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Options for Managing Law School Student Loan Debt Thursday, November 5th, 2009
The average law student who graduated from a private university in 2008 borrowed more than $91,500 on the way to earning that degree, and in 2009 the figure was more than $100,000, according to the nonprofit Equal Justice Works. Combine that with leftover undergraduate debt and the shrinking job market, and you realize the immense pressure contract attorneys are under. If you’re a recent law school grad, student loan repayment plans are set around December 1st. If you’re like most of the May 2009 law graduates you are also either deferred, unemployed, or working for barely a decent wage at a contract attorney position
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Options for Managing Law School Student Loan Debt
On Thursday, November 19th, Exterro will Web-cast a one-hour panel presentation of e-discovery experts who will “show why project management is the key to success for every e-discovery undertaking by deconstructing the electronic discovery reference model from a new perspective: Integrated project management.” The Web-cast, titled “A Simplified Approach to E-discovery Workflow” is scheduled to start at 10:15 a.m. USA-Pacific Standard Time.
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Nov 19th: free webcast from Exterro “Why Project Management is the Key to Success for Every E-discovery Undertaking”
Since so many Posse List members (contract attorneys, law firms, computer forensics specialists, etc.) are working on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) matters we thought the most recent bi-annual Shearman & Sterling FCPA report would be of interest. The report provides current and comprehensive information on U.S. foreign bribery proceedings including criminal prosecutions, DOJ foreign bribery civil actions, SEC actions, DOJ opinion releases, ongoing FCPA investigations, pre-FCPA prosecutions and parallel litigation related to the FCPA. For a link to the report click here .
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FCPA Report Shows Companies Shelling Out to Avoid Prosecution
Sybase 365 is working with The Western Union Company, to enable the money transfer specialist to engage with its consumers via SMS-based notifications and mobile marketing campaigns. Sybase 365 delivers text messages to Western Union loyalty card members who send money transfers from nine countries worldwide, including the UK, Belgium, Denmark, France, Gabon, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia and Sweden. The notifications are available in the senders' preferred language French.
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Sybase 365 in Money Messaging Deployment
Mogreet, which offers a mobile video messaging platform, has launched the Mogreet Mobile Video Marketing Platform. Mogreet says the platform can deliver short-format videos to more than 200 million US mobile devices, while measuring the effectiveness and ROI of each campaign in real-time. The company adds that its clients routinely experience open rates, video views and clickthrough rates 15 to 25 times higher than other forms of advertising media.
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Mogreet Unveils Mobile Video Marketing Platform
Sybase 365 has released a mobile banking application for the iPhone, which is available to financial institutions worldwide through the Sybase mBanking 365 platform. The company says that the app serves as a turnkey mobile banking solution for financial institutions, allowing them to quickly and easily roll-out full-service banking capabilities to their customers, with Sybase 365 managing the infrastructure. Sybase 365 has also announced BBVA Compass as one of the first adopters of the app.
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Sybase 365 Launches iPhone Banking app
Catalyst Repository Systems announced that its inaugural Certified Reviewer Training, recently held in Washington DC, was so overrun with registrations that the company added two additional sessions in attempt to meet the demand. “We were thrilled with the enthusiastic response,” said Patty Daly, Catalyst’s Director of Training. “After the first round of sessions filled up, we decided to add two more trainings and those filled just as quickly
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Catalyst’s Certified Reviewer Training Program Oversubscribed
The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has announced the launch of MMA Turkiye, headed by two elected co-Chairs: Sukru Dincer, ALGiDA Marketing Director at Unilever, the first brand marketer to be elected as a local council co-Chair; and Elvin Altun, Mobile Marketing Project Manager at Turkcell. The objective of the local council is to foster the burgeoning mobile marketing industry in Turkey through local participation from industry stakeholders, driving the early integration of global standards and industry guidelines across the mobile channel in the country and providing a powerful platform for knowledge sharing
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MMA Launches Turkish Arm
Orange has launched its first UK exclusive iPhone app, Orange Wednesdays. The app brings the popular Orange Wednesdays cinema experience to the iPhone and iPod touch, combining the latest film reviews and trailers with up to date info on what's on, where films are showing, information on how to get there, and the ability to redeem the 2-for-1 Orange Wednesdays cinema voucher on an Orange iPhone, when it launches in a week’s time. The Orange Wednesdays App is available to download for free from the Apple App Store
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Orange Launches Oranges Wednesdays App
The GSM Association (GSMA) has unveiled a European Mobile Manifesto, which sets out how the mobile industry will help achieve key European Union objectives to boost economic performance, improve efficiencies, protect consumers and increase the use of green technology. To do this, the mobile industry has undertaken to work more closely with governments, education and health authorities and technology manufacturers. The mobile industry is also calling upon the EU to provide a number measures to support the initiative.
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GSMA Unveils Mobile Manifesto
An excellent program for contract attorneys, law firms and in-house counsel. Catalyst’s consulting team will share best practices on how to find potentially-privileged documents, defensible ways to maintain privilege, and techniques to reduce the time and expenses associated with privilege review. The presentation will include: * Creating queries to find attorney names, email addresses and firm names
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Nov 6th at 12pm EST: free webinar “Protecting Privileged Documents” (presented by Catalyst)
Amit Gupta, Co-founder and Head of Business Development of mobile ad network InMobi, pays homage to the power, and advertising potential, of mobile applications Mobile applications are a fast growing area in the mobile ecosystem, and are a hot topic in most industry forums these days. Due to their unique format and captive audience, they offer a huge potential for mobile marketing and advertising. In fact, it has become one of the preferred modes of mobile advertising for many brands and agencies for a lot of reasons.
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In Praise of Apps
Comverse has revealed that Vodafone Portugal, which has more than five million mobile phone users, has become the country’s first operator to offer visual voicemail for the iPhone. Vodafone Portugal began offering Comverse Visual Voicemail on the iPhone earlier this year. Instead of dialing in to retrieve voice messages, users can see information about each voice message, such as the sender, time of call and duration, in a message inbox on their mobile phone, and then click and listen to messages in any order
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Voda Portugal Rolls Out Comverse Visual Voicemail
Orange has launched a £4 million advertising campaign to raise awareness of its 3G network, which currently covers over 93% of the UK population – more than any other network. The campaign, created by Fallon, will run in print and outdoors until mid-December, appearing across train stations, buses, digital panels, in airports and shopping malls. The campaign uses conversational language and is designed to make people feel as if the ad is talking directly to them.
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Orange Launches £4m 3G Coverage Campaign
Yahoo! and O2 Germany have launched an exclusive, multi-year mobile search partnership, with Yahoo! providing the search services on O2’s mobile portals, displacing Google as its search partner of choice. Additionally, as part of the deal, O2’s portals will include links to some of Yahoo!’s most popular mobile properties, including Yahoo!’s new mobile homepage, Yahoo! Mail, News, Weather and Finance. Yahoo! will also provide sponsored search advertising as part of the mobile search experience
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O2 Germany Selects Yahoo! for Mobile Search
The GSM Association (GSMA) has announced its shortlist of 43 nominees for the Asia Mobile Awards 2009, as well as five finalists for the Asia-Pacific leg of this year’s Mobile Innovation Grand Prix competition. Winners for both the Asia Mobile Awards and the Mobile Innovation Grand Prix – APAC Tournament will be presented at the forthcoming GSMA Mobile Asia Congress, which is taking place in Hong Kong, China on 18-19 November
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Asia Mobile Awards Shortlist Revealed
The team behind Mobile Monday London, Swedish Beers Mobile Networking, Future of Mobile, Over The Air, Mobile 2.0 and Tech Media Invest, have announced the launch of a new event taking place in London on 7 December, Heroes of the Mobile Screen. The organizers say that the day-long event at BFI Southbank will differ from anything else around and get the stakeholders of mobile involved in discussing the issues affecting them and their customers. Uniquely, the event will also include secondary school pupils, college students and other members of the same generation, who have been invited to tell the industry what they want from their mobile, what they expect from their network operators and what’s most important to them in terms of their mobile life..
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Mobile Heroes Head for London
As last week’s sessions at ACC Boston ( click here ) certainly stressed — stress being the operative word — in-house legal departments have been forced to cut their budgets just like their “sisters”, the law firms. But with a greatly increased workload. And it is due not just to the increase in litigation/investigations but because of regulatory/compliance issues. As one GC told us, “we have more and more regulatory/compliance issues and we are seeing far more regulatory inquiries than in prior years … and we simply cannot cover it all.
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ACC Boston: law department technology wrap up — reducing costs and increasing the control over all that data (Part 1)
The recap of the first four of the six formal presentations we covered you can find by clicking here . In this Part 2 we cover: the personal liabilty of a general counsel; DOJ/SEC enforcement efforts in 2009 1. Don’t Prosecute the General Counsel The panel consisted of Peter Anderson (partner at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan), Kirk Forrest (Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary Minerals Technologies Inc.), William Jacobson (Chief Compliance Officer at Weatherford International LTD), Kevin M.
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ACC Boston: notes on some of the substantive presentations (Part 2)
An important Trend Micro paper, spotlighting a cybercriminal hub operating out of Estonia, has surfaced on Slashdot. The racket here is that a seemingly legitimate Internet Service Provider is in reality the headquarters for a rogue network, which extends into Europe and the United States. The breadth of the deception outlined in the paper is scary; doubly so because cybercrime is emerging as the single biggest security threat of the next decade
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Trend Micro Rips Lid Off Estonian Cybercrime Hub
Oil and gas giant BP has picked both Infosys and Tata to develop and maintain applications across BP’s sprawling global operations on six continents in more than 100 countries. While carefully worded press releases from each company featured prominent and mostly consistent comments from BP CIO Dana Deasy, the fine print suggests that Tata won the larger opportunity.
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Infosys, Tata Sign Big Deals With BP; Advantage To Tata?
Umpqua Bank, an $8.8 billion (£5.4 billion) community bank headquartered in Roseburg, Oregon, and a subsidiary of Umpqua Holdings Corporation, has selected Fiserv’s Mobile Money solution to enable its customers to manage their finances using their mobile device. Mobile Money is tightly integrated into the Fiserv online banking and bill pay services already used by Umpqua, which will allow the bank to easily extend these applications to the mobile channel. Customerswill be able to use the solution for balance enquiries, transaction history, account transfers, bill payments, a variety of account alerts, and an ATM and branch locater.
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Community Bank Selects Mobile Money Solution
Ebook community Wattpad has announced the availability of its mobile application on Nokia’s Ovi Store. Wattpad says its app is the world’s most widely used mobile ebook application. Wattpad has consistently been one of the top ebook applications since its debut on Apple’s App Store, and has also proved popular with Blackberry users since its launch on BlackBerry App World. With the launch on Ovi, Wattpad notes that it is the only mobile ebook application that has a significant presence on all major application stores
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Wattpad Launches on Ovi
The Board of the Next Generation Mobile Network (NGMN) Alliance is to issue a public Request for Information (RFI) on LTE Patent Pool Administration. The NGMN Alliance is conducting the RFI in order to gather information on potential LTE patent pools for NGMN partners. The RFI on LTE Patent Pool Administration will be published on the NGMN website (www.ngmn.org) on 3 September, 2009. Prior to this, all prospective patent pool administrators, that have or have not yet issued a call for LTE patents, are invited to participate in the NGMN RFI process and to indicate their interest until 2 September, to rfi@ngmn.org After receipt of responses, each prospective patent pool administrator answering the RFI will also be invited to present its envisaged role in the LTE eco-system to NGMN partner representatives from 14 – 15 October in Vienna, Austria. “This RFI will continue the successful IPR activities conducted by NGMN in the past two years and will bring more transparency in the next generation mobile eco-system about envisaged patent pool activities,” says NGMN Operating Officer, Peter Meissner
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NGMN Issues Patent Pool RFI
The International Legal Technology Association, or ILTA, is currently holding their annual conference in Washington, DC, at the Gaylord Hotel and Conference Center, on the PG side of the Wilson Bridge. For those subscribers to The Posse List who are in litigation support and live near Washington DC today (August 26th) is the best day for you at ILTA ‘09. And, yes, you can get a one-day pass for this impressive conference being held at the new Gaylord Hotel and Conference Center. Look at the following educational offerings in the area of litigation support that ILTA ‘09 offers on Wednesday
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ILTA09 in D.C. : today (August 26th) is the best day to go
Business Logic Systems, which delivers customer intelligence, marketing automation and customer loyalty solutions for mobile network operators, says it has helped Australian mobile operator, Telstra, increase recharge rates and treble campaign productivity. By automating the campaign process using InTelestage Campaign Manager, Telstra was able to save costs by minimising the number of people required to implement a campaign, and significantly reduce the time taken to launch promotions. Telstra implemented InTelestage Campaign Management to combat the challenge of communicating effectively with pre-pay customers, who are not required to provide any personal information upon joining the network. The solution enables operators to run fully-automated, targeted, two-way SMS marketing campaigns from the desktop. Telstra ran an initial campaign aimed at rewarding profitable customer behaviours, in the form of a 10% bonus every time they recharged Aus$30 (£15) or more. The solution responds to pre-set criteria and responds by immediately sending a text message that thanks the customer for their recharge and confirms the bonus. According to Business Logic Systems, the InTelestage Campaign Management solution was so successful in driving up recharges that Telstra has opted not to run any TV ads, and now simply communicates with pre-pay customers via targeted SMS campaigns. By automating the entire campaign process, Telstra was also able to significantly reduce costs and the time required to implement a campaign, driving up productivity. “It’s amazing how quickly and easily we can create new campaigns” says Telstra’s Anne Baker
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Telstra in Logical Move
Heck, we all say dumb things—even some really dumb things—from time to time. But imagine my surprise when, researching the hugely positive impact HP’s acquisition of EDS has had, I came across this headline from Computerworld’s “Cyber Cynic” in his I-hate-everybody analysis of the deal 15 months ago: “HP buys EDS: You fools! You fools!”
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Great Moments In IT Analysis: Computerworld Blogger Called HP ‘Fools’ For Buying EDS