Do IT Buyers Need a New Purchasing Model? Or Insurance?

March 22, 2005

The eWeek editors have an interesting column this week proposing a new purchasing model for IT – one in which vendors take system-wide responsibility for security. Quote: Indeed, in a service-based model of IT, there should be no distinction between the vulnerability of an endpoint device—a product—and the vulnerability of a server—that is, the nexus […]

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Black Box Car Insurance Comes to Canada

March 21, 2005

Aviva Insurance has announced that it is launching “pay as you go” car insurance in Canada. These types of programs, which have been launched elsewhere, are based on the notion that data collected by a “black box” installed in the car can, if the driver qualifies, entitle the driver to considerable discounts. Tyler Hamilton reported […]

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ISP Regulation in Canada

March 21, 2005

Professor Michael Geist tackles ISP regulation in his weekly Law Bytes column today. It’s a timely piece – broadband ISPs in Canada are at the core of a growing number of issues that are critical to the healthy development of the internet, and as Michael notes, this is not a competitive marketplace – most consumers, […]

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Lawyers and SMEs

March 21, 2005

The CBA’s magazine The National has an interesting piece on the role that lawyers can play in counselling SME’s, a market often ignored in favour of larger more established businesses. Quote: Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) continue to grow within Canada and most other industrialized nations, representing a major source of economic development. In Quebec […]

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Thoughts about Groove

March 20, 2005

I can still remember first hearing about Groove.  It had come out of nowhere – or rather, stealth mode, where it had been beavering away silently, to be sprung on us without warning one otherwise unremarkable day.  "We" at the time was Hotline Communications, one of the early P2P platforms, and an idea even now […]

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Westlaw and LexisNexis to Restrict Access to Data

March 18, 2005

The data aggregators are very quickly adapting to The New Normal in U.S. privacy law that we’ve seen emerging in the last few months – Sen. Charles Schumer has announced some changes at WestLaw and LexisNexis has announced changes as well. These developments, the culmination of some dramatic recent news on database hacking and disclosures, […]

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VC Powerpoint Presentations

March 17, 2005

Today boingboing mentions a Brad Feld post from June with detailed suggestions on how to make your presentation to a VC.

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Misunderstanding the Long Tail

March 17, 2005

Paul Kedrosky makes the point today that there is some misunderstanding about the significance of the long tail – he stresses that part of the power of the idea is that the lower cost of some types of online customer acqusition makes the long tail feasible. Exactly.  I made the same point recently when writing […]

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IRS Workers Prone to Hackers

March 17, 2005

In a chilling reminder of the frailty of security, WaPo is reporting that US Treaury Department inspectors posing as help desk workers were able to get username and password info from more than 1/3 of the 100 IRS workers tested. This is the most rudimentary of social engineering attacks, and news that is bound to […]

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Paul Graham Doesn’t Like VCs

March 17, 2005

And here’s why – "The Unified Theory of VC Suckage".

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Today is Code Day

March 16, 2005

Today is the day Lessig posts "Code" on his Wiki.

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No More Law Review for Lessig

March 16, 2005

Larry Lessig has resolved to never again contribute to any publication that does not grant rights at least as open as a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License.  This on the heels of seeing the agreement that the Minnesota Law Review requires for publication. Of course, he probably has the market power to do it.  But […]

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