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What the Internet of 2025 Might Look Like
March 29, 2014
David Clark, senior research scientist at MIT: “Devices will more and more have their own patterns of communication, their own ‘social networks,’ which they use to share and aggregate information, and undertake automatic control and activation. More and more, humans will be in a world in which decisions are being made by an active set of cooperating devices. The Internet (and computer-mediated communication in general) will become more pervasive but less explicit and visible. It will, to some...
March 29, 2014
David Clark, senior research scientist at MIT: “Devices will more and more have their own patterns of communication, their own ‘social networks,’ which they use to share and aggregate information, and undertake automatic control and activation. More and more, humans will be in a world in which decisions are being made by an active set of cooperating devices. The Internet (and computer-mediated communication in general) will become more pervasive but less explicit and visible. It will, to some...
Jury Orders Google Must Pay $85 Million in Patent Infringement Claim
March 28, 2014
It was an expensive day—perhaps even an expensive week—for Google Inc. last Thursday. A federal jury decided that the search engine giant owes $85 million in damages to SimpleAir for infringing on their patent, according to a recent statement. The trial and the separate damage ruling were both presided over by Judge Rodney Gilstrap for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. “The jury understood that Google profits tremendously from its infringing use of our invention...
March 28, 2014
It was an expensive day—perhaps even an expensive week—for Google Inc. last Thursday. A federal jury decided that the search engine giant owes $85 million in damages to SimpleAir for infringing on their patent, according to a recent statement. The trial and the separate damage ruling were both presided over by Judge Rodney Gilstrap for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. “The jury understood that Google profits tremendously from its infringing use of our invention...
Researchers Use Electricity to Stimulate Troops’ Brains
March 27, 2014
Tired troops may get a jolt out of a late-night caffeine boost, but researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory say they may have found a better way to fight fatigue. A mild electric stimulation has proven in a research study of about 175 volunteers to be more effective for longer times than caffeine, said R. Andy McKinley, a 711th Human Performance Wing biomedical engineer in the Human Effectiveness Directorate. “We found this really helps keep your attention on task,” McKinley said.
March 27, 2014
Tired troops may get a jolt out of a late-night caffeine boost, but researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory say they may have found a better way to fight fatigue. A mild electric stimulation has proven in a research study of about 175 volunteers to be more effective for longer times than caffeine, said R. Andy McKinley, a 711th Human Performance Wing biomedical engineer in the Human Effectiveness Directorate. “We found this really helps keep your attention on task,” McKinley said.
Neota Logic and SeyfarthLean Introduce Crowdfunding Software
March 26, 2014
Neota Logic Inc., the legal process application platform provider, has teamed up with SeyfarthLean Consulting, a subsidiary of Seyfarth Shaw, to launch Disclosure Dragon software for crowdfunding, according to a statement. The software has been developed on the Neota Logic Server to assist companies and crowdfunding portals with the legal and financial disclosure required for offerings under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012. In September, the JOBS Act changed a rule to allow private...
March 26, 2014
Neota Logic Inc., the legal process application platform provider, has teamed up with SeyfarthLean Consulting, a subsidiary of Seyfarth Shaw, to launch Disclosure Dragon software for crowdfunding, according to a statement. The software has been developed on the Neota Logic Server to assist companies and crowdfunding portals with the legal and financial disclosure required for offerings under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012. In September, the JOBS Act changed a rule to allow private...
At Harvard Law, Talk of Disruptive Innovation
March 26, 2014
"What if every lawyer worked at the same level of best practices? If technology could capture those best practices and help lawyers understand all this information, you would have fundamental change," he said. "This won't replace humans, it will augment them." Suh similarly characterized his company as a disruptive innovator. "Did we simplify a complex problem? Absolutely." Before LegalZoom, 70 percent of Americans did not have a will, he noted. Now, it is down to 50 percent. "More Americans are being...
March 26, 2014
"What if every lawyer worked at the same level of best practices? If technology could capture those best practices and help lawyers understand all this information, you would have fundamental change," he said. "This won't replace humans, it will augment them." Suh similarly characterized his company as a disruptive innovator. "Did we simplify a complex problem? Absolutely." Before LegalZoom, 70 percent of Americans did not have a will, he noted. Now, it is down to 50 percent. "More Americans are being...
Basis Goes To Intel For Around $100M
March 25, 2014
Intel has won the Basis auction, we’re hearing, at a price of around $100 million, according to one source. A second source pegs the deal at closer to $150 million. Basis makes wristwatch health trackers, capturing 7 percent of the market versus competitor Jawbone’s 21 percent. As Intel was all about the wearables this year at CES, we’re assuming that this buy is an attempt to further its foothold (wristhold?) in the space. Intel made a lot of noise with its own reference designs...
March 25, 2014
Intel has won the Basis auction, we’re hearing, at a price of around $100 million, according to one source. A second source pegs the deal at closer to $150 million. Basis makes wristwatch health trackers, capturing 7 percent of the market versus competitor Jawbone’s 21 percent. As Intel was all about the wearables this year at CES, we’re assuming that this buy is an attempt to further its foothold (wristhold?) in the space. Intel made a lot of noise with its own reference designs...
The Time I Became a Google Apps Referral Partner
March 23, 2014
One of Google’s newest pushes to bring everyone into to “the fold,” is to set up a MLM-like scheme where Apps users harass their friends and family until the acquiesce to join Google Apps. Almost. Actually, what Google’s doing is offering a referral partnerships for current Google Apps users, with the hope they’ll refer their friends, family, and colleagues over to the awesome Google Apps for Business ecosystem. Thus, if you’re thinking about Google Apps (and why shouldn’t...
March 23, 2014
One of Google’s newest pushes to bring everyone into to “the fold,” is to set up a MLM-like scheme where Apps users harass their friends and family until the acquiesce to join Google Apps. Almost. Actually, what Google’s doing is offering a referral partnerships for current Google Apps users, with the hope they’ll refer their friends, family, and colleagues over to the awesome Google Apps for Business ecosystem. Thus, if you’re thinking about Google Apps (and why shouldn’t...
FINRA Issues Warning on Bitcoin and Digital Currency
March 23, 2014
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority issued an investor alert this week about the risks of buying and speculating...
March 23, 2014
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority issued an investor alert this week about the risks of buying and speculating...
UMich Law Student Makes Case Brief App
March 23, 2014
Necessity, and occasionally tedious tasks, can be the mothers of invention. In an entry onLawSites, attorney Robert Ambrogi says the latter led a third-year law student at the University of Michigan Law School to invent an iPad app that automates the creation of case briefs. According to Ambrogi, David Lutz was looking to simplify the process of printing out case PDFs, annotating them and then typing the information into the brief. So he came up with BriefCase. He says the app allows you to annotate...
March 23, 2014
Necessity, and occasionally tedious tasks, can be the mothers of invention. In an entry onLawSites, attorney Robert Ambrogi says the latter led a third-year law student at the University of Michigan Law School to invent an iPad app that automates the creation of case briefs. According to Ambrogi, David Lutz was looking to simplify the process of printing out case PDFs, annotating them and then typing the information into the brief. So he came up with BriefCase. He says the app allows you to annotate...
Even You Can Be Replaced by a Robot
March 22, 2014
There’s no question that the Internet has transformed the workplace, but according to a report by attorneys at Littler Mendelson, there’s another game-changer in the works: robotics. * * * “Increasingly, digital robots and software systems are replacing attorneys in the collection and classification of electronic evidence,” the authors write. “Meanwhile, other robotic systems generate massive amounts of data providing a digital reproduction of activities and events.”
March 22, 2014
There’s no question that the Internet has transformed the workplace, but according to a report by attorneys at Littler Mendelson, there’s another game-changer in the works: robotics. * * * “Increasingly, digital robots and software systems are replacing attorneys in the collection and classification of electronic evidence,” the authors write. “Meanwhile, other robotic systems generate massive amounts of data providing a digital reproduction of activities and events.”
