This Business Week article discusses the potential consequences of new rules on electronic discovery and records retention under consideration by the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States. These rules will have a significant impact on corporations in every sector. Particularly controversial is the proposed “safe harbor”… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: December 2004
Internet Archives Announces Global Open Source Digitization Project
From the Internet Archives press release: “Today, a number of International libraries have committed to putting their digitized books in open-access archives, starting with one at the Internet Archive. This approach will ensure permanent and public access to our published heritage. Anyone with an Internet connection will have access to these collections and the growing… Continue Reading
FCC To Permit Cell Phones and High-Speed Web on Planes
FCC to Examine Ban on Using Cellular Telephones on Airborne Aircraft: “Today, the Federal Communications Commission proposed to relax its current ban on the use of cellular telephones on airborne aircraft.” FCC Paves the Way for New Broadband Services in the Air: “Today, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) adopted a flexible approach for licensing the… Continue Reading
FDIC Recommends Procedures to Reduce ID Theft
Press release – FDIC Issues Study on Identity Theft and Seeks Comments on Possible Guidance to Bankers: “Fraudsters are taking advantage of the reliance on single-factor authentication for remote access to online banking, and the lack of e-mail and Web site authentication, to perpetrate account hijacking.” Putting an End to Account-Hijacking Identity Theft (41 pages,… Continue Reading
Percentage of CAN-SPAM Compliance Still in Single Digit
According to a press release from MX Logic, Inc., an “email defense solutions” provider, in November, CAN-SPAM compliance reached a record high of 6% of total traffic subject to the law. “…our data indicate that the act has had little impact on sophisticated spammers, who continue to leverage networks of hijacked PCs, as well as… Continue Reading
NLM’s Medline Plus Receives High Score From Public on New E-Gov’t Survey
The American Customer Satisfaction Index Scores for U.S. Federal Government, December 14, 2004 ranked the National Library of Medicine’s MedLine Plus as the top Information/News website in a field that included the DOJ, National Archives, the Dept. of State, the CDC and the GSA. Related news: Agencies reach all-time high in customer satisfaction Continue Reading
Mixed Decision in Blackberry Patent Case
From Findlaw: “NTP, INC. v. RESEARCH IN MOTION, LTD. (December 14, 2004), A Federal Appeals Court Upholds Most Of NTP’s Patent-Infringement Claims Against Blackberry Maker Research In Motion (a/k/a RIM), And Remands The Case Back To A Lower Court To Determine, In Part, If Plaintiff’s $53.7 Million Damage Award Should Be Modified Opinion (PDF), and… Continue Reading
Another Day, Another Desktop Search Engine Launched
Following upon the heels of Microsoft’s desktop search suite announcement, interesting details of another entrant to be launched on Wednesday: First Look At Ask Jeeves Desktop Search. According to the article, Ask.com’s utility addresses the privacy protection issues raised as concerns with other desktop search tools. Continue Reading
Google to Partner With Major Libraries on Digitizing Collections
From the press release: “…Google Inc. today announced that it is working with the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the University of Oxford as well as The New York Public Library to digitally scan books from their collections so that users worldwide can search them in Google…Today’s announcement is an expansion… Continue Reading
Beta Version of MSN ToolBar Suite Available
Features include [See this link for more details]: Three search toolbars make searching quicker and easier Desktop Search finds things on your computer, fast Automatic form fill manages personal information and passwords Pop-up Blocker prevents bothersome advertisements Highlight helps skim through result pages Related Articles: Microsoft Launches Desktop Search, Microsoft Enters Desktop Search Fray, and… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com
Go to www.llrx.com for abstracts of, and links to, all 11 new articles in the current issue: The Wacky World of Gadgets: the 70s and Beyond! Bloggers Beware: Debunking Eight Copyright Myths of the Online World Using a Wiki for Documentation and Collaborative Authoring Macromedia’s Contribute 3.0 — Sophisticated Web Editing Made Simple Law Firm… Continue Reading
GPO’s Strategic Vision for the 21st Century
Press release: “The Government Printing Office, which recently reported strong operating results for its last fiscal year, today announced the publication of A Strategic Vision for the 21st Century (12 pages, PDF), which sets forth the agency’s plans to transform itself from a 19th century, heavy-metal printing operation into a nimble 21st century digital information… Continue Reading
