http://gigaom.com/2010/03/27/harbinger-lte-network/
PE Firm Plans Open LTE Network to Challenge AT&T and Verizon
By Stacey Higginbotham Mar. 27, 2010, 7:33pm PDT
A New York private equity firm plans to build a multibillion-dollar 4G wireless network that will cover most of the country by 2015. The ambitious plan by Harbinger Capital Partners relies on deploying a Long Term Evolution network over spectrum owned by a few satellite companies — and would create an open wholesale wireless network available to retail companies, PC manufacturers or anyone who wants to offer mobile broadband.
Who makes the laws in this country?
http://www.docuticker.com/?p=33790
Washington Lobbyists Cash in on Health Reform
… About 1,750 businesses and organizations hired about 4,525 lobbyists, total — eight for each member of Congress — and spent at least $1.2 billion to influence health care bills and other issues, according to a Center analysis of disclosure documents that included “health reform” or similar wording.
The Geeky Lawyer Show?
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/023874.html
March 28, 2010
New on LLRX.com: Getting Educated at LegalTech New York 2010
Getting Educated at LegalTech New York 2010: Conrad J. Jacoby provides an overview of the New York LegalTech show and conference, long one of the preeminent opportunities to catch a glimpse of the future of legal technology. Conrad highlights how the conference provides a surprisingly accurate snapshot of litigation support, electronic discovery, and even the health of the legal industry as a whole.
[From the article:
So what are some of the more interesting things I picked up at LegalTech this year? Here are a few that come to mind.
Clients are getting even more serious about taking direct charge of e-discovery projects to save costs and to reduce business disruption.
Hosted litigation support platforms continue to take market share from local-based litigation support software. [i.e. Cloud Computing Bob]
The phrase "Early Case Assessment" continues to be overused and under-defined.
Outsourced document review remains on the cusp of wide-spread adoption.
This is interesting. Perhaps my wife is correct when she says more that half of the world is below average – assuming they are the ones who keep repeating the same search over and over.
Microsoft Lost Search War By Ignoring the Long Tail
Posted by Soulskill on Sunday March 28, @09:20AM
Art3x writes
"When developing search engine technology, Microsoft focused on returning good results for popular queries but ignored the minor ones. 'It turned out the long tail was much more important,' said Bing's Yusuf Mehdi. 'One-third of queries that show up on Bing, it's the first time we've ever seen that query.' Yet the long tail is what makes most of Google's money. Microsoft is so far behind now that they won't crush Google, but they hope to live side by side, with Bing specializing in transactions like plane tickets, said Bing Director Stefan Weitz."
(Related) In this case, the description is “good enough,” which also translates as: “We can sell it and probably won't get sued much.” Let's hope this doesn't occur in the proposed Electronic Health Records systems.
The Economics of Perfect Software
Posted by Soulskill on Sunday March 28, @01:40PM
An anonymous reader writes
"This article takes the interesting perspective that leaving bugs in software is good — little ones, at least. This quote is particularly insightful: 'How do you know whether a bug is big or little? Think about who's going to hit it, and how mad they'll be when they do. If a user who goes through three levels of menus, opens an advanced configuration window, checks three checkboxes, and hits the 'A' key gets a weird error message for his trouble, that's a little bug. It's buried deep, and when the user hits it, he says 'huh,' clicks a button, and then goes on his merry way. If your program crashes on launch for a common setup, though, that's a big bug. Lots of people will hit it, and they will all be pissed. ... The cost of fixing all the bugs in your program and then being sure you fixed them all is way too high compared to the cost of having a few users hit some bugs they won't care about."
Again, there is an indication that ethical companies make more money. Could it be that highly profitable companies can afford to spend money on ethics training? (If so, there are some big names missing from this list.)
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/023863.html
March 27, 2010
2010 World’s Most Ethical Companies
Ethisphere: "The World’s Most Ethical Companies designation recognizes companies that truly go beyond making statements about doing business “ethically” and translate those words into action. WME honorees demonstrate real and sustained ethical leadership within their industries, putting into real business practice the Institute’s credo of “Good. Smart. Business. Profit.” There is no set number of companies that make the list each year. Rather, the World’s Most Ethical Company designation is awarded to those companies that have leading ethics and compliance programs, particularly as compared to their industry peers. This year, there are 100 World’s Most Ethical Companies. Of these companies, 26 are new to the list in 2010 and 24 companies dropped off from the 2009 list. These “drop offs” generally occurred because of litigation and ethics violations, as well as increased competition from within their industry."
For my Computer Security students.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/192666/6_steps_to_protect_your_facebook_privacy.html
6 Steps to Protect Your Facebook Privacy
For example, you can limit your search results to RSS feeds or to Videos, etc.
http://www.killerstartups.com/Search/yimmiy-com-search-the-web-in-an-indexed-way
Yimmiy.com - Search The Web In An Indexed Way
Yimmiy is a brand-new search tool. It doesn’t necessarily provide a radically different experience from what we are used to expect from sites like Google or Bing, but it is practical in its very own way.
Essentially, the site will enable you to carry a search for any kind of data, and have the results indexed by color for easier reference. That is, you have to check the relevant box from the ones reading “Web”, “Images”, “Videos”, “News”, “RSS” and “18+” and each of these categories has a color associated to it by default. The results will consequently be indexed for easier reference.
The above means that on this site you will be able to sift through search results in a different way – I don’t know if calling it a “better” search engine is warranted. Probably not.
I love lists, and occasionally I find something worth while...
http://www.elearners.com/online-education-awards/
125 Educational Sites Ranked in 25 Categories
Because you never know when you might need a quote from “Young Frankenstein”
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/bnwmovies-classic-old-movies
Bnwmovies: Watch Classic Old Movies Online
If you are a fan of the classic black and white movies, then you should check out Black And White Movies. This website has a large collection classic old movies from the 1920’s up to the 1970’s. Movies are categorized into different genres such as Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, War, and more. You can also view movies alphabetically by letter.
Similar Tools: BMovies, Watch-Movies and Movski.
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