California Bill Would Jail P2P Developers

January 19, 2005

The California legislature has had a bill tabled before it that would jail p2p software developers if they don’t use "reasonable care" to prevent the use of their software to swap copyrighted media. Presumably this has no legs, but it is another indication of the turning of the tide ….

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IAB Announced New Standards for Canadian Online Ads

January 18, 2005

Via David Akin, the IAB has announced new standards for online advertising in Canada.

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Bill Joy has Joined Kleiner Perkins

January 18, 2005

Bill Joy, the former chief scientist at Sun who resigned in 2003, has joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.  WSJ article (sub req’d), Yahoo here.

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Handling Customer Complaints under PIPEDA

January 18, 2005

David Fraser has an excellent post on how to handle customer privacy complaints under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.  Notably, David stresses the importance of instilling a privacy-centric culture.  This point cannot be emphasized enough – your people must be sensitized and alive to the importance of this issue.  Money quote: All […]

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Comair Chief “Resigning”

January 17, 2005

The CEO of Comair, the airline that had system failures ground passengers for several days over Christmas, is resigning "to pursue other unspecified opportunities". Apparently, sharing does not extend to the blame ….

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HDTV Signals Over Copper

January 16, 2005

Via Om, QBit, a Bethesda, MD. start-up, claims to have developed technology that allows phone companies to transmit HDTV signals over copper.  At the heart of it is a new codec with purportedly revolutionary lossless compression ratios.

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US Submarine Crash Caused by Out of Date Maps

January 16, 2005

The NYT is reporting that the recent crash of the US submarine USS San Francisco into an undersea mountain was caused by maps that did not have information updated from more recent satellite imagery of the crash site.  Money quote: The submarine had crashed head-on into an undersea mountain that was not on the charts. […]

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Shredding to Become American National Pastime

January 15, 2005

Via USA Today, great news for the shredding industry: The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act was passed in December 2003, but rules were written just recently on the disposal provision. The law requires the destruction — "shredding or burning" or "smashing or wiping" — of all paper or computer disks containing personal information "derived […]

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Carnivore Out to Pasture

January 15, 2005

Via The Register, the FBI is apparently retiring Carnivore, its controversial Internet surveillance tool, "preferring instead to use commercial products to eavesdrop on network traffic".

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Wireless Security Current State of Play

January 15, 2005

From Wi-Fi Networking News, an excellent piece on the current status of Wi-Fi security.

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What Do Your Clients Really Think of You?

January 14, 2005

Via the Canadian Bar Association’s PracticeLink, the best article I have read in ages about what clients think of their lawyers – it is effectively a manual of client service do’s and don’t do’s. You simply cannot be in the law business today if these ideas are not at the core of why you do […]

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Testa, Hurwitz to Disband

January 14, 2005

The well regarded Boston firm is disbanding.

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