Category: Technology
Amber Dance, an LA Times staff writer tells us that the “… laser printer sitting on your desk could be emitting high levels of potentially hazardous particles …” according to a study published today. “Some printers released almost as many ultra-fine particles as a smoldering cigarette, the study authors said.”
“‘Particles have been shown beyond any doubt to be a health hazard,’ said study author Lidia Morawska, a physicist at Queensland University of Technology in Australia.”
HP LaserJet and Ricoh fared well in the study. But HP, for example, had non-emitters in eight HP LaserJet 4050 series printers, while having high emitters in their LaserJet 1320 and 4250, “which, when printing, increased the particle number in the air more than tenfold.”
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I was really impressed with flash drives, the little pencil sticks with now up to 2 gb of memory. In fact, I was so impressed that I ordered a bunch to give away to friends and clients! But … (more…)
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The New Yorker , May 28, 2007 edition, discusses the impact of our new gadgets, our new technology.
“Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle. This spiral of complexity, often called ‘feature creep,’ costs consumers time, but it also costs businesses money.”
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– but you wouldn’t want someone to take it from you!" (more…)
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Today, I had the pleasure of listening to Fred Lederer, Professor and Director of the Center for Legal & Court Technology and the Courtroom 21 Project.
I had heard of this project for many years but this is the first time I’ve been in it … a marvelous example of future thinking, applied to today’s world. Prof. Lederer made some very interesting observations: (more…)
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“In this day and age, not having a backup plan is equivalent to jumping out of a plane without a parachute: it’s simply not done,” according to Carmi Levy, Senior Research Analyst, with InfoTech Research Group in London, Ont. (more…)
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See Monica Bay’s blog article about saving energy when using new technology.
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Many folks are beginning to use video on YouTube. Political satire, personal journal-ing, acting and singing are examples of personal use of the "new" technology.
Law firms, especially sole practitioners, can’t be too far behind in this world where change is happening at an ever-increasing pace. For example, I was advised not to buy a new PDA because Apple will be releasing its new i-Phone in the next few months. My audio studio is more sophisticated, I’m told by an engineer, than most radio stations. Yet, it is now obsolete because of Panasonic’s new phone system which I just installed that allows me to do the same recording, and more, than I was able to do with the old system.
One can spend both a fortune in money and in time just keeping up. The goal: Stay at the leading edge of technology where it enables you to perform more or more efficiently the work that your clients value from you. Know what the bleeding edge of technology will bring, but otherwise ignore it.
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Honeypots are a new phenomenon that can ensnare the unwary.
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From Associated Press, (March 20, 2007)
JUNEAU, Alaska – Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing information for an account worth $38 billion.
That’s what happened to a computer technician reformatting a disk drive at the Alaska Department of Revenue. While doing routine maintenance work, the technician accidentally deleted applicant information for an oil-funded account – one of Alaska residents’ biggest perks – and mistakenly reformatted the backup drive, as well.
There was still hope, until the department discovered its third line of defense, backup tapes, were unreadable….
See full article by Anne Sutton (Associated Press Writer)
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