http://www.infotoday.com en-us Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Information Today News Breaks RSS Feed All Content Copyright 1998-2006 Information Today Inc. 1440 NewsBreak 11/19/2009 12:00:00 AM Enterprise search technology provider Coveo has launched Coveo Expresso Beta, an entry-level enterprise search product available via a free download. The goal is to make the nearly 5-year-old company's technology more easily accessible and usable for the end customer. http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Coveo-Promises-Ease-of-Use-and-Accessibility-With-Expresso-Launch-58024.asp NewsBreak 11/19/2009 12:00:00 AM Reed Elsevier's CEO Ian Smith has resigned just 8 months after taking up the reins of the Anglo-Dutch media giant. The company said that the departure was "by mutual agreement," but it did not divulge further details of the split. Smith will be replaced by Erik Engstrom, CEO of Elsevier, effective immediately. Engstrom had previously been ruled out of the running for the position following the departure of Crispin Davis. http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Reed-Elseviers-CEO-Quits-After--Months-58025.asp NewsBreak 11/19/2009 12:00:00 AM Google is now including full-text legal opinions from U.S. Federal and State District, Appellate, and Supreme courts in Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com). And I really like it. For the lay pubic, it is fun to search opinions because you not only get judges explaining how a particular law is applied to certain facts in the case, but you also get links to law journals and treatises citing the case and "related scholarly works" (whether it cites your case or not). This product is not going to put Lexis or Westlaw out of business. http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Judicial-Opinions-Now-Available-in-Google-Scholar-58031.asp NewsDigest 11/19/2009 12:00:00 AM Nstein Technologies, Inc. (www.nstein.com) announced the release of a new product, Semantic Site Search (3S), a front-end, multi-index search engine. 3S leverages Nstein's patented text-mining technology to power a faceted site search that returns highly accurate results that are organized categorically. http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Digest/Nstein-Launches-New-Semantic-Site-Search-58026.asp NewsDigest 11/19/2009 12:00:00 AM Hoover's, Inc. (www.hoovers.com) and Jigsaw (www.jigsaw.com) announced the integration of Jigsaw contact information into Hoover's ConnectMail. Available as a subscription add-on, Hoover's ConnectMail, now powered by Jigsaw, gives Hoover's subscribers access to an additional 7.5 million contacts generated from Jigsaw's community. http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Digest/Hoovers-Integrates-Jigsaw-Contact-Information-Into-ConnectMail-58027.asp NewsDigest 11/19/2009 12:00:00 AM The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF; www.eff.org), Electronic Information for Libraries (www.eIFL.net), and other international copyright experts joined together to launch Copyright Watch—a public website created to centralize resources on national copyright laws at www.copyright-watch.org. Funding to create Copyright Watch was generously provided by the Open Society Institute (www.soros.org). http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Digest/International-Activists-Launch-New-Copyright-Watch-Website-58028.asp NewsSpotlight 11/2/2009 12:00:00 AM For the last several years, text analytics technologies have been continually improving and are increasingly being incorporated into new information filtering solutions. These advanced analytical tools are critical not only for the intelligence community but also for corporate executives and researchers and for any content-intensive information applications. Text analytics extracts key information from unstructured text and helps to retrieve otherwise hidden information. It is a key component of many customer relationship management (CRM) applications, as well as for media and publishing, competitive intelligence, reputation monitoring, e-discovery, compliance, and financial analysis. Because of this, we've seen a number of acquisitions of text analytics firms by larger search companies (Business Objects acquired Inxight, Reuters acquired ClearForest, SAS acquired Teragram, and IBM acquired SPSS) and an increased pace of product and service rollouts. http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Spotlight/Text-Analytics-Gains-a-Broader-Audience-in-the-Enterprise-57764.asp