Quality Systems International Corporation's WinLIMS.NET for the Apple iPad represents the perfect marriage of technologies by combining a full featured Web-based LIMS that includes ELN (Electronic Laboratory Notebook) functionality with a portable device that is light-weight, quickly boots, has extensive battery life, and provides accessibility to networks and the Internet via Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity. The synergy of the WinLIMS.NET and iPad technologies provides a practical and functional means for eliminating paper notebooks as lab workers, field samplers, plant operators, managers, sales, and technical support personnel can now conveniently access and log their data directly from the iPad. Expanded access to WinLIMS.NET using the iPad ensures that data is always up-to-date and immediately accessible throughout the organization and audit trails are guaranteed.
Michelle LongoAsst. Managing Editor
Striving Toward Secondary GoalsLate last month, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich stunned most everyone when he declared his promise that "by the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon." While I don’t fault Gingrich for dreaming and trying to set high standards and goals, I can’t help but think of the enormous amount of known and unknown variables that significantly deter this accomplishment...continue
