Comment, Opinion & Guest Articles
Something for the weekend – technology is the pits
In the words of the Bjork song “It's so quiet” with the long weekend approaching. In fact the only sounds to be heard are the groans and whimpers of jet-lagged and hungover visitors to ILTA [...]
Something for the weekend – lava lamp websites
Had an interesting exchange with a legal IT vendor about their new website. They asked me for their opinion about it. I told them. Turns out they didn't really want my opinion at all but [...]
Guest article: is social networking in the workplace a ticking bomb?
by Alistair Purdy, senior partner, Purdy FitzGerald SolicitorsAs social networking and collaboration tools that started out in the home start to become more acceptable in the workplace it appears that the business environment as we [...]
Guest article: Welcome to cloud printing
John Taylor, managing director of M2 Digital, comments on the future of printing using cloud enabled print services…When it comes to accessing important business data and applications from a mobile device, there’s not much left [...]
Something for the weekend – good times are here again – maybe?
Are good times here again. According to the grapevine, Lexmark took three legal IT directors to the The Fat Duck in Bray yesterday. Nice venue – but lunch with a company that sells printers for [...]
Something for the weekend – going boinking with your iPhone?
The people at MEDL Mobile have just sent us this announcement, which they say should appeal to our readers* with iPhones. It is called called BOINK** and is a sexual compatibility calculator that uses Bump [...]
English Law Soc has another pop at marketing
Well-know legal emarketing wiz David Gilroy has drawn our attention to the latest advertising campaign being run by the English Law Society to help drum up business for its members by encouraging the public to [...]
Something for the weekend – the truth behind iPhone 4
The always reliable NMA News has a video recreation of the true story of Steve Jobs and the Apple iPhone 4's signal problems…
Guest article: Howard Kennedy goes mobile with DMS
Mat Sutton, head of IT at Howard Kennedy, discusses the firm's use of a Worldox DMS and its move into mobile working…Since 2000, our firm has used the Worldox document management system from World Software [...]
Insider submission guidelines – again
Over the last few days we've been contact by a Swiss legal IT company and Dutch IT company both asking how much we charge to publish a press release. Not us, we never charge companies [...]
Something for the weekend – future news and future technology
Well the Twitterverse is agog with rumours that the Old Bill will be feeling some collars in the legal IT world next week. We'll just have to wait and see on that one. And we [...]
Something for the weekend – ediscovery made simple & advertising
• A lot of people wonder how critical information can ever be discovered during the edisclosure/ediscovery process, when there are hundreds of thousands of emails to wade through. This latest Tom Fishburne/CaseCentral cartoon suggests an [...]
Something for the weekend – lessons in tact & marketing
Before you head off for the weekend (yes, we know our APAC readers checked out hours ago – and yes we also know our US readers will be gone til Tuesday) here are some salutary [...]
Something for the weekend – the Alt Legal IT Awards ?
Well you have been chivvying me all week, so here are the categories for our new spoof legal IT awards – aka The Alternative Legal Technology Awards aka The No List aka The Not-The-Loties aka [...]
