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Stand Up for Your Fair Use Rights. Fair Use Gets Fair Play on Capitol Hill “This Wednesday, May 12th, marks the first time since the DMCA was enacted in 1998 that Congress will hold hearings on legislation to reform it. The Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act, or DMCRA, has three important goals: #1: Warning: You're… Continue reading Stand Up for Your Fair Use Rights

Petaboxes starting to ship. The Petabox: A Million Gigabytes of Storage. In a phone call yesterday, Brewster Kahle mentioned that the wonderful Internet Archive's Petabox was up and running. That's one million gigabytes. What is a million petabytes? [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] Internet Archive's Petabox: a 1,000 terabyte array. The Internet Archive has just installed its… Continue reading Petaboxes starting to ship

“Novell Announces Evolution 2.0 and Release of Connector for Microsoft Exchange Server Under Open Source License”.  “Novell today announced its Connector for Microsoft* Exchange Server will be integrated into EvolutionTM 2.0 and made available as open source, beginning today with the current Connector 1.4. Evolution is Novell's award-winning e-mail and workgroup client for Linux* systems… Continue reading “Novell Announces Evolution 2.0 and Release of Connector for Microsoft Exchange Server Under Open Source License”

IMF to be Made Available to All with Exchange 2003.  At today's Webcast: Fighting spam using Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, mentioned here earlier, Mohammad Nadeem announced that the IMF would be made available to all Exchange 2003 installations. This is great news. There was no link available to download the IMF and I'm sure we'll… Continue reading IMF to be Made Available to All with Exchange 2003

Law Firm Managing Partners Lack Leadership Training. Altman Weil's email newsletter is a great monthly resource on the business of the practice of law. The one I received today is no exception. Perhaps the most interesting article in this issue is Marci Krufka's “Managing Partners Lack Leadership Training (PDF)” which definitely deserves a wide distribution.… Continue reading Law Firm Managing Partners Lack Leadership Training

The True Competition for Estate Planning Lawyers???. From the excellent DealNews.com, which gives you a daily email option and a choice of RSS feeds to bring you all kinds of Internet bargains: **WillWriter 2002 for $1.99** – 10:16 am software-blowouts.com offers Broderbund's WillWriter 2002 for $1.99, the lowest price we've seen. Shipping is $5.95. http://dealnews.com/newsdaily.html?article,65888… Continue reading The True Competition for Estate Planning Lawyers???

Raising Your Return on Innovation Investment. I'm fascinated by innovation and read everything I can get my hands on about innovation and innovation strategy. A new article in Strategy+Business called “Raising Your Return on Innovation Investment” by Alexander Kandybin and Martin Kihn of Booz Allen Hamilton, has definitely gotten my attention. In the article, the… Continue reading Raising Your Return on Innovation Investment

Spam Panic and Rescue:  The New Life Style I've been using a spam filter for the last month or so (that could scarcely be news), but it's about the 13th or 14th one I've tried and the first one that I like and feel I can rely on.  So imagine my panic when I returned… Continue reading Spam Panic and Rescue:  The New Life Style

Some people think Information Technology doesn't matter. The New York Times has a review of “Does IT Matter?” a new book by Harvard Business School Press. The author contends that knowing how to manage information technology (“IT”) no longer gives companies a competitive edge because technology is basically a utility like electricity, which everyone has access… Continue reading Some people think Information Technology doesn't matter

Work Is No Longer A Place But An Activity. Some interesting material in this article on the changing nature of work. Falling laptop prices, better remote access technologies and widespread broadband are driving people out of the head office and into the home office. According to JALA International, a teleworking consultancy company, there will be… Continue reading Work Is No Longer A Place But An Activity