RT @complexd: Market Research: 88% of FTSE 100 Companies at Risk of Litigation – http://tinyurl.com/39ujvnm
RT @complexd: Market Research: 88% of FTSE 100 Companies at Risk of Litigation – http://tinyurl.com/39ujvnm
October 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Corporations go gaga over Android – Computerworld
September 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Corporations are jumping on the Google smartphone bandwagon, with Android device growth outpacing Apple’s iPhone 20-fold in the last three months, a market researcher said today.
An August survey of over 1,600 corporate IT buyers conducted by ChangeWave Research found that 16% of those polled said their firms were using Android-based smartphones. That’s a six-point jump since May, representing a 60% increase in three months.
During the same period, the number of IT purchasers who said that their companies used Apple’s iPhone climbed one point to 31%, an increase of just over 3%.
Research in Motion continues to be the most popular smartphone manufacturer in corporate circles, said Paul Carton, who heads the research side at ChangeWave. BlackBerry devices are present in 66% of the surveyed companies. That’s a drop of three points and a slide of 4% since May.
1-in-5 U.S. consumers plan to buy Apple’s iPad – Computerworld
May 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Positive press and word of mouth from very satisfied owners has convinced one-in-five U.S. consumers to buy an Apple iPad, a survey published today said.
In a poll of nearly 3,400 consumers, ChangeWave Research found that 7% are “very likely,” and 13% “somewhat likely” to buy an iPad at some point. Those numbers, noted Paul Carton, ChangeWave’s research director, are significantly higher than the 4% and 9% who answered the same way in a February survey taken after Apple CEO Steve Jobs had unveiled the media tablet, but before it went on sale in early April.
While 19% of those who plan to purchase an iPad said that they would do so in the next 90 days, the majority of consumers who want an Apple tablet will buy one in six months or more. And that has to make Apple happy this holiday season.
“Apple’s going to have an iPad holiday,” said Carton. “We’ll see a holiday spending wave on the iPad.”
Of the consumers who said they plan to buy an iPad, 24% said they would do so in 6 to 12 months, with another 24% saying they would pull the buying trigger in 12 to 24 months.
via 1-in-5 U.S. consumers plan to buy Apple’s iPad – Computerworld.
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EFF: Forget cookies, your browser has fingerprints – Computerworld
May 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Even without cookies, popular browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox give Web sites enough information to get a unique picture of their visitors about 94 percent of the time, according to research compiled over the past few months by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The research puts a quantitative assessment on something that security gurus have known about for years, said Peter Eckersley, the EFF senior staff technologist who did the research. He found that configuration information — data on the type of browser, operating system, plugins, and even fonts installed can be compiled by Web sites to create a unique portrait of most visitors.
This means that most Internet users are a lot less anonymous than they believe, Eckersley said. “Even if you turn off cookies and you use a proxy to hide your IP address, you could still be tracked,” he said.
The data doesn’t actually identify the Web user, but it creates a unique browser “fingerprint,” that can be used to identify the user when he visits other Web sites.
Using JavaScript, Web sites are able to probe PCs and learn a lot. No single piece of data is enough to identify the visitor on its own, but when it’s all strung together — browser version, language, operating system, time zone details — a clearer picture emerges. Some things — what combination of plugins and fonts are installed, for example — can be a dead giveaway.
And using the private mode offered by some browser-makers does nothing to stop this analysis. “They provide you with some protection against other people who may be in your house or who have access to your computer, but they haven’t got to the point where they’ve provided protection against the companies that are profiling Web users,” Eckersley said.
In fact, there are already a handful of companies have already started offering this kind of cookie-less Web tracking to help e-commerce sites identify fraudsters. Companies such as 41st Parameter, ThreatMetrix, and Iovation are widely used in the banking, e-commerce and social Web sites.
via EFF: Forget cookies, your browser has fingerprints – Computerworld.
Whoops! Google says mistakenly got wireless data | Reuters
May 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Google Inc said its fleet of cars responsible for photographing streets around the world have for several years accidentally collected personal information that consumers send over wireless networks.
The company said on Friday that it is currently in touch with regulators in several countries, including the United States, Germany, France, Brazil and Hong Kong, about how to dispose of the data, which Google said it never used.
“It’s now clear that we have been mistakenly collecting samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected) WiFi networks,” Google Senior VP of Engineering and Research Alan Eustace said in a post on Google’s official blog on Friday.
Google, the world's largest Internet search engine, did not specify what kind of data it collected, but a security expert said that email content and passwords for many users, as well as general Web surfing activity, could easily have been caught in Google’s dragnet.
“The bottom line is a lot of personal content is definitely available in open WiFi hotspots,” said Steve Gibson, the president of Internet security services firm Gibson Research Corp.
via Whoops! Google says mistakenly got wireless data | Reuters.
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New York State Unified Court System Report Makes Recommendations for Improved Handling of E-Discovery : Electronic Discovery Law
April 1, 2010 By
In New York, Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman and Chief Administrative Judge Ann Pfau released a report recommending improvements for how electronic discovery is handled in New York State Courts. The report, based on “extensive research and interviews with experts in electronic discovery”, addresses the problems of electronic discovery, including cost and delay, and provides several recommendations on how “the courts can manage e-discovery in a more expert, efficient and cost-effective manner within the framework of existing law.”
Full Report: http://www.nycourts.gov/courts/comdiv/PDFs/E-DiscoveryReport.pdf
The Securities-Fraud Tide Is Rising – Law Blog – WSJ
March 24, 2010 By
Cornerstone Research today released its annual report on securities-fraud class action settlements. Shareholders last year pocketed $3.8 billion in settlements, a 35% increase over 2008. Not a bad haul, huh?
“We anticipate that as cases brought in conjunction with the 2008 stock market decline and surrounding credit-crisis issues are resolved, settlements are likely to continue to increase both in number and value,” Laura Simmons, a professor at the William & Mary’s Mason School of Business and a Cornerstone advisor, said in a statement.
Law.com – LegalTech New York: That’s a Wrap
February 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
LegalTech New York felt like a user conference this year. Although the messages sent from vendors were mixed, a number of threads appeared that set the tone for the show and marked a direction for the new year: full speed ahead.
Consumers of online legal research received long-awaited news. Both LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters dramatically changed the way users interface with legal research tools. What took them so long? Technology has finally caught up with the way users search for legal information and where they would like to be when they find it.
End users are accustomed to using intuitive search interfaces that accept natural-language queries and return relevant results in a prioritized list with the most relevant document on top. You can call that Bing-like or Google-like, but you will soon call it WestSearch, which uses assets such as the Key Number System, KeyCite, secondary sources, and headnotes, as well as transactional data, e.g., whether other users have printed or saved a document to a folder.
LexisNexis teamed with Microsoft to put legal research into the tools legal professionals use every day. Lexis for Microsoft lets you engage legal research tasks within Microsoft Outlook, Word, and SharePoint Server. According to Brian Zeve, managing director of Microsoft's Professional Services Industry, the technology was not there before. Now Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010, along with SharePoint 2010, can be used as development platforms to incorporate LexisNexis legal research tools into the applications attorneys use every day.
Robust Legal Research on Your iPhone
January 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
“May you live in interesting times,” says an ancient Chinese curse. In the world of legal research, these are interesting times indeed. Westlaw and LexisNexis are both preparing to launch major reconfigurations of their research platforms. Bloomberg Law is jockeying to take them on. Efforts to put all legal research materials in the public domain continue to gain momentum. And even 800-pound gorilla Google is getting into the game.
While those various efforts involve bigger, better and more research on the Web, one legal research service, Fastcase, is about to launch a robust legal research tool you can carry wherever you go. Fastcase has developed an app that allows full case law and statutory research on an iPhone. Even better, not only is the app free, but so is the research.
via Legal Blog Watch.
New research highlights financial benefits of legal process outsourcing- Legalweek
January 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
New research produced by PricewaterhouseCoopers has highlighted the growth of legal process outsourcing (LPO) services in the wake of the economic downturn.
The study, which canvassed 514 outsourcing service providers in 50 countries around the world, identified legal services outsourcing as providing the highest cost savings – 44% – in comparison to other markets.
The research also revealed that LPO services realise the highest profit margin for providers, with an average margin of 29%, ahead of IT (24%), finance and accounting (21%) and procurement (19%).
Meanwhile, 82% of LPO providers that responded to the survey are planning to expand the scale of their existing services over the next two to three years, while 11% of all respondents said that they intend to provide legal services for the first time during the next 18-36 months.
PwC managing director Charles Aird commented: “The economic benefits of legal services outsourcing are undeniable; it provides the highest profit margins for services providers and as well as the highest cost savings for companies. The emergence of available outsourced legal services and the impact of the economic conditions have changed the perception of the legal industry, once regarded as too sensitive to be outsourced.”
Last year LPO services took centre stage as a number of major law firms considered adopting some aspects of outsourcing, including Linklaters, SJ Berwin, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and CMS Cameron McKenna.
Research carried out by Legal Week late last year identified eight firms within the UK top 30 that already carry out some form of LPO, including Allen & Overy, Eversheds, Lovells, Pinsent Masons, Wragge & Co and Simmons & Simmons.
via New research highlights financial benefits of legal process outsourcing- Legalweek.
