Via LLRX.com – Googles powerful Nexus 10 Android tablet as a library patrons delight: The hardware and the apps that shine on it – David H. Rothman reviews the Android Nexus 10, which he considers a standout from among the well known group of available e-book readers. David documents key reasons to choose this e-reading… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2013
New on LLRX – 2012: The year of the mobile lawyer?
Via LLRX.com – 2012: The year of the mobile lawyer? – Attorney Nicole Black discusses the rise in the number of lawyers using mobile devices, the growing number of apps developed specifically for lawyers, and how these apps increasingly support lawyers at every stage of the litigation process. Continue Reading
New on LLRX – Legal ethics and retention of electronic data
Via LLRX.com – Legal ethics and retention of electronic data: Lawyers are increasingly shifting their day to day operations to applications and operations that leverage the convenience and affordability offered by the concept of a paperless office. Attorney Nicole Black talks about how doing so can raise an assortment of ethical issues, since the confidentiality… Continue Reading
Global Shadow Banking Monitoring Report 2012
Global Shadow Banking Monitoring Report 2012, Financial Stability Board, November 18, 2012 “The shadow banking system can broadly be described as credit intermediation involving entities and activities outside the regular banking system. Although intermediating credit through non-bank channels can have advantages, such channels can also become a source of systemic risk, especially when they are… Continue Reading
Internet Domain Names: Background and Policy Issues
CRS – Internet Domain Names: Background and Policy Issues. Lennard G. Kruger, Specialist in Science and Technology Policy. January 3, 2013 “Navigating the Internet requires using addresses and corresponding names that identify the location of individual computers. The Domain Name System (DNS) is the distributed set of databases residing in computers around the world that… Continue Reading
Paper – Much Ado About Preemption
Wareluk, Ewa Justyna, The Analysis of Insider Trading on Credit Derivatives Market by Means of the Event Study Methodology (January 6, 2013). Available at SSRN “Preemption has emerged as the leading contender for conceptual grounding of the patentable subject matter doctrines exclusion of abstract ideas and natural phenomena from patentability. Despite the Supreme Courts frequent… Continue Reading
Internet Governance and the Domain Name System: Issues for Congress
CRS – Internet Governance and the Domain Name System: Issues for Congress. Lennard G. Kruger, Specialist in Science and Technology Policy. January 2, 2013 “The Internet is often described as a network of networks because it is not a single physical entity, but hundreds of thousands of interconnected networks linking hundreds of millions of computers… Continue Reading
NYT – Tracking Europe's Debt Crisis
Tracking Europe’s Debt Crisis: “Bank lending to companies in the euro zone continued to slump in November, according to official data that could raise expectations of an interest rate cut as early as next week by the European Central Bank. The bank said that loans to companies, not including banks, in the 17-nation currency zone… Continue Reading
National, regional, and global trends in adult overweight and obesity prevalences
National, regional, and global trends in adult overweight and obesity prevalences, Population Health Metrics 2012, 10:22 “Excess body weight is an important risk factor for mortality and morbidity from cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers, and musculoskeletal disorders, causing nearly three million annual deaths worldwide. In previous work, we used a systematic analysis of data from population-based… Continue Reading
EFF – Extension Gives You More Control Over Your Facebook Privacy
“Facebook Messages has a feature that tells you when a chat recipient has seen a message. This “read receipt” is, in true Facebook fashion, both nifty and unsettling. And it brings with it tons of potential for abuse. Unfortunately, there’s no built-in method to opt out. Facebook’s privacy interface has undergone change upon change, yet… Continue Reading
Senate Committee Assignments – Democrat and Republican
“The Democratic Steering Committee approved updated committee assignments for Democratic senators in the 113th Congress. A list of the anticipated assignments is here. The anticipated committee assignments are subject to approval by the full Democratic caucus and approval of an organizing resolution by the full Senate.” On Thursday [January 3, 2013], U.S. Senate Republicans announced… Continue Reading
Pew – Arts Organizations and Digital Technologies
Arts Organizations and Digital Technologies, by Kristin Thomson, Kristen Purcell, Lee Rainie. Jan 4, 2013 “Cultural organizations like theater companies, orchestras, and art museums are using the internet, social media, and mobile apps to draw in and engage audiences, provide deeper context, and disseminate their work beyond the stage and the gallery.” Continue Reading
