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Inspec Announces Exclusive Webinar Presented by Acclaimed Inventor Dean Kamen: 'Great Minds on Innovation,’ co-sponsored with the Automation Federation

Edison, NJ (June 09, 2011) – Inspec, the largest English-language bibliographic database covering the fields of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, computing and control, information technology and manufacturing, production and mechanical engineering, announces its featured fall webinar ‘Great Minds on Innovation.’ The webinar is co-sponsored with the Automation Federation and presented by acclaimed entrepreneur and inventor Dean Kamen. It promises to cover insights from Kamen’s personal road to innovation, visionary world changing inventions and his organization, FIRST, which was created to inspire young peoples’ interest and participation in science and technology. Kamen will also address how Inspec can support engineers in their quest to find quality information and research tools to remain competitive and cutting edge.

“At Inspec, we strive to provide the quality and quantity of content needed to support future innovations,” says Nisa White, Inspec marketing manager. “Having Kamen present our webinar is an honor and testament to that commitment.” 

Best known for inventing the Segway® Personal Transporter (PT), Kamen holds more than 440 U.S. and foreign patents, many of them for innovative medical devices that have expanded the frontiers of health care worldwide. He has also received numerous awards for his efforts. In 2000, Kamen was awarded the National Medal of Technology and in 2005 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. 

“Kamen is a true visionary,” Michael Marlowe, CNM Managing Director/Director of Government Relations, Automation Federation. “His insights during our ‘Great Minds on Innovation’ webinar will offer attendees a unique opportunity to learn not only about how he reached such innovation feats but also how organizations such as ours and Inspec can help all inventors on their road to discovery.”   

The webinar will take place on September 20, 2011 at 10:00 am (EDT). To register, please visit http://www.theiet.org/events/2011/inspec-greatminds.cfm. Spaces are limited so be sure to register as soon as possible to ensure your virtual seat.

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About Inspec
Inspec is the largest English-language bibliographic database covering the fields of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, computing and control, information technology and manufacturing, production and mechanical engineering.  As of June 2011, the database contains 12 million records from 1969 to present; and is supplemented by the Inspec Archive containing 873,700 records from 1898 to 1968.

For more information, please visit:  www.theiet.org/inspec.

About Dean Kamen
Dean Kamen is an inventor, an entrepreneur, and a tireless advocate for science and technology. His roles as inventor and advocate are intertwined—his own passion for technology and its practical uses has driven his personal determination to spread the word about technology's virtues and by so doing to change the culture of the United States. For more information, please visit: http://www.usfirst.org

About The Automation Federation
The Automation Federation (AF) is an association of member organizations engaged in manufacturing and process automation activities. The Automation Federation provides industry-wide strategic analysis and coordination through its member organizations. For more information, please visit: http://www.automationfederation.org/

Infotrieve Secures 2nd CODiE Award

- Mobile Library™ Voted Winner in Software and Information Industry Association’s Science, Technical and Medical Information Resource Category -

WILTON, CT – June 1, 2011 – Infotrieve, Inc. (www.infotrieve.com), the global leader in e-content business service solutions, today announced that its Mobile Library™ won the Best Science, Technical and Medical Information Resource in the Software and Information Industry Association’s (SIIA) 2011 CODiE Awards.

Infotrieve’s Mobile Library offers fully secure, cloud-based anywhere, anytime access to enterprise e-content, along with instant access to a world of knowledge on a pay-per-view basis. Leveraging Infotrieve’s “borderless office” technology, users can seamlessly switch between their PC, Mac® or iPad™ without skipping a beat, as their workspace is automatically synchronized across devices.

The Mobile Library was launched in September 2010 as Infotrieve’s newest addition to the Content SCM® platform, a content access and management solution with more than 300,000 users from nearly 6,500 organizations in over 80 countries. Content SCM won the 2009 CODiE award for the Best Online Science or Technology Service.

The Mobile Library was recently significantly upgraded with fully secure social media and collaboration tools. Users can now create private virtual work groups based on common interests, functional areas or project teams. Members of the groups can follow one another’s progress, share and collaborate on documents and other work products, provide input and receive feedback through annotating, commenting, rating and reviewing. Abstracts, reviews, annotations and workgroup conversations are full-text searchable with relevancy ranking and hit highlighting, and are automatically organized and cross-referenced based on user-defined tags. To ensure up-to-
the-minute awareness, automatic alerts are delivered when relevant content is purchased or flagged by a work group member, and can be shared within work groups. The Mobile Library also supports other forms of discovery including personalized recommendations, custom RSS feeds, browsing and sophisticated searching.

“We are honored for the Mobile Library to be selected as a 2011 CODiE award winner,” said Ken Benvenuto, President and CEO of Infotrieve. “The Mobile Library is a revolutionary advancement in providing a unique combination of anywhere, anytime copyright compliant access to content in tandem with a fully secure social networking environment, and exemplary of Infotrieve’s commitment to developing innovative business service solutions that deliver a consistently high ROI through helping our clients work more productively.”

“For more than 25 years, the CODiE Awards have recognized the most innovative new technology products and services,” noted SIIA President Ken Wasch. “The software recognized today underwent an intensive review by industry peers, subject matter experts, analysts and journalists to make it into the winner’s circle. These products provide the business solutions that fuel our economy and solidify America’s place in the global marketplace. SIIA warmly congratulates all of the winners and nominees of the CODiE Awards.”

For more details on the SIIA CODiE Awards, visit the award website at www.siia.net .

For more details on Infotrieve’s software solutions for information management, please visit www.infotrieve.com .

About Infotrieve, Inc.

Infotrieve is the global leader in developing business service solutions that improve access to e-content and inspire collaboration through secure social networking tools. Infotrieve’s expertise includes people, process and technology solutions that deliver innovations, helping our clients drive their businesses forward with the efficient use of information. Infotrieve has tens of thousands of clients around the world, including more than half of the Fortune 500.

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Infotrieve Launches Social Media Suite for Mobile Library™

- E-Content and Collaboration Now Available Anywhere, Anytime -

WILTON, CT – May 27, 2011 – Infotrieve, Inc. (www.infotrieve.com), the global leader in e-content business service solutions, today announced the introduction of a suite of fully secure social media and collaboration tools for its Mobile Library, adding capabilities such as virtual workgroups, sharing and collaboration, annotating, rating and reviewing, along with the ability to follow colleagues to its award winning cloud-based e-content access and management software.

Mobile Library provides secure anywhere, anytime access to enterprise e-content from a PC, Mac or iPad, and automatically synchronizes individual workspaces across platforms. The new social functionality allows private virtual work groups to be created based on common interests, functional areas or project teams. Members of the groups can follow one another’s progress, share and collaborate on documents and other work products, provide input and receive feedback through annotating, commenting, rating and reviewing. Abstracts, reviews, annotations, and the workgroup conversation are full-text searchable with relevancy ranking and hit highlighting, and are automatically organized and cross-referenced based on user-defined tags. To ensure up-to-the-minute awareness, automatic alerts are delivered when relevant content is purchased or flagged by a work group member, and can be shared within work groups. Mobile Library also supports other forms of discovery including personalized recommendations, custom RSS feeds, browsing and sophisticated searching.

“The need for a borderless, 24/7 work environment is increasing, and so is the expectation of anywhere, anytime access to resources and collaboration, even when working remotely,” said Ken Benvenuto, President and Chief Executive Officer of Infotrieve. “Mobile Library promotes collaboration and innovation by eliminating geographical and functional divides, and provides organizations with a fully-secure, cloud-based social platform and continuously accessible content.”

Mobile Library was initially launched in September 2010 as an easy-to-use, fully-secure, anywhere, anytime gateway to corporate licensed and pay-per-view content, as well as the world’s largest collection of scientific, technical and medical content.

About Infotrieve, Inc.
Infotrieve is the global leader in developing business service solutions that improve access to e-content and inspire collaboration through secure social networking tools. Infotrieve’s expertise includes people, process and technology solutions that deliver innovations, helping our clients drive their businesses forward with the efficient use of information. Infotrieve has tens of thousands of clients around the world, including more than half of the Fortune 500.

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Inspec Celebrates 12 Million Records and Other Achievements at SLA Annual Conference & INFO-EXPO

Edison, NJ (June 1, 2011) – Inspec, the largest English-language bibliographic database covering the fields of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, computing and control, information technology and manufacturing, production and mechanical engineering, celebrates reaching 12 million records at the SLA Annual Conference & INFO-EXPO in Philadelphia, PA, June 12-14 at booth #301. In addition, Dr. Christopher Marker, Inspec Content Co-ordinator of Nuclear and Particle Physics, will hold daily booth presentations on relevant worldly topics taking information from the Inspec database. The company will also announce its feature webinar, ‘Great Minds on Innovation,’ presented this fall by acclaimed entrepreneur and inventor Dean Kamen.

The achievement of reaching 12 million records reinforces Inspec’s commitment to providing users both quantity and quality information in their fields of research. To celebrate this milestone, join Inspec for cake at their booth on Monday, June 13^th at 12:00 p.m. Visitors can also learn more about the article and obtain their own copy.

Throughout the show, Inspec will be holding several daily booth presentations on widely popular topics.  From how medical robots can save our lives and the suns increased activities and its effects on technology  to the future of transportation and whether we are alone in the universe, attendees will discover what information and technologies are available and debated in our world today. Additional presentations will also be given on Inspec, it’s one-of-a-kind archive and Digital Library. Visit the Inspec booth to find specific topics and times.

Attendees can register for the fall webinar to be presented by Dean Kamen- prized entrepreneur and inventor best known for inventing the Segway® Personal Transporter (PT). Co-sponsored by Inspec and the Automation Federation, ‘Great Minds on Innovation,’ will cover insights from Kamen’s personal road to innovation, visionary world changing inventions and his organization, FIRST, which was created to inspire young peoples’ interest and participation in science and technology. Kamen will also address how Inspec can support engineers in their quest to find quality information and research tools to remain competitive and cutting edge.

For more information about Inspec, its products and services, visit online at: www.theiet.org/inspec.  

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About Inspec
Inspec is the largest English-language bibliographic database covering the fields of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, computing and control, information technology and manufacturing, production and mechanical engineering.  As of June 2011, the database contains 12 million records from 1969 to present; and is supplemented by the Inspec Archive containing 873,700 records from 1898 to 1968.

For more information, please visit:  www.theiet.org/inspec.