Barry on March 19th, 2005

The press release is titled Kansas Legislature Selects ISYS Search Software to Supply Easy-to-Use Search Technology for its Electronic Committee Project. I’m certain that the Kansas Legislature needs a good system to pull together the many records of the legislation process and ISYS is a well known name that has been around for a long [...]

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Barry on March 19th, 2005

A couple of months ago I picked up a new notebook computer, inexpensive and sold under the name of the once notorious, but ever inexpensive eMachines. The M5405 came with a 1.6 MHz AMD Mobile Sempron processor, 512 MByte of RAM (although some of that was shared with the video display), a 60 [...]

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Barry on March 16th, 2005

Hard drives are getting ever less expensive, and a couple of hundred bucks should buy a couple of hundred GigaBytes of storage. (My first hard drive was 5 MegaBytes and cost $800. And was a bargain at the time, because the only one available previously for my Apple ][ cost about $3000.)
But [...]

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Barry on March 16th, 2005

For a Professor of Law at Stanford University, Larry Lessig takes what some would consider an unconventional view of Copyright Law. Some of these views are evident in his litigation efforts. (He was, for example, on the losing side in the challenge to the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act, ELDRED V. ASHCROFT 537 [...]

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Barry on March 12th, 2005

I surfed over to Amazon to get some information about a book — verifying author / title information and so forth is a lot easier on Amazon than the usual governmental places — and came across this Jeff Bezos “letter” about a new Amazon feature. For $79 a year, you get “free” two business [...]

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Barry on March 10th, 2005

The latest beta iteration of the Google Tool Bar has created more than its share of controversy since it was released about a week ago. The tool bar is an add-on to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, a Browser that I use less and less these days, so I haven’t bothered to install it. But as [...]

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If there was a big story at the New York version of Legal Tech, last January, it was so-called electronic discovery. Everybody’s doing it: image the hard drives and see who really did what. The devil, as always, is in the e-mail and the deleted drafts.
Hence this press [...]

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Martindale Hubbell (a/k/a LexisNexis) is launching a “Legal Fellowship” program.
New Initiative Provides Funding for Efforts to Promote Legal
Education, Workforce Diversity and Public Interest Law
NEW PROVIDENCE, N.J.–March 9, 2005–LexisNexis(R)
Martindale-Hubbell(R), the leading client development company for the
legal profession, today announced the debut of a [...]

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Barry on March 7th, 2005

Ted Bridis, AP Technology Writer, tells us that
The Department of Justice will spend up to $13.2 Million over the next five years to buy Corel software

The Justice Department, which challenged Microsoft Corp. in courtrooms for nearly a decade over antitrust violations, will pay more than $2 million each year to buy business software from Corel [...]

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Barry on March 7th, 2005

Law.com, the ALM empire’s key online publication site, provides Continuing Legal Education (CLE) at www.clecenter.com
The overall deal is $749 for a year’s access to the site’s entire CLE catalog. California, Texas, Florida and New York are listed, and nothing for Illinois, but we don’t have MCLE, anyhow. A pulldown menu lets you search [...]

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