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Follow up to March 22, 2007 posting, Sale of American Lawyer Media Considered by Owner Wasserstein, from a press release today: “Incisive Media will acquire ALM from U.S. Equity Partners, L.P. for a total value of approximately $630 million (approximately 315 million pounds Sterling) in cash. The acquisition is expected to close in the third …
Follow up to June 24, 2007 posting, Skelton/Conyers Introduce Habeas Reform Legislation, see these additional related government documents: S.185 – A bill to restore habeas corpus for those detained by the United States. Sponsor: Sen Specter, Arlen [PA] (introduced 1/4/2007) – Senate Report 110-90, June 26, 2007: “This legislation repeals those provisions of the Detainee …
Follow up to June 20, 2007 posting, Microsoft Complies With Vista Browser Choice Option, see Microsoft’s Memorandum in Opposition to Google’s Motion for Leave to Participate as Amicus Curiae – July 3, 2007
Introduction to Information Retrieval – “This is the companion website for the following book: Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze, Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press, 2008.”
The Brookings Institution, Metropolitan Policy Program – Mapping the Growth of Older America, by William H. Frey: “Aging baby boomers constitute this decade’s fastest growing age group, expanding nearly 50 percent in size from 2000 to 2010. This group-more highly educated, with more professional women, and more diverse than its predecessors-will add new stresses to …
Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace, Seymour E. Goodman and Herbert S. Lin, Editors, Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States, National Research Council, 272 pages, pre-publication copy, 2007. “Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace examines the vulnerabilities of the Internet and offers a strategy for future research aimed at countering …
Press release: “Six American Presidents are viewed favorably by at least 80% of all Americans. Those esteemed six are led by the first President George Washington. The Father of our Country is viewed favorably by 94% of Americans. The sixteenth President, Abraham Lincoln, is the second most popular. The man who gave us the Gettysburg …
Happy 4th. From Computerworld, this completely non-holiday related article – Law firm boosts cellular signal in new offices – New system enables employees to use cell phones in offices three floors underground – may be of interest, especially to colleagues here in Washington, D.C.
Press release: “Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. announced today that its subsidiary, Certegy Check Services, Inc., a service provider to U.S. retail merchants, based in St. Petersburg, Fla., was victimized by a former employee who misappropriated and sold consumer information to a data broker who, in turn, sold a subset of that data to a …
Press release: “Nearly half (47%) of all adult Americans now have a high-speed internet connection at home, according to a February 2007 survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The percentage of Americans with broadband at home has grown from 42% in early 2006 and 30% in early 2005. Among individuals who …
From the Director – Congressional Budget Office: “Rising health care costs and their consequences for federal health insurance programs constitute the nation’s central fiscal challenge. Such costs exert a significantly larger influence on the budget over the long term than other commonly cited factors, such as the aging of the population. If health care costs …
Press release: “The Securities and Exchange Commission has published for public comment a proposal to eliminate the current requirement that foreign private issuers filing their financial statements using International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) as published by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) also file a reconciliation of those financial statements to U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting …