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Viruses Can Infect Computers with Child Porn

Posted on November 12, 2009
According to a recent ABAJournal Law News Now article computer viruses can infect users computers with child pornography. Here's and excerpt: An infected computer may be the least of your problems, the Associated Press reports. ?An Associated Press investigation found...

Trade Talks Hone in on Internet Abuse and ISP Liability

Posted on November 04, 2009
Interesting review in PC World of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement meeting in South Korea. Here's an excerpt: ISPs around the world may be forced to snoop on their subscribers and cut them off if they are found to have shared...

Global Trends 2025

Posted on October 27, 2009
The National Intelligence Council has released its report Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World. Here are some of its preliminary assessments: The whole international system?as constructed following WWII?will be revolutionized. Not only will new players?Brazil, Russia, India and China? have...

USPTO Rescinds Controversial Patent Regulations Package Proposed by Previous Administration

Posted on October 22, 2009
The USPTO has rescinded a controversial patent regulation package. Here's an excerpt of the announcement from the USPTO web page: WASHINGTON ? Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos has signed a new...

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Broadband Internet is Now a Legal Right in Finland

Posted on October 15, 2009
Finland has become the first country to declare Internet access a legal right. Here's an excerpt from Mashable: The EU Parliament has on several occasions stated that access to the Internet is one of basic human rights. Now, Finland has...

Internet Has Never Been More Dangerous

Posted on October 02, 2009
From InformationWeek an article reporting how malware and phishing schemes are becoming more common. Here's an excerpt: Between January and June this year, the number of fake antivirus programs detected grew by 585%, according to a report released on Wednesday...

Crime Reports

Posted on October 02, 2009
A new crime reports mashup is available here. Posted by Jon Lutz

Worst of Recession is Over for Law Firms

Posted on September 24, 2009
The worst of the recession may be over for law firms according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey. Read the ABAJournal Law News Now for more information. Posted by Jon Lutz

Why the White House is Hiring a Social Media Archivist

Posted on September 16, 2009
The Whitehouse is attempting to archive its social media content. Here's an excerpt describing what they are trying to do: ?In order to comply with the Presidential Records Act, the White House New Media team is looking for a non...

Appeals Court Throws Out $358 Million Verdict in Microsoft Case

Posted on September 11, 2009
A federal appeals court on Friday affirmed a jury verdict that Microsoft, with their Outlook calendar function, infringed an Alcatel-Lucent patent, but ruled that the $358 million dollars awarded to the software company was excessive. Read more about the case:...

Hackers Routinely Sell E-Mail Passwords

Posted on September 08, 2009
From the ABAJournal Law News Now Hackers Routinely Sell E-Mail Passwords with Virtual Impunity; here's an excerpt: Think you're personal e-mail's secure? Think again. Hackers can obtain virtually anyone's password, experts say, and the penalties for doing so, in the...

Microsoft Wins Emergency Stay of Judge?s Ban on Word Product Sales

Posted on September 04, 2009
From the ABAJournal Law News Now Microsoft Wins Emergency Stay of Judge's Ban on Word Sales. Here's an excerpt: A federal appeals court has granted Microsoft's emergency appeal of a Texas federal judge's order that would have banned the computer...

Computer Hacker Albert Gonzales Indictment

Posted on August 19, 2009
In what is probably the biggest identity theft prosecution in US history, computer hacker Albert Gonzales has been indicted. His hacking may have exposed data from as many as 130 million credit and debit cards. You can see the indictment...

Microsoft Files Emergency Motion in Word Verdict

Posted on August 17, 2009
On Friday Microsoft filee an Emergency motion with the US District Court for Eastern Texas to block a ruling that would make it stop selling Word. Here's an excerpt from an article in WindowsITPro: Tiny i4i sued Microsoft in 2007...

Legal Research Pits Casemaker vs. Fastcase

Posted on August 07, 2009
Law.com LegalTechnology provides a comparative review of Casemaker and Fastcase. Here's an excerpt. Two legal research services are in a head-to-head competition to win the loyalty of America's lawyers. No, I am not talking about Westlaw and LexisNexis...

SCOTUS Insiders Discuss Changing Court Dynamics

Posted on August 03, 2009
From the ABAJournal Law News Now the article: SCOTUS Insiders Discuss Changing Court Dynamics as Souter Exits. Here's an excerpt: The U.S. Supreme Court in the Obama era may be more conservative than under President George W. Bush because retiring...

Skype Future in Jeopardy

Posted on July 31, 2009
Joltid developed some of the underlying p2p technology that Skype uses. They are claiming that Skype doesn't have a right to use that technoloyg. Skype's parent company EBay is suing Joltid for the continued use of that technology. Read more...

Yahoo Gives In to Microsoft, Gives Up on Search

Posted on July 30, 2009
Microsoft and Yahoo have signed a ten year deal to become search partners. An article in the July 29th BusinessWeek asserts that while Yahoo will handle ad sales, Microsoft will get the real prize which is "data on who is...

Age Bias

Posted on July 16, 2009
The ABAJournal Law News Now reports that age bias claims increased 29 percent last year. Read about it here. Posted by Jon Lutz

PLI Offers its Law Books on Kindle

Posted on July 10, 2009
Practising Law Institute is now offering its publications on Kindle. More than 65 PLI titles are available. Read more about it in the ABAJournal Law News Now. Visit the PLI site. Posted by Jon Lutz

Yahoo to Launch New Research Tool

Posted on July 08, 2009
Yahoo's Search Pad was released Tuesday July 7th. Search Pad allows users to save and take notes on search results which they can revisit later. Read about Search Pad on the WSJ Blog Digits here. Try Search Pad here. Posted...

National Institutes of Health Guidelines on Human Stem Cell Research

Posted on July 07, 2009
In March of 2009 President Obama signed the executive order Removing the Barriers to Responsible Scientific Research Involving Human Stem Cells. The National Institutes of Health has issued guidelines on Human Stem Cell Research that become effective July 7, 2009...

Bing searches Twitter

Posted on July 06, 2009
Microsoft Bing now searches Twitter in real time. Twitter has become increasingly important for keeping up on breaking news. Many corporations provide press releases via Twitter. LegalNews is available on twitter. Posted by Jon Lutz

Text Messages are Calls

Posted on July 02, 2009
Text messages to cell phones in regards to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act are calls. The case arose from Simon & Schuster sending text message advertisements to cell phones. According to the recent case Laci Satterfield v. Simon and Schuster...

Michael Jackson Patent

Posted on June 29, 2009
Did you know Michael Jackson has a patent on a shoe that allows the wearer to lean forward beyond their center of gravity thus creating an anti-gravity illusion? You can read about the patent on the United States Patent and...

Google Translate

Posted on June 19, 2009
Google Translate is now translating Persian to English. Try it here. Posted by Jon Lutz

Battle of the Ducks

Posted on June 04, 2009
An interesting article in the ABAJournal Law News Now reports that two companies that provide amphibious vehicle rides in the San Francisco Bay area use Kazoo like quackers to attract attention. One company has sued the other contending that it...

60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye

Posted on June 03, 2009
J.D. Salinger has sued to stop the publication of a sequel of sorts to his novel Catcher in the Rye. The new novel is titled 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye and written by John David California. Is the...

bing

Posted on June 02, 2009
Try the new Microsoft search engine (Microsoft calls it a decision engine) bing. Microsoft describes the decision engine this way: We took a new approach to go beyond search to build what we call a decision engine. With a powerful...

Quantitative Finance Community

Posted on June 01, 2009
Interesting website, Wilmott.com on the quantitative finance community. It requires registration to see some content. Posted by Jon Lutz

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