“NIST announces that its working definition of cloud computing is available. Researchers worked in collaboration with industry and government to draft the definition that serves as a foundation for its research and future publication on the topic. Cloud computing is a pay-per-use model for enabling available, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2009
New on LLRX.com: Navigating the Enterprise 2.0 Highway
Navigating the Enterprise 2.0 Highway: Heather Colman provides an overview of Hicks Morley’s implementation of ThoughtFarmer, an Enterprise 2.0/wiki style intranet platform, one year ago. Despite a few growing pains, she describes how the application was successful at meeting the primary objectives to decentralize content updates and increase knowledge sharing and collaboration within the firm. Continue Reading
Tips from FDIC on How to Protect Against Foreclosure Frauds, Easy Money Schemes and Other Costly Deals
News release: “Many people concerned about their mortgage, their job or their finances may be especially vulnerable to scams and other costly “fixes” for their problems. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation today issued a variety of tips to help consumers be on guard financially in the current economy. The advice was published in the Spring… Continue Reading
Quarterly Report to Congress on International Monetary Fund Lending
Treasury: Quarterly Report to Congress on International Monetary Fund Lending, January 1 March 31, 2009 Continue Reading
FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile
Quarterly Banking Profile: Fourth Quarter 2008 – The 2009 Economic Landscape: How the Recession Is Unfolding across Four U.S. Regions Alternative Financial Services – A Primer – “Provides the earliest comprehensive summary of financial results for all FDIC-insured institutions. This report card on industry status and performance includes written analyses, graphs and statistical tables.” Continue Reading
World Energy Use Projected to Grow 44 Percent Between 2006 and 2030
News release: “World marketed energy consumption is projected to grow by 44 percent between 2006 and 2030, driven by strong long-term economic growth in the developing nations of the world, according to the reference case projection from the International Energy Outlook 2009 (IEO2009) released today by the Energy Information Administration (EIA). The current global economic… Continue Reading
Report: Mortgage-Related Litigation on the Rise
American Lawyer: “Mortgage-related lawsuits are on the rise, with homeowners and investors alike suing over allegedly being duped by the mortgage industry. According to a litigation report from MortgageDaily.com, an online mortgage news analyst, the number of mortgage-related lawsuits filed in the first quarter of this year jumped to 81, a more than 50 percent… Continue Reading
Report on devolution and the governance of England
News release: “Devolution has changed the system of Government of the United Kingdom irreversibly, according to the Commons Justice Committee, but has left Englands government highly centralised and, in the view of many, in need of fundamental change. Report – Devolution: A Decade On – In its report published today, the three-party Committee analyses the… Continue Reading
Commentary on Future of Google Book Search Settlement
Follow-up to previous postings on Google Book Search, Deal or No Deal: What if the Google Settlement Fails? by Andrew Richard Albanese, Publishers Weekly. “Notably, despite a litany of concerns and obvious unease, the library community did not oppose the deal. That’s partly out of an underlying belief that the benefit of a massive database… Continue Reading
Obama Selects Sotomayor for Supreme Court
New York Times: “President Obama announced on Tuesday that he will nominate the federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, choosing a daughter of Puerto Rican parents raised in Bronx public housing projects to become the nations first Hispanic justice.” Continue Reading
Guide: Anatomy of a Patent Case
Anatomy of a Patent Case, George F. Pappas, 2009, 154 pages “Anatomy of a Patent Case is a concise, narrative summary of the steps required to bring a patent case to trial and of the key elements of such litigation.The central objective of the manual is to inform judges and lawyers not familiar with patent… Continue Reading
Do Justices Tip Their Hands with Questions at Oral Argument in the U.S. Supreme Court?
Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Do Justices Tip Their Hands with Questions at Oral Argument in the U.S. Supreme Court? Timothy R. Johnson, University of Minnesota; Ryan C. Black, Washington University, St. Louis – Department of Political Science; Washington University, St. Louis – Center for Empirical Research in the Law; Jerry Goldman; Sarah Treul –… Continue Reading
