K Desktop Environment – Announcing KDE 3.4
“After more than a half year of development the KDE Project is happy to be able to announce a new major release of the award-winning K Desktop Environment. Among the many new features that have been incorporated, the improvements in accessibility are most remarkable.“
Lessig Vows “Never Again” To restrictive Acedemic Publishing
Lawrence Lessig
“I will not agree to publish in any academic journal that does not permit me the freedoms of at least a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.“
This comes as a result of being forced to sign away copyrights in order to a comment publsihed in the Minnesota Law Review. Are any law reviews using Creative Commons licensing?
MSN Testing RSS Aggregator
BetaNews | MSN Testing Personalized ‘Start’ Page
“Microsoft’s MSN unit is testing what it calls an “incubation experiment” of a new “start” page for Web browsers. The site, located at Start.com, serves as an aggregator for RSS feeds and allows users to custom tailor its content.“
I took a look at this yesterday and really like the clean, simple look. Would be an interesting thing to do.
Comcast to Use Tivo Software
Slashdot | Tivo Signs Deal With Comcast
“TiVo has inked a long-term deal with Comcast, America’s largest cable television operator, to develop a version of the TiVo service that will be offered to Comcast’s DVR subscribers. The deal calls for TiVo to adapt its software to work on Comcast’s existing DVR platform, and it allows TiVo to extend to Comcast subscribers the advertising it sells in the form of interactive video clips that automatically appear in the TiVo menu.”
Comsumers Delete Cookies, Blind Marketeers
Internet Week > Websites Crippled By Consumers Deleting Cookies > Websites Crippled By Consumers Deleting Cookies > March 14, 2005
“More than half of Internet users have deleted cookies, seriously undermining website operators’ ability to measure consumer behavior on their sites, a market research firm said Monday.“
Should I be crying? No, I think not. Maybe people really do value privacy and anonyminity on the web:)
Rich McCue Releases OpenExpert
[teknoids] OpenExpert 0.1.1 release
“OpenExpert.org (http://www.openexpert.org/) is a web based, easy to use Expert System. It is being developed by the University of Victoria Legal Clinic as a diagnostic / teaching tool to help students navigate technical areas of the law (such a divorce), more quickly, and with fewer mistakes. That said, the project is still under heavy development, with new features being added, and refinements being made. Please see the roadmap for the project for further details on planned features and enhancements (http://www.openexpert.org/documentation/roadmap.html). You can see a demo of the system here: http://www.openexpert.org/demo/ “
Rich is a friend of ours and a frequent Teknoids poster. He demoed this project last June at the CALI Conference. It is cool and I can think of a thing or two to do with now that I have the code:)
The Freshmeat announcement is here and the SourceForge summary is here.
Mozilla Suite Comes to End of the Line
Mozilla Drops Development of Namesake Suite
“The Mozilla Foundation late on Thursday reversed course by announcing that it is no longer planning to develop major updates to its original application suite.Instead, the open-source project will focus its efforts on its stand-alone Firefox Web browser and Thunderbird e-mail client, the foundation said in a “transition plan” posted to its Web site.”
LexisNexis Says Consumer Data Stolen
Internet News Article | Reuters.com
“Data broker LexisNexis on Wednesday said that identity thieves have gained access to profiles of 32,000 U.S. citizens, prompting calls for better consumer protections after a rash of similar break-ins.The U.S. Secret Service said it is investigating the incident, while a company spokeswoman said the FBI has also launched an investigation.”
According to the report the theft occured from it recently acquired Seisint unit.
CODEC Vegas Cancelled, NYC Still On
CODEC – CODEC Vegas Cancelled – Meet in NY or Chicago in June
“The March 21 CODEC Strategy Workshop in Las Vegas is CANCELLED. I only got one person who could make it. I suspeect that a combination of spring break west coast air fares are to blame.The CODEC Strategy Workshop in New York at NYLS is still on and I have heard from at least 20 people who will be attending!“
DOJ Goes With WordPerfect 12
BetaNews | DOJ Drops Microsoft Office for Corel
“Corel has won a 50,000 seat contract with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) to license its WordPerfect Office 12 suite. Corel is crediting the “flexible” terms of its enterprise licensing program and the strength of its feature set as the primary reasons for overcoming objections and closing the sale.“
Man, now what are law schools gonna do? If DOJ is uccessful in rolling this out it would change the landscape of documents in the legal world. It means federal courts would continue to use Wordperfect and certainly influence the decisions that are made in law firms.