New Maryland Power of Attorney Statute Goes into Effect Oct. 1

Maryland’s General Assembly passed a new statute governing powers of attorney that would be valid under Maryland law, including providing two new forms in the statute to help standardize the forms used by attorneys to help their clients plan their estate.  Powers of attorney executed after October 1 will need to comply with the requirements [...]

Extraordinary Humanitarian Disaster in Haiti

The news has begun unfolding of the devastating earth quake that hit Haiti earlier this week.  (See this link for up to date coverage)  Haiti and its citizens are in my thoughts during this horrible natural disaster.

Bad Comcast – Bad!

According to the Tennis Channel, Comcast discriminates against its programming in favor of sports channels that Comcast owns directly, causing the Tennis Channel to be distributed to about 1/5th as many homes.  (See article here)
If true, Comcast, as a carrier of cable data signals, may be engaging in the kind of content discrimination that harms [...]

Crackberry, DNS Disasters & Other Horrors

Blackberry users across the world were cross at RIM for two email outages that affected a fair number of blackberry users twice in as many weeks.  (See article here)  In addition, some grinches were busy trying to steal Christmas from a number of last minute Amazon and Walmart shoppers.  (See article here)  And google had [...]

Net Neutrality: An Analysis

Earlier in December, I wrote a blog entry entitled “Net Neutrality and other Myths,” in which I discussed some of the issues with net neutrality.  I have since changed the title of that article to “Net Neutrality and other Misnomers” because net neutrality is not so much fiction as it is not a clear name [...]

iPhone Security

Here is an article on the ABA site regarding iPhone security problems.  (click here)  The authors, Sharon Nelson and John Simek, point out three basic problems with the iPhone: (a) the security features to encrypt the iPhone can be hacked via a series of steps involving SSH, (b) remote wipe can be circumvented by leaving [...]

I was just kidding about “beach law”

But apparently, there is a growing law practice for some that litigate in the panhandle of Florida (see article here).  The case is Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environment Protection and went to the U.S. Supreme Court in early December for oral argument.  At the heart of the case is the [...]

Software Licensing for Businesses

Here was a very good article on software license auditing for businesses: (click here for story).  The issues for businesses are twofold: (a) keeping track of the licensing that the business has purchased, and (b) keeping track and understanding the licensing agreements that control the software.  The former can be handled by software.  For example, [...]

Net Neutrality & Other Misnomers

I happened across an article on net neutrality today where AT&T was lobbying the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to moderate their expectations on nondiscrimination rules for internet service providers.  (See article here)
I suspect a fair amount of internet users could care less about this debate.  In some parts of our nation, internet access is nearly [...]

Great Firewall Maybe Not So Great

Australia has announced plans to implement mandatory content filtering by its internet service providers for certain kinds of web content, essentially attempting to block all Australian internet users from these categories of sites.  (See Yahoo article here)  China had attempted this sort of thing earlier in 2009, but placed its plans on hold.  These plans [...]

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