2006-10-25 09:25:03
Palm announced its latest Treo smart phone. It is the Treo 680, which sports a smaller and slimmer form factor than the Treo 600, 650 and 700 series smart phones. It is the first Palm Treo to have an internal antenna, eliminating the antenna nub on the top left that is characteristic of the other Palm Treo smart phones. More...
2006-10-23 12:04:22
Federal agencies, Congress and federal courts interact with state laws constantly. The case law of federal preemption has mushroomed in recent years, and the Supreme Court now deals with several preemption controversies each Term. This book will define and explain the types of preemption, the contexts, the statutes and the "applied" categories in which states and federal powers come into conflict.
2006-10-19 15:35:52
The U.S. Department of Commerce reported that 1,137 of its laptops had been lost or stolen since 2001, including Census Bureau laptops which contained personal information. The report was in response to a request by the House Committee on Government Reform that asked federal agencies to report on lost and stolen laptops. The Committee request followed the high profile incident last spring in which a Department of Veterans Affairs laptop, which contained personal information on over 26 million veterans, was stolen from an employee's home. More...
2006-10-16 11:00:38
Security Software developer Authentium reports that the wireless network you try to access at the airport may not be legit. As quoted in this article:
Recent tests at Chicago's O'Hare airport revealed that more than 90% of wireless networks available within the passenger terminals were ad-hoc, or peer-to-peer, connections, and more than 80% of these were advertising "free" Wi-Fi access. Many also displayed fake or misleading MAC addresses." More...
2006-10-06 14:38:54
Controversial yet powerful, litigated but most often settled, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, or Superfund) has a complicated history. CERCLA gave the Environmental Protection Agency vast authority to clean up sites, a dedicated source of funds to undertake clean-ups (Superfund), and a liability scheme of unprecedented scope. The 1986 Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) remains the only comprehensive set of amendments to CERCLA.
A single-source compendium of legislation, leading court decisions, and administrative implementation, Amending CERCLA is comprehensive and authoritative reference for practitioners to review, research, and understand this complex statute.
2006-10-05 17:51:21
Just about everyone has had the experience of finding the exact government or court form they need online as a PDF, but once it was downloaded, they discovered that it was not "interactive." They could not fill the form in electronically. They still had to print it out, and then look for a real typewriter or worse yet, fill the form in by hand. More...
2006-10-03 14:38:12
On August 2nd, America Online announced that it will provide its basic service for free to anybody with Internet access, giving up its long experiment in building a gated community online. More...