When it comes to global internet-based networking among professionals, LinkedIn is the place to go. Not only does it allow members to build and nurture their contacts; its multiple third-party add-ons -- event calendars, reading lists, travel calendars, gateways to Slideshare online presentations, Huddle Workspaces filesharing and whiteboard discussions, filtered links to blogs and Twitter, an...

Preferably, when X is -PO(OH)OR 22 or (CR 17R 18) nP(O)(OH)OR 22, then R 22 is not H or methyl. In one embodiment, Y 4 is -(CR 45R 46) P-W 2-(CR 47R 48) q-; W 2 is -CR 49R 50-, -NR 49-, -O-, -S- or -SO 2-; p and q are independently 0-4, provided that when q is O and W 2 is -NR 49-, -O-, -S- or -SO 2-, then Z 2 is -CR 41R 42-; R 45, R 46, R 47, R 48, R 49 and R 50 are independently hydrogen, C 1-C ...

Almost a year has passed since H.M. Pharma Consultancy made a decision to fully embrace the newly emerged digital media channels. When we stepped up our blogging, became more active on LinkedIn, and joined the "Twitterverse" some might have believed this to be a self promotional effort, purely driven by economic interest.Well, obviously H.M. Pharma Consultancy is a revenue-driven organization, in...

Two weeks ago we were advised that Thomson Reuters Scientific has decided to discontinue four of its peer review journals, effective with year's end: Current Opinion in Investigational Drugs, Current Opinion in Drug Discovery; Development, Current Opinion in Molecular Therapeutics and IDrugs. Sad news, especially with respect to IDrugs where H.M. Pharma Consultancy had published on a regular ...

When somebody from our team boards a plane or a long-distance train, he or she will on most occasions debark with a smartphone that is no longer so smart. Well, to be sure these Motorolas, HTCs and so on are still very nice phones without an online data connection... but they are quite dumb.Those of you who are based in Europe's smaller countries and routinely travel beyond your national borders...

The Fascinating World Of Mobile Tags Sometimes the industry launches solutions for problems of which the public hardly knew that they even existed. That can be one aspect of marketing power. More often there are no satisfactory solutions available for problems everybody concerned knows about, but has stopped thinking about because.... well, because there are no satisfactory solutions. That's a def...

Years ago, while visiting a university department I met with an elderly professor of chemistry to discuss a particular project. Among the documents I had prepared were several patents – which were actually more to the point of the meeting than any of the academic peer-review papers in the set. I was quite dismayed when the guy all but refused to touch these documents and, when he finally did brow...

Today the German-speaking wire services carried „news“ about Google and the CIA company In-Q-Tel investing in the Cambridge, Mass. data mining and analysis company Recorded Future in order to ramp up their OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) capabilities. Even as I am waiting for the shrieks from our data privacy advocates reaching new heights, I can't help noting the 3-week delay between this “re...

Shoot...! It must be August. I know this without having to resort to what my screen calendar flashes at me. I know it because its the time when you can't reach a good third of the people you need to get the information or assistance you need to satisfy the frantic demands from another two thirds. Mid-August used to be a relatively quite time, but this year... its hefty. Well, thinking about it thi...

As readers might remember, our THIRDSPACE patent knowledgebase project is intended to provide the user with access to scientific and intellectual property information. We presented our two posters on the REDWING eye medicine module at the World Ophthalmology Congress in Berlin in early June -- a huge event with thousands of eyecare specialists from every corner of the world in attendance. Intere...