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Understanding foreign language document reviews Monday, July 27th, 2009
At this past April’s International Legal Support Leaders Conference (ILSLC) in Washington, DC, a seminar was devoted to the foreign language component of e-discovery and document review hosted by John Tredennick, an attorney and founder and CEO of Catalyst Repository Systems. He expounded on the “how tos” of these reviews. As he pointed out, the common reference point is Unicode – the buzz word on the lips of every e-discovery provider and in seemingly every press release of every litigation software and service provider
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Understanding foreign language document reviews
Blyk is closing down its MVNO operation in the UK at the end of August. The company’s 200,000 subscribers will have their SIM cards deactivated on 26 August, with an Orange -branded ad-funded service, operated in partnership with Blyk, launching early the same month. The operatpr-branded service should, in theory, stand a much greater chancenof achieving the level of reach demanded by brand advertiosers that Blyk never manged to achieve “Orange has enjoyed a close working relationship with Blyk since it first entered the market in 2007,” says Marc Overton, VP of Wholesale, Business Development & Partnerships at Orange UK.
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Blyk Consumer Brand Goes as Orange Takes Over
Bubble Motion, which specialises in next-generation voice messaging, has secured $6 million (£3.65 million) in funding from new investor Palomar Ventures and existing investors Sequoia Capital and Comcast Interactive Capital. As part of the new investment, Al Snyder, CEO at Aepona, and Amanda Reed of Palomar Ventures, have joined the company’s Board of Directors. The company says that both announcements will support aggressive expansion of its product portfolio and its international subscriber footprint. “We have been fortunate to see phenomenal viral traffic growth with our portfolio of messaging services,” says Bubble Motion President and CEO, Tom Clayton. “And that traffic growth over the past year led to a tremendous amount of investor interest. We were very pleased to have this round be oversubscribed, with our existing investors fully participating. Even though we already had a strong balance sheet, we felt that it made sense to have some additional capital for strategic acquisitions and R&D investments to accelerate our growth.” Snyder brings 30 years of expertise in telecommunications and IT to the Bubble Motion Board. As CEO of Aepona, he has strengthened the company’s North American and European presence.
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Bubble Motion Secures Funds
NeoMedia Europe has announced further deals in the Philippines, through its relationship with local mobile solutions company, Omniprime Marketing. NeoMedia says it aims to increase its presence in the Philippines, a country that boasts the highest per capita usage for text messaging in the world, via an exclusive deal with the country’s port operator in the Batangas Port, where it is running a pilot program, which will replace paper tickets for people embarking vessels in the port with mobile tickets sent directly to people’s phones. Once the pilot programe is complete, the system will be rolled out to other ports in the Philippines.
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NeoMedia Launches Philippine Solutions
The practice of law firms marking up the cost of contract lawyers has been around for ages. See some of our previous posts about the subject: a great analysis by Carolyn Elefant by clicking here and further analysis by clicking here . This week there was an article rocketing around the internet which was written by Cardozo Law Professor Lester Brickman and published in this week’s Forbes magazine. We posted it on The Posse List Twitter account (we post items of interest to the Posse List community several times a day and you can see our feed in the right-hand column or click here ). You can access the Brickman article by clicking here . He summarizes the litigation process and then the use of contract attorneys in the e-discovery process and states: “As part of this process, each document is coded as to document type, author, recipients, date, subject and other bibliographical data and put into a searchable data base. The coding is largely done electronically by data processors or paralegals
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The Marking Up of Contract Lawyer Costs
Blyk, has unveiled Vodafone as its exclusive partner in the Netherlands. The partnership will bring the Blyk brand and media model to the Netherlands and it is aligned to both companies’ strategies for growth and leadership in mobile advertising. Blyk co-founder and CEO, Pekka Ala-Pietilä, says the partnership with Vodafone is part of a global strategy to bring scale and speed to its operations, while continuing to provide an innovative and valuable proposition for both consumers and advertisers. “Together with Vodafone, we intend to build a game changing engagement media in the Dutch market,” says Ala-Pietilä. “Our relationship will include a co-development of the consumer proposition for the Netherlands and audience management
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Blyk Goes Dutch with Vodafone
Hats off to research firm mobileSQUARED for a fantastic mobile Guildford (moGU) event this evening. I don’t want to name-drop, but in the course of around three hours I’ve met a mobile start-up planning a sort of cross-network Blyk; discussed the merits of Flight of the Conchords; put a face to the name of at least three PRs; discovered more about one man’s attempt to tap into the booming Chinese and Indian mobile markets; heard about another's near-death experience on a motorbike; and secured another Guest Column from one our best contributors, who’s going to reveal all about the joys of ad-sponsored SMS in the next couple of weeks
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Square Deal
A report issued by Vodafone, in collaboration with Accenture, concludes that mobile technology could cut Europe’s annual energy bill by at least €43 billion (£37 billion) and effect a reduction in annual greenhouse gas emissions by at least 113Mt CO2e by 2020. This represents 18% of the UK’s annual CO2e output in 2008 and approximately 2.4% of expected EU emissions in 2020. The report notes, however, thart this opportunity can only be realised if industry and governments collaborate
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Mobile Tech Can Cut Energy Costs, says Voda
Tapjoy has announced a new version of its public Tapjoy SDK, a comprehensive suite of tools and services designed to help mobile developers improve their applications, grow their user base and make them more profitable. The latest version of the platform includes Pinch Analytics measurement software from Pinch Media, which provides iPhone app developers with the insight to make more informed decisions on how best to improve and enhance their applications
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Tapjoy Updates SDK with Analytics Solution
Mobile social network itsmy.com has launched a series if updates for the summer, including social gaming, easy handling of multiple social presences, and what it calls “sophisticated self-expression”. All are available on any mobile browser at m.itsmy.com Games include the BeeGame and Graffiti, in which players tag their friends’ mobile profile pages with their personal texts. The personal mobile profile pages of itsmy.com members can now be decorated with ‘mood sets’ which offer graphics, animations, colours and music as well as animated online buttons, to tell the world how you feel. Users can also choose fomr thousands of virtual gift to send each toehr
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itsmy.com Launches Summer Updates
E-discovery guru Mary Mack, Corporate Technology Counsel for Fios Inc., has a free ebook for you to download. The book is titled A Process of Illumination: The Practical Guide to Electronic Discovery. In this updated version, author Mary Mack does a masterful job of organizing, sharing, and explaining key information related to the expanding field of expertise we all know as “electronic discovery”. Her examples, checklists, and references provide quick and concise “snapshots” of electronic discovery centric “perishable knowledge” (i.e.
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Free e-discovery book — A Process of Illumination: The Practical Guide to Electronic Discovery
This week’s “”Top 10+1″ electronic discovery articles from Orange Technologies. How To E-Discover Someone In the Age of Twitter http://tinyurl.com/nt3kr8 The Intelligence Behind Email Patterns – http://tinyurl.com/kq4gjp The Trouble With Discovery of ESI Abroad – http://tinyurl.com/nsd4z3 A Closer Look at California E-Discovery Law – http://is.gd/1HNtk Four Steps to Reducing the Cost of Compliance – http://tinyurl.com/lf42nd Software that spots hidden networks – Electronic ties that bind – http://tinyurl.com/kwww8z How to Reduce Electronic Discovery Costs Part II: Document Retention Policies and Information Management – http://tinyurl.com/mce3yq How to Reduce Electronic Discovery Costs Part III: Early Case Assessment – http://tinyurl.com/lkoemk The Critical Role of Preservation in Electronic Discovery – ESIBytes Podcast with David Ries http://www.esibytes.com/?p=228 Analysis of the Legality of Downloading in Canada http://is.gd/1jNEt Comparing Comprehensive Solutions vs.
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July 22nd: Orange Technologies Weekly “Top 10+1″ E-Discovery articles
WIN plc has announced a partnership with mobile game and application provider Digital Chocolate to deliver high quality mobile games in the UK using a simple text Shortcode. During July and August the Shortcode will feature in an ad campaign in gaming and puzzle magazines including Puzzle Corner Special, Sudoku Puzzles and Kriss Kross, enabling readers to download mobile games, such as Sudoku and Pictoplay, by texting the Shortcode number. “We are delighted to work with a strong mobile partner such as WIN plc to deliver our mobile games to our customers,” says Digital Chocolate Sales Director, UK and ROI, Rob Stevenson.
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WIN Makes Mobile Games Move
When it comes to open sourced content management platforms and their creators, there’s no question about the celebrity status that WordPress and its young founder Matt Mullenweg have ascended to. If offered an opportunity to interview Mullenweg about some news, I’d undoubtedly jump on it. But when I was offered the chance to do the same with Dries Buytaert, my initial response was “Dries who?” Once I realized “Dries, the creator of Drupal,” I didn’t hesitate (podcast below).
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Matt Mullenweg And Dries Buytaert Probably Separated At Birth
Vodafone is offering its customers free access to Facebook on their mobile, or on their computer using Vodafone mobile broadband, for a week, starting this Friday, 24 July. The move is part of Vodafone UK’s Free Friday series, which launched with Free Mobile Internet in May to mark the start of a flat daily rate of 50p to browse the mobile Internet, and continued with Free Music Friday in June, when Vodafone became the first mobile operator in the UK to launch DRM-free music. Connecting to Facebook on a computer or laptop using Vodafone’s mobile broadband service will also be free. Customers who use their mobile will not pay any data charges when they look at their Facebook account. Browsing other sites will be chargeable at Vodafone’s standard rate of 50p per day for pay-as-you-go customers, and customers without data bundles.
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Voda Offers Free Facebook – For a Week
Social media hub ShoZu and mobile print-on-demand service Touchnote have announced a partnership that gives users of ShoZu’s iPhone mobile application a fast, convenient way to print any photo and have it mailed to anywhere in the world in 24 hours. Under the terms of the agreement, all users of the iPhone mobile app will have access to Touchnote’s service to mail personalised postcards to anywhere in the world directly from the ShoZu application
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Shozu and Touchnote Sign Print-on-demand Deal
Mobile commerce and communications enabler Netsize has launched Smart Application Billing, a global billing solution for application stores. Netsize Smart Application Billing enables app stores to use operator-based billing to charge for application downloads and usage, and permits charging from the mobile application itself. The solution combines three operator-based billing methods: Direct Operator Billing (where an installed application on a mobile handset initiates a billing transaction via Netsize directly to the user’s mobile operator); Premium SMS Messaging; and WAP Billing
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Netsize Unveils Smart Application Billing
This week’s big UC news, of course, is the announcement that Avaya is bidding $475 million to acquire Nortel Enterprise Solutions out of bankruptcy. You can follow all the latest news on No Jitter ; but there’s another couple of No Jitter posts, not directly related to Nortel, that I want to call your attention to. These have to do with purported interest on the part of Silver Lake partners, the private equity firm that owns Avaya, in potentially acquiring Tandberg, the video solutions company (Sulkin here ; me here )
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How Big Will Avaya Go?
Mobile Commerce, which provides mobile search and location services, has announced the launch of its Monetised Search service, which has previously been available only in the UK, across the United States. Mobile Commerce says its Monetised Search service offers a white-label solution that gives the publisher control and flexibility over how they want to deliver the search experience to their users, including integration with their own on-portal search results. The service delivers advertiser listings and natural search results which are all optimised for the mobile Internet. There are no costs to the publisher for using the service, and they earn revenue when an advertiser listing is clicked.
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Mobile Commerce Announces US Launch
Mobile phone subscribers at Australian telco Telstra can now get all their messages, including voicemail, picture messaging, text messaging, email and multimedia communications, in one secure, integrated mailbox accessible from both their mobile handset and computer. With its launch of Comverse HUB Converged Messaging (locally branded MyConnect), Telstra has become the first operator on the continent to offer a converged web-based messaging inbox containing all mobile, landline and email messages
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Telstra Rolls Out Converged Messaging
Following the launch by BT, 3 and moneysupermarket.com of the 'Terminate the Rate' campaign, which aims to bring down arbitrary mobile termination rates (MTRs), new moneysupermarket.com research reveals that MTRs cost consumers almost £1 billion a year (see footnote), yet 9 in 10 have never heard of them, even though they can account for as much as 80% of the cost per minute of a call from a home phone line to a mobile, or from a mobile to another mobile on a different network. When respondents were informed that MTRs are charged at 4.7p or more for each minute, despite the actual costs being less than a penny, 9 out of 10 people thought they represented an unfair hidden charge.
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MTRs Cost £1bn a year, says moneysupermarket.com
The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) is staging a regulatory workshop in London tomorrow (Tuesday 21 July). Among the participants will be PhonepayPlus, which will be seeking industry input and feedback on the pre-consultation discussion paper for its 12th Code. The UK’s phone-paid services regulator is asking for substantive comments by 1 August, although the discussion will be ongoing, as the formal consultation will not kick off until the Autumn. Following MEF’s workshops on the CAP/BCAP Code and Ofcom Scope Review, the session will be hosted by international law firm and MEF member Denton Wilde Sapte and is open to all MEF members.
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Workshop Considers PhonepayPlus Code
There is an expanding need for temporary attorneys across Europe as many European companies and law firms have been adopting the use of temporary workers on a wider basis, as well as many U.S. companies and law firms which have applied the known U.S. model to their European operations. Much of this is attributable to the use of blocking statutes and the impact of European privacy laws (for explanations click here ). Most projects are more appropriate for attorneys based in Europe or U.S. attorneys that have a “home base” in one of the busier markets (see paragraph 10 below). These projects are often suitable for sole practioners based in Europe (many are special projects seeking EU law expertise) as well as stagiaires who have done a stint with any of the EU institutions The first preference is always EU-based/EU admitted attorneys with multi-language ability
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The European Posse List and Working in Europe
The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career July 23, 2009 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Rocket Matter is hosting a free internet marketing webinar by Ari Kaplan, renowned author and speaker on legal business development. We have heard Ari speak and we have read his book. It is well worth your while to attend the webinar. Program Description: While the economy is faltering, those who focus on creating and building genuine relationships will strengthen their potential for career and business development. Learn how to stand out in today’s stagnant economy from the author of the Amazon.com bestseller, The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career Through Creative Networking and Business Development . The New York Law Journal described it as “a must-have treasure box of marketing ideas.” This program will provide proven strategies to help you: * Create Career and Business Opportunities * Expand Your Network * Raise Your Profile Online * Harness the Power of Social Media * Build Stronger Relationships Ari Kaplan is a nationally-recognized speaker and the author of the Amazon.com bestseller, The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career Through Creative Networking and Business Development (Thomson-West, 2008). He practiced law with large firms in New York City for nearly 9 years and has been recognized on CNN, as well as in the Miami Herald, the New York Post, the ABA Journal, Above the Law, the National Jurist, the Chicago Lawyer, GP Solo, the California Recorder and other publications.
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July 23: Free webinar – Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career : How to stand out
We have launched the Asia-Pacific Posse List which will include our Asia job listserv (to get on the Asian-Pacific job list click here ) and this page. Our focus will be the legal markets in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore but we will include other Asian locations as they develop. This page is sponsored by our strategic partner in Asia, CCH Workflow Solutions. You can learn more about CCH Workflow Solutions in some articles we have linked at the top of this column as well as by clicking their logo in the upper right hand corner of this page.
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The Asia-Pacific Posse List and Working in Asia
Ken Denman, CEO of Openwave, looks at what the industry can do to cope with the imminent tsunami of data as Smartphones and other mobile devices grow in popularity After years of talk about mobile data services, the day has finally arrived where demand is close to matching the hype. Instead of figuring out how to entice users to adopt new applications and services, the main issue at hand is how to deal with the imminent tidal waves of data usage heading to operators' networks. In the last two years, we’ve seen Smartphones move to the mainstream, and we can expect continued uptake, along with the development of other mobile devices such as netbooks and PC dongles. According to Strategy Analytics, by 2011, the amount of mobile data traffic will increase nearly fourfold from its current levels.
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Sink or Swim
There has been much discussion recently about the emerging litigation support profession. The profession has evolved over the last 10 years right along with the growth of electronic discovery. Estimates indicate that there are over 10,000 litigation support professionals (LSP) in the U.S. They operate at the intersection of law and technology, helping to steward ESI through processing, analysis, review and production. You will also find litigation support professionals increasingly involved in earlier phases of the e-discovery process, such as identification, preservation, collection and discovery conference preparation. And many of these positions are held by Posse List members/contract attorneys who have moved full-time and part-time into the field.
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The Rise of the Litigation Support Professional