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Every Friday we publish our "Follow Friday" series which features a few industry news articles we would like to share with you. We are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet. Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

This week's Follow Friday articles include "How to regulate cloud computing," "The History of the Modern Graphics Processor," and more.

Study: One-quarter of U.S. patents issued this year will be in mobile - InfoWorld
By Stephen Lawson

The land rush for mobile patents is so feverish that about one-quarter of all patents issued in the U.S. this year will be mobile-related, according to a study released on Wednesday. "It just shows, given the number of filings, how competitive that space has become," said Chetan Sharma, founder and president of Chetan Sharma Consulting. He studied statistics about patent applications and grants in Europe and the U.S. over the past 20 years.

Check out some of our other posts about mobile technologies.

How to regulate cloud computing? - The Guardian
By Mark O'Conor, Patrick van Eecke & Jessica Turner

Regulatory issues around data protection and security can be addressed to realise the potential of cloud computing. Who can fail to have noticed the emergence of cloud as the current technology buzzword? Recent commentary has explained how the cloud can transform business and yet sceptics have been falling over themselves to highlight the barriers to its realisation. However, cloud computing entails many of the same considerations and controls as outsourcing to an offshore vendor and, as such, the issues can be addressed and the advantages of cloud computing realised.

Read more to see the other stories of interest this week.

Every Friday we publish our ‘Follow Friday’ series. Here are few stories that caught our attention this week which include GS1 DataBar and retail, how to drive sustainable SharePoint adoption, will HTML5 kill the native app, Nestle rolls out QR Code packaging and more.

In our Follow Friday series, we feature a few industry news finds to share with you. We are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet. Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

GS1 DataBar: The next big thing in retailing - ferret
By GS1 Australia

The GS1 DataBar is a family of seven bar codes that have huge potential to transform the way retailers do business. GS1 DataBar can be used globally in open trade on any product from 2014. Four of the seven bar codes can be read by omnidirectional scanners, enabling products that have previously not been bar coded to be quickly and accurately scanned at Point-of-Sale by retailers.

If you like this article, you may also want to checkout What is a GS1 DataBar Barcode?

How to Drive Sustainable SharePoint Adoption in Your Organization - CMSWire
By Dux Raymond Sy

Many view SharePoint as nothing more than a glorified network share. But organizations who provide contextual, business-relevant training and actively cultivate a sustainable SharePoint adoption program will find those initiatives to contribute to more widespread utilization of SharePoint to address users’ specific day-to-day business needs and therefore maximize the organization’s SharePoint investment.

If you like this article, you may also want to checkout The Explosive Growth of 3rd Party Add-Ons for SharePoint.

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Will HTML5 Kill the Native App? - Campus Technology
By Michelle Fredette

As schools calculate the best way to serve students via mobile apps, cost and performance are part of the equation. Does HTML5 offer a solution or is it just another variable? 

If you like this article, you may also want to checkout HTML5 vs. Flash - What Do You Need To Know? Part 2.

Read more to see how Domino's Pizza expects the cloud to deliver.

A few stories that caught our attention this week include how successful collaboration focuses on enabling business activities, not expanding access to information, and how barcodes are helping miners in the Congo sell their products abroad.

In our Follow Friday series, we feature a few industry news finds to share with you. We are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet. Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

Medical imaging saves money, lives - Billings Gazette
By Kathleen Ryan, M.D.

According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, access to medical imaging is directly linked to greater life expectancy. Americans with greater access to medical imaging scans live longer than those without. Deaths from breast cancer and other serious illnesses have plummeted largely due to early diagnosis and treatment made possible by imaging scans.

Collaboration: It’s about people and processes - ComputerWorld
By Alex Jasper

While it’s true that we often collaborate around information, we shouldn’t make the mistake of believing that collaboration is about information. Better access to more information doesn’t improve productivity unless it enables business activities that weren’t possible before (e.g., analytics) or accelerates existing activities. Real collaboration is about improving the processes that people use to get their jobs done.

Read more to find out how the numbers indicate an expected increase in electronic health record (EHR) use within the next year.

A few stories that caught our attention this week include a look back at the history of the barcode and some terrifying, tech-savvy Halloween costume inspiration. Check out the links below to read the full articles.

In our Follow Friday series, we feature a few industry news finds to share with you. We are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet. Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

Halloween Costume Uses Smartphone App to Display Your Beating Heart (Video) - Mashable
By Charlie White
Ever watched a scary movie with special effects that seemed terrifyingly realistic and thought, “Wow, I wish I could do that for Halloween!”  Well, your dreams have come true: check out how smartphone apps and some surprisingly easy costume ideas can be combined for some freaky, spook-tacular results.

The Bar Code Turns 60 (Infographic) - Government Technology
The barcode turned 60 yesterday, and this helpful infographic tracks the transformation of the barcode and provides some interesting history.  For example, did you know that the first product to be logged with a barcode in a grocery store was Wrigley’s chewing gum?

Read more to see what else we found, including why researchers find cloud innovations so helpful and how governmental regulation can sometimes inadvertently restrict those innovations!

A few stories that caught our attention this week include a new DNA barcode and how the EU is hoping the Cloud will provide an economic boost.  Check out the links below to read the full articles.

In our Follow Friday series, we feature a few industry news finds to share with you.  We are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet. Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

Tissues Tell the Tale: Non-Invasive Optical Technique Detects Cancer by Looking Under the Skin - e! Science News

European researchers have developed a way to “see” and map tiny blood vessels under the skin using a technique which, until now, has been commonly used to image parts of the eye.  Such detailed, high-resolution images of vascular networks will have important implications for how doctors diagnose, monitor and treat skin diseases, especially skin cancer.

Researchers Engineer Novel DNA Barcode - R&D Magazine

Scientists use their own form of barcodes to investigate and track molecules, or identify parts of a cell.  And now, researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard have adapted the DNA origami folding technique to create new molecular barcodes for scientific use.

Read more to see what else caught our eye, including why the EU thinks the cloud can boost their economy, and to share what you've found this week.