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Before Dave Grant joined Gardere as the Director of e-Discovery, he was responsible for e-Discovery at Enron in the last few years before its total melt down and was responsible for managing more than 1.25 million documents. While at Enron, Dave responded to more than…
Continue Reading Guest Post: E-Discovery and The Enron E-Mail Dataset Research
On the heels of Dell’s purchase of Perot Systems, Xerox announced that it was purchasing Affiliated Computer Systems (ACS) for $6.4B. Dell just agreed to buy Perot Systems for $3.9B. Now that 3 major hardware companies have purchased outsourcing vendors the outsourcing/sale of hardware market will get more interesting.
Continue Reading Outsourcing Update: Xerox Buys Outsourcer ACS –
Great news and I guess the FBI is following my blog! The day following my blog about large scale phishing attacks the FBI reported that “law enforcement authorities in California, Nevada and North Carolina arrested 33 people Wednesday as part of an international crackdown on "phishing," e-mail scams that trick…
Continue Reading Washington Post: “33 Arrested as FBI Busts Global ‘Phishing’ Ring”
Apparently large scale phishing attacks resulted in compromises to tens of thousands of webmail accounts, hardly a surprise. However it is pretty amazing that so many individuals fall for the phishing tricks. As a matter of fact this morning I got an email purportedly from PayPal indicating that my account…
My good friend Victoria VanBuren recently posted a blog on Karl Bayer’s Blog about Dispute Resolution concerning my article in Atlantic Coast In-House Article about experience as a Special Master. You may find this excerpt of interest:
Before I got into law, I had a career as a computer programmer, received…
Watching the world economy meltdown in the past year it’s not much of a surprise that Google value increased by about 25% to number 7 in the world with an estimated value to an $32B! Other technology companies did not fare as well as reported by BusinessWeek and Interbrand:IBM…
Reports that Dell is spending $3.9 billion to acquire Perot Systems are not much of surprise since HP’s one year report card on acquiring EDS (Electronic Data Systems) are getting high marks. When HP acquired EDS in August 2008 for $13.9 billion there was some question about whether HP could…
Continue Reading Dell and HP Now Outsourcing Competitors for Services and Hardware
On the same day Facebook reported that it finally became cash flow positive after 5 ½ years, Facebook also announced that it grew to 300 million users. Of course that’s all relative since in August 2008 Facebook reported that it had 100 million users, but also an almost unbelievable growth…
Continue Reading Facebook Makes More News – Finally Cash Flow Positive and 300 million Users!!!
One might ask if every public employee must keep every email forever given this report that the Massachusetts Secretary of State ordered the seizure of City of Boston computers searching for deleted emails. This order follows a public records request by the Boston Globe to the Mayor’s office and which…
Continue Reading e-Discovery Complicates Public Records Requests
No surprise that dozens of filings were made in opposition to the proposed settlement of the lawsuit between the Google and the Authors Guild and Association of American Publishers which was filed in “2005 by the authors and publishers against Google over its plan to digitize millions of books from…
Continue Reading Google’s Book Settlement Has Many Critics in the US and EU
