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November, 2011

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November 30, 2011  5:23 PM

Mitt Romney Takes Lesson from Mike Huckabee on Disk Drives



Posted by: Sharon Fisher

A Republican presidential candidate, a former Governor, is being slammed in the press due to accusations that, when he left the governor’s office, he ordered information from computers in his office destroyed. No, not

November 27, 2011  12:54 AM

Arbitrator Awards Seagate $525 Million in Western Digital Trade Secrets Case



Posted by: Sharon Fisher
intellectual property, seagate, western digital

What the hell can one guy know that's worth half a billion dollars? That's Western Digital's reaction to a decision this week of an arbitrator to a case where a Seagate employee who joined Western Digital is accused of having brought trade secrets with him. Though it was Western Digital's idea...


November 18, 2011  6:46 PM

Yes, It’s That Time Already: E-Discovery Predictions for 2012



Posted by: Sharon Fisher
ediscovery, symantec

In the same way that Costco and Big Lots have had Christmas stuff out since before Halloween, it's not even Thanksgiving yet and there's already at least three predictions of 2012 e-Discovery trends out there. Lord help us. (One could conjecture that it's because e-Discovery comes from the legal...


November 14, 2011  6:23 PM

What Nationality is Your Data, Round Two



Posted by: Sharon Fisher
cloud computing, copyright, data sovereignty, privacy

A group of major U.S. vendors such as Google, Microsoft, Citigroup, IBM, and GE, working under the aegis of the National Foreign Trade Council, is urging the United States to fight for trade rules that protect the free flow of information over the Internet, and against


November 7, 2011  4:07 PM

Why Broadband Won’t Kill Local Storage



Posted by: Sharon Fisher
broadband, gigaom, privacy

I usually really like material from Om Malik and his staff at GigaOm, but he posted something recently that had me shaking my head,


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