News Items
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Google Apps Provides Status Checker
10/04/2011 - 13:28Google provides a chart to check the status of any of its Apps. Color coded dots indicate the current status of each service. Green indicates "no issues." Yellow indicates a "service disruption." Red indicates a "service outage." Clicking a yellow or red dot takes you to a "Service Details" page that outlines the issues surrounding the disruption or outage. Links...
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Press Coverage of Internet For Lawyers
09/28/2011 - 10:37Internet For Lawyers has been teaching lawyers, paralegals, and other legal and business professionals how to effectively conduct investigative and background research on the Internet since 1999. In that time, the company's principals Carole Levitt and Mark Rosch have become recognized experts on these topics. They have been sought out for comment by, and their books...
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Skype Offers Free Landline and Mobile Call to Customers Via E-mail
09/26/2011 - 13:14Skype is offering selected users 30 days of free Skype-to-landline and Skype-to-mobile calls. Check your e-mail for a marketing message from Skype with details. The special offer is only available by clicking the "Claim your free month of calls" button in the e-mail. It is not listed on the Skype Special offers page even after you've logged into your account. Note...
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ProPublica Provides Database of Payments to Physicians by Pharmaceutical Companies
09/09/2011 - 12:50ProPublica, the "independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest," has created a searchable database of payments made by pharmaceutical companies to doctors - usually as compensation for presentations the doctors make that discuss the companies' drugs. While this information is not part of the public record, some...
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Free Federal Rules eBooks Available | Includes Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, and Evidence
09/06/2011 - 11:22(function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })(); Cornell's Legal Information Institute (LII) and the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI...
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Jureeka Browser Plug-in Creates Links to Case Law Citations, Rules, Decision, and Statutes in Web Pages
08/31/2011 - 12:33On August 30, the developer Michael Poulshock announced the release of version 4.0 of his Jureeka Web browser extension for Firefox. Version 4.0 for Chrome will be released in the near future. Jureeka is a free add-on application that you can download and install in your Web browser that automatically recognizes legal citations in Web pages you are reading and...
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Expert Witness Profiler Site Provides Detailed Background Reports on Expert Witnesses
08/18/2011 - 12:13Lawyers and expert witnesses can now obtain extensive background reports on specific expert witnesses from the newly launched Expert Witness Profiler Web site.* The Profiles include detailed information about the expert witnesses' professional, personal, and litigation backgrounds. These Expert Witness Profiles are created by scouring numerous sources, including...
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Google Integrates News Archive Search Into Current News Search, Weakens Archive Search
08/17/2011 - 17:31Back in May, we wrote about Google's cancellation of its News Archive project. At the time, the Boson Phoenix, one of the newspaper partners providing content to the News Archive, reported that the Archive was expected to live on - it's just that no new content would be added to it. While conducting test searches today, we have learned that Google has discontinued...
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G-Mail Plug-in Boomerang Now Available for Mobile
08/09/2011 - 18:13Gmail plug-in Boomerang is now available as a mobile site/app. Boomerang allows you to schedule Gmail messages for delivery in the future. The annoucement was made this afternoon in a blog post by Boomerang's developer Baydin, Inc. We've been big fans of Boomerang's integration into the desktop version of the Gmail inbox. Last month, Boomerang came out of Beta and...
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Google Increases File Size Limit In Google Docs
07/21/2011 - 10:07UPDATED 7/21/11 2:30 PDST: Google has increased the maximum storage space size for files that can be stored for free within Google Docs from 1GB to 10GB. There has been no increase in amount of storage that accompanies the Google Docs accounts however - that amount remains at 1GB. The increased file storage limit is only applicable to users who purchase...