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RIM Faces Class Action Lawsuit Thanks To BlackBerry Outage | TechCrunch

October 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Sorry RIM, but it looks like the promise of free apps and tech support weren’t enough to assuage the masses. According to the Financial Post, RIM is preparing to deal with a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of users affected by the recent worldwide service outage.

Filed in Quebec Superior Court by the Consumer Law Group, the complaint seeks compensation for all of RIM’s customers that “were unable to access their email, BlackBerry Messenger service (BBM), and/or Internet for the period of October 11 to 14, 2011.” RIM hasn’t received the complaint yet, but company representatives have said that the company will “formally respond” to the matter soon.

The lawsuit’s lead complainant was an avid user who used his BlackBerry to communicate with his friends across the western hemisphere. According to the formula laid out in the complaint, he will only be able to collect $1.25 in damages from RIM — not much, but the payouts could quickly add up if the lawsuit picks up steam. The amount of damages owed is calculated on a person by person basis, and accounts for how long a customer was left without service, so some users will net more than others.

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Will Android, Ubuntu Help Save HP’s TouchPad?

August 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The TouchPad iteration of HP’s (and formerly Palm’s) webOS is now considered DoA, despite showing promise in terms of hardware and software capability. After all, who would want to buy a device that doesn’t have a bright future in terms of official support and developer ecosystem? But recent developments in the smartphone and tablet hacking scene might just be the magic bullet that HP’s TouchPad needs.

Developers responsible for the custom CyanogenMod custom Android implementation are working on porting Google’s Android operating system to the TouchPad. Another team is working on porting Ubuntu Linux to the same hardware. Once either of these launches, the TouchPad would become more valuable than its current $99 street price. After all, $99 gets you an Android device running on high-end hardware. This certainly opens up possibilities, particularly when you compare the size of the webOS ecosystem (a few thousand apps) to Android’s (about half a million).

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Study: Lawyer Sanctions Over Electronic Discovery on the Rise – Law Blog – WSJ

January 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Oh, electronic discovery.*

You were supposed to make life so much easier for everyone. Yes, you were expensive, what with your vendors charging fortunes-per-terabyte. But the promise was so high: No more conference rooms with boxes of documents (pictured). No more page-by-page document reviews for associates. No more tedious needle-in-the-haystack searches for relevant words and phrases.

And because you would make discovery so efficient, there’d be no more missed deadlines, no more mistakes, no more sanctions.

From all accounts, electronic discovery is accomplishing a lot of this. But according to a new study done by King & Spalding and reported in the Duke Law Journal, lawyers are getting sanctioned for electronic-discovery violations at an unprecedented rate. Click here for the study; here for the ABA Journal article report; here for a report from the Catalyst E-Discovery Blog.

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Germany to keep close eye on Google Street View | Reuters

August 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The German government said on Wednesday it will scrutinize Google’s promise to respect privacy requests by letting people opt out of its “Street View” mapping system and that it would be ready to intervene if necessary.

In a country wary of surveillance due to the Nazis’ Gestapo and East Germany’s Stasi secret police, the response to Street View has been overwhelmingly negative even though Germans got assurances they can have images of their homes kept out.

Google’s announcement on Tuesday that it would allow Germans to stay out of Street View failed to allay fears that privacy would be compromised by the navigation system.

via Germany to keep close eye on Google Street View | Reuters.

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AFP: HP dabbling with Windows 7 tablet computer

July 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday said it is gauging the promise of a tablet computer that runs on Windows 7 software from Microsoft.

The word from the US-based computer giant came as speculation mounted that HP had abandoned a Windows 7 “slate” in favor of a tablet computer based on an operating system from freshly-acquired Palm.

“In reference to a Windows 7-based slate, we are in customer evaluations now and will make a determination soon on the next step,” HP spokeswoman Marlene Somsak told AFP.

Customer evaluations could involve providing a prototype HP slate to businesses to get feedback and learn how they might use it.

via AFP: HP dabbling with Windows 7 tablet computer.

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