26 models of Trendnet webcams have been identified as vulnerable to a bug that lets anyone tap into the video stream with just an IP address. The flaw was noted a month ago and the company has been working to alert people and patch the devices. Unfortunately, the company has no way of contacting non-registered webcam owners, and so the devices may remain accessible if the users never suspect anything. It’s a bit scary, but certainly not unprecedented. Although it’s not quite the same thing, two...  show all text

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The best public relations move in recent days for the Susan G. Komen Foundation was to announce its about face on Super Bowl weekend. By the time the last of the pizza and beer had been consumed, consumers were rehashing Super Bowl bowl ads. In an unusual turn of events, the color of pink was not positively supporting the Susan G. Komen brand last week. Last week’s nightmare of “they fund us, they fund us not” isn’t about funding at all. It’s about who the Susan G. Komen Foundation is. It’s a...  show all text

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Customer relationship management software, although widely used in the corporate world, still isn't very popular in large law firms. Two vendors that have found some CRM sales traction so far are Cole Valley Software and LexisNexis. What's an even less common form of CRM software? Modern mobile applications. Now, that may be about to change. Microsoft on Monday announced mobile versions of its Dynamics CRM software which works on many platforms, including Apple iOS, Google Android , Microsoft's...

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As the U.S. limps back from recession, the tech industry has been hailed as a boon for growth and job creation. But upon closer inspection of multi-billion dollar valuations and scrappy startups on their way to profitability, you might notice that the revenues these companies command are wildly disproportionate to the number of people they employ. Facebook, which some have valued at $100 billion after filing for an IPO last week, employs a mere 3,000 people. Compare that with General Motors, wh...  show all text

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The online 'pinboard' is driving serious traffic and proving to be a powerful online marketing tool for some companies.

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I am thrilled to announce that my fourth book, Stellar Presentations: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Giving Great Talks has gone live on Kindle. A Paperback version should be available in about a week. It is not a social media book. Stellar Presentations is a brief but deep look at the craft and strategy of presenting to investors, the media and particularly at tech conferences. It is based on my many years experience as a presentation coach, a conference reporter and as a keynote speaker. It is a...  show all text

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If you've ever wondered what a social-media presence is worth in an increasingly digitized business world, just ask Noah Kravitz's former employers.

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Late last year, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee challenged regulators to step up enforcement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act: “… the Subcommittee made clear that the [Office for Civil Rights’] efforts fell far short of its expectations, pointing out that, of tens of thousands of HIPAA complaints received by OCR since 2003, the agency has levied only one formal civil monetary penalty and has settled only six other cases for monetary amounts… The Director of O...  show all text

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Today, mobile promotion and discovery service AppsFire is launching a new toolkit for developers called App Booster. Meant to boost user engagement and retention, two of the toughest challenges developers face today, the App Booster SDK (software development kit) introduces a suite of tools for things like in-app notifications, user feedback, analytics and mobile app cross-promotion. According to AppsFire co-founder Ouriel Ohayon, mobile app engagement is not optimal today because developers do...  show all text

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Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. What do you get when you combine an iconic movie with a buzz-winning Super Bowl ad? An overdose of awesome. The skilled editors at AkooTV juxtaposed scenes from John Hughes’s 1986 masterpiece Ferris Bueller’s Day Off with Honda’s Super Bowl ad homage. The ad has been a huge hit online. Zeta concluded that the ad had the most online buzz and it won Hulu’s AdZone contest for best Super Bowl ad. The ...  show all text

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Search HeinOnline by MARC21 Catalog Records Catalog Search is now available in HeinOnline! Cassidy Cataloging, HeinOnline’s Official Cataloger, has provided the MARC21 Catalog Records, allowing you to now browse and search by catalog records in HeinOnline.Catalog Search will replace Title Lookup and give you many options to search from, including Publication Title, Author, ISSN/ISBN/LCCN, Subject, and Publisher. This searching enhancement not only gives you more fields to search, but it also p...  show all text

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The Internet is driving growth and job creation, generating up to 8 percent of GDP in leading nations. Its center of gravity is shifting from fixed to ubiquitous access, from developed to emerging nations, and from a passive to a participatory medium. To win, companies must strengthen their “digital balance sheets.”

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Within minutes, I came across these two status updates from friends who work at law firms: “I have too much going on” “I haven’t even gotten to my to-do list yet”. We can all relate. It’s impossible to escape the nonstop online (and offline) flow of Twitter and Facebook, email, voicemail and text messages, the office pop-in and water-cooler chats. [...]

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For nearly a decade, I’ve had a vision to build a single venture devoted to equipping a new generation of entrepreneurs and world-changers with the knowledge, tools, mindset and support needed to do amazing things in business and life. Today, that vision becomes reality with the launch of Good Life Project™ (GLP) and GoodLifeProject.com. So, what is it? GLP is a movement. A set of shared values. A community. A creed, bundled with a voracious commitment to move beyond words and act. First, as a ...  show all text

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The way you work, the tools you use, and your approach to SEO has changed. Be open to changing the way you think about SEO and willing to change the way you view the search world. Take advantage of these opportunities, tools, and platforms.

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When Google announced that the Chrome browser would become its own operating system and run on netbooks, the thought around the tech community was that eventually Google would have to merge Chrome with Android. After all, what is the point of supporting two disparate mobile operating systems? The convergence has not yet occurred but may have taken a step further today as Google announced Chrome for Android available on devices running version 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Chrome for Android is a win ...  show all text

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Well, it's official. Netflix has entered the original programming game and is no longer just a distributor of other companies' content. "Lilyhammer," a dramatic comedy starring "Sopranos" actor Steven Van Zandt, went live on Sunday. For the first time, the following words have appeared on the opening credits to a television-style show: "A Netflix original series." Rather than being broadcast on HBO, a standard cable channel or even network TV, "Lilyhammer" is going straight to audiences via the...  show all text

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"If the Super Bowl is such a meaningless game, why are so many people posting updates about how they're not going to watch it?" said one of my Facebook friends, as the game approached halftime. OK, I don't follow football. And I especially don't know anything about the Super Bowl. After the Super Bowl, I was wondering why Nicki Minaj and MIA (aside from her Cee Lo flick-off) didn't play a bigger role in Madonna's halftime show. I was also pretty relieved that Madonna made it through that entire...  show all text

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When a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck the Philippines Monday, residents and local media outlets used Twitter and Facebook to alert residents and quell tsunami-inspired panic. But they’re not the only ones using social media to sound a digital alarm when disaster strikes. Officials in the U.S. do that too. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), a scientific agency of the U.S. government, is tasked in part with researching natural disasters and getting the word out when they hit. They’re doing much ...  show all text

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Popular restaurant app Urbanspoon is releasing new data today related to its growth over the course of 2011. The company says its traffic is up by 80%, with mobile growth outpacing the web. The site is now seeing 28 million visits per month, with traffic now split roughly half and half between mobile and web. On the mobile side, Urbanspoon has seen 112% year-over-year growth, while on the web side, it’s at 70% growth over last year. Overall, the company saw 255 million visits in 2011, up from 1...  show all text

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A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that California's voter-approved ban on gay marriage, known as Proposition 8, is unconstitutional. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 ruling (PDF), said Proposition 8's limitations on access to marriage took away rights from a vulnerable minority without benefiting parents, children or the institution of marriage. "Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays a...  show all text

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Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers 8 Feb 2012 – Singapore [Update] Dave Morin, the CEO of Path has responded in the comments and I’ve pasted it below. As an aside – never in my wildest dreams did I imagine this to blow up like this. I hope we can keep calm and continue to discuss this sensibly. Arun, thanks for pointing this out. We actually think this is an important conversation and take this very seriously. We upload the address book to our servers in order to help t...  show all text

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The 7th Circuit e-discovery pilot program provides a valuable tool, according to Obermayer's Mathieu J. Shapiro and Aaron L. Peskin: Principles tested in real litigation by practitioners and judges.

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Reporters banned from reposting non-company tweets and told to check with the news desk before breaking news stories Sky News has told its journalists not to repost information from any Twitter users who are not an employee of the broadcaster. An email to staff on Tuesday laid out new social media guidelines for Sky News employees, including a contentious ban on retweeting rival "journalists or people on Twitter". The new guidelines also warn Sky News journalists to "stick to your own beat" and...  show all text

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Even if you haven’t ever visited popular visual bookmarking site Pinterest, you might recognize its design elements — which have been popping up everywhere since the startup burst onto the mainstream scene in 2011. The site doesn’t use traditional web building blocks. “It’s almost like a window-shopping mode,” says Khoi Vinh, the former design director for NYTimes.com. “It puts the ball back in the user’s court,” muses Andrew Beck, a web designer at Blue Fountain Media. “It flattens the informa...  show all text

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