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Skype pushes out Windows update following massive login glitch • The Register

May 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Skype has published an update that provides an easy way for users to log back into the system following a software glitch that resulted in the VoIP service hanging up on users on Thursday.

The resulting flood of traffic from confused users also floored Skype’s website. The VoIP firm, acquired by Microsoft for an eye-popping $8.5bn earlier this month, issued a detailed bulletin explaining how users could log back into the service soon after the outage.

This multi-step process involved deleting a file called “shared.xml” that had become corrupted as a result of the problem, a process even Skype admits is “fairly technical”. Windows users can now avoid fiddling around with their system by applying an automated update, published late on Thursday. An update for Mac users is promised over forthcoming days. Linux users will have to tweak their systems for themselves.

Skype on mobiles, TVs or other device was immune from the glitch, the precise cause of which remains unclear. Previous outages involving Skype have also gone unexplained, a shortcoming that hardly builds confidence in the service.

via Skype pushes out Windows update following massive login glitch • The Register.

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Gartner Releases First Magic Quadrant for E-Discovery Industry

May 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment

This Magic Quadrant for e-Discovery aims to help CIOs, general counsel, IT professionals, attorneys, compliance staff and legal service providers understand the dynamics and landscape of the market for e-Discovery software.

 

To be included in this Magic Quadrant, a vendor must sell enterprise software licenses, a software appliance, or SaaS conforming to Gartner’s definition of SaaS. As well, vendors must also address at least one of three broad functional areas, relating to the EDRM, that Gartner chose to reflect the overlapping wants and needs of e-Discovery users, including left and right sides of the EDRM model, and information management. Vendors with end-to-end EDRM processes are also included.

Generally speaking, each qualifying vendor was evaluated for a plethora of offerings. From customer experience to sales and pricing to product service and track record, the results are plotted across quadrants, where the x-axis represent the completeness of the vision, while the y-axis represents an ability to execute. In the end, vendors fit into four personas: Challengers, Leaders, Visionaries and Niche Players.

via Gartner Releases First Magic Quadrant for E-Discovery Industry.

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KnowledgeTree Takes on Box.net for Mobile Content Management

May 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment

If you think Box.net is the only cloud-based document management provider with a handle on mobile, it’s time to think again. KnowledgeTree (news, site) has just announced their foray into mobile document management with a new Android app.

Going Mobile with your Documents

KnowledgeTree is a mid-market provider of cloud-based document management. Its solution is about managing the processes around documents and a bit of lightweight contract management and records management thrown in for good measure. And like its competitor, Box.net, it’s very collaboration focused.

Today, KnowledgeTree has launched a new Android application to support an organization’s document management processes anywhere, anytime. Organize, edit, sync and manage your documents from your secure KnowledgeTree vault and associated processes all from the comfort of your Android phone.

 

Included in the mobile apps is a secure vault for disconnected usage. This vault is encrypted and requires passcodes.

via KnowledgeTree Takes on Box.net for Mobile Content Management.

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E-Discovery, Special Masters, and Soaring Costs – Ben Kerschberg – Law & Technology – Forbes

May 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Expensive third-party vendor e-Discovery costs cannot necessarily be recovered by the prevailing party. And assessing complex e-Discovery won’t necessarily justify a Special Master to review it.

In Race Tires America, Inc. v. Hoosier Racing Tire Corp. (W.D. Pa. 2011), the plaintiff, a division of Specialty Tires of America, Inc (“STA”) asked the district court to appoint a Special Master to “address the technical issues regarding the types of e-discovery fees claimed by [the] defendants . . . and the reasonableness and necessity [thereof].” The court denied STA’s motion, stating that such an appointment would be warranted only by “some exceptional condition” (emphasis in original) and that

[t]he only “special expertise” required . . . is an understanding that e-discovery has become a necessary and sometimes costly function of civil litigation.

In this case, both sides had considered the possible extent of their proposed e-Discovery and were “significantly involved in orchestrating” and submitting a joint e-Discovery Case Management Order, which the court adopted.

The court explicitly noted that appointing a Special Master in cases involving e-Discovery may be appropriate “under some circumstances,” but then only “at the beginning of the discovery process, not post-discovery during cost assessment.” (emphasis added).

via E-Discovery, Special Masters, and Soaring Costs – Ben Kerschberg – Law & Technology – Forbes.

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PODCAST: Global E-discovery Rules and Challenges | Legal Talk Network

May 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Interested in e-discovery rules across the globe? On this May edition of The ESI Report, host Kelly Kubacki, Staff Attorney in the Legal Technologies division at Kroll Ontrack welcomes Mark Surguy, Partner with Eversheds International and Tracey Stretton, Legal Consultant at Kroll Ontrack U.K., to explore electronic discovery rules, procedures and important developments from around the world. In the Bits & Bytes Legal Analysis segment, Ben Kirk, Kroll Ontrack Legal Correspondent, takes a look at In re Facebook PPC Advertising Litigation.

via Global E-discovery Rules and Challenges | Legal Talk Network.

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Microsoft Set to Show Off Windows for Tablets Next Week | PCWorld

May 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Microsoft may essentially have been first to the market with the modern tablet computer, but Redmond has seen any advantage there erased by a failure on the software side. Windows just isn’t meant for the touchscreen world. No doubt the company is eager to change that, and is said to be set to debut its tablet operating system shortly, sources say.

Bloomberg reports that Microsoft would preview the platform in a set of demonstrations next week. The first comes at Walter Mossberg’s All Things Digital D9 conference in California, followed by another overseas at the Computex show in Tapei. This would confirm reporting in March that indicated Microsoft was close to being ready to show off its work.

The tablet devices would run on NVidia’s Tegra chip, which is intended for use in tablet devices. Nvidia says the dual-core chips are ideal for such small devices due to their low power consumption and integrated graphics processor.

While Redmond is taking the wraps off the tabletized Windows now, it’s likely that the actual release will not come until March, Bloomberg says. It’s pretty likely that the tablet platform would be built upon Windows 8, which may suggest that the desktop version of the software could be released around the same time.

via Microsoft Set to Show Off Windows for Tablets Next Week | PCWorld.

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Lawmakers Question AT&T Acquisition of T-Mobile | PCWorld Business Center

May 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment

AT&T’s proposed acquisition of rival mobile carrier T-Mobile USA would give customers fewer choices and drive up prices, some U.S. lawmakers said Thursday.

Several members of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee’s competition subcommittee questioned during a hearing whether the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission should allow the US$39 billion deal to happen. “I see absolutely no redeeming reason for this merger to go through,” said Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, the senior Democrat on the full committee.

The merger could cost many jobs at the two companies and could lead to higher prices for mobile plans, Conyers said. “Normally, at antitrust hearings, we get the promises that there won’t be losses of jobs and they won’t raise the rates,” he said. “The thing I like about these witnesses is, they don’t even promise that. I thank you for your evasiveness on this issue.”

Conyers was talking to Randall Stephenson, chairman and CEO of AT&T, and Rene Obermann, CEO of Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile’s parent company. Stephenson and Obermann both told the subcommittee the acquisition would allow AT&T to roll out mobile broadband service faster across the country.

The merger would help AT&T deal with growing spectrum crunch, Stephenson said. The acquisition of T-Mobile’s cell towers would equal eight years of tower-building activities in San Francisco and Los Angeles, he said.

via Lawmakers Question AT&T Acquisition of T-Mobile | PCWorld Business Center.

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Tenaris to Pay $9 Million Over US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Violations | Latin American Herald Tribune

May 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Tenaris S.A., a publicly traded corporation headquartered in Luxembourg, has agreed to pay a $3.5 million penalty for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and has entered into a non-prosecution agreement with the Department of Justice, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer for the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.

Tenaris, a global manufacturer and supplier of steel pipe products and related services to the oil and gas industry throughout the world, admitted that its employees and agents offered and made improper payments to officials of OJSC O’ztashqineftgaz (OAO), an Uzbekistan state-controlled oil and gas production company, and failed to record such payments accurately in Tenaris’s books and records.

In connection with four public bids to provide oilfield pipe and related services for energy extraction and transportation projects, Tenaris retained an agent to obtain competitors’ bid information, which Tenaris then used to secretly submit revised bids to its advantage.

Tenaris agreed to pay the agent 3.5% of the value of four separate contracts, while being aware or substantially certain that the agent would pay all or a portion of the money to one or more OAO employees.

According to the agreement, Tenaris voluntarily disclosed this conduct to the department in a timely and complete manner, conducted an internal investigation, provided thorough, real-time cooperation to the department and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and undertook extensive remediation, including voluntary enhancements to its compliance program.

via Latin American Herald Tribune – Tenaris to Pay $9 Million Over US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Violations.

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Exterro’s Fusion Zeta Brings Data Management into the EDRM Process

May 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Manage and Execute e-Discovery

With the addition of Fusion Zeta, Exterro’s suite of applications manages the e-discovery process, as well as executes all e-discovery activities. Fusion’s open Integration Hub now connects with common ESI data sources such as Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint while leveraging investments in IT infrastructure and other EDRM tools.

Zeta’s core functionalities include:

In-Place Early Case Assessment (ECA):

Users can scan and analyze data sources prior to collection

Users can develop scenarios with cost estimates for meet-and-confer preparation

Preservation, Culling and Collection:

Includes one-click collections from Exterro Legal Hold, Discovery Workflow, Collection Management or Zeta itself

Offers provision for manual and incremental collections

Users can create chain of custody reports and audit logs for defensibility

Analysis and In-House Review

Users have new search options that can pull relevant documents and cull unrelated or privileged information

Includes user-defined document labels for classification purposes

Users can implement email and social network analysis with powerful visualization tools

Fusion Zeta strikes the right balance between powerful technology and legal efficacy, making it accessible and useful for legal teams, while making it reasonable for IT to implement. The combination of cost estimation, custodian scoping and early evidence review delivers productive tools that organizations need.

 

via Exterro’s Fusion Zeta Brings Data Management into the EDRM Process.

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Twitter Sends E-mail Notifications for Retweets & Favorites

May 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

 

 

Twitter (news, site) has made it easier to obsess over personal stats by sending e-mail notifications to users who’ve been retweeted by someone they follow, or when someone favorites one of their tweets.

These new features are optional and turned off by default. To activate them, just hit up the Notifications tab in your Settings panel like so (if you don’t see them yet just hold tight — they’re rolling out to everyone over the next couple of days):

via Twitter Sends E-mail Notifications for Retweets & Favorites.

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