Earlier this month I posted New Generation E-Book Reader May Find Market Niche, and in related news, from WJS free features, A Hundred Books in Your Pocket. Continue Reading
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The January 15, 2006 issue of LLRX.com includes the following articles: Deep Web Research Research 2006, by Marcus P. Zillman The Google Library Project: The Copyright Debate, by Jonathan Band Researching Laws and Information on Nutritional and Dietary Supplements On the Web, by Joel Rothman Election Law @ Moritz, by Sara Sampson Adobe’s Macromedia Studio… Continue Reading
Legislation Seeks to Prohibit Sale of Cell Phone Records
Follow-up to yesterday’s posting, Stronger Safeguards Sought As Cell Records Sold on Web – two related press releases on new legislation to protect the privacy of cell phone logs which are available for sale online. press release: “Today U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer introduced legislation to combat the growing black market of cell phone call… Continue Reading
Stronger Safeguards Sought As Cell Records Sold on Web
Press release: “Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA) Ranking Democrat on the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, released responses from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) [2 pages, PDF] and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) [2 pages, PDF] in response to his inquiry into reports of the commercial availability of consumer telephone records by companies… Continue Reading
Challenges Posed By Search Engines on E-Commerce Profitability
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, January 9, 2006: Search Engines as Leeches on the Web “Summary: Search engines extract too much of the Web’s value, leaving too little for the websites that actually create the content. Liberation from search dependency is a strategic imperative for both websites and software vendors.” Continue Reading
Wiki Tracks Fortune 500 Adoption Of Public Blogs
Fortune 500 Business Blogging Wiki: “This is a directory of Fortune 500 companies that have business blogs, defined as: active public blogs by company employees about the company and/or its products.” Currently there are 19 listings that include links to the respective blogs. Continue Reading
Leading Business Journals on Web Remove Subscription Barrier
Om Malik’s blog announces that the new content and archives of the Business 2.0 family of online magazines (which includes Fortune and CNN Money), are now available without subscription, i.e., free. Continue Reading
Pew Internet Survey Indicates Men and Women Now Online in Equal Numbers
Press release: “A wide-ranging look at the way American women and men use the internet shows that men continue to pursue many internet activities more intensively than women, and that men are still first out of the blocks in trying the latest technologies. At the same time, there are trends showing that women are catching… Continue Reading
Consumer Reports Compares and Contrasts 11 Travel Websites
Do Travel Search Engines Deliver? An Examination of the Leading Sites, December 21, 2005. Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com
A Selected Bibliography on “Sensitive But Unclassified” and Similarly Designated Information Held by the Federal Government, by Sara E. Kelley Wrongful Conviction and Innocence Resources on the Internet, by Ken Strutin Foreign and Transnational Legal Forms, by Mary Rumsey 2005 Holiday Gadget Gift Guides, by Jeff Beard Dennis Kennedy’s Legal Technology Predictions for 2006: Small… Continue Reading
America’s Most Literate Cities, 2005
America’s Most Literate Cities, 2005: Seattle, WA ranked as the number one city for Internet literacy, defined in terms of “Internet resources available to the population.” These resources include library Internet connections, commercial and public WiFi access, Internet book orders, and reading newspapers on the Internet. Continue Reading
Several Dozen Corporations Embrace Blogging To Expand Customer Relationships
The Blogosphere Beckons: Should Your Company Jump In? Harvard Management Communication Letter, Vol. 2, No. 4, November 2005. Continue Reading
