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How to Avoid PC Panic
06/19/2007 - 00:00(NewsUSA) - From digital photos to balancing the checkbook, it seems like most of our lives are wrapped up in our personal computers. But when something goes awry - you open a document to begin making edits, the screen freezes and the document vanishes, or you open an e-mail and everything goes haywire - it's enough to make anyone hit the proverbial panic button. However, more than 80 percent of...
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Google Search Uncovers Fugitive Murder Suspect
06/19/2007 - 00:00Many of our live CLE seminars focus on the importance, as well as the mechanics, of using the Internet as an investigative tool to get background information about people, and as a risk management tool. There's a wealth of information posted about people online, some of which they may or may not be aware of, that can be invaluable to your decision making process. Sometimes the key to locating it...
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Google Offers Free Enhanced Public Record Searching
06/19/2007 - 00:00Teams with Arizona, California, Utah and Virginia to Make Already-Free Public Records Easier to Find Google Inc. recently announced partnerships with the states of Arizona, California, Utah and Virginia to make it easier to retrieve hard-to-find government information on state government web sites. These relationships are meant to make more of the government information, already available free on...
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Internet For Lawyers Announces Winners Of Legaltech Drawing
06/15/2007 - 00:00Two Readers To Receive Free Admission In our last newsletter, we announced that two lucky newsletter subscribers could win a FREE full registration (a $595 value) to the conference by sending an e-mail to us. We have randomly chosen two winners from all the messages received, and Ed Poll, of Venice, CA and Douglas Behr, of Los Angeles, will be able to attend all of the program's sessions courtesy...
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American Lawyer Media's Legaltech West Coast Returns To Los Angeles - Moves To New Venue
06/01/2007 - 00:00On June 20 and 21, 2007, American Lawyer Media's LegalTech, the largest annual gathering of legal technologists on the West Coast, returns to Los Angeles. This also marks the first time that the conference will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center in downtown Los Angeles. Two lucky newsletter subscribers will win a FREE full registration (a $595 value) to the conference by sending...
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Revised URLs for 8th Edition of "The Cybersleuth's Guide to the Internet"
06/01/2007 - 00:00No matter how often we update "The Cybersleuth's Guide to the Internet," resources on the Internet change more often. So to help keep book owners up to date, from time to time, we include changes to the current edition in our free e-mail newsletter. Owners should note: 8th Edition FirstGov.gov - page 166-7 URL is now: http://www.usa.gov (This is the main entry in the book for this...
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Revised URLs for 8th Edition of "The Cybersleuth's Guide to the Internet" June 2007
06/01/2007 - 00:00No matter how often we update "The Cybersleuth's Guide to the Internet," resources on the Internet change more often. So to help keep book owners up to date, from time to time, we include changes to the current edition in our free e-mail newsletter. Owners should note: 8th Edition Virtual Reference Desk (aka "AskA") - page 75 This U.S. Department of Education-sponsored service is no...
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Ancestry Offers Free Military Records
05/31/2007 - 00:00For a Limited Time Only Ancestry.com has recently added a database of U.S. military enlistment and draft records purportedly beginning with the Jamestown settlement (1607) and running through the Vietnam era (1970). Records can be searched with as little as a last name. However, the results list will be pretty long for such a search. (It's also important to note that the...
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Internet For Lawyers Sets Continuing Legal Education Seminars Spring 2007
05/31/2007 - 00:00Internet For Lawyers Sets Continuing Legal Education Seminars Internet For Lawyers has set the following slate of live Continuing Legal Education seminars in Los Angeles, Boston, Denver, Phoenix, Scottsdale, Washington DC, and Northern & Southern California during the Spring/Summer 2007. These seminars are specifically designed to benefit all legal professionals, including lawyers, paralegals...
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Latest Gadgets to be Introduced at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2007
12/05/2006 - 01:00Latest Gadgets to be Introduced at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Every year, barely after the New Year, the consumer technology industry comes together in Las Vegas for the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES¨) - the world's largest consumer technology tradeshow. There they introduce and celebrate the latest products and technological innovations in consumer electronics, including...
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