Volume 2 Number 5 May 2009. Rogue (Fake) Anti-Virus Software: How to Spot It & Avoid It!* From the Desk of David Badertscher Your PC May Be Infected! Click here to clean it! Have you seen this advertisement or similar pop-up messages? A free PC scan or an offer to…
We are delighted to see the updated List of Law Library Blogs. It was originally compled by Bonnie Shucha, University of Wisconsin Law School, and has been updated by Michael Robak, University of Illinios College of Law. When viewing this list it is important to note that it contains only…
Amazon has now released Kindle DX, a larger, more versatile veriion of its wireless Kindle ebook device. The new DX version has a larger display and a screen which rotates from portrait to landscape to view Web pages and spreadsheets, etc. Kindle DX and other wireless ebook reading devices certainly…
The U.S. government’s CIO recently appointed by President Obama told Congress this week that obsolete regulations are blocking agencies from serving the people by participating in top Web sites and social media. Regulations governing the use of cookies and — ironically — disclosure laws are keeping government stuck in the…
According to C.G. Lynch’s provocative artice in the CIO Insider Newsletter,Twitter’s growing popularity is exposing a considerable “fraility” of writing among those tweet. He observes that Twitter’s 140 character message format demands concise, engaging writing “and that’s a skill that a lot of people don’t have. To read more of…
BY Philip Y. Blue, Senior Law Librarian New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library In a move that could reshape the library automation landscape, OCLC has expanded WorldCat Locals existing cataloging and discovery tools with new circulation, delivery, and acquisitions features. This new project, which OCLC calls “the first Web-scale,…
http://www.msisac.org/April 2009 Volume 2 Number 4. From the Desk of David Badertscher The use of credit cards to pay for goods and services is a common practice around the world. It enables business to be transacted in a convenient and cost effective manner. However, more than 100 million personally-identifiable, customer…
“A new zero-day remote code execution vulnerability has come to light, this time affecting Microsoft Office PowerPoint. The software giant has issued a security advisory about the potential exploit, which affects older Microsoft Office versions up through Office 2003. The current flagship Office 2007 product is not vulnerable.” For more…
Written by: Ira Winkler March 24, 2009. For the Internet Revolution Blog: “The ‘CSI Effect’ is what people call juror expectations of forensic evidence that unequivocally proves the defendant guilty. Unfortunately, there is now a “Twitter Effect,” where defense attorneys hope for mistrials because jurors just can’t control themselves and…
Stories about popular, exciting topics, often appear almost together , sometimes on the same day. On March 13 two stories published in the InformationWeek Daily Newsletter caught our attention and we wanted to pass them on to our readers: In “The Intruder Story: Man At His Best”, Michael Hickins writes:…