Barry on July 28th, 2008

I’ve written favorably about Skype before, never thinking about whether my conversations can be intercepted.
Silly me! 
But Doug Mohney at FierceVoIP isn’t as silly:
High-ranking officials at the Austrian interior ministry have said it isn’t a problem to listen into Skype conversations, implying that there is a back door built into the program.
Heise online has talked [...]

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Barry on February 1st, 2008

I have been following the the anonymous troll tracker, rtolltracker.blogspot.com, for a bit. And although I still haven’t figured out what’s wrong with someone attempting to enforce a patent although he is not personally using it — I wasn’t aware there was a requirement in the Patent laws that requires you actually be making something [...]

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Barry on January 21st, 2007

The issue of net neutrality came home to me personally the other day, when I got a sales call from my home TV Cable and Internet Broadband provider. Comcast isn’t satisfied with tv and internet, but wants me to purchase my telephone service from them, too, for $40 per month for unlimited service. [...]

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Barry on January 2nd, 2007

The FCC finally capitulated last week and approved the ATT / Bell South Merger.  Cingular, jointly owned by the two companies is now folded back to ATT, and may adopt the new/old name ATT Wireless or some such.  And the conglomeration of the Regional operating companies born of the AT&T breakup is closer than ever.
There [...]

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Barry on May 4th, 2006

Rick Borstein, an Adobe marketer for the Legal Vertical market, maintains a blog wherein he writes about — Adobe applications for lawyers. A mention at pdfforlawyers.com took me over there to check out an article on why PDF creation clones sometimes don’t make it.
And Rick is correct, and his parade of horribles backed with [...]

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Barry on April 6th, 2006

As long as I’m thinking Conventions, I should mention Legal Tech West Coast 2006 on June 5 - 6 at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. Were it in San Francisco, or perhaps in the middle of winter here in Chicago, I might consider it this year. (Why schedule a New York show in [...]

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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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I’m not sure whether I like this or not, but…via Endgaget:

In a rare case of having something positive to report in the political realm, the North Dakota legislature is the first to set a precedent by making the black box data sole property of the vehicle owner.
On the one hand, the black boxes (particularly [...]

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Barry on April 9th, 2005

I have been writing about ICANN’s slow moving dotPro (.Pro, really, but half the time my newspaper subscribers seem to miss the . so I’ve take to spelling it out). But I was a little surprised to find the following:
Co. Finds Loophole on ‘.pro’ Web Names (washingtonpost.com)
NEW YORK — A company has found a [...]

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Barry on March 28th, 2005

Newspapers, here’s one example and bloggers that can pull their attention from the Schiavo case are full of discussion of MGM v Grokster, No. 04-480, to be argued in the Supreme Court on March 29. Put simply, if it is possible to do so, the Court will be asked to affirm the 9th Circuit [...]

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