Barry on January 29th, 2006

The flight to Newark was uneventful, and the plane was only half full. The SuperShuttle to the Hilton and up to our room, where WiFi is $9.95 per 24 hour period. Not bad WiFi, actually, if a little pricey.
In the next couple of days I’ll be meeting representatives of several different companies, anxious to [...]

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Barry on January 26th, 2006

And they don’t even announce these things to point users to them. One day, a “delete” button appears along (along with the Archive and Report Spam buttons and the More Actions pulldown) and suddenly the most selected activity on Gmail is a single click rather than a pulldown and select action. (Well….maybe there [...]

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Barry on January 25th, 2006

I wasn’t there in 1981, but the ALM folks, the current proprietor of the Legal Tech trade shows, claim that this year’s edition of the New York show marks a 25th Anniversary. (Mark Welch and I didn’t begin the Law Office Technology Review columns until late 1987. I’ve made most of the shows, since [...]

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Barry on January 25th, 2006

Several years ago I couldn’t imagine a senior partner in a major law firm that wouldn’t want to equip his important partners and associates with a BlackBerry unit where they would be at his beck and call 24/7. I also couldn’t imagine many of these senior partners carrying a BlackBerry themselves.
So I’ve been watching the [...]

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Barry on January 24th, 2006

It has been a couple of years since the last WordPerfect upgrade and here it is, again, just in time for showing off at NY Legal Tech. The product, dubbed X3 — a hopefully lucky form of 13, I’m told — can now read .PDF files for instant editing, and can save in [...]

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Barry on January 24th, 2006

Well, yes it is. The introduction of WordPress 2.0 brings the question whether it is worth the time and trouble to upgrade, just to tell others about it, and whether it is worth it to pick up the Blog, and regular posting.
The answer is yes and yes.
So back at it.

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