SharePoint 2010 Beta Available for All to Download

Microsoft has announced the beta release of SharePoint 2010 to the world.

The beta for SharePoint 2010 was first released a couple of days ago to TechNet and MSDN subscribers. Everyone else had to be patient. That wait is over. The SharePoint 2010 beta is available to everyone at the new SharePoint 2010 Website:  http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/Pages/Default.aspx

sa pamamagitan SharePoint 2010 Beta Available for All to Download.

Sa isang Unang, Amerika. Sugo dumadalo International Court Meeting

In The Hague, Olanda, the United States attended a meeting of the International Criminal Court's management board for the first time Wednesday in a sign it has stopped shunning the world's only permanent war crimes tribunal.

The United States has not ratified the court&pagkatapos;s founding treaty, the Rome Statue, partly because of fears the court could become a forum for politically motivated prosecutions of U.S. troops.

patuloySa isang Unang, Amerika. Sugo dumadalo International Court Meeting.

The Continuing Challenges of Preservation, Collection and Exchange « Chris Dale Lawyer Support

The first session at the Thomson Reuters e-Disclosure Conference in London last week was called The Continuing Challenges of Preservation, Collection and Exchange. George Socha’s panel included a solicitor, a software provider and a judge – Matthew Davis of Lovells, Stephen Whetstone of Stratify and HHJ Simon Brown QC.

Judge Brown said that the court is interested in the material, and only the material, needed for a decision. The point at issue in Earles v Barclays Bank Plc [2009] EWHC 2500 (Mercantile) (08 Oktubre 2009), on which he recently gave judgment, was not a difficult one. The judge is the end user of the disclosure process and needs contemporaneous documents. He had been given many documents which were not relevant to the issues which he had to decide, but not the ones which actually mattered. Witness statements drawn up by lawyers are often not worth the paper they are written on relative to the contemporaneous documents, in this case the records of telephone conversations.

Given the state of modern technology, it should not be difficult to find such documents. There was no question of malicious concealment in this case, but if documents were missing then someone was to blame. Although there was no duty to keep documents prior to the threat of litigation, there was a serious risk of an adverse inference if it proved not possible to produce them. A proper search must be put in hand right at the outset.

The issue was not limited to banks or other commercial entities. The Baby P case (where drafts of critical documents were not produced until a new lawyer joined the Council and made a proper search) showed that public bodies similarly need to produce the documents to prove their case.

Continued at The Continuing Challenges of Preservation, Collection and Exchange « Chris Dale Lawyer Support.

Paghahanap ng mga mga batas na namamahala sa amin | Opisyal na Google Blog

Tulad ng marami sa amin pagpapabalik mula sa aming mga aralin simulain ng pagkamamayan sa paaralan, sa Estados Unidos ay isang karaniwang batas ng bansa. Ibig sabihin kapag ang mga hukom isyu opinyon sa legal na mga kaso, sila madalas magtatag ng mga precedents na ang gabay ng mga rulings ng iba pang mga hukom sa mga katulad na kaso at mga saklaw ng. Sa paglipas ng panahon, mga mga legal na opinyon bumuo, pinuhin at linawin ang mga batas na namamahala sa aming lupain. Para sa mga average na mamamayan, gayunman, ito ay mahirap upang mahanap o kahit basahin ang mga palatandaan opinyon na ito. Tingin namin na's a problem: Batas na ka don't malaman tungkol sa, maaari mong't follow-o upang baguhin ang epektibong argumento.

Simula ngayon, kami&pagkatapos;pagpapagana ng mga tao sa lahat ng dako upang mahanap at basahin ang buong teksto ng mga legal na opinyon mula sa US. distrito ng pederal at estado, sa paghahabol at pinakadakila korte gamit ang Google Scholar. Maaari mong mahanap ang mga opinyon sa pamamagitan ng paghahanap para sa mga kaso (tulad ng binalak pagiging magulang v. Casey), o sa pamamagitan ng paksa (tulad desegregasyon) o iba pang mga query na kayo ay interesado sa. Halimbawa, pumunta sa Google Scholar, mag-click sa “Legal na mga opinyon at mga journal” radio button, at subukan na hiwalay na ngunit pantay-pantay ang query ng. Ang iyong mga resulta sa paghahanap ay isama ang mga link sa mga kaso pamilyar sa marami sa amin sa US. tulad ng Plessy v. Ferguson at Brown v. Lupon ng Edukasyon, kung saan galugarin ang acceptablity ng “hiwalay ngunit pantay-pantay na” pasilidad para sa mga mamamayan sa dalawang magkaibang mga puntos sa kasaysayan ng US. Ngunit ang iyong mga resulta ay isama ang mga opinyon mula sa mga kaso na maaari mong hindi gaanong pamilyar sa, ngunit-play ng isang mahalagang papel.

Tingin namin ito karagdagan sa Google Scholar ay magbigay ng kapangyarihan ang average na mamamayan sa pamamagitan ng pagtulong sa lahat matuto nang higit pa tungkol sa mga batas na namamahala sa amin lahat. Upang maunawaan kung paano opinyon ay naiimpluwensyahan ng iba pang mga desisyon, maaari mong galugarin ang nagbabanggit at ang kaugnay na mga kaso gamit ang Binanggit ng at mga kaugnay na mga artikulo link sa mga pahina ng resulta ng paghahanap. Habang ikaw ay basahin ang isang opinyon, maaari mong sundin ang mga citation sa ang mga opinyon na kung saan ito ay tumutukoy. Maaari mo ring makita kung paano ang indibidwal na mga kaso ay quoted o tinalakay sa iba pang mga opinyon at sa mga artikulo mula sa mga journal ng batas. Browse ang mga sa pamamagitan ng pag-click sa “Paano Binanggit” link sa tabi ng pamagat ang kaso. Makita, halimbawa, ang mga madalas na mga citation para sa mga itlog ng isda v. Paglusong, para sa Miranda v. Arisona (ang source ng bantog na babala na Miranda) o para sa Terry v. Ohio (isang kaso na kung saan nakatulong upang maitaguyod ang mga katanggap-tanggap na mga lugar para sa isang mausisa stop sa pamamagitan ng isang opisyal ng pulis).

Bilang namin nagtrabaho upang bumuo ng ang tampok na ito, kami ay struck sa pamamagitan ng kung paano nababasa at mapupuntahan ang mga opinyon na ito ay. Opinyon Court hindi lamang ilarawan ang isang desisyon ngunit din kasalukuyan ang mga dahilan na sumusuporta sa desisyon. Sa paggawa nito, ipaliwanag nila ang mga intricacies ng batas sa konteksto ng mga real-buhay na mga sitwasyon. At sila ay madalas na gawin ito sa wika na ay nakakagulat na tapat, kahit para sa mga na sa amin sa labas ng legal na propesyon. Sa maraming mga kaso, mga hukom ay may nawala pa ng isang bit out ng kanilang mga paraan upang kumplikadong legal na isyu madaling sundin. Halimbawa, saKorematsu v. Estados Unidos, ang kataas-taasang Hukuman justices ay nagpapakita ng kahali-halina at madaling-sundin ang debate sa legalidad ng internment ng mga natural ipinanganak mamamayan batay sa kanilang lipi. At saEstados Unidos v. Ramirez-Lopez, Justice Kozinski, sa kanyang hindi pagsang-ayon, naglalarawan ng key isyu ng kaso gamit ang isang imagined good-news/bad-news dialogue sa pagitan ng Akusado at ang kanyang abogado.

Gusto naming kunin ang pagkakataon na kinikilala ang gawain ng ilang mga pioneers, na nagtrabaho sa ginagawang posible para sa isang average mamamayan sa turuan sarili tungkol sa mga batas ng lupa: Tom Bruce (Cornell LII), Jerry Dupont (LLMC), Graham Greenleaf at Andrew Mowbray (AustLII), Carl Malamud (Public.Resource.Org), Daniel Poulin (Lexum), Tim Stanley (Justia), Joe Ury (BAILII), Tim Wu (AltLaw) at mga marami pang iba. Ito ay isang karangalan upang sundin sa kanilang mga yapak. Gusto rin namin nais na kinikilala ang mga hukom na may built ito katedral ng hustisya ladrilyo sa pamamagitan ng ladrilyo at sinubukan upang gawin itong naa-access sa ang magpahinga ng sa amin. Umaasa kami na Google Scholar ay makakatulong sa lahat sa atin tumayo sa mga balikat ng mga giants.

sa pamamagitan Opisyal na Google Blog: Paghahanap ng mga mga batas na namamahala sa amin.

Case Law sa Paghahanap sa Google Scholar – Et Seq.

Sa kung ano ang tiyak na maging isang maingay na development, Google ay tahimik na idinagdag ng estado at pederal na batas ng kaso at patent na naghahanap sa kanyang serbisyo ng Google Scholar paghahanap. Rin kasama ang Paano Binanggit citator serbisyo.

Ang Google Scholar malugod screen ay nagpapakita ng tatlong bagong mga radio button nagpapahintulot sa iyo na hanapin ang alinman sa Artikulo, Artikulo at Patents o Legal na mga opinyon at Journal. Bizarrely para sa Google, kailangan mong pumili at hindi maaaring maghanap ng lahat ng sabay-sabay. Pumunta sa Google Scholar Masusing Paghahanap (at mag-scroll sa ibaba) sa karagdagang kaso sa limitasyon ng batas paghahanap.

sa pamamagitan Et Seq..

Skype para sa Negosyo tunog ang lahat-malinaw sa mga legal pitfalls – Network World

Businesses that were scared of saving money by using Skype because lawsuits might take away its essential VoIP technology may not have to worry anymore.

Ownership of the company will shift from eBay to include others, but the company will finally own rights to essential code, meaning it won&pagkatapos;t fall victim to having that code stripped away by a judge and stranding customers.

That lifts the main barrier to business use of the VoIP service that has expanded over the years from a peer-to-peer phone application to include services specially crafted for corporate use. “I would be a lot more interested in Skype than I was a week ago,” says Irwin Lazar, an analyst with Nemertes Research.

Just last month, in the midst of litigation that has since been settled, he was advising businesses to stay away, but now it&pagkatapos;s safe to try to reap the cost savings Skype can afford, sabi niya.

sa pamamagitan Skype para sa Negosyo tunog ang lahat-malinaw sa mga legal pitfalls – Network World.

Canon ay nagpasok ng e-pagtuklas arena sa pamamagitan ng pagkuha ng Océ para sa $1.1 bilyon

Japanese imaging giant Canon Inc is set to takeover Europe's largest printer manufacturer, Océ  for approximately €730 million ($1.1 bilyon) in an all-cash deal, aiming to create the world's largest printing entity, benefiting from an excellent complementary fit in product lineup, R&D and business lines.

According to the conditional agreement reached yesterday between both the companies, Canon offered to buy all the outstanding shares of Océ at €8.60 a share, which represents a 70-per cent premium over the closing price on 13 November and 137 per cent above the average price over the past one year. The offer values 100 per cent of the issued and outstanding shares of Océ at around €730 million.

Holders of Océ&pagkatapos;s cumulative preference shares Ducatus NV, ASR Nederland NV and ING AM Insurance Companies BV, with approximately 19 per cent of the total share capital, and another large share holder Bestinver Gestion SA owning about 9.5 per cent have agreed to tender their shares to Cannon.

Further to the takeover news, Océ shares skyrocketed 70 per cent to close at €8.62 yesterday on Amsterdam Stock Exchange, while Canon shares were down 1.5 per cent at ¥3,370 in Tokyo.

Venlo, Netherlands-based Océ is one of the world&pagkatapos;s leading providers of document management and printing solutions by offering office printing and copying systems, high speed digital printers, wide format printing systems for technical documentation and color display graphics as well as related services and supplies. The company has strong presence in Europe and North America and employs about 22,000 mga tao. Its 2008 revenue amounted to $4.3 bilyon.

sa pamamagitan domain-b.com : Canon to acquire Dutch printer maker Océ for $1.1 bilyon.

Ang isang bagong hitsura para sa Google Translate

Ngayon, kami&pagkatapos;nailunsad tatlong bagong tampok na pati na rin ang isang bagong hitsura at pakiramdam para sa Google Translate - isang serbisyo na tumutulong sa impormasyon mga tao ng access sa buong mundo sa pamamagitan ng pagpapagana sa mga ito upang awtomatikong isalin ang teksto at at mga pahina ng web sa kanilang sariling wika. Google Translate nag-aalok ng 51 wika, kumakatawan sa higit sa 98% ng mga gumagamit ng Internet ngayon.

Kasama ang aming makintab bagong layout, ang mga bagong tampok na ito ay dapat na ito mas mabilis at mas madali para sa iyo upang isalin ang teksto sa pagitan ng aming 2550 wika pares:

Isalin agad: Magpaalam sa lumang “Isalin” buton. Ngayon isinasalin ng Google Translate ang iyong teksto na kanan habang nagta-type.

Basahin at isulat ang anumang wika: Gusto sabihin “Ngayon ay isang magandang araw” sa Tsino, ngunit maaari&pagkatapos;mga character ng t basahin Han? I-click ang “Ipakita ang romanization” upang basahin ang mga text na nakasulat phonetically sa Ingles. Sa ngayon, ito ay gumagana para sa lahat ng mga non-Roman wika maliban para sa Hebrew, Arabic at Persian.

Mayroon din kaming isang bagong tampok ng transliteration ng input para sa Arabic, Persian o Hindi. Kung nais mong i-translate mula sa isa sa mga wikang ito, ngunit maaari&pagkatapos;t-type ang mga script sa iyong keyboard, ang aming tampok ng transliteration ng input ay magpapahintulot sa inyo na uri ng mga salita sa kanilang tunog at i-convert ang mga ito sa katutubong script.

sa pamamagitan Opisyal na Google Blog: Ang isang bagong hitsura para sa Google Translate.

Dalawang Kalsada na magkaiba sa Gastos ng E-Discovery

The costs of civil discovery in the computer age appear to be prompting divergent responses by the federal and New York state courts. These differences, which are still evolving, could have significant implications for litigants and lawmakers.

Litigants with a choice of forum should consider these differences in selecting which court system best suits their objectives. And lawmakers should monitor these differences to assess what rules best reconcile the often competing goals of ready access to the civil justice system, full development of the facts relevant to the case, and the efficient, cost-effective resolution of the parties&pagkatapos; pagtatalo.

The costs of electronic discovery are well-known and have received ample coverage throughout this decade, in this publication and others.

The source of these costs is society&pagkatapos;s increasing reliance on the electronic creation, transmission and retention of information, especially in the corporate context. Because information is so easily created, kept and copied, the volume that is available and potentially relevant to a dispute had ballooned geometrically.

While these costs can be somewhat controlled by the creative use of technology and counsel&pagkatapos;s use of sound management principles in managing a document review, there are limits. The application of classic liberal discovery principles can still require the production of hundreds of thousands or even millions of “mga dokumento,” where in the past the same case would have involved discovery into a small fraction of that number.

Retaining and collecting this information is by itself extraordinarily expensive, even when the most efficient methods are employed. And on top of those costs, attorneys still must review the collected material for responsiveness and privilege, which can be prohibitively expensive for even a middle-sized case that is well managed. These costs can be so large that they have recently been blamed for tamping down the usual increase in litigation that accompanies an economic recession.

These increased costs have fundamentally changed the cost-benefit calculus that had informed many of the rules of procedure applicable in civil cases. Lawmakers accordingly have responded by seeking to recalibrate the rules to reflect the new reality.

In the federal system, there have been changes in the rules of discovery and evidence that apply once a case is past the threshold pleading stage, as well as recent changes by the U.S. Supreme Court in the standards that apply even to the commencement of a potentially burdensome action. And in the New York state system, there has been increasing attention to the application of existing discovery rules in the electronic context.

These changes are creating, or at least highlighting, important differences in how the two court systems address the problems of electronic discovery.

Continued at Legal Teknolohiya – Dalawang Kalsada na magkaiba sa Gastos ng E-Discovery.

Swiss to Reveal Tax Man Tactics

Switzerland will unveil the criteria behind the disclosure of 4,450 UBS accounts handed over to U.S. tax officials at a press conference tomorrow, Bloomberg reports.

As part of a late summer settlement between UBS and the U.S. pamahalaan, the Swiss banking giant agreed to hand over the names on those UBS accounts. (UBS paid $780 million in February to settle criminal charges that the bank helped wealthy American clients avoid paying U.S. taxes.)

Swiss officials are expected to reveal the model used by IRS and Justice Department lawyers to suss out overseas tax evaders. The Am Law Daily reported in August that the Justice Department might never release an appendix to its UBS accord detailing the criteria used to select the 4,450 accounts, because it doesn&pagkatapos;t want to tip its hand on disclosure requirements and possibly incentivize individuals not to come forward under an amnesty program.

The amnesty deadline for U.S. citizens to file income tax returns disclosing assets stashed away in offshore tax havens passed on October 15. Swiss authorities withheld details of how UBS accounts were selected so as not to interfere with the IRS&pagkatapos;s voluntary disclosure program, which saw about 7,500 Americans submit filings.

Now the country&pagkatapos;s Justice Ministrymaking more headlines recently for its role in the Roman Polanski casewill announce more intimate details of its arrangement with U.S. regulators. Ayon sa Bloomberg, the criteria will likely be based on a point system that automatically triggered the disclosure of certain accounts.

Like speeders getting pulled over by state troopers on a highway, certain accounts would accrue points based on certain characteristics. Have a million Swiss francs in your local savings bank in lakeside Lucerne? Na&pagkatapos;s a point. Financial arrangements structured as foreign trusts and foundations also are fertile ground for red flags, Bloomberg reports.

The IRS has recently opened new offices in Beijing, Panama City, and Sydney as part of its effort to crackdown on overseas tax havens for U.S. mamamayan. Bloomberg recently reported that Hong Kong has become a target for federal prosecutors keen on determining how the roles financial professionals possibly linked to tax evasion have evolved after the former British colony was returned to China in 1997.

Magbasa nang higit pa:  Swiss to Reveal Tax Man Tactics.