Is it Competitive Intelligence or Plain Ole Spying?
“Corporate spying may be as simple as a company president visiting competitors’ stores to see what’s on sale, as elaborate as engaging outside experts to learn about a rival’s business or as high-tech as hiring a hacker to try to breach a company’s own security measures to identify weaknesses.” Read the whole article in the 12 September edition of The San Francisco Chronicle. From the Free Pint Universe: Excellent FREE TOOL for Info Pros: ResourceShelf Updated daily by Gary Price, Shirl Kennedy and other library and information professionals, ResourceShelf collects and comments on freely available web-based tools, resources and reports. Full-text, database, real-time and multimedia are special interests of the team. A free weekly newsletter of highlights and an RSS feed are both available, along with searchable archives. Check it out! http://www.ResourceShelf.com Online Information Conference 2006 VNU’s Online Information Conference is 28-30 November in London and attracts over 800 del
