IRS Oversight Board Report – FY14 IRS Budget: “In June 2012, the IRS Oversight Board recommended to Treasury a Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 budget of $13.074 billion for the Internal Revenue Service. This is $213.6 million more than what the President put forth in his FY2014 budget request. After careful examination and deliberation, the Board… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2013
Pew – Smartphone Ownership 2013
Smartphone Ownership 2013, by Aaron Smith, June 5, 2013 “For the first time since the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project began systematically tracking smartphone adoption, a majority of Americans now own a smartphone of some kind. Our definition of a smartphone owner includes anyone who says “yes” to one—or both—of the following… Continue Reading
UK Guardian – Verizon forced to hand over telephone data – full court ruling
“The US government is collecting the phone records of millions of US customers of Verizon under a top secret court order. Read the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order.” Continue Reading
SEC Proposes Money Market Fund Reforms
“The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted unanimously to propose rules that would reform the way that money market funds operate in order to make them less susceptible to runs that could harm investors. The SEC’s proposal includes two principal alternative reforms that could be adopted alone or in combination. One alternative would require a… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve Board of New York: Recession Hits New Jersey’s Abbott Districts Disproportionately Hard
“Funding for New Jersey’s low-income school districts declined sharply during the Great Recession, according to a recent New York Fed study. Moreover, the Abbott districts—a group of poor urban districts that once received special appropriations from the state—were hit especially hard. The recent recession, the passage of the federal stimulus bill, and the decision to… Continue Reading
BLS – Productivity grows 0.5% in 1st quarter 2013 (annual rate); unit labor costs fall 4.3%
News release: “Nonfarm business sector labor productivity increased at a 0.5 percent annual rate during the first quarter of 2013, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The increase in productivity reflects increases of 2.1 percent in output and 1.6 percent in hours worked. (All quarterly percent changes in this release are seasonally adjusted annual… Continue Reading
State of the AmLaw 200 Blogosphere, 2012 in Review
“Five years ago, when LexBlog published it first State of the AmLaw 200 Blogosphere, the goal was simple: Shine a spotlight on firms that had selected the road less traveled and were using blogs to increase visibility online…Nearly four out every five of the top 200 law firms in the world have blogs or lawyers… Continue Reading
Paper – Modeling and Evaluating the Resilience of Peer-to-Peer Botnets
SoK: P2PWNED — Modeling and Evaluating the Resilience of Peer-to-Peer Botnets: Centralized botnets are easy targets for takedown efforts by computer security researchers and law enforcement. Thus, botnet controllers have sought new ways to harden the infrastructures of their botnets. In order to meet this objective, some botnet operators have (re)designed their botnets to use… Continue Reading
FBI – Preliminary 2012 Crime Statistics: Violent Crime Up, Property Crime Dow
Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report, January-December, 2012: “Preliminary figures indicate that, as a whole, law enforcement agencies throughout the nation reported an increase of 1.2 percent in the number of violent crimes brought to their attention for 2012 when compared with figures reported for 2011. The violent crime category includes murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated… Continue Reading
United States Opening Statement Presentation: U.S. v. Apple Inc., et al
Antitrust Case Filings – United States v. Apple, Inc., Hachette Book Group, Inc., HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C., Verlagsgruppe Georg Von Holtzbrinck GmbH, Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC d/b/a Macmillan, the Penguin Group, a Division of Pearson PLC, Penguin Group (USA), Inc., and Simon & Schuster, Inc. United States Opening Statement Presentation: U.S. v. Apple Inc., et al, June… Continue Reading
FCC Proposed Rule – Reassessment of Exposure to Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields Limits and Policies
Federal Communications Commission FCC 13-3, released March 29, 2013: “This document seeks comment on proposals developed in the course of the Federal Communications Commission’s (Commission’s) proceeding regarding compliance with our guidelines for human exposure to RF electromagnetic fields. The Commission’s further proposals reflect an effort to provide more efficient, practical, and consistent application of evaluation… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve Board – H.8 Assets and Liabilities of Commercial Banks in the U.S.
Federal Reserve Board – Assets and Liabilities of Commercial Banks – H.8 – Growth rate of total bank credit, all commercial banks, seasonally adjusted. Customize chart Continue Reading
