for measuring the mobile internet market, has acquired mobile measurement company M:Metrics, Inc. The transaction involves a cash payment of $44.3 million and the issuance of 50,000...

ProQuest doles out first Student Video Podcast awards.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... A pair of middle-schoolers and a team of four fifth-grade students took home first-place honors and brand-new iPods in ProQuest's first SIRS Student Video Podcast Contest. The competition is split into two categories: Inform and Persuade. It...

H. W. Wilson, MLA to feed OCLC's WorldCat.org.(News Bytes)(Modern Language Association)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Database producers The H.W.Wilson Co. and the Modern Language Association are coming together with OCLC to increase visibility and access to authoritative content licensed by libraries on the web. The producers will allow a portion of their...

Thomson Reuters honors two with Quantum InfoStar Awards.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Thomson Reuters presented its 2008 North American Quantum2 InfoStar Awards to two information professionals whose achievements have demonstrated leadership and inspired others in their industries. The winners were Lee Pharis, manager of...

MarkLogic server coming to empolis products.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... empolis will attempt to beef up its two flagship products--empolis:Content Lifecycle Suite and empolis: Service Lifecycle Suite--via a new OEM (original equipment manufacturer) agreement with Mark Logic. empolis will be integrating the...

Accessible archives embraces COUNTER usage statistics standard.(News Bytes)
July 1, 2008... Accessible Archives, Inc., in an effort to improve the way it measures the value return on purchased online content, vowed to become fully COUNTER compliant by 2009. COUNTER has become the standard for usage statistics and is used by thousands...

EBSCO acquires Austria-based subscription agency.(News Bytes)(EBSCO Information Services)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... EBSCO Information Services added Vienna, Austria-based Minerva Wissenschaftliche Buchhandlung GmbH to its fold. Minerva, known for its service to libraries in the areas of serials management and monograph orders, is the leading subscription...

STM Publishers Association unveils reaction to digital copyright report.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... On June 13, the International Association of STM Publishers released a new position paper focusing on digital copyright exceptions and limitations for education and research as well as the "U.S. Section 108 Study Group Report" on digital...

Unlimited priorities to market Librarian's Yellow Pages.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Unlimited Priorities Corp. was chosen to provide marketing services for the Librarian's Yellow Pages (LYP). The corporation will present LYP's advertising and marketing products and packages to small and mid-size prospective clients in the...

Survey: enterprise 2.0 'imperative'.(News Bytes)(Association for Information and Image Management)(Survey)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Enterprise 2.0 technologies are "imperative" or of "significant importance," according to a survey of more than 400 businesses conducted by AIIM. According to the survey, 44% of the respondents backed that assessment, with another 27% saying...

Gartner, Inc. bestows 'cool' honors on Collexis Holdings.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Gartner, Inc. added Collexis and its high-definition search and knowledge discovery software to Gartner's list of "Cool Vendors in Content Management, 2008." The "cool" list is not exhaustive, according to Gartner. But it highlights...

Survey: information reliability top concern for REF Institutions.(News Bytes)(research excellence framework)(Survey)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Representatives from 75 U.K. universities and research institutes report that when it comes to research evaluation in the Research Excellence Framework (REF), "getting accurate and verifiable data" is their chief concern, according to a survey...

Near-Time, I-Open adopt Open Source Workforce Development.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... In an effort to instill 21st-century skills into their work force, Near-Time, Inc. and the Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) plan to adopt the Open Source Workforce Development (OSWD) methodology. OSWD is based on I-Open's concept...

Atypon to create website for medical society journal distribution.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Atypon Systems, Inc. will design a new website for the Massachusetts Medical Society, which it will use to deliver the New England Journal of Medicine and Journal Watch professional newsletters. According to Atypon, its goal is to create a...

OCLC unveils EDUCAUSE survey results, partners with Google.(News Bytes)
July 1, 2008... Security, administrative/ERP information systems, and funding IT, respectively, are the three top issues in terms of strategic importance facing EDUCAUSE member institutions, according to the OCLC's 2008 EDUCAUSE survey. The survey also found...

Cloud foundations: stability issues in third-party computing platforms.(Up Front)
July 1, 2008... At 10:21 a.m. PDT on June 6, 2008, the world as we know it stopped. Fortunately, it started again at 12:45 p.m., but it wasn't its old self even then. And then, from 10:03 a.m. to 10:23 a.m. June 9, the world slowed to a crawl. It then...

Collaboration, technology predictions, and search engine news.(NewsBreak Update)
July 1, 2008... I am a big believer in collaboration. As a doubles player in tennis, I know the value of working together on the court. I strongly espouse the value of collaborative work: Two heads are better than one for problem solving and brainstorming....

Nature Publishing Group adds journal, award to publishing arsenal.(News Bytes)(Blackwell Publishing Ltd.)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Starting in January 2009, Nature Publishing Group will succeed Blackwell Publishing as publisher of the American Journal of Gastroenterology, the official publication of the American College of Gastroenterology. The journal has an impact factor...

ACM collection finds a home at Charles Babbage Institute.(News Bytes)(Association for Computing Machinery)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... The Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) collection of internal ACM records, conference proceedings, research-based journals, magazines, and the personal papers and edited interviews of legendary figures spanning the history of computing...

Letter to the editor.(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2008... I just read your article in Information Today, "Putting Academic Fair Use to the Test" [by George H. Pike]. I thought it was a helpful overview that explains the situation and issues clearly. However, I'm writing because I noticed a quote that...

Soliloquy on a summer vacation.(Column)
July 1, 2008... I am going on vacation. I'm setting up my email auto-responder to say: "Emergency Calls Only." So if something is on fire, it better involve big red trucks, sirens, and a water hydrant. There was a time when getting away meant going...

Infotoons.(Cartoon)
July 1, 2008... HEY, THE NEW !PHONES ARE OUT... FASTER AND CHEAPER. I KNEW I SHOULD HAVE WAITED... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] BUT NO, I HAD TO BE THE FIRST... I WANTED IN LINE ALL NIGHT, SPENT $600. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THEN THEY WORK...

Public input on NIH public access.(Focus on Publishing)(United States. National Institutes of Health)
July 1, 2008... The National Institutes of Health (NIH) implemented the Public Access Policy on Jan. 11, 2008. As of April 7, all final peer-reviewed manuscripts arising from NIH funds must now be submitted to PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication. As...

Signs of the Apocalypse.(Internet Waves)
July 1, 2008... There's weirdness everywhere these days, both on and off the internet. So to make sure I don't disrupt the natural rhythm of my elegant prose, I've included the relevant URLs in a box at the end of this column (or wherever my skillful and...

Orphan works proposals moving quickly through Congress.(Legal Issues)(United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary)
July 1, 2008... Nearly 16 months after an orphan works proposal died at the end of the 2005-2006 congressional session, two new proposals have been introduced and are moving rapidly through Congress. Between April and early May, the proposals (one in the House...

Snacking on the news and time traveling in tubes.(COOL TOOLS)
July 1, 2008... On the web, information can come to you in all kinds of ways. For example, you can go to a website, just as people have been doing for more than a decade now. Often, websites will have "email this article" links so you can send the articles you...

Making a case for copyright officers.(Intellectual Property)(Column)
July 1, 2008... On April 15, a trio of academic publishers sued officials at Georgia State University (GSU), including the president, provost, and university librarian, alleging that the university committed copyright infringement by allowing "systematic,...

You've got a friend(feed) in me.(Library Stuff Revisited)(Column)
July 1, 2008... The title of this column is based on the main track from the soundtrack to Toy Story. The song, written by Randy Newman, portrays the kinship that the characters Andy and Woody (and later Woody and Buzz Lightyear) formed and solidified through...

Spiceworks enlivens workflow, keeps track of network services.(IT Spotlight)
July 1, 2008... Here's a high-tech company that offers smaller businesses a special, innovative solution to manage and automate IT functions. FOUNDER Austin, Texas-based Spiceworks was founded by a quartet of professionals--Scott Abel, Jay Hallberg,...

SwetsWise: introducing SwetsWise eSource manager.(Swets Subscription Service)
July 1, 2008... At the ALA Midwinter Meeting last January, Swets introduced License Bank for SwetsWise Subscriptions, a time-saving product for librarians and info pros that manages and tracks licenses and subscription information. At SLA 2008 in Seattle in...

Docmetrics: engagement in action.
July 1, 2008... The next time you're reading a PDF online, someone may be watching you. While this may sound a bit Orwellian, Vitrium Systems, Inc. developed a way to track the eyeballs and reading habits of people who read PDFs. In fact, Gartner, Inc. named...

The economics of quality.(Insider's Perspective)
July 1, 2008... The information industry is wrestling with the dilemma of whether content should be paid for or free. As customers, we are not interested in "content" per se but in its consequences. It is information as a catalyst that is valuable. It is...

Bentham Science Publishers hands marketing reins to EMpact sales.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... EMpact Sales Division has been handpicked to coordinate the advertising efforts of Bentham Science Publishers, Ltd., which has named the company its new sales and marketing representative and consultant. Under the two companies' agreement,...

edo Interactive casts its hat into digital marketing ring.(News Bytes)
July 1, 2008... edo Interactive jumped into the digital marketing industry with the introduction of its first two products: the edo Marketing Platform, a behavioral targeting and advertising platform, and the Facecard Prepaid MasterCard. The company...

TIZOR, intellitactics tackle data security problems.(News Bytes)
July 1, 2008... TIZOR and Intellitactics, Inc. banded together to provide integrated enterprise-class solutions to data security challenges, including core-database breach detection, insider threats, data outsourcing risks, and data compliance auditing and...

Wiley-Blackwell opens up more journal backfiles to German institutions.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Research institutions and universities across Germany will soon be granted access to nearly 400 journal backfiles from Wiley-Blackwell. Two separate deals will allow these institutions, which already have access to most Wiley-Blackwell journal...

XML Retrieval and the mind-reading machines.(INTERVIEW With Charles Clarke)(dialogue with Charles Clarke )(Interview)
July 1, 2008... I first met Charles Clarke at the 2008 Search Engine Meeting in Boston last May, where he gave the opening presentation XML Retrieval: Problems and Potential. He won the Evvie Award (named in honor of the late Everett Brenner) for best paper at...

Universities and libraries thrive on earth and mars.(International REPORT)(Apple Inc.)
July 1, 2008... In the month that Microsoft quietly slipped away from content provision by announcing the demise of Live Search Books on a blog, Apple opened its distribution channels to universities and movie makers by offering a combination of free...

SLA honors five winners of the 2008 Diversity Leadership Development Program.(News Makers)(Special Libraries Association)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Special Libraries Association (SLA), along with award-sponsor EBSCO, honored five recipients of the 2008 Diversity Leadership Development Program (DLDP) at the 2008 SLA Annual Conference and INFO-EXPO in June in...

Open Access (OA) primer for the perplexed.(News Makers)
July 1, 2008... "Summary: OA1 is Free Access and OA2 is Licensed Re-Use. Green OA self-archiving by authors, mandated by their universities or funders, can in principle provide OA1 or OA2, for either articles or data or both. However, it would be difficult,...

Encore award goes to IT researcher/editor.(News Makers)(award for Amar Gupta)(IBM Faculty Award)(information technology)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Amar Gupta, a professor at the University of Arizona and an IGI Global editor, received the IBM Faculty Award for the second consecutive year. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Gupta, who has published more than 100 papers, is a Tom Brown...

Guard that handheld.(News Makers)(Survey)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... In a survey conducted by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), the two top information security threats that organizations face today are viruses/worms and spyware. But security for hand-held devices and mobile/ remote...

Gearing up for summer sessions.(Conference Circuit)
July 1, 2008... Even though we're still in the middle of summer in the Northern Hemisphere (prime time for vacations), many conferences are still in session. If you are attending any conferences for networking or continuing education purposes, you'll have your...

SLA 2008: breaking rules, building bridges.(REPORT FROM THE FIELD)
July 1, 2008... For anyone who thinks librarians don't have a sense of humor, think again. SLA president Stephen Abram and SLA CEO Janice Lachance led the cast of characters from The Wizard of Oz along a prefab yellow brick road for the start of SLA 2008 in...

Libraries in the digital age 2008: in search of knowledge.(REPORT FROM THE FIELD)
July 1, 2008... 'The web is introducing implications more revolutionary than those produced by the invention of the printing press... which did not structurally alter the models for expressing ideas... nor significantly modify the relationship between...

Conferences around the world.(Calendar)
July 1, 2008... For information on ITI's conferences, turn to page 24. July 1-5: Istanbul, Turkey (Koc University). Bridging the Digital Divide: Effective Library Partnerships in the Digital Age will be the theme of the LIBER 37th Annual General...

Safari Books Online survey: how tech workers find data.(Survey)
July 1, 2008... So why aren't many technology workers sharing collective knowledge with colleagues in their field? According to the "2008 IT and Developer Information Survey" by Safari Books Online, tech workers who deal with tight deadlines just have...

Retrospective: 25 years ago in Information Today.
July 1, 2008... This year, I've been selecting highlights from some of the first issues of Information Today to take a look at where the industry--and key players--were a quarter of a century ago. Though the actual print issues may show a bit of age around the...

Thomson Reuters feeds new ROS data into Premium Products.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Thomson Reuters is hoping to enhance product targeting, business development, and competitive intelligence by adding Prous Science routes of synthesis (ROS) data to Newport Horizon Premium and Newport Vision Premium. This new data set, which...

New SAGE Publications coming to Carolina Consortium Libraries.(Product News & Reviews)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Researchers based at participating Carolina Consortium academic libraries in North and South Carolina will soon be able to delve into several of SAGE's online publications. The newly available content will include...

ProQuest takes aim at poetry lovers, adds Kissinger calls.(Product News & Reviews)
July 1, 2008... Literature buffs, take note. ProQuest is set to release its Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Second Edition database, which is expected to include more than 100,000 major contemporary poems upon completion. Among the authors who will be...

Online muckrakers expose political lies.(Database Review)
July 1, 2008... Did Hillary Clinton come under sniper fire in Bosnia, or not? Did Barack Obama claim that John McCain wants a 100-year war in Iraq, or not? Does McCain know the difference between Sunnis and Shiites, or not? In each case, a presidential...

Phanfare targets iPhone camera users.(Product News & Reviews)
July 1, 2008... Phanfare is bringing cloud-based storage and sharing to the iPhone with its new application for the device's camera. The application, available in the iPhone store, lets users move photos wirelessly to the internet, where they can be viewed by...

COS Scholar Universe brings academia closer together.(Product News & Reviews)
July 1, 2008... Researchers and academics will be getting to know each other better if RefWorks has anything to say about it. The company introduced COS Scholar Universe, a subscription-based service that allows users to search about 1.5 million profiles to...

New Thieme product targets anatomy teachers.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Thieme Publishers is lending a hand to anatomy teachers with the launch of Thieme Teaching Assistant: Anatomy. The interactive presentation tool lets instructors customize illustrations for multiple classroom purposes and includes more than...

EBSCO unveils new database, upgrades health library.(Product News & Reviews)(EBSCO Publishing)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... EBSCO Publishing is adding patient education to patient care with its new database, Patient Education Reference Center. The database will allow hospitals to offer patients handouts that explain the care they are receiving. [ILLUSTRATION...

Ipswitch module eyes file transfers.(Product News & Reviews)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ipswitch, Inc. is in the process of speeding up and simplifying the file transfer process with its WS_ FTP Server Web Transfer Module. The module lets users securely connect to WS_FTP Server 6.1.1 through their...

Near-Time: building a better work force.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Near-Time is making collaboration easier, one wiki and widget at a time. The company recently teamed up with the Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) to develop work force partnerships through the creation of the Open Source Workforce...

EndNote Web update seeks to create better bibliographies.(Product News & Reviews)
July 1, 2008... Thomson Reuters is targeting bibliographies with its new EndNote Web tool. The upgraded release includes administrative tools to customize online search connection files, import filters and bibliographic styles for campus users, and more. ...

Zinio adds titles to iPhone and iPod touch, partners with BN.com.(Product News & Reviews)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Zinio unveiled a host of new titles that will be featured on the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. The titles include Reader's Digest, Elle, Esquire UK, Macworld Spain, Macworld UK, Outside, PC Magazine, Popular...

Digital Scholarship to encourage understanding of Google Book Search.(Product News & Reviews)
July 1, 2008... Digital Scholarship will be increasing its users' knowledge of Google Book Search with its Google Book Search Bibliography, version 2. The bibliography focuses on the evolution of Google Book Search and the legal, library, and social issues...

Newstex: of Tweets and NewsTwits.(Product News & Reviews)
July 1, 2008... Twitter aficionados like the 140-character-maximum brevity of Tweets, which have now become the source of hot news long before the bloggers even begin posting their entries. Since Newstex already licenses Blogs on Demand, president Larry...

Jigsaw: the declaration of data independence.(Product News & Reviews)
July 1, 2008... On the Fourth of July this year, Jim Fowler, CEO and co-founder of Jigsaw, definitely experienced deja-vu. Last month, Fowler and his team celebrated their own independence day as they opened the virtual doors to their collection of business...

Web of Science goes global.(Product News & Reviews)
July 1, 2008... Thomson Reuters is taking Web of Science worldwide with the addition of 700 regional journals. The company added 199 Asia Pacific, 364 European Union, 80 Latin American, 50 Middle Eastern and African, and seven North American journals to the...

Really Strategies, Inera target XML publishing.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Really Strategies, Inc. and Inera, Inc. have recently pooled their respective resources so publishers can streamline the process of working with XML. The combination of Really Strategies' RSuite, a browser-based content management system, and...

Convera launches new website, teams up with OBG Management and YellowBrix.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Convera is targeting salon and beauty professionals with its new website, ProBeautySearch.com. The site allows stylists, cosmetologists, educators, salon owners, beauty students, and others to search for targeted, industry-relevant results on...

Serials Solutions launches new initiative, adds to KnowledgeWorks database.(Product News & Reviews)
July 1, 2008... Manual data aggregation of usage statistics may be a thing of the past for librarians who pick up Serials Solutions' Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative. The initiative, which is supported in 360 Counter, lets librarians bypass...

SAGE, Hindawi unveil first joint journal.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... SAGE and Hindawi released the first title from their SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research joint venture: Human Genomics and Proteomics. The peer-reviewed, international open access journal will document frequencies of causative mutations that lead...

SirsiDynix symphony gains host of upgrades.(Product News & Reviews)
July 1, 2008... SirsiDynix added a range of new features to its SirsiDynix Symphony 3.2.1 integrated library system. Users who upgrade to the new release will have access to new options for capturing statistics of multipiece items, support for entering only...

Springer: rolling out Content Solutions.(Product News & Reviews)
July 1, 2008... When it comes to econtent, Springer Science+Business Media is reaching out to an even broader audience with a new product called Springer Content Solutions for Industry. Designed specifically for companies involved in R&D and marketing, Content...

Master almost anything with online video: showing instead of telling is the idea behind the rapidly expanding content offered through a growing number of websites that feature how-to videos.(Link-Up @ Home: Your Personal Guide to the Web)
July 1, 2008... If you were asked to describe a corkscrew, you'll quickly realize the accuracy of the adage about a picture being worth a thousand words. Yes, you could describe a corkscrew if you had to ("Well, it has this little pointed metal thing that...

Fun site retraces origins of 'riding shotgun'.(CyberSports)
July 1, 2008... After several incidents of queasiness on long trips in the last decade, your Field Correspondent's skills at calling "shotgun" on road trips have deteriorated. You know that old adage about calling the front passenger seat (aka "shotgun")...

Libraries go back 2.0 the future.(Cover Notes)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Library 2.0 and Beyond: Innovative Technologies and Tomorrow's User edited by Nancy Courtney Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2007 ISBN: 978-1-5915-8537-4 152 pages; $45 As a tech-savvy information professional, you are most likely...

Shore things.(In Other Words)
July 1, 2008... Monday was the perfect beach day. I could feel it the minute that I stepped outside to get the newspaper. I was tempted to take the day off from work and drive down to one of South Jersey's many great shore towns, park myself in my beach chair,...

1 & 1 Internet, Inc.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(appointment of Oliver Mauss at 1 & 1 Internet, Inc.)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1 & 1 Internet, Inc. announced that Oliver Mauss has been appointed its new CEO. He also will be in charge of the company's subsidiaries in France, Spain, and the U.K. In this position, he will be responsible for the...

Kadoink.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(appointment of Shabber Jaffer and Mark Robinson )(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Kadoink announced two appointments. Shabber Jaffer is its chief financial officer and Mark Robinson is its vice president of product management. Most recently, Jaffer worked at Fonemine, Inc., where he drove global partnerships with online...

Equinox Software, Inc.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(appointment of Karen Schneider)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Equinox Software, Inc. announced that Karen Schneider is joining its staff as community librarian. In this position, she will work on community liaison activities, help build the company's brand, and promote the use...

Coutts Information Services.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Coutts Information Services announced that Andrejs (Andy) Alferovs was named its vice president of global sales. According to the release, he will endeavor to grow the business base in the U.S. Since joining the...