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March 2006
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Blackberry Jam - Patent Standoff Continues |
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Link: http://today.reuters.com/news/storyID=2006-02-27
For those of you daily dependent on your Blackberry, hopes for a quick deal between Research In Motion Ltd. and NTP Inc. to settle a patent dispute appeared slim on Monday. The dispute has threatened to shut down U.S. BlackBerry service.
Last Friday, U.S. District Judge James Spencer stopped short of ordering the shutdown of millions of BlackBerry email devices, but also said there was no escaping that RIM had been found to be infringing on NTP's patents.
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Cyberthieves: Beyond Phishing to Keylogging |
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Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/27/technology
Phishers, those who masquerade as legitimate senders of email to steal sensitive information, may be phinding a new and less detectable way to get that information. Keylogging programs infect your machine much like a virus, record your all your keystrokes and send them to the bad guys who then pull out usernames and passwords.
Here is another article that can help you protect yourself from this latest form or cyber crime:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/27/technology/27hackside.html
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Deep Thoughts: The Life of Law Online |
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Link: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_2/johnson/index.html
From: http://betweenlawyers.corante.com/archives/2006/02/24/david_johnson
This is a deep, and I'm talking really deep, exploration of the legal system. The author suggests that the law has a life of its own. The law is an organism rather than a mechanism. It is alive. He explores the implications of this for the development of law(s) to govern the global Internet.
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Two Legal Technology Resources |
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Here is a good resource from trusted lawyer, blogger and author Dennis Kennedy, one of the more prolific authorities on this subject:
Link: http://www.denniskennedy.com/resources/legal-tech-central
Tho Lawyer Lounge is an Internet resource center focusing on law office technology designed to make you more effective in your law practice by educating you on technology solutions.
Link: http://www.lawyerlounge.com
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Bloggers on the Go: Updating By Phone |
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Link: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6044057.html
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications announced a deal with Google to integrate the search company's Blogger and Web search features into Sony Ericsson mobile phones. Using software preloaded on the phones, subscribers of Blogger.com will be able to update their personal blogs from their cell phones. Sony Ericsson claims it is the first company to offer an integrated blogging tool on its phones.
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U.S. Law Firms Set Their Sights on Cuba After Castro |
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Link: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1141047297602
Some are looking forward to the opening up of Cuba and its legal markets when its 80-year-old dictator, Fidel Castro, dies and is replaced with a less extreme administration. The U.S. will also have to lift its decades-old embargo on the country off the coast of Florida.
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Spell-Checker Causes 'Sea Sponge' Invasion |
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Link: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1141207513219
Sponge Bob wasn't behind this invation, rather a computer spell-checker with a few holes in it. Santa Cruz solo practitioner Arthur Dudley's spell-check dictionary didn't have "sua sponte" on its list so it inserted the next closest thing, "sea sponge," about five times. Once the brief was filed, it cause a few chuckles and became the cause of a little ribbing. Otherwise, no harm done.
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