Commentary on Whether Pop-Up Ads Are Spam
Why A Utah Court Was Right to Hold That, Under Utah Law, Pop-up Ads Are Not “Spam” by Anita Ramasastry.
IRS Requires Corporate E-Filing By 2006
IRS Announces Electronic Filing Requirements for Large Corporations, Exempt Organizations: “The Internal Revenue Service released regulations today that require certain large corporations and tax-exempt organizations to electronically file their income tax or annual information returns beginning in 2006. For tax year 2005 returns that are due in 2006, the regulations require that corporations with total …
Recommendations of Software to Fight Spyware
A Primer on Fighting Spyware, by Walter S. Mossberg (from the WSJ, reprinted by Webroot Software, whose product, Spy Sweeper, is recommended in this article.) I run SpyBot Search and Destroy daily on my home PC, and tested Spy Sweeper which indicated that my risk was “low.” Remain diligent about using one, or more, of …
Yahoo Finance Offers Free Company News Feeds
“Yahoo! Finance is now offering company news feeds in the RSS format. Using the RSS URL Generator (located on this page), you can construct the URL you’ll need to subscribe to news about your favorite companies.”
United States Statutes and the United States Code: Historical Outlines, Notes, Lists, Tables, and Sources
“The Law Librarians’ Society of Washington, D.C., Inc. is pleased to announce the availability on its Legislative Source Book Web page of a new website entitled United States Statutes and the United States Code: Historical Outlines, Notes, Lists, Tables, and Sources. The Website contains four handouts (in PDF with enhancements) from a November 9, 2004, …
New Fee Schedules Effective Jan. 1 for Appellate and Bankruptcy Courts
“Fee schedules that took effect January 1, 2005, have been posted for federal appellate and bankruptcy courts.” [Federal Judiciary Newsroom]
Internet’s Impact on American Students Examined in Education Dept. Report
From the Department of Education, the National Education Technology Plan report, Toward a New Golden Age in American Education: How the Internet, the Law and Today’s Students are Revolutionizing Expectation: “Over the past 10 years, 99 percent of our schools have been connected to the Internet with a 5:1 student to computer ratio,” but the …
Free Yahoo! Desktop Search Beta
Yahoo! Desktop Search joins the party alongside similar software recently released by Google, Ask Jeeves, and Microsoft. Details about the features of Yahoo Desktop search are discussed in this FAQ, and PC Magazine weighs in with a positive review, as does Chris Sherman at Search Engine Watch.
UK’s National Library for Health Website
The National Library For Health website is currently providing four topical RSS feeds: Hitting The Headlines; What’s New; Document Of The Week and FocusOn. In addition, as reported by Managing Information, the site now offers a universal search feature for national and local data hosted by “500 NHS library services across England.”
IBM Donates 500 Patents to Open Source Developers
IBM press release: “IBM has pledged open access to key innovations covered by 500 IBM software patents to people and groups working on open source software. The pledge applies to any individual, community, or company working on or using software that meets the Open Source Initiative (OSI) definition of open source software.” List of pledged …
DOJ Posts List of Last Qtr 2004 FOIA Decisions
From the DOJ Office of Information and Privacy, “the following Freedom of Information Act decisions were received by the Office of Information and Privacy during the months of October through December 2004.”
Report Examines Digital Business Models and Copyright Implications
From Harvard’s Digital Media Project, a new report, Assessing the Impact of Policy Choices on Potential Online Business Models in the Music and Film Industries (83 pages, PDF): “To prevent unauthorized copying of their works, copyright holders have traditionally relied on practical barriers as well as their legal exclusive rights to control reproduction and distribution. …