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IBM To Launch Web Based Application Market

Posted on May 05, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, May 5, 2008. IBM To Launch Web-Based Application Market"IBM's Blue Business Platform will feature a mix of business applications and services aimed primarily at small- and mid-sized companies ".

Apple Gets Top Marks for Tech Support

Posted on May 05, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, May 5, 2008. Apple Gets Top Marks For Tech Support"Consumer Reports also rated Dell above average for both desktops and notebooks, while HP offered 'inferior support.' "

Selected List of Articles From National Law Journal Daily Headlines May 5, 2008

Posted on May 05, 2008
Source: NLJ.com, May 5, 2008 Subscription needed for online access: Empty homes spur cities' suits"Cities now dealing with scores of abandoned, foreclosed homes have started suing banks and mortgage companies to recoup their costs, while other cities are hauling lenders before code enforcement boards and county courts to force them to maintain abandoned properties...

List of Selected U.S. Federal Documents from Gallerywatch.com

Posted on May 05, 2008
Selected federal documents below from Gallery Watch.com may include references to government reporrts, Congressional letters, draft bills, and other primary source materials. Documents listed are accessible through subscription to the GalleryWatch...

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New Jersey Law Journal Top Stories May 5, 2008

Posted on May 05, 2008
If you are already an online subscriber to New Jersey Law Journal News Alert Service you should be able to click on any of the links provided below, sign in, and access the full text of articles listed Subscription needed for online access: Suit Tests If Rutgers Law Clinics' Files Are Subject to Disclosure Under OPRA " Litigation over shopping mall construction has spawned a novel legal issue: whether case files at clinics at New Jersey's public law schools are subject to Open Public Records Act requests...

Judges Defend Director, Call News Of Fraud Case Misleading

Posted on May 02, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, May 2, 2008. "Allegedly misleading news accounts about a settlement in a federal fraud case have caused 'distress' at the Reno-based National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, says council president Susan Carbon...

Judge: President Bush Sent Wrong Signal By Commuting Libby Prison Term

Posted on May 02, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, May 2, 2008. "When President Bush erased the prison term of Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, he reinforced some Americans' perception that status can affect justice, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton, who sentenced Libby, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel...

As Food Prices Rise, Inmates Face Loss Of Coffee, Dessert

Posted on May 02, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, May 2, 2008. "If Wisconsin prisoners seem sluggish irritable these days, it could be because they haven't had their coffee, says the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. As global food prices soar, corrections facilities are trimming some of the extras from their menus and devising other creative ways to save cash...

Mothers OF Gang Members Join Forces in Chicago

Posted on May 02, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, May 2, 2008. "It's what everyone wants to know after a gang member terrorizes a neighborhood, says the Chicago Sun Times: Where are the parents? For the last several months, some of them have been meeting in a church basement to pray and cry and face a deep shame: They are mothers of the gang-bangers on the corners...

Tough Denver Police Discipline Plan: "Presumptive Punishments"

Posted on May 02, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, May 2, 2008. "After more than three years of debate, Denver is ready to put in place a get-tough police discipline system that will have swifter and harsher punishment for misconduct, reports the Denver Post. The Civil Service Commission is expected to sign off on the rule changes today...

Prosecutors Say Witness Prosecution Budgets Are Too Low

Posted on May 02, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, May 2, 2008. "Prosecutors around the U.S. say tight budgets are hamstringing their ability to keep witnesses safe at a time when intimidation on the streets appears to be surging, particularly in gang cases, the Associated Press reports...

Senate Commerce Committee Held Hearing on "The Future of the Internet"

Posted on May 02, 2008
Source: Lexology, May 2, 2008. Indecency and copyright enforcement by ISPs? Questions from the net neutrality hearingsDavis Wright Tremaine LLP"The Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing this week on the Future of the Internet, dealing principally with the issue of net neutrality - whether Internet Service Providers treat all content carried through their facilities equally...

Martin Tells Senate Panel That FCC Will Continue To Probe Comcast Web Management

Posted on May 02, 2008
Source: Lexology, May 2, 2008. Martin tells Senate panel that FCC will continue to probe Comcast web managementPaul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP"Appearing as a last-minute witness at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on net neutrality and the future of the Internet, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin showed that the FCC is taking Comcast?s recent pronouncements on web network management with a grain of salt as he voiced his belief that the FCC and lawmakers should evaluate the practices of Comcast and other broadband service providers 'with heightened scrutiny...

In Emergencies People Turn to Web 2.0

Posted on May 02, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, May 2, 2008 (Reference is to May 1, 2008 posting by Mitch Wagner). In Emergencies, People Turn To Web 2.0, Not Traditional News "When danger is at their door, people turn to social media sites, blogs, and instant messages, rather than the mainstream news media, for necessary information...

Purdue University in Indiana to Build Its Own Supercomputer

Posted on May 02, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, May 2, 2008. Purdue To Build Its Own Supercomputer, 40th Largest In World"The university will mobilize 200 of its IT staffers on Monday to build a supercomputer that has 6,496 cores and can perform 60 trillion operations per second...

Warez Site Operator Sentenced To 30 Months

Posted on May 02, 2008
Source:InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, May 2, 2008. Warez Site Operator Sentenced To 30 Months"Prosecutors said David Fish's sentencing is linked to the largest and most successful global criminal enforcement actions ever taken against organized piracy"...

List of Selected U.S. Federal Documents from Gallerywatch.com*

Posted on May 02, 2008
05/01/2008 Letter to Brownsville, Texas Mayor Pat Ahumada and Eagle Pass, Texas Mayor Chad Foster From Rep. Tom TancredoLetter Proposes Placing the Cities of Brownsville and Eagle Pass on the Mexican Side of the Border Fence if They Decline to Cooperate With Construction05/01/2008 Letter to Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert Mueller From Rep...

Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines May 2, 2008

Posted on May 02, 2008
Source; NLJ.com, May 2, 2008. Subscription needed for online access: http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe_intermediate.jsp FROM THE UPCOMING ISSUE | Jury system gaining in worldwide practice"Many of the lawyers Robert Precht has been working with lately are veterans, with one exception: They don't know anything about juries...

New Jersey Law Journal News Alerts May 1, 2008

Posted on May 02, 2008
If you are already an online subscriber to New Jersey Law Journal News Alert Service you should be able to click on any of the links provided below, sign in, and access the full text of articles listed Subscription needed for online access: Public Advocate Says State Gets Its Money's Worth From His Department "Public Advocate Ronald Chen is defending his two-year-old department's record of achievement even as four of the five Republican members of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee say it should be scrapped as a cost-saving measure...

New Jersey Law Journal State and Federal Decisions May 1, 2008

Posted on May 02, 2008
If you are already an online subscriber to New Jersey Law Journal Case Alert Service you should be able to click on any of the links provided below, sign in, and access the full text of articles listed Subscription needed for online access: STATE DECISIONS: Fisher v...

New York Appellate Criminal Cases Originating from the New York Supreme Court NY County

Posted on May 01, 2008
In order to comply with subscription agreements you will need to use your own Westlaw password to view the full text of cases listed below: Thursday, May 01, 2008 1. People v. Moore2008 WL 1868584, 2008 N...

Placement Opportunity: Special Collections/Reference Librarian

Posted on May 01, 2008
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT Historical Society of Washington, D.C., Kiplinger Research Library TITLE: Special Collections Reference Librarian/Archivist and Collections SALARY: $45,000 annual salary BENEFITS: Full benefits CLASSIFICATION: Professional full time position POSITION PURPOSE: The Special Collections Reference Librarian/Archivist, Kiplinger Research Library and Collections, is responsible for serving the public by assisting them in using the collections of the Kiplinger Library and by responding to phone, email and letter queries...

California Woman Faces Prison Return 32 Years After Walking Away

Posted on May 01, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, May 1, 2008. "With an executive for a husband, three grown daughters and spacious home in a community of million-dollar houses, Marie Walsh of San Diego was busted by the U.S. Marshals Service 32 years after she walked away from a Michigan prison, where she served one year of a 10-to-20-year sentence for selling heroin in 1974...

Massachusetts Ex Offender Study: More Nonviolent Offenders Return to Prison

Posted on May 01, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, May 1, 2008. "Former prisoners in Massachusetts are sent back behind bars at a significantly lower rate than the national average, says a new study from the Washington, D.C.-based Urban Institute and the Massachusetts Department of Correction finds...

New York City Loses Gun Manufacturer Liability Case in Second Circuit Court of Appeals

Posted on May 01, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, May 1, 2008. "New York City has hit a dead end in its attempt to hold gun manufacturers liable for the flow of illegal arms, says the New York Law Journal. Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit dismissed the city's suit, upholding an act of Congress that insulated gun makers from liability while holding, 2 to 1, that New York's public nuisance law does not fit into an exception in the act"...

California Plans Aggressive DNA "Familial Searching"

Posted on May 01, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, May 1, 2008. "California will adopt the most aggressive approach in the nation to a controversial crime-fighting technique that uses DNA to try to identify elusive criminals through their relatives, says the Los Angeles Times, quoting state Attorney General Jerry Brown...

High Turnover in FBI: A Sign Of Health Or Instability?

Posted on May 01, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, May 1, 2008. "Steady turnover among senior FBI agents is raising concerns about the loss of experience in oversight roles and the agency's long-term stability, says USA Today. Critics say the turnover puts less experienced agents in key security and supervisory roles...

Nashville Cracks Down on Gangs, They Move to Suburbs

Posted on May 01, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, May 1, 2008. "Two weeks before the fatal shooting of a suburban teenager in what appears to be a gang-related fight, Nashville police gave gang awareness training to Williamson County, Tn., school faculty. The Tennessean reports that the schools' request for the training suggests a willingness to acknowledge, although not yet publicly, what they and local law enforcement had long been reluctant to admit: Gangs exist in suburbia...

Google Beefs Up Presentations' Power

Posted on May 01, 2008
Source: Grok on Google, May 1, 2008. Google Beefs Up Presentations' Power"Google's online PowerPoint application, called Presentations, just met with some great new -- and much needed -- features. First is the addition of speaker notes. Google also added the ability to embed YouTube videos into Presentations, and its Gears roll-out now expands to Presentations as well"...

High Tech Gadgets: Ultimate Freedom or Complete Loss of Privacy?

Posted on May 01, 2008
Source: Lexology, May 1, 2008. High-tech gadgets: ultimate freedom or complete loss of privacy?Duane Morris LLP"Everywhere we go these days, the people around us are busy utilizing their high tech gadgets."

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