 | Download This! Newsletter |  | | March 15, 2011 FindLaw.com Cyber Law Newsletter |
Table of Contents You may forward this e-mail in its entirety.
NEW & NOTEWORTHY: TECH COMPANIES PITCH IN ON EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE
(AP) - Google Inc., Twitter, Microsoft Corp. and other U.S. technology companies are finding ways large and small to help out in the wake of last week's earthquake in Japan and the resulting tsunami. Google put together an online "person finder" database in Japanese, English, Korean, Chinese and Portuguese for people who are either seeking information about a missing person or have information to provide about someone affected by the disaster. The search company also launched a service that lets people staying in shelters share the list of names of disaster victims posted at their locations.
| DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CONTINUES TO STREAMLINE DISCOVERY SUPPORT
(FindLaw Legal Technology Center) - The Executive Office for United States Attorneys for the Department of Justice recently awarded a contract to IE Discovery to continue operating the Litigation Technology Service Center (LTSC) in Columbia, South Carolina. The Center supports U.S. Attorneys' Offices (USAOs) in all 94 judicial districts in over 200 geographically dispersed sites within the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.
| THE EDGE ROOM REPORTS RECORD-BREAKING STATISTICS FOR LEGALTECH NEW YORK 2011
(FindLaw Legal Technology Center) - Edge Legal Marketing, a Minneapolis-based marketing and public relations firm serving the needs of companies targeting the legal market, reported that The Edge Room™ ( www.TheEdgeRoom.com ), a virtual press room at LegalTech New York 2011, was accessed and used by more media and exhibitors than in years past. LegalTech New York, produced by ALM, is the leading trade show and conference for the legal technology industry. The Edge Room reports that 89 media representatives had access to The Edge Room, which is a 37% increase over 2010 and...
| HEALTH NET LOSES SENSITIVE DATA FOR 2M PEOPLE
(AP) - A health insurance company that provides coverage to 6 million people nationwide said Monday it is missing data servers containing the health records, financial information and Social Security numbers for nearly 2 million current and past clients. Health Net Inc. said Monday it cannot account for several hard drives from a data center in the Sacramento suburb of Rancho Cordova.
| TWITTER, REGULATORS FINALIZE SECURITY SETTLEMENT
(AP) - Federal regulators finalized a settlement Monday with Twitter related to data security lapses in 2009 that gave hackers access to users' accounts. The Federal Trade Commission said the settlement resolves charges that Twitter deceived its customers and put their privacy at risk by failing to keep their personal information safe as promised by the company's policies. The settlement bars Twitter from misleading consumers about its security and privacy practices for 20 years.
| 
WORLD BEAT: NATURAL DISASTERS IN THE INTERNET ERA
(Eric Sinrod) - Natural phenomena, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, tornadoes and tsunamis, have occurred on this planet for many millennia. And such phenomena have become disasters where humans have populated in heavy concentrations in areas subject to such phenomena. In the internet era, so much of life has seemed to move online. People spend many of their waking hours in front of their computer screens or staring into their smart phones, that they can actually forget the real world around them.
| OPEN FOR BUSINESS: COMPULAW DELIVERS COMPULAW COURTCONNECT PACER ELECTRONIC CASE FILING INTEGRATION
(FindLaw Legal Technology Center) - CompuLaw LLC, the publisher of award-winning CompuLaw Vision calendar/docket matter management software with built-in court rules databases, today announced its PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) Electronic Case Filing Integration ("ECFI"), the first offering announced from its suite of CompuLaw court integration products, CompuLaw CourtConnectTM. The CompuLaw CourtConnect integration products will automate the transfer of information between courts, firms and CompuLaw's suite of products.
| HOW THE FUJITSU SCANSNAP S1500 CAN HELP YOU GO PAPERLESS
(FindLaw's Technologist) - Lots of attorneys talk the talk about "going paperless," but if you want to walk the walk, you need a serious tool to get it done. For a growing number of attorneys, that tool is the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500, or its Mac brother, the S1500M. The ScanSnap is a stand-alone scanner that is fast, comes with amazing software and makes going paperless super efficient and easy. You can load a whole stack of double-sided documents, even in different shapes and sizes, and the ScanSnap does all the work for you.
| JURY SELECTION IPAD APPS TAKE VOIR DIRE TO A NEW LEVEL
(FindLaw's Technologist) - 2010 was a big year for the iPad, and we found that it wasn't just for play. More and more attorneys are using the iPad at their office as well as in court. With the launch of the iPad 2 around the corner, we thought it would be an excellent time to briefly mention three iPad apps designed for jury selection, or voir dire. The apps are Jury Duty, iJuror, and Jury Tracker. All three allow you to access and save juror information in one place, making jury selection easier than ever. Each app has different features and they come in at slightly different price points. Jury Duty is $39.99, while iJuror and Jury Tracker are $9.99 each.
| NEEDLES VERSION 4.8.2 RELEASED
(FindLaw Legal Technology Center) - Needles now has the ability to track who created an item and when an item has been created or modified in the following areas of Needles: Names (Parties and Providers); Notes (Case, Value, and Provider); Case Tab; Value Tab items; and Calendar items. As new items are created in these five areas, the staff creating and the date created are now stored.
| RECENT CASE SUMMARIES: NETWORK AUTOMATION, INC. V. ADVANCE SYSTEMS CONCEPTS, INC., 10-55840
(U.S. 9th Cir.) - In a trademark infringement dispute involving whether the use of a trademarked name by defendant to advertise its products through search engine searches is a violation of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. section 1114, injunctive relief by district court in favor of plaintiff is reversed where plaintiff failed to show likelihood of confusion.
|
 Feedback
We value your comments! Please take a moment to tell us what you think by sending us an e-mail. | Subscription Information
Click here to subscribe to a FindLaw Newsletter. To unsubscribe, click here. | Advertising Information
For more information about advertising in FindLaw Newsletters, click here. | | 800 W. California Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94086 |
| | |
No comments:
Post a Comment