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Tuesday, February 26, 2002

Law firm turns to technology to stay in touch 24/7

By LUCAS MEARIAN
(February 25, 2002)
These days, it's not unusual for Greta Ostrovitz to spend time surfing the Israeli military's Web site, looking for information on isolating personnel from biological, chemical or nuclear fallout or figuring out how many gas masks and sleeping bags might be needed to keep attorneys alive at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New York.

Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, just three blocks away, Ostrovitz, the director of IT at one of the nation's oldest and largest law firms, has turned much of her attention from mundane tasks to disaster recovery.

"I used to think about Word and documents and templates," Ostrovitz said in an interview last week. But there's been a lot of change in her professional life lately.

8:12:42 AM

Court Rejects VoyeurDorm Case. The Supreme Court refuses to hear an appeal by the city of Tampa, Florida, against operators of a webcam site that features college-age women. The non-ruling means VoyeurDorm won't have to move. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]
7:55:55 AM

Camera makers reveal new wares. The digital-imaging industry is showing off its latest products this week at the annual Photo Marketing Association trade show in Orlando, Fla. [CNET News.com]
7:53:24 AM

ICANN president calls for deep reforms THE Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the much maligned nonprofit group charged with overseeing basic technical matters related to addressing on the Internet, is in need of fundamental reform, according to a frank assessment of the organization written by its president and presented to board members over the weekend.
"I have concluded that ICANN needs reform: deep, meaningful, structural reform, based on a clearheaded understanding of the successes and failures of the last three years," wrote Stuart Lynn of the organization for which he has served as president for the last year.
Lynn blames a flawed structure and excursion away from core technical issues for stalling the organization, and calls, in the report, for sweeping changes that will give governments a seat at the table and create a new governing structure that will do away with an election system that gave every Internet user the chance to vote on some of the directors.
[IDG InfoWorld]
7:53:01 AM

The Register Comes to the US. Please adjust your bookmarks
Today we officially launch a North American version of The Register for our 850,000 readers in the US and Canada. It's at a different URL - www.theregus.com in partnership with Tom's Hardware Guide. So please adjust your bookmarks.
It's just like The Register UK in style and (mostly) content - only without so many stories about BT and UK broadband. We will also be running stories that Americans may find more interesting than their European counterparts.
So in answer to questions from many of you who have found the Register USA in recent weeks - The Register USA is not a mirror - but a site with its very own identity.
[The Register]
7:49:13 AM

A Medical Text That Heals Itself. Comments, additions and improvements for this peer-reviewed journal are just a click away. Also: A reader Olympics poll ... e-books for soldiers ... and more, in M.J. Rose's notebook. [Wired News]

This is a good thing. When will legal scholars do the same? Or will they continue to wonder why med schools are doing more with technology?

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