In December 2006 the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure changed the manner in which lawyers had to deal with ESI (Electronically Stored Information – a new acronym from the Federal Rules). Having worked with computers since 1967 this was hardly a news flash since ESI has been part of my
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VIDEO- E-Discovery Investigations: What IT Professionals Need to Know!
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Oracle’s Marriage to HP – is this déjà vu or what?
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The announcement that Oracle and HP have teamed up to offer a specialized hardware systems for Oracle’s database sounds a lot like days gone by when Minicomputer companies long since gone had proprietary hardware and operating systems, and nothing was compatible with other systems. Oracle has spent years promoting itself…
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Cloud Computing – Interesting Legal Issues
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While most IT professionals are well aware of the evolution of Internet 2.0 computing services which offer on-line applications and large storage, in many ways this seems like an evolution of time-sharing from the 1960s when the likes of General Electric offered remote computing services to dumb terminals. Now Cloud…
Google’s New Browser Chrome (Beta)
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When Google recently launched its beta version of the Chrome browser, it was at a point in time when Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) had approximately 70% of the browser market (with Mozilla’s Firefox, Apple’s Safari, and Opera the other major players). Amazingly enough Google claimed that it captured 1%…
IT Outsourcing Giants
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HP’s recent purchase of EDS changed the landscape for the Outsourcing market with another computer/printer manufacturer providing IT outsourcing services. Since EDS was one of the first companies in the outsourcing business, and a giant at that, it seems interesting that HP acquired EDS and now competes with the likes…
Seinfeld- A TV Series about Nothing, and now Microsoft?
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As a big fan of Microsoft it seems to me that the PC user community has benefited over the years by the standardization of computers, it seems very strange that the first TV commercial with Jerry Seinfeld was just like his TV series….about nothing. When Microsoft first let it…
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Too Social? Hard to Believe!
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The growth and proliferation of social networking on the Internet has hit a new wall- too much social networking. Recent reports that Facebook has disabled members for too much social networking apparently is a reaction to concerns of suspicious behavior which really boils down to using the site too much.
Internet Jurisdiction- Another Challenge
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On a recent trip to Prague and London the reality of the impact of the Internet on our lives was reinforced. On every corner there’s an Internet café, WIFI, cell (mobile) phone store, or McDonald’s, and it is clear that the Internet now pervades world-wide communications. But a report concerning…