Category: Interesting Technology

The November 10, 2003 issue of Business Week has a short report about a company called Dipsie. Dipsie is a new search engine scheduled to go live in 2004. My understanding of both the Dipsie web site and the BW article is that Dipsie will...

Document management systems (DMS) are an essential part of the infrastructure in most large law firms. A few do not use DMS or have created their own systems, but most use commercial products such as Hummingbird DM (formerly PC Docs) or iManage. Last August, Interwoven...

In my posting IBM is Developing New Search Technology of 13 Aug 2003 I discussed new full-text software from IBM called Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA). On September 13, 2003, the New York Times carried short piece reporting that IBM is introducing a new full-text...

In Office Buzz: Check the E-mail on September 25, 2003, the New York Times reviews Office 2003, the latest Microsoft upgrade to the Office suite. The review is mixed at best. The columnist notes that “Microsoft has made shockingly few changes to Word, Excel and...

In my July 30th posting, Thoughts on Full Text Retrieval (a KM and litigation support topic), I discussed lingering questions I have about the value of advanced full-text retrieval. My questions notwithstanding, I do believe that more sophisticated tools offer value, at least when used...

Reading the July/August issue of Law Practice Management magazine, an interesting ad caught my eye. On page 3, 3M corporation advertises RFID to track paper files. RFID means Radio Frequency Identification. This is a passive chip that, when subject to a radio query, broadcasts back...

On May 19th, the New York Times reported on wikis (a shared web space in which anyone in a group can add and delete content). Today, the Times reports on the growing popularity of blogs in the corporate workplace in an article titled “Blogs in...

Also from LegalIT, referenced in my prior post: Chrissy Burns of Blake Dawson Waldron in Sydney writes an interesting article about the role of e-learning in LegalIT. Her article, E-learning: Say goodbye to the classroom, describes a booming market in e-learning and potential opportunities this...