Law Technology

Cloud computing requires savvy
For the London Free Press Read this on Canoe TECHNOLOGY: Storing or sharing personal information on remote computers controlled by others is a common practice fraught with potential problems Cloud computing is touted as the solution to many users’ problems — but is cloud computing itself a problem? Cloud computing is not bad per se...

Cloud Computing - The Next Big Thing
Here is a link to the slides used by Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger (Chairman Emeritus of the IBM Academy of Technology) in his talk entitled Cloud Computing and the Coming IT Cambrian Explosion...

Cloud computing and security
Into the Cloud: Very interesting article on "cloud computing" and the security and privacy issues raised thereby. This is a very live issue, and draws several articles a day on the InfoWeek website.

More on rejection of Dell's proposed cloud computing trademark
See for example USPTO rains on Dell?s app for ?cloud computing? trademark and previous IPBiz post: Notice of Allowance on trademark "cloud computing" revokedDescriptive or generic, take your pick...

Cloud Commons
Creative Commons licensing has been highlighted in a couple prominent discussions of “cloud computing” documents recently. Last week Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz wrote about Sun’s cloud computing strategy: Second, we announced the API’s and file formats for Sun’s Cloud will all be open, delivered under a Creative Commons License...

Amazon offers free cloud computing services to educators
To the extent Westlaw's TWEN and Lexis' Blackboard (along with GoogleDocs, among others) are already forms of cloud computing, I'm not sure whether Amazon's service has any advantages that would cause law profs to forego those in favor of this...

More on Cloud Computing.
It seems like more and more I have been reading about cloud computing and reasons that businesses should fear it. I suppose that this is "natural" since people tend to fear what they don't understand or in the case of...

Dell Receives Notice of Allowance for CLOUD COMPUTING
Wikipedia on Cloud Computing. Word Mark CLOUD COMPUTING Goods and Services: IC 040. Custom manufacture of computer hardware for use in data centers and mega-scale computing environments for others IC 042 Design of computer hardware for use in data centers and mega-scale computing environments for others; customization of computer hardware for use in data centers and mega-scale computing environments for others; design and development of networks for use in data centers and mega-scale computing environments for others; Consulting services for data centers and mega-scale computing environments in the fields of design, selection, implementation, customization and use of computer hardware and software systems for others; Consulting services for data centers and mega-scale computing environments in the fields of design, selection, implementation, customization and use of computer hardware and software systems for others Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK Serial Number 77139082 Filing Date March 23, 2007 Published for Opposition April 15, 2008 Owner (APPLICANT) Dell Inc...

Notice of Allowance on trademark "cloud computing" revoked
The USPTO canceled its "Notice of Allowance" for the trademark "cloud computing" on Tuesday, 5 August 2008.See also 4 Aug 08 IPBiz post: Dell gets "notice of allowance" for trademark on cloud computing

Another Gartner Top 10 Disruptors
The Gartner Group have revealed the top 10 technologies that they believe will change the world over the next four years: 1. Multicore and hybrid processors 2. Virtualization and fabric computing 3...

Princeton Review
Sarasota Student Data Breach Prompts Class Action

The Princeton Reivew
Personal Data Made Public on Tens of Thousands of Florida Students

The Princeton Review
$2.6 million settlement reached in patent infringement case.