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iPhone/iPad DevCon

Since there’s such an interest in the iPad, here’s an upcoming conference for developing spoftware applications for the iPhone and iPad: http://iphonedevcon.com/ [...]

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The iPad in the laboratory?

A month ago I wrote a small piece entitled Will the iPad Replace Your Paper Lab Notebook?, basically just a comment on an article in Bitesize Bio which asked the same question, following the release of the Apple iPad. More recently there has been a discussion in one of the LinkedIn groups on What is [...]

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Keeping up with technology – who’s doomed?

Two news items caught my attention today. The first of these popped up in my news reader: ‘Why ELNs are doomed’. Jonathan Gross’ blog on BioData Blogs raises a familiar concern about the relative ease of use of paper and electronic lab notebooks in the laboratory environment.  It has generated some input of friendfeed. [...]

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Will the iPad Replace Your Paper Lab Notebook

When Apple’s iPad went on sale in the US a few days ago, the first phase of the iPad hype cycle reached its ‘peak of inflated expectations’. It remains to be seen what the next phase brings, but we can be sure that there will be continuing speculation of the device’s capabilities and areas of [...]

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Paper vs Electronic

Following on from my post about Notebook Sharing, here’s another blog post wrestling with the consequences of changing from paper to electronic lab notebooks. Interestingly, the prospect of using an Apple iPad as an ELN gets some consideration.  I suspect that we’re going to hear a lot more about iPads in [...]

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