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Photo: Google at court

Nicole Wong, Google's associate general counsel, speaks to reporters outside the federal courthouse in San Jose, Calif., on Tuesday.

Tags: courthouse, general counsel, San Jose, Google Inc., photograph, California

Image galleries 2006-03-14

Photo: Google at court

Nicole Wong, Google's associate general counsel, speaks to reporters outside the federal courthouse in San Jose, Calif., on Tuesday.

Tags: courthouse, general counsel, San Jose, Google Inc., photograph, California

Image galleries 2006-03-14

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Shock jock faces charges for threatening judges

So here is this wacko, Hal Turner, a shock jock and blogger, who advocated the assasination of three Seventh Circuit federal judges. He's being charged with threatening the judges' lives. The way The Washington Post spins this story, there's some interesting question of where free speech ends and criminality begins....

Tags: Judge, Turner, Federal Government, Government, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-16

Westlaw Wireless 3.0 (Mobile)

Westlaw Wireless is a mobile version of Westlaw, a legal and business research service from West Group. Westlaw Wireless gives legal professionals on the go access to cases, statutes, regulations, law reviews and journals, newspaper articles and other news, the KeyCite service, and much more. Westlaw Wireless allows users to...

Tags: Password, Mobile, Service, Westlaw Wireless, Advertising & Promotion, Litigation, Marketing, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Broward County Sheriff's Office Improves Billing Processes for Thousands of Detail Assignments

Broward County Sheriff's Department BSO, the nation's largest county law enforcement agency, employs more than 6,000 law enforcement, fire, paramedic, and emergency workers serving Broward County as a whole and, on a contract basis, 14 towns and cities, the seaport, airport, and courthouse security. It needed to produce accurate and...

Tags: Billing, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Office, Payroll, Sheriff, Assignment, Operational Accounting, Payroll Solutions, Finance

Case studies 2009-05-01

Outrageous Comcast customer agreement - finding a contact

Outrageous Comcast customer agreement - finding a contactThanks for the pointerI guess that if they don't respond, I'll continue to comment here on what I learn from others...Dan KYou'll never hear back from themunless you sent them numerous certified letters. I sent Comcast a few certified letters back in October...

Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Comcast Corp., Outrageous Comcast customer agreement, Outrageous Comcast, customer agreement

Discussion threads 2009-04-02

Sheriff: Craigslist is "single largest source of prostitution"

Sheriff: Craigslist is "single largest source of prostitution"Does raise some interesting questions......like does Craigslist actually do business in Illinois? While have a hard time imagining what sorts of "erotic services" would not be prostitution, and I wouldn't allow such a category if I was running the site, I don't...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Prostitution, Craigslist, prostitution

Discussion threads 2009-03-05

Intel joins Dell in fight against 'netbook' trademark

Intel has joined the fight against Psion over the "netbook" trademark, arguing that the public already uses the term in a generic manner to represent "extensions of the notebook category, smaller computers purpose-built for mobile Internet access," according to the Courthouse News Service. Intel also pointed out...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Psion, Netbook, Intel Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-25

Google wins Boring lawsuit; but that doesn't make it right

A judge has ruled in favor of Google in lawsuit that was brought against the company for publishing a Street View image of a Pennsylvania home that's located on a private road. The court actually kind of scolded the plaintiffs - a couple named Aaron and Christine...

Tags: Google Inc., Lawsuit, Privacy, Intrusion, Plaintiffs, Security, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-18

Where to try Madoff and Satyam's Raju? Texas!

60 Years for Texas Ponzi Schemer Texas is not a place where you want to be tried for crimes. Take it from someone who lived most his life there, criminality is very much frowned upon there. I grew up in a rural Texas county that due to...

Tags: Texas, Satyam, Financial Accounting, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-01-27

Reuters sues university over open-source citation extension

Zotero, a Firefox plug-in, looks like an amazing tool for academic and legal writing, what with "automatic citation capture" from webpages, formatted citation export and integration with WordPress. Developed by George Mason University, the tool has already been adopted by 100 major institutions. So who doesn't like it?...

Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., Thomson Corp., GMU, Productivity, Open Source, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-29

Interactive Museum Improves Communication, Brings History of Texas to Thousands of Visitors With New 3Com Secure Converged Network

The Old Red Museum of Dallas County History & Culture in Dallas is located in a restored 1890's courthouse that was reopened last year after an extensive six-year restoration and renovation project. According to Ross Crabtree, manager of Information Technology for the Old Red Museum of Dallas County History &...

Tags: Converged Network, Network, 3Com Corp., Museum, Networking

Case studies 2008-08-01

Childs rigged crazyquilt private network

The prosecution unveiled more details on the lunacy in San Francisco in court filings that urged the judge to keep rogue network administrator Terry Childs' bail at $5 million. The Chronicle reports that prosecutors say that Childs had over 1,000 modems secreted around the city, forming his own private network...

Tags: Network, Prosecutor, Networking, Productivity, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-24

An (Imaginary?) Hannaford Conspiracy

An (Imaginary?) Hannaford ConspiracyJust what is Linux?Linux is JUST the kernel, GNU Linux is the OS core. Many, many add-on packages are included in a Linux distro. Unlike Windoze, the Linux distro is made up of many different independent programs - each one with it's own ownership and licensing.There is...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Hannaford, Good security, security, point-of-sale

Discussion threads 2008-04-08

Police Blotter: Murderer nabbed via tracking, Web search

Police Blotter: Murderer nabbed via tracking, Web searchSo what?So what if her "rights" were "violated"? If, in fact, the illegality of the actions of the police had not shown her to be guilty, then she is owed an apology and possibly some sort of monetary award. However, as...

Tags: SEARCH, Internet search, Web, killer, Police Blotter, investigator

Discussion threads 2008-03-18

U.S. indicts 'spam king' in stock fraud scheme

U.S. indicts 'spam king' in stock fraud schemeHooray!I've gotten more than enough spam from Alan Ralsky during the past decade (it's actually easy to tell once you know what to look for). Obviously, I don't know if he's guilty of the things he's specifically charged with (though it wouldn't...

Tags: Cyberthreats, stock, Alan Ralsky, spam, spam king, crook, spammer

Discussion threads 2008-01-04

Police Blotter: MySpace profile sets convicted felon free

Police Blotter: MySpace profile sets convicted felon freeAnd this is why our legal system is brokenWe assume that we can get a jury of uneducated peers that will only accept the evidence that is presented to them on a golden platter. They are not allowed to associate or research...

Tags: MySpace, Myspace Profile, felon, Police Blotter

Discussion threads 2007-11-30

FBI crackdown nabs 8 botnet herders

FBI crackdown nabs 8 botnet herdersI like that !!!Yes indeed...GOOD!!!!Let the Convicted CHOOSE CANING INSTEAD OF JAIL TIME.BUT NO PROBATION.quid pro quoonly if they cane the bastards at enron and other companies that cooked books and ruined lives as wellTrue, at least then they would be productive...Unlike the Linux script...

Tags: Federal government, FBI, herder, crackdown, punishment, Web

Discussion threads 2007-11-29

Verdict in filesharing suit: $220,000

Standing up to RIAA blackmail isn't looking like such a great idea for Jammie Thomas today. After refusing to settle and taking the matter to trial, Thomas was socked with a $220,000 judgment Thursday. While under copyright law, the jury could have found her liable for...

Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, RIAA, Lawyer, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-10-04

Changing the way we find, reference, and talk about the law

Changing the way we find, reference, and talk about the lawSaying it doesn't make it so...If Mr. Malamud is responsible for prodding the SEC into developing EDGAR for the American people, I give him great respect and admiration. We use it several times a day and so do many investors.But...

Tags: taxpayer, Malamud, John Markoff

Discussion threads 2007-08-23