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• Camera Phones Can Make All of Us Feel Like We Are Living In A Fishbowl

  We are at the point now that cell phones have became ubiquitous — for good and for bad. They obviously present incredible convenience, as users can be reached and can place calls anytime, anywhere. But with that has come tremendous annoyance at times.
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• FTC Takes Action Against Prerecorded Sales Calls

  Do you hate prerecorded sales calls? If so, you are not alone. Indeed, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been inundated with complaints about such calls. As a result, the FTC has just announced an amendment to the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) that expressly bars telemarketing calls that deliver prerecorded messages, except as to people who have agreed in advance to receive these calls from specific sellers.
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• 9th Circuit Ups the Ante for Disclosure of Employee Text Messages in Quon v. Arch Wireless

  In a ruling on June 18th, a panel of the 9th Circuit held that a provider of text messaging services violated the Stored Communications Act by turning over the contents of an employee's text messages to his employer, the Ontario, California Police Department.
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• Employer Monitoring of Workplace Electronic Communications

  Employees should be aware that their work emails generally are not considered private. Indeed, many employees are required to sign policies whereby they agree that their employers have the right to monitor their workplace electronic communications. And judges generally have upheld the right of employers to monitor such employee communications.
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• High-Tech Gadgets: Ultimate Freedom Or Complete Loss of Privacy?

  Everywhere we go these days, the people around us are busy utilizing their high tech gadgets. They may be making phone calls, sending emails, surfing the Internet, creating work-related documents, listening to music, watching videos - the list goes on and on. And all of these activities can be performed on wireless devices that are as small as a deck of cards.
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• What's Next, GPS Liability?

  An automobile driver recently was held responsible for crashing a rental car into a train after following global positioning system (GPS) instructions that put his rental car onto the train tracks. This raises the specter of automobile drivers pointing the liability finger at GPS providers and filing lawsuits against such providers when GPS instructions are not accurate.
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Press Releases

• Legal Files Mobile Makes It Easier-Than-Ever to Be Out of the Office

  Legal Files Software, Inc., a leading case and matter management software development company, now further supports a virtual office by offering seamless integrations with popular mobile devices that run on BlackBerry or Windows Mobile operating systems.
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• Providers Rally to Offer VoIP for Microsoft Response Point

  Industry-leading voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) providers are rallying around the Microsoft Response Point phone system to offer an easy-to-use, complete digital voice solution for small businesses. Today Microsoft Corp. announced that Cbeyond, Inc., and New Global Telecom, Inc. (NGT), will offer their superior digital voice services for Response Point.
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• Nokia and Google to Offer Google Search to Nokia Customers Worldwide

  Nokia and Google today announced that Google's popular search engine will be integrated with the Nokia Search application.
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• Microsoft and Cbeyond Launch New E-Mail Service for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

  Today at Mobile World Congress 2008, Microsoft Corp. and Cbeyond announced a new e-mail service, including support for mobile devices, that is now available as part of a communications package specifically targeting small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
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