A federal appeals court ruled Friday that government law enforcement agents do not have an unfettered right to install Global Positioning System tracking devices on anyones vehicle without a search warrant. In United States v. Maynard, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected arguments by the government which claimed that 24-hours per day [...]
Apple’s new iPhone 4 may be the most successful product launch, but complaints over its reception have prompted a law firm to solicit impacted users. On Monday the company said it sold more than 1.7 million of the new iPhones in just three days, but problems with the device’s antenna occur when the phone is [...]
It’s been nearly a year now since we started testing Microsoft’s Office 2010, and the question is now that it is time for the retail release, should you upgrade? We looked at the $499.99 Professional edition of Office 2010, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, Access, and OneNote. Home and small-business users will be [...]
For those looking to be the first in line for Apple’s new iPad, your wait is over. Apple announced it will start take pre-orders “online at apple.com at 5:30am Pacific time on Friday, March 12.” The first of Apple’s new tablet computer will be in stores April 3 and only connect to Wi-Fi networks at [...]
Last Tuesday, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, blasted past 300 million dollars in sales on its opening day, become the highest-grossing launch in all entertainment categories, ever.In its first day, the new video game sold 4.7 million copies and racked up 310 million dollars in sales in the United States and Britain alone when [...]
“Friend” requesting colleagues is often harmless and even may be appreciated by other co-workers; but if the boss “friends” their subordinates, employment lawyers say it smacks of liability issues. Bosses who send friend requests via Twitter, Facebook and other social sites is becoming very commonplace, but lawyers say it needs to stop, reports Law.com. Online relationships [...]
An adviser to the European Court of Justice says the use of a competitor’s trademark as a keyword by companies advertising on Google doesn’t violate trademark law, but added they should be liable for their wrongful use. Google is currently in litigation over its AdWords business model in countries including England, France and Germany says [...]
Google is teaming up with New York-based On Demand Books, maker of Espresso Book Machine, a machine that gives another meaning to the term, “hot off the press”. The unit will allow Google Book users to print bound copies of some digitized books about as fast as a barista creating a tall, nonfat, vanilla latte. On Demand Books says [...]
Facebook, Twitter and Blogs used by lawyers and judges have landed them in hot water with legal ethics regulators and judges – the eyes of the world are watching. A lawsuit begins today in Tyler, Texas, lawyer Richard Frenkel, former in-house council for Cisco Systems, is accused of defaming intellectual property litigator Eric Albritton, in anonymous postings on his Patent Troll Tracker blog, [...]
A first of its kind interactive computer game, backed by retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, is being used to help educate middle school students (and anyone else of interest) on the fundamentals of law and the judicial process. The project called Our Courts is designed to use games to teach the students [...]