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" Foreign Retailer Not Subject to Texas Long Arm Jurisdiction Based on Non Interactive Web Site "

Posted on March 10, 2008
Source: Lexology, March 10, 2008. Foreign retailer not subject to Texas long-arm jurisdiction based upon non-interactive Web site, despite presence of hyperlinks that direct users to purchase the product from other foreign retailersThelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner"A foreign retailer is not subject to Texas long-arm jurisdiction based upon its non-interactive Web site, despite the presence of hyperlinks on its site that direct users to other foreign retailers selling its products...

Microsoft CEO Talks About Google, Yahoo, Apple At MIX

Posted on March 10, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 10, 2008. Microsoft's Ballmer Talks About Google, Yahoo, Apple At MIX"The Microsoft CEO tells a conference of Web developers that his company is an underdog on the Web"

Microsoft, Sony In Blu-Ray For Xbox Talks

Posted on March 10, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 10, 2008. Microsoft, Sony In Blu-ray-For-Xbox Talks"Microsoft found itself without a high-definition video partner last month after HD DVD developer Toshiba said it would drop the format."

Vista and XP Users May Need Daylight Savings Time Patch

Posted on March 10, 2008
Source InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 10, 2008 Vista And XP Users May Need Daylight-Saving Time Patch"To ensure Windows users aren't hit with a daylight time bug, Microsoft has launched an automated diagnostic and update service that installs patches on systems that need them...

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Thai Monks Warned Not To Flirt On Social Networking Sites

Posted on March 07, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 7, 2008. Thai Monks Warned Not To Flirt On Social Networking Sites"A minister asked Web site operators to monitor monks' participation and kick them off the sites."

IBM To Offer 'Microsoft Free' PC's In Europe And Russia

Posted on March 07, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 7, 2008. IBM To Offer 'Microsoft-Free' PCs In Europe And Russia"IBM will work with VDEL of Austria and LX Polska of Poland to package and distribute a line of PCs called Open Referent throughout Eastern Europe and Russia...

Swiss Bank Abandons Lawsuit Against Wikileaks

Posted on March 07, 2008
Source:InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 7, 2008. Swiss Bank Abandons Lawsuit Against Wikileaks"The wiki had posted financial documents it said proved tax evasion by Bank Julius Baer's clients." �

Chertoff Says Border Fence Technology Works, Not A Panacea

Posted on March 07, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 7, 2008. Border Fence Technology Works, Not A Panacea"Michael Chertoff told Congress that DHS is learning lessons from the $21 million immigration control demonstration project."

Microsoft Strives For "The Singularity" With New Operating System

Posted on March 07, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 7, 2008. Microsoft Strives For 'The Singularity' With New Operating System"The company is developing the OS for research and academic environments using a number of innovative coding techniques and practices...

The Wire Wrigers Vs The Drug War: They Will Vote To Acquit

Posted on March 07, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 7, 2008. "Five writers of The Wire, the HBO drama that ends a 5- year run this Sunday, have a suggestion to fight the drug war: jury nullification. Writing in Time magazine, the writers say the drug war has ravaged law enforcement...

In High Tech Age Illinois Officials Urge Halt To Seizing Drivers Licenses

Posted on March 07, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 7, 2008. "Illinois is one of the few states where officers can -- and often do -- take a driver's license during routine traffic stops, says the Chicago Tribune. A group of state officials is trying to change that...

Arizona Panel To Act On Racial Profiling After Public Concerns Rise

Posted on March 07, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 7, 2007. "A civil-rights panel will urge Arizona police agencies to take more steps to combat racial profiling after community leaders raised concerns last night that the discriminatory police practice is growing, says the Arizona Republic...

Books by Journalist, Son Tell How Teen Meth Addiction Began

Posted on March 07, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 7, 2008. "In a new book, 'Beautiful Boy,' journalist David Sheff tells the harrowing tale of son Nic's transformation from honor student and athlete to methamphetamine addict at age 18. Now 25, Nic has written his own book, Tweak, an unflinching chronicle of life as an addict who stole from his family and resorted to prostitution to buy drugs...

Prison Industries Issue Holds Up Second Chance Act

Posted on March 07, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 7, 2008. "A dispute over the federal prison industries program is holding up the long-pending Second Chance Act, says Pat Nolan of the Virginia-based Prison Fellowship. The law, pending in Congress for several years, would authorize federal spending on program that help ex-convicts return successfully to society...

ACLU: Nevada Prison Inmate Health Care Worst in Nation

Posted on March 07, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 7, 2008. "The American Civil Liberties Union filed a class-action suit against Nevada officials yesterday alleging that they had failed to rectify 'a pervasive pattern of grossly inadequate medical care' at the state's maximum- security prison in Ely, reports the Los Angeles Times...

Don't Look For Gun Control From Congressional Democrats

Posted on March 07, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 7, 2007 "There won't be much more gun control at the federal level because Democrats have learned it's a losing issue for them, says U.S. News & World Report. Conventional wisdom is that Al Gore's gun-control advocacy in 2000 cost him his home state of Tennessee and the presidency...

FBI Criminal Referrals Down 40% in Two Decades

Posted on March 07, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 7, 2008. "The FBI is "a shadow of its former crime-busting self," submitting nearly 40 percent fewer criminal investigations to the main Justice Department for referral than it did two decades ago, reports the Associated Press...

News from the National Law Journal Daily Headlines March 7, 2008

Posted on March 07, 2008
Subscription needed for online access. FROM THE UPCOMING ISSUE �|� Senate Judiciary Committee clears bill authorizing cameras in federal courtrooms"The Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation Thursday authorizing the chief judges of federal district and appellate courts to permit cameras in courtrooms...

FBI "National Security Letter" Abuses May Continue

Posted on March 06, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 6, 2008. "The FBI improperly obtained personal information on Americans in many terrorism investigations in 2006, but new internal practices appear to have helped curtail the problems, said Bush administration officials quoted by the New York Times...

Defense Lawyers Scramble To Seek Reduced Crack Terms

Posted on March 06, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 6, 2008. "The new federal rule on crack cocaine penalties made about 350 inmates in Chicago eligible for reduced sentences, says the Chicago Tribune. The controversial new rule has defense lawyers scrambling to court on behalf of their clients...

High Profile Homeland Security Efforts Challenged in Fifth Year

Posted on March 06, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 6, 2006. "Stumping for President Bush's ill-fated immigration overhaul in 2006, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff vowed that his department would wrest 'operational control' of the nation's borders away from human and drug traffickers within five years, says the Washington Post Two years later, the legislative overhaul has been shelved, development of a 'virtual fence' has been delayed, and its designers are going back to the drawing board...

Time for Another Debate On Who Pays for Deportations

Posted on March 06, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, "The next time a San Diego sheriff's deputy arrests a man who tries to steal a car, hauls him to a county detention center, and discovers he's in the country illegally, says Copley News Service, the district attorney's and public defender's offices will handle his case, a tax-supported judge will preside if it goes to trial, he'll spend an average three weeks in the local jail at $100 each day, a state prison could house him for years at $121 a day, and tax-funded probation officers will follow his progress...

Threats Against U.S. Judges, Prosecutors Keep Rising

Posted on March 06, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 6, 2008. "Threats against federal judges and prosecutors are on pace to rise for the fifth consecutive year, say U.S. Marshals Service statistics cited by USA Today. Federal officials are expanding surveillance efforts to include suspects who have threatened state and local authorities and who represent a possible danger to federal court officials...

Los Angeles Officials Puzzled By Sudden Homicide Increase

Posted on March 06, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 6, 2008. "Homicides in Los Angeles have sharply increased in the first two months of this year, reversing nearly five years of decline and posing a puzzling challenge for Police Chief William Bratton, reports the Los Angeles Times...

High Maryland Death Penalty Costs Dissected in Controversial Study

Posted on March 06, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 6, 2008. "The death penalty has cost Maryland taxpayers at least $186 million more in prosecuting and defending capital murder cases over two decades than would have been spent without the threat of execution, asserts a new study from the Washington, D...

National Federal Local Data Exchange For Police Expands

Posted on March 06, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 6, 2008. Several thousand law enforcement agencies are creating the foundation of a domestic intelligence system through computer networks that analyze vast amounts of police information to fight crime and root out terror plots, reports the Washington Post...

Girls Scout Troop 1500 Featured in Women Make Movies Collection on Women, Prisons and Criminal Justice

Posted on March 06, 2008
We received the following e-mail on March 5, 2006 and are posting it both as a public service and in recognition of Women's History Month.� To see a more extensive posting commemorating Wonem's History Month, "Tammy Raum's Research Tips for Women's History Month, March 2008," click here...

Ignoring Web 2.0 Will Cost You

Posted on March 06, 2008
Source: Gittlen, Sandra. "Ignoring Web 2.0 Will Cost You", CIO (March 4, 2008). Since the following is also of concern to information specialists, including librarians, it is being posted on this blog.� To see Sandra's complete article, click here...

Google Hacking Database Tool Updated

Posted on March 06, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 6, 2008. Google Hacking Database Tool Updated"The Google Hacking Database Tool is an online application that automates Google searches for files and other data associated with Web site vulnerabilities"

AT&T To Spend $1 Billion To Increase Network Capacity

Posted on March 06, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 6, 2008 AT&T To Spend $1 Billion To Increase Network Capacity"The planned investment is 33% more than last year and more than double AT&T's investment in 2006."

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