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NJ court: IP-related info is private

Someone broke into the website of Jersey Diesel, changed the physical address listed on the site to a nonexistent address and changed the login password. Who? Owner Tim Wilson thought he knew. Shirley Read was an employee who had just returned from disability and whom Wilson had just argued with....

Tags: Subpoena, New Jersey, Comcast Corp., IP, IP Address, U.S. Supreme Court, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Network Technology, Networking, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-04-22

Supreme Court declines warrantless wiretapping case

The ACLU and other organizations attempted to sue the government for a warrantless wiretapping program called the Terrorist Surveillance Program. A U.S. District Court decided to let the suit go forward but the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals shot the case down, saying the plaintiffs had no standing unless they...

Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, U.S. Supreme Court, Government, Vertical Industries, Quality, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-02-19

Prof: footnote in eBay Patent case COULD give Vonage a break in theirs

A footnote near the end of last week's partial remand decision by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, first found by University of Missouri law professor Dennis Crouch, could be interpreted as a legal recourse for giving Vonage a break in its patent disputes with...

Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., U.S. Supreme Court, eBay Inc., Prof, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-03

AltLaw offers a legal research alternative for federal courts

AltLaw, a free legal database created by Prof. Tim Wu of Columbia Law School, has officially launched, Ars Technica reports. Ars describes the service: The database currently provides full-text search of Supreme Court and Federal Appellate opinions from the last decade or so. It also allows for...

Tags: Ars Technica, Database, Goal, U.S. Supreme Court, Service, AltLaw, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-10-02

Supreme Court hears patent case

The Supreme Court granted certiorari to hear arguments in a case in which Taiwanese manufacturers - led by Quanta Computer - have accused their South Korean rival of using its patents to "shake down the entire computer industry for several billion dollars in duplicative licensing fees," the Associated Press reports....

Tags: Patent, LG Electronics Inc., U.S. Supreme Court, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-09-25

Spammer says state law is unconstitutional

Is an anti-spam law unconstitutionally infringe on free speech? That's what a former spammer is arguing to the Virginia Supreme Court, The Washington Post reports. Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, N.C., was convicted in 2003 in the nation's first felony anti-spamming case sentenced to nine years in prison. Prosecutors said...

Tags: Computer Network, Speech, Anti-spam, Spammer, U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-09-12

Why Blade Servers Rule in the Arizona Supreme Court

Although the Arizona Supreme Court was an early adopter of court automation tools, it found that the out-of-the-box solutions it originally deployed lacked flexibility, so it ultimately developed its own applications to support the state’s trial and appellate court operations. Download this case study to learn why the court chose...

Tags: Blade Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade, U.S. Supreme Court, Arizona, Utility Computing, Virtualization, Blade Servers, Servers, Storage Management, Hardware, Storage

Case studies 2005-05-01

Novell Case Study: Swiss Federal Supreme Court

Switzerland is a federal state composed of 26 cantons, each of which has its own local judiciary organization. The Swiss Federal Supreme Court needed to enable the exchange of authenticated electronic documents, such as forms and statements of case, between lawyers and the courts. The aim was to reproduce exactly...

Tags: Novell Inc., U.S. Supreme Court, Security

Case studies

HP Blade Servers Power Arizona Supreme Court's Innovative Applications

After struggling with early, one-size-fits-all court automation products, the Arizona Supreme Court took matters into its own hands. The court is using advanced technologies - such as XML standards and object-oriented programming tools that dissect complex applications into reusable components - to create a series of enterprise automation systems closely...

Tags: Blade Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., U.S. Supreme Court, HP Blade, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Hardware

Case studies

Additional Resources

EU has privacy concerns over Street View

The EU is not too happy with the upcoming launch of Google Maps' Street View in Europe. The problem: privacy. The AP quotes the EU's top data protection supervisor, Peter Hustinx: "I would encourage Google to think about how to do this," Hustinx told...

Tags: Google Inc., Data Protection, Privacy, European Union, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Judge: Possible 'manifest error of law' in Thomas case

In a huge break in the Capitol v. Thomas case – in which Jammie Thomas right was hit with a $220,000-plus verdict for copyright infringement – the judge in the case said he may have made a "manifest error of law" in his instructions to the jury. ...

Tags: Distribution, RIAA, Judge, Mr., Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-15

City walks away from $17m network

Who wants a free Wi-Fi network? Not Philadelphia. After Earthlink pulled out of Philly Wireless Tuesday, the city wants no part of the network. Apparently Earthlink had been negotiating with the city and nonprofits groups to to hand the $17 million network over but couldn't come to...

Tags: EarthLink Inc., City, Network, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Spam king, phishing buddy hit for $200m

Spam king Sanford Wallace and phishing buddy Walter Rines hijacked some 300,000 MySpace accounts and sent hundreds of thousands of spam messages and comments across the service. They got their punishment today: a whopping $225 million judgment in favor of MySpace, Information Week reports. "By using hijacked...

Tags: MySpace, Phishing, Spam, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Polar Bear Threatened, says U.S. Global warming acknowledged in public.

The U.S. Department of Interior has just listed the polar bear as a "threatened" species, that is legally and technically different than being listed as "endangered." The Feds based their announcement on studies by government scientists. Global warming is reducing Arctic sea ice off...

Tags: Bear, Global Warming, Bloomberg News, Wetzler, Kivalina, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-14

MySpace's big spam win: Will it really be a deterrent?

MySpace won statutory damages of more than $230 million against spammers Stanford Wallace and Walter Rines, but the big question is whether this ruling--delivered in the Federal District Court in Los Angeles--will act as a deterrent. To be sure, MySpace's win see court order PDF has some...

Tags: MySpace, Stanford Wallace, User Engagement, Cyberthreats, Spam, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Instant Court Records (exe)

Lookup court records, court houses, convictions, bankruptcies, and more using our court record databases. Our court record databases are the same ones used by private investigators, law enforcement, government agencies. Now available to you for your own online court record lookups. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Lookup, Storage, Litigation, Databases, Hardware, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2008-05-14

Craigslist fires back at eBay; Bogus Google ads to Kijiji alleged

Craigslist has filed its response to eBay's lawsuit and the company hits back--hard. Craigslist alleges that eBay participated in everything from "unlawful and unfair competition," false advertising, business interference and even phishing attacks. The official list via Craigslist: "We filed a complaint in California today, charging...

Tags: Google Inc., Craigslist, Advertisement, eBay Inc., Phishing, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Microsoft's plan to block Linux on laptops

Microsoft's plan to block Linux on laptopsHow in the heck did you reach that conclusion?Somehow I missed how MS will "block" Linux on laptops from the writeup. I assume you're implying that XP is so desirable over Linux that charging less than $30 is a slam dunk. ...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Notebooks, Microsoft Corp., Linux, laptop computer, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

HP's bid for EDS: Opportunity costs loom

The debate around Hewlett-Packard's purchase of Electronic Data Systems follows three primary questions. Is the EDS acquisition another Compaq--a deal that will take years to pay off? Is EDS the right acquisition for HP? Are there other places where HP should spend its money? HP on Tuesday...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Dennis, Tools & Techniques, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Wiretaps up, terrorism prosecutions down

We have been told that our very safety, our "homeland security," is dependent on the federal government having extraordinary powers to snoop, listen and search without the traditional (pronounced "constitutional") checks provided by judicial review. One part of this equation works as advertised – the incursion...

Tags: Terrorism, Terrorism Prosecution, Homeland Security, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-12