ABA TECHSHOW.blogThe Latest Information About ABA TECHSHOW - The World's Premier Legal Technology ConferenceNew Treo 680 Announced by Palm- October 25, 2006 Palm announced its latest Treo smart phone. It is the Treo 680, which sports a smaller and slimmer form factor than the Treo 600, 650 and 700 series smart phones. It is the first Palm Treo to have an internal antenna, eliminating the antenna nub on the top left that is characteristic of the other Palm Treo smart phones. More...http://www.techshow.com/blog/102506.shtml U.S. Department of Commerce Reports Over 1,100 Laptops Lost or Stolen- October 19, 2006 The U.S. Department of Commerce reported that 1,137 of its laptops had been lost or stolen since 2001, including Census Bureau laptops which contained personal information. The report was in response to a request by the House Committee on Government Reform that asked federal agencies to report on lost and stolen laptops. The Committee request followed the high profile incident last spring in which a Department of Veterans Affairs laptop, which contained personal information on over 26 million...http://www.techshow.com/blog/101906.shtml Beware the Wireless Imposter Network- October 16, 2006 Security Software developer Authentium reports that the wireless network you try to access at the airport may not be legit. As quoted in this article: Recent tests at Chicago's O'Hare airport revealed that more than 90% of wireless networks available within the passenger terminals were ad-hoc, or peer-to-peer, connections, and more than 80% of these were advertising "free" Wi-Fi access. Many also displayed fake or misleading MAC addresses." More...http://www.techshow.com/blog/101606.shtml Replace Your Electric Typewriter with Acrobat Typewriter- October 5, 2006 Just about everyone has had the experience of finding the exact government or court form they need online as a PDF, but once it was downloaded, they discovered that it was not "interactive." They could not fill the form in electronically. They still had to print it out, and then look for a real typewriter or worse yet, fill the form in by hand. More...http://www.techshow.com/blog/100506.shtml AOL Offers Free Service to Broadband Users- October 3, 2006 On August 2nd, America Online announced that it will provide its basic service for free to anybody with Internet access, giving up its long experiment in building a gated community online. More...http://www.techshow.com/blog/100306.shtml |