LAPPING THE PACER?

For years now the federal judiciary has made documents filed in federal court litigation available through a search platform known as PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records.)    While the documents available through PACER are in the public...

REMOVING KINDLE FROM THE FIRE

Anyone who has happened upon Amazon.com over the past several months has undoubtedly noticed Amazon’s painstaking efforts to market its new Kindle 2 device to readers-at-large.  The Kindle – a hardware device about the size and weight of an average book...

STORM CLOUDS ON THE HORIZON?

Several months ago, Amazon unveiled its “Cloud Drive” – a web application which permits users with Amazon accounts to upload up to five gigabytes of music, free of charge, to Amazon’s server. Along with providing storage, the service also allows users to access,...

GOOGLE DOES ART

By this point, you may have already heard of the “Google Art Project”: Google’s latest effort to increase universal access to the world’s information. The project, which was launched on February 1st, allows internet users to remotely access works of...