Microsoft Revamping Outside Counsel Relationships?

February 16, 2005

The Wired GC has a post on a story in IP Law and Business titled "Microsoft Pares its Legal Army" on Microsoft’s review of its outside counsel arrangements.  Money quote: Firms would have to renegotiate their billing structure, as well as provide detailed data on diversity and staffing, according to new uniform guidelines established by […]

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Explosive Documents Released in Kazaa Trial

February 16, 2005

Last week a confidentiality order was lifted by the Court with respect to certain documents that are part of the Kazaa litigation in Sydney, Australia.  A poster on Slashdot described them this way: The most explosive documents in the ongoing Kazaa court case have emerged today, including logs of discussions between parent company Sharman and […]

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More on Telcos Restricting VoIP

February 15, 2005

I wrote recently about suggestions that US telcos might be restricting VoIP on their networks.  Turns out they are.  The Register writes that the US FCC is investigating efforts by US telcos to restrict VoIP network usage.  Money quote: "We’re very actively on this case and we are taking it pretty seriously," said Michael Powell, […]

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VoIP Port Blocking by ISP’s

February 15, 2005

As we head towards ISP rollout of VoIP services in Canada (ouch – $55 a month at Shaw?), it’s interesting to speculate about whether we are eventually going to see ISP’s port-blocking competitive VoIP services, like Vonage, etc.  I hope not – and without looking carefully at the issue I would speculate that given our […]

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Disaster Recovery Planning

February 15, 2005

Via Geoffrey Gussis, a link to an article by Dennis Kennedy in Law Practice Today on avoiding disaster in your disaster recovery plans.

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New Authentication Technology

February 15, 2005

Apropos of my recent posts on passwords and security, I noticed a post on Bob Shaver’s excellent blog on a new password-based authentication technology developed by iMagic Software that combines passwords with a system that recognizes the (apparently) unique rhythms we each use to key them in.  Money quotes: People need to spend a few […]

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Cable on a Roll

February 15, 2005

The Globe has a story on consumers making the switch from the local telco to VoIP.  It’s good to see this penetrating the retail consciousness.

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The Dollars and Cents of Hacking

February 15, 2005

Computerworld has an article exploring the money side to "black hat" hacking.  Author Bob Francis explores the prices of various hacked information – exploit code, IP addresses of trojan infected PC’s, etc.  Money quote: Apparently not all black-hat hackers are making the big bucks, however. I spoke recently with Bill Hancock, Savvis Communications Corp.’s chief […]

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OSS IP Indemnification

February 15, 2005

Stephen Wali has a post discussing open source indemnification lawsuits and what they mean for the customer.

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VoIP Security

February 15, 2005

Mark Evans has a post on some recent VoIP security developments.  Articles from Wired and The Register cover some of the same ground.

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Rojo is in Beta

February 14, 2005

Rojo, a new web-based feed reader with and networking app, is in beta.

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Lawyers Should Enjoy Their Work and Clients

February 14, 2005

Tom Kane’s The Legal Marketing Blog has a post on the importance of enjoying your work and your clients, apropos of a recent post by Bob Bly on the importance of passion in work (I just noticed that Tom and I both posted comments to that post).  Passion is a bell a lot of people […]

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