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Microsoft Office Specialist Success Story: Pillsbury Winthrop, LLP

Pillsbury Winthrop, LLP, an international law firm, enjoys the benefits of Microsoft Office Specialist Office Specialist certification by requiring all of their Document Production Center employees to hold the credential. These employees are responsible for formatting, editing, and creating documents and presentations for the entire firm. This can be a...

Tags: Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, Law Firm, Microsoft Corp., Litigation, Microsoft Office, Business Operations, Office Suites, Software

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Inventor sues Google, Verizon, others on voicemail

Inventor Judah Klausner filed a voice mail patent lawsuit on Tuesday against Google, Verizon Communications, and others. Verizon has already sued Klausner over the validity of his patents. SAN FRANCISCO--Emboldened by settlements with Apple and AT&T, inventor Judah Klausner filed a voice mail patent lawsuit on Tuesday against Google,...

Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Patent, Settlement, Verizon Communications Inc., Voicemail, Litigation, Telecommunications, Business Operations, Reuters, patents, legal, voice mail, Judah Klausner, Klausner, Google, Verizon

News items 2008-08-27

Dell's 'Cloud Computing' and other strange stuff

 and When I took a wee poke at Dell the other day I could not possibly have known that labeling something Hybrid and expecting us to meekly gobble it up was only the tip of what can only be described as an ill-conceived marketing strategy iceberg....

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hoover, Cloud Computing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-06

News to know: DNS flaw; Amazon; Microsoft shakeup; Facebook

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service Attack code published for DNS flaw Nate McFeters: |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison iPhone vulnerable to phishing,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, DNS, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Flaw, Game Players, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Virtual Iron Customer Profile: Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann, LLP

I had the chance to speak with Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann's David Roden, a few questions about their use of Virtual Iron's virtual server environment. Thanks for spending time with me, David! Here are my questions and David's answers: Who are you and what...

Tags: Virtual Iron, Server Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?

When the time came for a new PBX, Brian Snipes chose to do something a bit unconventional. The IT manager at law firm Hare, Wynn, Newell, and Newton LLP didn't purchase a commercial PBX, nor did he settle on the open source market leader,...

Tags: Phone, PBX, Attorney, FreeSwitch, Asterisk, Telephony, VOIP, Open Source, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Telecommunications, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Live Webcast: CIO Strategies for Retention and Deletion of Email and Electronic Information

Over the past two years, major changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure FRCP and the increase in state and federal compliance regulations have created new challenges for companies as they struggle to manage email retention and deletion policies. To successfully maintain compliance and protect their...

Tags: Strategy, Webcast, Compliance, MessageOne, E-mail, Online Communications

Webcasts 2008-07-10

McAfee's HackerSafe: "Um... we go in like a super hacker"

Updated 05/16/2008 2:00 p.m. CST: I officially have my first customer for the "Nate McFeters Safe" certification and Jeremiah Grossman and I have signed up another member for Scanless PCI, as noted security researcher Russ McRee has purchased our certifications, see http://holisticinfosec.blogspot.com.  God is good and created YouTube for laughs...

Tags: Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-05-16

2007 US ad revenues up 26%

The Interactive Advertising Bureau IAB and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP PwC announced that the 2007 Internet Advertising Revenue Report shows Internet advertising revenues in the US continued their upward climb. For the full year 2007, revenues totaled $21.2 bln, exceeding 2006 performance by 26%, itself the former record year. Q4 2007 Internet...

Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Internet Advertising, Internet, Operational Accounting, Finance, AM

Blog posts 2008-05-16

OOXML appeal possible, but looks unlikely

The International Organization for Standardization ISO  has not received a formal appeal of its approval of Office Open XML as a standard, but it looks more unlikely with each day that passes. To date, there have been "no appeals and I have no way...

Tags: ISO, Office Open XML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-04-17

A lawyer inside your PC - British software can flag corporate nefariousness

. . . No more corporate scandals? Autonomy [AUTN], the second largest European software company Monday launched Autonomy Information Governance AIG, software that can understand in real-time the meaning of email, blogs, and other documents. It can flag illegal communications and also find documents related to a...

Tags: Software, Autonomy Corp. Plc, PC, Autonomy Information Governance Software, Documents, E-mail, Tools & Techniques, Corporate Governance, Online Communications, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-04-14

Laser scanning robot 3D-R1 used to map mines

A UK-based company, 3D Laser Mapping, has developed robots equipped with lasers to automatically scan mines. Its latest mission was to create a 3D map of the San Jose silver mine in Mexico. The remote survey vehicle RSV 3D-R1 weighs about 135 kilograms and is 0.6 meter high. It...

Tags: 3D, Laser, 3D-R1, 3DLM, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-04-10

Microsoft's OOXML gets ISO approval ... maybe

Looks like Microsoft's Office Open XML will be an ISO standard after all. Maybe. Pundits – even OOXML rivals --predicted on Sunday that the Redmond, Wash. software giant has amassed the required number of votes to pull it over the goal line. Of course, a final vote...

Tags: Microsoft Office, ISO, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OOXML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Quality, Business Operations, Emerging Technologies, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-03-31

Eben law can have an open source business model

Anyone can have an open source business model. Even an open source lawyer. Eben Moglen, whose Software Freedom Law Center provides free legal help to open source projects, has just announced Moglen Ravicher LLC, a for-profit law firm covering the same ground. Their first...

Tags: Lawyer, OpenNMS, Ravicher, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-27

Medical lawsuits may soon be a thing of the past

Whenever I discuss rising medical costs here, at least one commenter often several will chime in and blame the lawyers. If we just didn't have all those nasty lawsuits... Well you may get your wish. In a case called Riegel vs. Medtronic,...

Tags: Wyeth, Lawsuit, FDA, Federal Government, Government, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-09

Boutique Law Firm Cross-Examines Server Solution and Raises Productivity, Bottom Line

Dewey Pegno & Kramarsky, LLP DPK, has grown into one of New York's premier boutique litigation houses. After the firm began to grow and problems began to surface on more than one client computer at a time, Kramarsky noticed that his own billable time was less than it could have...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Litigation, Microsoft Windows, Portals, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations, Internet

Case studies 2008-03-06

Grant Thornton Achieves 99.7% Accuracy Tracking Mobile IT Assets

Grant Thornton LLP is one of America's largest accounting firms. This case study explains how the company simplified its IT asset tracking process to minimize loss rates during business expansion. Learn how Grant Thornton used Computrace to standardize its IT asset management across a nation-wide network of...

Tags: Absolute Software, Mobile, Information Technology, Grant Thornton LLP, Roi/Tco, Strategic Planning, Regulatory Compliance, Strategy, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures

Case studies 2008-03-01

Judge reconsiders injunction in Wikileaks case

If you're a lawyer, you gotta love this. At the end of the day Thursday, Federal Judge Jeffrey White -- the judge who issued the shut-down notice against Wikileaks -- released his questions for argument PDF for Friday morning's hearing regarding that order. White also...

Tags: Plaintiff, Wikileaks, Web Site Development, Productivity, Government, Web Technology, Domain Names, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-02-28

Endlessly extending copyright

The European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, Charlie McCreevy, recently declared that copyright for performers be extended from 50 to 95 years. This was proposed, according McCreevy, to remedy a fundamental unfairness, wherein the composer the author of a song has rights that extend 70 years after his death, whereas...

Tags: Incentive, Financial, Property, Pension, Financial Incentive, Intellectual Property, Benefits, Sales Force Management, Research & Development, Business Operations, Human Resources, Sales, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-02-15

BitGravity LiveBroadcast to stream DEMO 08

This week I'll be at the Demo 2008 Conference checking out the more than 70 products showcased, and you can watch a live video feed of the proceedings courtesy of BitGravity. The startup content delivery service is launching LiveBroadcast, a flash-based streaming service. According to...

Tags: Computer Associates International Inc., Startup Content Delivery Service, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-01-28