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Trial Court Examines Stored Communications Act Applicability to Offline Mobile Phone

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) is a law noted for its complexity, and the second portion of it, the Stored Communications Act (SCA) is no exception. One of the complexities of ECPA as a whole is that its definitions are simultaneously precise and ambiguous. Enea TekSci, Inc. , 2d 1183, 1204 (S.D.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. Icamis and Sal were in daily communications with these botmasters, via the Spamdot forum and private messages. The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a.

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IDEA 2008

ChiefTech

Linguistic User Interfaces – Chris Crawford Wouldn’t it be nice if, instead of digging through nested menus buried inside subpanes of dialogs, we could just talk to our computers in plain language? Sure it would, but computer scientists have long since proven that such “natural language processing&# can’t be done.

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Broadcast or communicate? | ZDNet

Collaboration 2.0

Broadcast or communicate? By Oliver Marks | July 8, 2008, 9:48am PDT Summary When the Czarist autocracy was overthrown in the 1917 Russian revolution, fundamental changes in Russian society under the new political structure occurred. Hot Topics iPhone iPad Enterprise 2.0 Microsoft Office Green tech Smart phones Collaboration 2.0

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IDEA 2008: An Interview with Andrew Hinton

ChiefTech

As IDEA 2008 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. I talked them into getting a computer (a Mac Plus), and buying a database package (something called Double Helix), and letting me build a client accounts system for them. So, really it’s very contextual for me.

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New Class Action Complaint Alleges Privacy Violations by ISP Using NebuAd Device

Hunton Privacy

This action against WOW follows the October 6, 2009, dismissal by a district court in California of similar claims against six out-of-state ISP defendants (including WOW) filed in November 2008 by the same lead plaintiff. The court in Valentine v. NebuAd, Inc. It remains to be seen whether the class will be certified in this case.

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News Alert: Nuvoton underscores its commitment to 8-bit MCU production sustainability

The Last Watchdog

Nuvoton was spun-off as a Winbond Electronics affiliate in July 2008 and went public in September 2010 on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE). About Nuvoton Technology: Nuvoton Technology Corporation (Nuvoton) was founded to bring innovative semiconductor solutions to the market.

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