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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 [...]  In the relentless pursuit of increased efficiency and better productivity in our laboratories we turn to computers and automation to drive out inefficient human and paper-based processes. So it was with some surprise that amongst my daily news feeds that keep me informed of the latest and greatest breakthroughs in laboratory matters, I came across [...] Almost a year ago I posted an item on the question of when is a LIMS an ELN, and when is an ELN a LIMS. It is still one of those questions that is causing a good deal of head scratching and cropped up again at the recent SmartLabs Exchange meeting. With the arrival over [...] The 5th Annual SmartLabs Exchange meeting in Brussels (Mar 17th/18th) seemed to buck the recent trend of declining attendances and modest content with a good, total attendance of over 130 people, of whom 90 or more were end users. This meeting offers a different format to a conventional conference with an opening plenary paper per [...] 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 due course. [...] |
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