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Published May 2013 by Mary Meeker and Liang Wu – “The latest edition of the annual Internet Trends report finds continued robust online growth. There are now 2.4 billion Internet users around the world, and the total continues to grow apace. Mobile usage is expanding rapidly, while the mobile advertising opportunity remains largely untapped. The report reviews the shifting …
“We are pleased to announce the creation of Cyberspace Law – Student Authors and Intellectual Property Law – Student Authors eJournals within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN). These eJournals are designed for submissions by students or others without or prior to receiving an advanced academic degree. They can include Law Review student notes or other …
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse: “On a typical work day Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) took 1,509 individuals into custody, according to the latest available ICE data from November and December 2012. If activity continues at this pace, ICE will detain around 400,000 individuals during the current fiscal year. Seven out of every ten individuals were …
Via LLRX – Voice Dream e-reading app: Stellar for text to speech – and promising as a general reader – David H. Rothman reviews the Voice Dream Reader app for iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches. At $10 it is more expensive than the average app, but David’s deep dive has resulted in a recommendation that …
The Long and the Short of Household Formation, Andrew D. Paciorek, 2013-26. May 10, 2013 “One of the drivers of housing demand is the rate of new household formation, which has been well below trend in recent years, leading to persistent weakness in the housing market. This paper studies the determinants of household formation in …
The History of Cyclical Macroprudential Policy in the United States, Douglas J. Elliott, Greg Feldberg, and Andreas Lehnert. 2013-29. May 15, 2013 “Since the financial crisis of 2007-2009, policymakers have debated the need for a new toolkit of cyclical “macroprudential” policies to constrain the build-up of risks in financial markets, for example, by dampening credit-fueled …
“Accountability policies linked to school performance may result in unintended consequences, such as inducing schools to engage in strategic classification of certain students to improve overall scores rather than make genuine improvements to the quality of education. This gaming of the system by schools in an influential model program is revealed in new analysis by …
NOAA: “On May 9, the daily mean concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Mauna Loa, Hawaii, surpassed 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time since measurements began in 1958. Independent measurements made by both NOAA and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have been approaching this level during the past week. It …
“By this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Notice), the Commission proposes to further increase the availability of broadband services onboard airplanes by establishing an air-ground mobile broadband service by which passengers aboard civil and government aircraft can connect to a full range of communications services while flying over the contiguous United States. Consumers increasingly demand ubiquitous …
“The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) released today OTC derivatives statistics at end-December 2012. Developments in the latest data are highlighted in the Statistical release. Detailed breakdowns and time series data are available on the BIS website. Data at end-June 2013 will be released no later than 15 November 2013, in conjunction with the global …
Hollee Schwartz Temple: “When people say everything’s online,” says Jerry Dupont of the Law Library Microform Consortium, “they’re woefully uninformed.” Dupont, founder of the LLMC, a nonprofit law library cooperative, estimates that of the 2 million unique volumes contained in Americas law libraries, only about 15 percent are available in digital form. That figure includes …
Citizen Lab [University of Toronto] “released a new report, For Their Eyes Only: The Commercialization of Digital Spying. The report features new findings, as well as consolidating a year of our research on the commercial market for offensive computer network intrusion capabilities developed by Western companies. Our new findings include: We have identified FinFisher Command …
