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Esendex Unveils MoZoop Monday, November 16th, 2009
Esendex, which provides messaging services to businesses, has MoZoop, an online service that simplifies the process of transferring contacts from one mobile phone to a new one. To use the service, users visit mozoop.com and key in their existing and new phone numbers (if not the same) and follow the instructions. “Many people struggle to get their valuable contacts onto their new phone, instantly creating a disappointing experience and making the new phone suddenly seem less exciting and usable,” says Neil Kilbride, Lead Developer for MoZoop.
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15 November 2009 When it comes to the flow of litigation information, law firms and clients often feel trapped in a cyclone of data that supersedes substantive issues of a case, both in cost and attention from the court. Ron Hedges led the panel and discussed the “flow of litigation” and how active case management (by judges and attorneys) is the key to controlling cost and delay that can result from discovery of electronically stored information (ESI), making reference to motions to dismiss in lieu of answers and reasons to seek stays of discovery rather than beginning the discovery process. They also discussed the effect of the new pleading standards expounded by the Supreme Court in Twombly and Iqbal , and said that even under those cases, parties will likely continue to incur at least some preservation and collection-related costs before any discovery begins
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The Georgetown Law Advanced E-Discovery Institute: Litigation is the key — How E-Discovery “Fits” into Civil Actions
15 November 2009 The presentation was made by David Shonka (Principal Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission), Miriam Smolen (associate general counsel in Fannie Mae’s litigation department, and in this role she manages complex commercial litigations and government investigations) and moderated by Andrew Goldsmith (First Assistant Chief in the Department of Justice).
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From the Georgetown Law Advanced E-Discovery Institute: E-Discovery in Federal Investigations
15 November 2009 The presentation on Advanced Search and Retrieval Technology was made by Jason Baron , Maura Grossman and Ralph Losey , all powerhouses in the e-discovery world. Baron and Losey started off with their multimedia PowerPoint presentation (to the tune of Darude’s Sandstorm which we had just seen at the Capital One Future of Search conference and it blew away the crowd – and us, too, again. In a nutshell, ediscovery is expanding exponentially and Ralph Losey talked petabytes, and exabytes — not terabytes.
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From the Georgetown Law Advanced E-Discovery Institute: Advanced Search and Retrieval Technology
15 November 2009 The Institute ended on Friday with a reconvening of the Federal Judges panel that opened the program the first day. Much was discussed (generated by questions from the audience) so we’ll highlight only some of the major points: 1. There was much discussion about privilege, how the volume of information produced by electronic discovery has made the process of reviewing that information, to ascertain whether any of it is privileged from disclosure, so expensive that the result of the lawsuit may be a function of who can afford it. In fact Judge Facciola, who led the discussion, announced that he and Jonathan Redgrave (a presenter at the Institute this year and a partner with Nixon Peabody D.C. and who chairs his firm’s Law Advisors’ team) would have an article published on Monday which presented “The Facciola-Redgrave Framework”. They submit that the majority of cases should reject the traditional document-by-document privilege log in favor of a new approach that is premised on counsel’s cooperation supervised by early, careful, and rigorous judicial involvement. That cooperation, having first led to an agreement as to what categories of information will be eliminated from any privilege review because the information is so clearly not privileged or so clearly privileged, will then focus on categorization of the information that must be reviewed. The article was published over the weekend in the Federal Court Law Review and can be accessed here . 2. Lawyers can no longer plead ignorance about e-discovery technology. Yes, it has become nuanced and sophisticated and in many cases is not inexpensive. As was repeated throughout the conference whenever “proportionality” had a chance to raise its head, the merits of a case can easily be overshadowed by discovery costs and complexity. But there are very smart software vendors out there, and independent EDD consulting companies, who can get attorneys through the myriad formats and technology to identify, preserve, collect, review, etc
The Georgetown Law Advanced E-Discovery Institute: a review Sunday, November 15th, 200915 November 2009 Reporting for The Posse List: Gregory Bufithis, Scott Madsen and Alex Hania Georgetown Law CLE, in cooperation with the Sedona Conference, presented its 6th Annual Advanced E-Discovery Institute . It was one of the best conferences we’ve attended on e-discovery and that is based on the content covered, the experts/luminaries in the e-discovery field that spoke at the panels, and the interaction between the audience and the panels plus the informal sessions. Moreover, the Institute had an all-star U.S. judicial bench in attendance: Judges John Facciola, Paul Grimm, Nan Nolan, Andrew Peck, Lee Rosenthal, Shira Scheindlin and David Waxe, who participated on multiple panels, and even sat in on many of the sessions and provided input — both from the panels and the audience — and who made themselves available during the breaks and informal sessions. It was a great “hands on learning” e-discovery experience. The non-judicial roster of e-discovery experts was just as impressive and rather than list them all we provide a link here.
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The Georgetown Law Advanced E-Discovery Institute: a review
14 November 2009 This past Thursday the New York Times profiled a new research paper entitled Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be…Lawyers that said “No, it is not”. The paper tries to measure the return on investment in a law school education, using three prototypical students (the “Also Ran,” the “Solid Performer” and the “Hot Prospect”) and the results are somewhat disheartening, especially considering the surging interest in law school during this tough job market.
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Law School as an Investment
Qualcomm, which develops advanced wireless technologies, products and services, is working with key mobile software providers to optimise their solutions for the company’s next-generation Brew Mobile Platform (Brew MP) operating system, streamlining the process of commercialising new devices that offer a wide range of compelling software applications. These key software components, such as Java virtual machines, device management, browsers, multimedia, instant messaging and calendar applications, will be pre-integrated with Brew MP so that developers can distribute applications to mobile device manufacturers prior to market launch of new handsets, in an effort to reduce their development time and cost. The first Brew MP handsets are expected to launch early next year
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Qualcomm Optimises for Brew MP
Let’s start with an assumption: You are forming a company with the intention of obtaining venture financing within a year. (I will hold aside the probability of such a thing actually occurring.) If you followed my posts on Delaware franchise tax and par value you know that the number of shares you pick can affect your franchise tax – but it is not likely to have much of an effect if you use the so-called alternative calculation.
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How many shares should you authorize when founding a company?
Digital entertainment services company RealNetworks has transitioned the music service for mobilkom austria group’s (MAG) Si.mobil to its platform, adding all-you-can-eat functionality and upgrading the service to Real’s mobile and PC client interface. This is the second deployment under Real’s 4-year agreement with MAG. “After seeing significant growth in both downloads and music subscribers enjoyed by our sister company, A1 in Austria, we are eager to launch our music service on the Real platform,” says Si.mobil Marketing Director, Peter Curk
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RealNetworks in Austrian Deployment
The presentation was titled Information Everywhere: Understanding New Technologies and Coping With New Problems and was presented by Judge James Francis (U.S. Magistrate Judge in the Southern District of New York), Anne Kershaw (founder of A. Kershaw, P.C.
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Live from the Georgetown Law Advanced E-Discovery Institute: Unified communications – the game changer in e-discovery
This has been one of the best conferences we’ve attended just based on content covered and the luminaries in the field. And it started off with a truly all-star U.S. judicial panel: Judges Facciola, Grimm, Nolan, Peck, Rosenbaum, Scheindlin and Waxe, moderated by Kenneth Withers, Director of Judicial Education and Content for The Sedona Conference.
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Live from the Georgetown Law Advanced E-Discovery Institute: the E-Discovery Case Law Update
Charities are missing a trick if they are not using mobile phones to raise funds, according to a new Whitepaper from mobile payments firm paythru. The first of a series of Whitepapers from paythru, ‘Fundraising issues facing the charity sector, and why the mobile may be able to help’ advises charities of all sizes to consider how one-on-one communications via Britain’s 72 million mobile phones can reach new donor groups that span generations and socio-economic groups
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Charities Should Turn to Mobile, says paythru
Openwave Systems has announced the launch of Openwave Mobile Internet ReadySet, which it describes as a “low-cost prepackaged platform that provides operators with a central point from which to offer new, revenue-generating, mobile Internet services”. Openwave’s ReadySet provides a complete mobile Internet solution, consisting of traffic management tools, including content adaptation and acceleration, bandwidth optimisation, and service promotion and billing, in a single package. OPenwave says that with low-cost hardware and standard pre-configured deployment options, ReadySet is ideal for smaller operators and newer markets which require a quick return on investment for minimal capital outlay
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ReadySet Go says Openwave
Yahoo! has issued a press release outlining, in the words of the blurb accompanying it: “the developments over the course of the year which signify Yahoo!’s dedication to mobile ahead of 2010.” The release touches on the launch of its new mobile homepage, its range of free mobile apps, including Flickr, Yahoo! Messenger and Yahoo! Search; and its PC-to-Mobile Integration. While its mildly interesting to recap on these developments, the statement in the blurb saying that it has been issed “as we near the end of 2009” is stretching things a bit I think, given that today is 12 November. Two words spring to mind: Google.
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Happy Early New Year from Yahoo!
NewspaperDirect, which specialises in multichannel newspaper and magazine content distribution and monetization, has launched iPhone and BlackBerry versions of its PressReaderapplication. The move significantly expands the audience of full-content newspapers and magazines for NewspaperDirect's publishing partners, and enables iPhone and Blackberry owners to download their favourite daily read from a selection of more than 1,300 newspapers and magazines available on PressDisplay.com.
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"Read All About It" on your iPhone or Blackberry
ROK Entertainment Group has bought text-to-speech provider Textic for an undisclosed sum. The Textic service, originally designed to automatically convert typed words on websites into audible speech, will be developed for mobile phones and eBooks, and will be re-launched as ROK Talk. “The acquisition of Textic represents an enormous opportunity on many levels, not least for the benefit of the blind or partially sighted, but also for the under-educated and illiterate, as well as the millions of people affected by dyslexia, worldwide,” says ROK Chairman and CEO, Jonathan Kendrick.
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Research In Motion (RIM) has unveiled a new services platform for developers that it says will enable them to streamline business processes and build highly responsive, location-aware, revenue-generating applications for BlackBerry Smartphones. The new services platform will offer advertising, payment, content push and location services. The BlackBerry Advertising Service will enable developers to integrate advertising into their BlackBerry applications.
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RIM Unveils Mobile Ad, Payment, Push and LBS Platform
You are invited to take part in a research study regarding the E-Discovery Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and their effects on law firms and their corporate clients. The survey will take approximately 10 minutes and may be accessed via the following link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=jjlVm0D9r_2fLWNsmRXz1MAQ_3d_3d Participation is voluntary and you may refuse to participate or withdraw at any time. Confidentiality will be maintained via anonymous data collection; respondent identifiers, including IP addresses, will not be captured.
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eDiscovery survey being conducted by New York University
Reporting: Scott Madsen for The Posse List In what portended to be a great day-long seminar on ediscovery search, the opening multimedia presentation by Ralph Losey and Jason Baron set the bar high. This was the “beta version” of a presentation that Losey and Baron will give at LegalTech in New York City on February 10, 2010. It was worth the trip to Tyson’s Corner.
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Capital One’s First Annual Seminar on E-Discovery: The Future of Search
Cortado has launched a competition offering BlackBerry developers a chance to win marketing funds. The contest calls on developers to test Cortado's new, Java-based CHAPI (Content Handling API, JSR-211) interface and submit suggestions for the best and most original use of printing within an application. Interested developers can find out more information and apply for access to the beta version of the latest Cortado solutions with CHAPI interface here
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Cortado Launches ‘Apps Need Printing’ Contest
Mobile music discovery service Shazam has launched its Shazam Encore application on the Apple App Store. Shazam has enjoyed over 10 million downloads from the App Store to date, and Shazam says the new app will make it even easier for iPhone and iPod touch users to learn more about the music they love. Shazam Encore offers faster performance, enabling users to tag tracks more quickly; music recommendations; a search facility from a database of over 8 million songs; and a ‘Drive and Tag’ feature, which automatically switches Shazam into ‘Car’ mode when the iPhone is placed in an in-car dock to make it simple to discover what’s playing on the radio while driving
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Shazam Encore Debuts on the App Store
IT security and data protection company Sophos has warned iPhone users of the world's first iPhone virus that is spreading in the wild in Australia. The virus, dubbed the ikee worm, breaks into iPhones, changing their lock screen wallpaper to an image of 1980s pop star Rick Astley with the message: ‘ikee is never going to give you up’. But the virus can only infect users who have ‘jailbroken’ their iPhones in order to allow them to run applications that have not been approved by Apple.
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iPhone Worm on the Loose in Australia
Preface: If we are to believe the prognosis of many economists, the current recession is on the verge of ending. The rebounding economy will most likely re-invigorate corporations to push their markets globally. This, in turn, will further push litigation and regulatory enquiries globally. The best prepared corporations will have a litigation readiness and response plan in place that adheres to the European Union Directives and other information management and discovery protocols. It is no longer a question of “ if ” litigation support professionals need to be prepared for discovery requests that go beyond US borders; it is a question of “ when ”
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Global electronic discovery
Mobile content and applications company Bright AI has been selected by FL Interactive (FLi) to develop a range of branded and bespoke football-themed games, content and applications for 80 clubs across England and Wales including Bolton Wanderers and Premier League newcomers Burnley, who have surprised many this season with their bright, inventive football, which saw them beat champions Man United in their first home game of the season. The content and applications will be hosted on Bright AI’s Boximo platform, which seamlessly integrates with any website to create a virtual ‘plug and play’ store front, enabling clubs or brand owners to sell official or third party mobile content and applications direct to fans
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Bright AI Scores Footie Deal
No response yet from O2 to the questions we asked about its opted-in marketing database, which I was told last night could actually number more than 1 million subscribers, rather than the 300,000 we reported yesterday. It will be interesting to see how forthcoming O2 is with answers, given a conversation that took place last night at the networking event following the mobileSQUARED Taking Internet Mobile roadshow. The point under discussion was whether mobile operators really take mobile marketing seriously, or whether they merely pay lip service to it, given the minuscule contribution it currently makes to their revenues, compared to voice and text
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Normal Service or Lip Service?
Polar Mobile has announced the release of TheStreet.com Mobile for Android on Polar’s SMART platform. TheStreet.com is a digital financial media company, whose network includes TheStreet.com, RealMoney.com, Stockpickr.com, BankingMyWay.com, MainStreet.com, Rate-Watch.com and Promotions.com The Android application features push-delivered market data, a customized stock portfolio, articles and commentary from Jim Cramer and more. Add to this the benefit of blazing fast browsing with the ability to personalize content, and TheStreet.com, now on Android, BlackBerry, and iPhone is one of the strongest cross-platform financial applications in the market today.
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TheStreet.com Launches on Android