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Blu-Ray Basics: Using The High Definition DVD Format On Your PC

Posted on March 06, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 6, 2008. Blu-Ray Basics: Using The High-Definition DVD Format On Your PC"Now that Sony's Blu-ray has won the next-gen DVD war against Toshiba's HD DVD, find out whether it's worth adding to your PC for entertainment and data storage"

Lost of selected U.S. Federal Documents from Gallerywatch.com

Posted on March 06, 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...

New Jersey Law Journal News Alerts March 5, 2008

Posted on March 06, 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...

Study Argues Against National Ballistics Database

Posted on March 05, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 5, 2008. "A new government-sponsored study recommends against creating a national ballistics database, saying the science behind it is too murky, reports the Associated Press. The idea is based on the assumption that each gun leaves unique markings on bullets, like fingerprints...

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Major Online Gun Dealer Touts Campus Self Defense Potential

Posted on March 05, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 5, 2008. "Online gun dealer Eric Thompson of Green Bay, Wi., sold the guns used in the shootings at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University. He has no regrets, says the Los Angeles Times. He had no reason not to sell a pistol to Seung-hui Cho, who walked from class to class at Virginia Tech last April, methodically firing 174 rounds...

Police Mobile, Wireless Technology Use Increasing

Posted on March 05, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 5, 2008. "An increasing number of cities are putting mobile and wireless technologies on the street to help deter criminals and identify tax and parking ticket scofflaws, reports computerWorld. Last week, for example, the local government in West Palm Beach, Fl...

Is There Any Cure For The "Criminogenic" IPod?

Posted on March 05, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 5, 2008. "An unknown number of robbers take victims' iPods. Should manufacturer Apple devise some kind of antitheft component? The Washington, D.C.-based Urban Institute held a forum yesterday on the 'personal technology-violent crime connection...

San Quentin Rehab Program Focuses on Criminal Moments

Posted on March 05, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 5, 2008. "Jacques Verduin heads the Insight Prison Project, which run 18 programs for 300 men at California's San Quentin Prison, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Prison, he says, treats men as failures whose violent behavior nullifies their right to make decisions...

Special Protection for Social Security Numbers

Posted on March 05, 2008
Source: Lexology, Marcj 5. 2008. Special protection for social security numbersSchiff Hardin LLP"A majority of states have enacted laws requiring businesses that maintain Social Security numbers of employees (or others) to keep those numbers secure and confidential...

Problem of Child Pornography in Workplace

Posted on March 05, 2008
Source: Lexology, March 5, 2008. Problem of child pornography in the workplaceJackson Lewis LLP"Child pornography is contraband."

Mining Buried Electronic Data: Increasing Criminal and Civil Case Concerns

Posted on March 05, 2008
Source: Lexology, March 5, 2008. Mining buried electronic data: increasing criminal and civil case concernsBlank Rome LLP"With the rapid progression of computer technology, the production of documents in response to a government subpoena or civil discovery request has unearthed new and unexplored issues"

Social Networking Site Agrees to $130,000 Civil Penalty for COPPA Violations

Posted on March 05, 2008
Source: Lexology, March 5, 2008. Social networking site agrees to $130,000 civil penalty for COPPA violationsThelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner"The operators of the social networking site, Imbee.com, agreed to pay a $130,000 civil penalty to settle an FTC enforcement action alleging violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and its implementing Rule...

Employment Opportunity: Media Specialist, White House Historical Association, Washington, D.C.

Posted on March 05, 2008
http://www.lisjobs.com/jobs/item.asp?ID=37652 *Job Title:* Media Specialist *Organization:* White House Historical Association *Location:* Washington, DC, *Description:* Position: Media Specialist â?" 23-06 Job Description: Key to this position is an individualâ??s expertise in using a wide range of hardware and equipment, including analog and digital camera equipment, scanning devices, and audio and video software...

Books 2.0: Public Libraries Tap Web Applications to Open New Chapter

Posted on March 05, 2008
Source: Walsh, Trudy. "Books 2.0 Public Libraries Tap Web Applications to Open New Chapter." Government Computer News, March 4, 2008. "Loriene Roy, president of the American Library Association, was flying home to Austin, Texas, from a conference in Philadelphia in January...

Seagate Readies 'Cheeta' 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

Posted on March 05, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 5, 2008. Seagate Readies 'Cheetah' 3.5-Inch Hard DriveThe device offers an overall sustained data transfer rate of 164 MB per second and is built for transactional processing and Internet applications.

Yahoo Unveils Mobile Organizer For Web Content

Posted on March 05, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 5, 2008. Yahoo Unveils Mobile Organizer For Web Content"Yahoo's onePlace creates bookmarks to Web pages and then lets users organize those bookmarks into categories."

Microsoft Office On the Web Available For Public Trial

Posted on March 05, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 5, 2008. Microsoft Office On-The-Web Available For Public Trial"Users can access an English-language beta version of Microsoft Office Live Workspace from the company's Web site at no charge."

From the New York Times: March 5, 2008

Posted on March 05, 2008
A selected list of articles appearing on NYTimes.com. Subscription needed for online access. Big Wins for Clinton in Texas and Ohio; McCain Clinches Race as Foe ConcedesBy ADAM NAGOURNEY"Hillary Rodham Clinton?s victories over Barack Obama in Ohio and Texas gave her a chance to soldier on...

Executive Wants To File Secret Libel Case Against Mob Reporter

Posted on March 04, 2008
Source:Crime and Justice News, March 4, 2008. "Domenic Gatto, the chief executive of the Atlantic Express Transportation Corporation, is upset about online articles by Jerry Capeci, who writes for the Web site GangLandNews.com, ther New York Times reports...

Medical Marijuana Measure Headed For Michigan Ballot

Posted on March 04, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 4, 2008. "Michiganders with chronic or debilitating diseases would be able to possess and use marijuana legally under a proposal on its way to state voters in November, reports the Detroit Free Press. A state elections panel Monday certified petitions with 377,975 signatures backing the plan, well over the 304,000 minimum needed to put the initiative before voters if the Legislature fails to act on it within the next 40 days...

Fewer Wrongful Convictions May Reduce Pressure for Reform: Expert

Posted on March 04, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 4, 2008. "The window to enact criminal-justice reforms aimed at preventing wrongful convictions is closing because fewer defendants are being found guilty erroneously, says Jon Gould, an administration of justice faculty member at George Mason University...

13 States Consider Allowing Concealed Guns On Campus

Posted on March 04, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News March 4, 2008. "Jeremy Clark, a Villanova University law student, says the sickening spate of campus shootings, from Virginia Tech to Northern Illinois University, left him feeling vulnerable without his Glock 9mm semiautomatic handgun, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports...

Illinois Debates Law On Mandatory Life Terms For Juvenile Crimes

Posted on March 04, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 4, 2008. "In Illinois, 103 people are serving life sentences for murders they committed as minors. The Washington Post reports that the state's mandatory life sentence law, with its tough provision for people whose role in a crime may have been small, was passed in the 1970s at a time of concern over rising youth crime rates...

Drug Enforcer: Federal Cuts Could Set Meth Fight Back 20 Years

Posted on March 04, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 4, 2008. "Midwest law enforcers are worried that methamphetamine problems are about to surge again at a time of extreme federal slashes in police funding, reports the Chicago Tribune. In Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, and Nebraska, the story is the same: Just as statistics show that anti- meth task forces may be beginning to gain an upper hand on those who manufacture, deal, and use the highly addictive drug, the source of most state drug- enforcement funding is slated to disappear overnight...

From National Law Journal.com Daily Headlines March 4, 2008

Posted on March 04, 2008
Subscription to NLJ.com needed for online access. FROM THE UPCOMING ISSUE | Circuits split on Miranda exception"Police ability to skirt Miranda warning requirements in the face of imminent danger has been read so broadly by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that it conflicts with three other circuits, according to a recent circuit decision...

Are Undocumented Workers Employees?

Posted on March 04, 2008
Source: Lexology, March 4, 2008. Undocumented workers are employeesProskauer Rose"Courts are confronted with a serious challenge when trying to balance law and policy which views the undocumented alien as a law violator, with the contravening compelling interest to protect the rights of any individual within the United States workforce...

Entitlement to Access to Memorda Containing Legal Advice to a Public Corporation

Posted on March 04, 2008
Source: Lexology, March 4, 2008. N.Y. appellate court upholds right of former directors and officers to corporate attorney-client privileged documents in defense of third party actionDuane Morris LLP"The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, on February 19, 2008, ruled that former officers and directors of a public corporation are entitled to access to memoranda containing legal advice to the corporation...

Several Courts Including the New York State Court of Appeals Have Ruled that Misappropriation of Computer Files Can Support Conversion Claim

Posted on March 04, 2008
Source: Lexology, March 4, 2008. Massachusetts court rules that misappropriation of computer files can support conversion claimSteptoe & Johnson LLP"Several courts -- including the Ninth Circuit and the New York State Court of Appeals -- have ruled that the common law tort of conversion (basically, the unjustified interference with someone's possession of his personal property) reaches electronic, as well as physical, property...

Why Your Organization Needs to Develop A Record Retention Policy

Posted on March 04, 2008
Source: Lexology, March 4, 2008. Why your company needs to develop a record-retention policy nowMasuda Funai Eifert & Mitchell Ltd"The proliferation of electronic data is astounding. "

Google, Why Did You Take Away My Favorite Button From Docs?

Posted on March 04, 2008
Source: From InformationWeek's Google Weblog, March 3, 2008. Posted by Eric Zeman. Google, Why Did You Take Away My Favorite Button From 'Docs'?"One thing I've had a hard time getting used to with Google Docs and other Google services is that functionality comes and goes...

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