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From InfoWorld: IBM’s Global Services division has created a team of 40 consultants and 100 IT professionals dedicated to developing and implementing services to make software and hardware accessible to people with disabilities. The services address areas such as tweaking Web sites so their content can be read aloud by voice software and so that …
“Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer announced that the results of the latest Ohio Supreme Court 2002 Survey on Technology and the Courts shows that Ohio courts are steadily advancing in their use of technology,” according to this article in Govtech.net.
H. R. 2275, People’s Right to Know Act: To reinstate the requirement that firearms dealers comply with the Freedom of Information Act by providing information about firearms purchasers.
From the ACLU: Interested Persons Memo on Congressional oversight of the USA PATRIOT Act and Department of Justice anti-terrorism policies dismissive response on civil liberties. In related news, see this Wired article: “The Justice Department’s statements — and what it did not say — in a congressional inquiry on the use of broadened surveillance powers …
Super Searchers on Competitive Intelligence, The Online and Offline Secrets of Top CI Researchers. From the press release: Companies operating in today’s unpredictable roller-coaster economy have increasingly turned to Competitive Intelligence (CI) as an effective means of building and maintaining an edge. This book presents leading CI researchers in their own words, revealing their secrets …
Business Statistics on the Web: Find Them Fast-At Little or No Cost. “Statistics are a critical component of business and marketing plans, press releases, surveys, economic analyses, presentations, proposals, and more–yet good statistics are notoriously hard to find. In this practical guide, statistics guru Paula Berinstein shows readers how to use the Net to find …
On June 6. a three judge panel, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued a decision in case number 02-1264, Cellular Communications & Internet Association et al vs. FCC et al, allowing portability of cell phone numbers when consumers change carriers. See this CNN article for related news.
Balancing Civil Liberties and National Security in the Post-9/11 Era: The Challenge of Information Sharing: An Invitational Discussion held at the Brookings Institution.
The Webby Awards 2003 winners’ site also includes links to those sites that were considered for the top spot, as well as links to the People’s Voice winners. Athough the nominations in the government/law are woefully sparse, you will find some interesting links under the topics politics, and print and zines.
From the Legal Research Center press release: “More than two-thirds of U.S. legal professionals who work in organizations that have implemented a Knowledge Management (KM) system report that they use their KM systems either frequently or all the time, according to the results of the 2003 PricewaterhouseCoopers – Legal Research Center Knowledge Management Study.” (Thanks …
Music labels coming to grips with Web piracy: “…for the first time in the Internet file-sharing wars, record industry executives have in recent weeks started to address music fans directly, both offering carrots and wielding sticks to persuade people to buy their product again. How well they succeed is likely to determine the way music …
The Man Pushing Faster Internet Access in U.S.: “The United States, where the Internet was invented, now falls behind Japan, Korea and Canada in deploying high-speed Internet access in homes and businesses…Peter K. Pitsch…is the top lobbyist for the Intel Corporation and a coalition of the technology companies in their efforts to press the government …