Not so long ago, law firms dictated what types of smartphones — typically BlackBerrys — their staff could use for work. This has been giving way to the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, which may spell the end of the BlackBerry’s near-hegemony in the workplace. Some people attribute BYOD
Read more →Will lawyers soon flick on their TVs at home to brush up on their skills using a Netflix-like model, the costs of which are covered by their law society membership fees? Maybe. Certainly the technology has arrived. And, step by step, the legal community is warming to
Read more →Apple Inc. sells smartphones, tablets, computers, accessories, other hardware, and the software and services needed to make them all work as they are meant to. Other companies do these things too, but few of them can boast the success Apple reports during quarterly earnings calls like the
Read more →Imagine yourself in the following clip from the 2002 science-fiction movie Minority Report. Specifically, imagine your name is John Anderton: Advertising technology reads the protagonist’s retinas, which are as unique to him as his fingerprints, and then tailors ads with his name as he strides through a
Read more →They’re pretty dependable devices, but even today’s smartphones sometimes “hang” or “freeze”. No matter what you do, they refuse to respond when you touch their screens or press their keys and buttons. Worry not. Smartphones are pretty easy to reset, or “reboot” to use the computing term,
Read more →They’re not just for making calls anymore. Today’s smartphones create video and still images, and record audio too. Aside from the calling, much the same can be said of tablets. These two types of multimedia enter businesses every day in the hands of employees who may prefer
Read more →Have an Android-based phone? Like getting your software for “free” from shady websites? Then you might be a mark for what seems like an April Fool’s prank – only this prank goes on all year long. When I previously blogged about the downsides of using pirated software, I
Read more →Have you started leaving your laptop at the office? Originally published in Lawyers Weekly Magazine. Have you ever met prospective business contacts while surfing (at the beach, not on the net)? Jared Jacobson has. “I put their information in my BlackBerry,” says the Philadelphia, Penn.-based solo attorney.
Read more →You should be. Here are 12 smart security tips for your smartphone. More than 106,000 mobile phones went missing in 2009, according to the FBI’s National Crime Information Centre. Question: where’s your BlackBerry? If you found it quickly, good for you. If not, you’re probably starting to
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