The Internet enables clients to opine on lawyers in a rapid fashion, opening new channels of information for consumers. Stanislaw Ashbaugh partner Joseph M. Campos says not to fear the new lawyer-ratings paradigm, but to embrace it for the marketing and business development opportunities it creates.
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Microsoft will cut the price of some versions of its boxed Windows Vista after court filings revealed internal dissent over which Windows XP computers would be capable of running the new operating system. One executive said the company “botched” the marketing of computers as “Vista Capable.”
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The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago said that next month it will become the first federal court to provide people with access to court information, such as staff phone numbers and motion calls, on hand-held devices.
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If Microsoft conquers Yahoo, some intellectual property lawyers say that the companies will be on course for a clash over their IP attitude. The two companies’ views about what should be shared and what should be kept proprietary have been as different as sunny Silicon Valley and dreary Seattle.
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Microsoft launched Windows Server 2008, but analysts said the version is an incremental update rather than a giant leap forward, with “no single feature that says, ‘I gotta have it.’” Notably absent from the server launch is a final version of its virtual machine technology, Hyper-V.
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With technology from its acquisition of JotSpot, Google launched a service to create Web sites that challenges Microsoft’s SharePoint. Google Sites is aimed at high-tech neophytes looking for a way to share information with other people working in the same company or attending the same class in school.
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SEATTLE - A class action against Microsoft Corp. that asserts that the software giant misled and deceived consumers by mislabeling certain computers as capable of running the Windows Vista operating system was certified by a Washington federal judge in a Feb. 22 order granting a motion by the lead plaintiffs (Dianne L. Kelley v. Microsoft […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A filing with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act will be considered a charge if it can “be reasonably construed as a request for the agency to take remedial action to protect the employee’s rights or otherwise settle a dispute between the employer and the employee,” […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Supreme Court justices debated the status of Exxon Valdez captain Joseph Hazelwood during oral arguments on Feb. 27 in Exxon Shipping Co.’s appeal of the $2.5 billion punitive damages award related to the 1989 oil spill after the tanker ran aground (Exxon Shipping Co., et al. v. Grant Baker, et al. […]
NEW YORK - A federal judge properly dismissed a lawsuit filed by property owners seeking to prohibit the taking of their property by eminent domain because the property owners failed to show that the redevelopment plan for the project was not for a public use or benefit, a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel […]