Posted in Internet, Legal Issues, Money, Security, Telecommunications on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The House and Senate have passed S. 1492, which has 2 titles:
Title I – Broadband Data Improvement Act
Title II – Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act
When I first heard about this bill, I only knew about the first part, which deals with determining broadband speeds across the nation and promoting affordable broadband for everyone. [...]
Posted in Handhelds, Legal Issues, Telecommunications, Wireless Communications on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last year, Google submitted a patent that was just published in September. Here’s the abstract:
A method of initiating a telecommunication session for a communication device include submitting to one or more telecommunication carriers a proposal for a telecommunication session, receiving from at least one of the one or more of telecommunication carriers a bid to [...]
Posted in Fun, Hardware, Internet, Legal Issues, Money, Security on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Macintosh laptop, as well as other electronics, was stolen from an Apple employee. The Leopard operating system on the Mac has a function called “Back to My Mac,” which allows the owner of a Mac to find it if it shows up on the Internet and also to control or work on it.
Apparently, the [...]
Posted in E-mail, Legal Issues, Money on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Spam is 30 years old! I bet you thought it was older! ;-)
On May 3, 1978, Gary Thuerk, then a marketer at DEC, sent an email message to all 393 users of the Arpanet – the first spam message. Note that the number of email addresses didn’t fit into the To line, so most [...]
Posted in Digital Libraries, Legal Issues, Money, Research, Searching on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Association of Research Libraries has posted a very detailed summary of the settlement which focuses on the library issues. Remember that this has not yet been approved by the courts.
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Through Google Book Search, Google had been providing snippets of copyrighted materials for their users. As a result, they were sued both by the Authors [...]
Posted in Legal Issues, Money, Searching on November 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
You bet! NISO now has a document, called the Shared e-Resource Understanding (SERU), created by librarians and vendors, that describes common understandings for the licensing of electronic resources. The idea is to save both libraries and vendors time and money during the negotiation phase and provide these resources to our patrons more quickly.
The document itself [...]
Posted in Fun, Hardware, Legal Issues, Podcasting, Software, Trends on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The podcast, Games in Libraries, is definitely for those of you who are either considering or are already providing gaming in your libraries. Although produced by Scott Nicholson, there are a number of regular contributors: Kelly Czarnecki, Beth Galloway, Jenny Levine, Chris Harris, Eli Neiburger, and Jason Puckett. There have been 7 episodes so far [...]
Posted in Legal Issues on April 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The State of Virginia is the first state to have mandated Internet safety classes for public schools. Apparently this law went into effect this school year, so I’m guessing that schools have been integrating this curriculum throughout the year. Yahoo Tech found this PDF from the Virginia Department of Education which provides ideas [...]
Posted in Legal Issues, Searching on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently, the Google Terms of Service includes an age requirement.
Section 1 — The Terms of Service document is used with all Google’s “services and web sites (referred to collectively as the ‘Services’) . . . “
Section 2.1/2.2 — You must agree to these Terms in order to use the Services. You can accept the [...]
Posted in Fun, Legal Issues, Trends, Web 2.0 on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Twitter, a service that allows you to send very short messages to one another, now has at been part of at least two marriage proposals.
March 2
@stefsull – “ok. for the rest of the twitter-universe (and this is a first, folks) – WILL YOU MARRY ME?”
@garazi – OMG – Ummmmm… I guess in front of the [...]
