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Can savior-elect resurrect General Motors?: This General Motors saga has it all: pathos and bathos, tragedy and comeuppance, hubris and ignorance, innocence and foolhardiness. Oh, and it could be the trigger to an even nastier American economy than the one we already expect for next year. Even back in January some GM execs...; Tags: General Motors Corp., Litigation, Business Operations, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-11-22
Worsening economy could actually help Google: Before the recent downturn of the economy, people wondered if Google would be affected negatively by such an incident. It was a valid question, since Google's revenue is almost entirely in the hands of companies advertising spend, and it's easy to speculate about what would happen to those budgets....; Tags: Google Inc., Litigation, Business Operations, Garett Rogers; Blog posts 2008-11-13
Back up your online data. Now.: The dark side of the cloud is bankruptcy. If your cloud provider fails, do you have any back-up copies of your data, and do you have a recovery plan in place? Be ready for those unthinkable, black-swan events that the credit crunch has made more likely. by Phil Wainewright; Tags: Data, Litigation, Business Operations, Phil Wainewright, Provider, Image, Software As A Service (SaaS), Storage, Emerging Technologies, Hardware; Blog posts 2008-11-13
SAP, Waste Management and Lawyers: Trashy behavior? Infoworld's got a real treat in this piece on the SAP/Waste Management litigation. Some of the highlights (and I do mean some not all) include: - Waste Management has produced over 940,000 documents while SAP has delivered over 300,000 ...; Tags: Document, SAP AG, Litigation, Public Relations, Business Operations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Brian Sommer; Blog posts 2008-11-03
Estonian registrar gets a reprieve: ICANN has stayed the termination of Estonian registrar EstDomains, pending a review of the company's response. ICANN terminated the company after the president was convicted of fraud and money laundering. by Richard Koman; Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Litigation, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Human Resources, Richard Koman, Domain Name, Domain Names, Sales Channel, Internet, Sales; Blog posts 2008-10-30

Harvard's Charlie Neeson raises Constitutional questions in RIAA litigation: Harvard's Charlie Neeson raises Constitutional questions in RIAA litigationPoints two and three are dubiousMind you, I tend to take the US Constitution a lot more literally than the US Supreme Court has during my lifetime, but..."Congress has violated the Constitution by putting the prosecution of a criminal statute in the...; Tags: Charlie Neeson, Constitution, Harvard, RIAA, RIAA litigation, U.S. Congress, litigation; Discussion threads 2008-10-29
Harvard's Charlie Nesson raises Constitutional questions in RIAA litigation: In a major development in RIAA litigation, Prof. Charles Neeson of Harvard Law School is charging that the RIAA's tactics are an abuse of federal process and that the law on which the litgation rests -- the Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999 -- is unconstitutional....; Tags: RIAA, Harvard, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance; Blog posts 2008-10-29
Thanks to Google, writers' lives may be even more thankless, unless....: The announcement that Google has settled its book scanning lawsuit with The Author's Guild raises all sorts of hopes for digital use of new and previously published books. But without some radical changes in the publishing industry, the results of the settlement are not going to make it easier to...; Tags: Google Inc., Author, Industry, Pain Point, Litigation, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Business Operations, Finance, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe; Blog posts 2008-10-28
Judge lectures RIAA on their ethics (or lack thereof): Judge admonishes RIAA lawyers: "Counsel representing the record companies have an ethical obligation to fully understand that they are fighting people without lawyers... to understand that the formalities of this are basically bankrupting people, and it's terribly critical that you stop it ..." by Richard Koman; Tags: RIAA, Judge, Lawyer, Ethics, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management, Richard Koman, Record Company, Litigation, Business Operations; Blog posts 2008-10-28
Will Google book settlement solve orphan works?: Google and book authors have settled over Google Book Search. The $125 million settlement will create a fund to pay royalties to authors and, Google, thinks cause orphan works copyright holders to come forward and claim their share. by Richard Koman; Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-10-28
Google settles book scan suit for $125 million: Google and The Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers said Tuesday that they have settled a book scanning lawsuit for $125 million. The agreement ends a two-year class action suit over Google's scanning of in-copyright books and other written property for its Google Book Search. The...; Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, Agreement, Litigation, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-10-28
Identity governance evolves to must-do item on personnel management and IT security checklist: The alternative to guesswork moves IT operators and security officer closer to the level of identity governance, a step above simply granting access and privileges. It means becoming pro-active in managing roles and access across multiple dimensions in a business, across an identity governance lifecycle, for as long as users...; Tags: IT Security, Personnel Management, Information Technology, Identity Governance, Asset Management, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management, Dana Gardner, Access Privilege, Fraud, Business People, Litigation; Blog posts 2008-10-27
Court to Oracle: Offer settlement price in SAP suit: A federal judge has given Oracle until February 13 to provide a specific dollar amount to settle a lawsuit it filed against SAP last year. The suit alleges that TomorrowNow, an SAP subsidiary, illegally accessed Oracle copyright material and has asked for at least $1 billion in damages. ...; Tags: Lawsuit, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Litigation, Business Operations, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-10-21
LFPConverter (zip): LFPConverter lets you create bates ranges from IPRO LFP load files. This application was designed with the litigation support professional in mind. Now you can have begin and end bates as well as begin and end attachments ready for import into a database. The best software money can buy guaranteed.This...; Tags: Software, eDocument Review Software, Tools & Techniques, Litigation, Management, Business Operations; Software downloads 2008-10-21
MergeMaster (zip): MergeMaster is a revolutionary program created specifically to merge data found in plain text files. Created based on years of experience working with plain text files. A user-friendly interface with "point and click" functionality enables even the least technical user to become a professional at merging files. It meets the...; Tags: eDocument Review Software, MergeMaster, Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Litigation, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Business Operations; Software downloads 2008-10-21
Google: Evil or just overworked?: According to some pundits, Google has replaced Microsoft as the leading "evil" empire. As long as Google is top dog in the search market, there's little they can do to avoid the sour grapes from competitors, but with a little effort they could satisfy some of their critics and improve...; Tags: Google Inc., Google AdSense, Fredric Paul, Litigation, Business Operations, Joe Brockmeier; Blog posts 2008-10-20
Report: NJ voting machines easily hacked: A New Jersey judge ordered the release of a report highly critical of the security or lack thereof in 10,000 voting machines that will be used Nov. 4 and ordered increased security at polling places. The report says the machines can be hacked in seven minutes and are susceptible...; Tags: Machine, Security, Richard Koman, New Jersey, Sequoia Voting Systems, Firmware, Litigation, Business Operations; Blog posts 2008-10-20
Loancalc.zip (zip): Loancalc.zip is a free to use all in one calculator. A useful and small application that can be use to calculate full settlement, installment, interest, loan, and body mass index. Full settlement calculator are according to Rule 78. There is a conversion calculator in it too. Version 3 added mass...; Tags: Body, Lovely24k, Loancalc.zip, Litigation, Business Operations; Software downloads 2008-10-16
eBay Halloween Icon Installer (msi): Automatically Installs an eBay Icon to your desktop so that you don't have to type, providing instant access to ebay.com in a single click. Prevent fraud by using the eBay Icon to insure that you are shopping at ebay.com and not a fraudulent site. Using eBay Icons Installers by Iconomize...; Tags: eBay Inc., Iconomize, Identity Theft, Desktops, Litigation, Security, Hardware, Business Operations; Software downloads 2008-10-15
Microsoft shows interest in WaMu bankruptcy over software agreements: When Microsoft filed a "notice of appearance" in the Washington Mutual bankruptcy proceedings - which is basically a request to be kept updated on developments of the case - and then initially declined to comment about its interest in the case, the speculation began. (Silicon Alley Insider wondered if Microsoft...; Tags: Software, Washington Mutual Inc., Enterprise Software, Agreement, Microsoft Corp., Bankruptcy, Times, Litigation, Business Operations, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-10-08