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In today's issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire, lawyer and legal technology legend Dennis Kennedy covers an online legal research citation tool designed to save time, an online case management and time-billing application, and a new laser printer tailor-made for law firms. Don't miss the next issue.

Below you'll find one of the three articles from today's edition:

Better, Faster, Smarter Citations
By Dennis Kennedy

Lawyers have used "hyperlinks" before hyperlinks even existed. In our vernacular, we called them citations. When we found a good case, we would then review the citations to that case, often finding even better cases and sometimes finding reversals, statutory supersession, etc. Nowadays, of course, online research services provide real hyperlinks to related cases. But even so, the number of citations listed can be overwhelming to review.

Wolters Kluwer's Loislaw, a leading provider of online legal research, has updated its GlobalCite feature to address this and other issues based on feedback from its customers. The result is a more powerful citation research tool designed to help lawyers find relevant cases, statutes, and secondary sources more efficiently than ever before. Specifically, Loislaw has added two major features to GlobalCite, each of which saves time and takes advantage of modern Web technologies.

First, GlobalCite now offers a pop-up box within the document you are viewing that summarizes the GlobalCite results and provides links to the types of sources that you want to explore further. The pop-up box arranges the results by category. For example, you can view all sources, cases only, statutes only, treatises only, or other documents only. GlobalCite also displays the number of links within each category. You can click directly in the pop-up box to move to exactly the set of results you want, saving an extra step or two and valuable time. If no citations exist, you'll also know that at a glance without having to click further.

Second, GlobalCite enables you to search directly within your set of citations. With this feature, you can narrow your search quickly, thus eliminating the all-too-common problem of "noise" or "clutter" of unrelated documents. You can conduct full Boolean searches within this pool of citations. For example, you might search for a statutory section, case name, "reversed" or other terms, or keywords. Lawyers have become comfortable with this search within a search paradigm thanks to Web search engines.

As an added benefit, subscribers get the full text of every document they find via GlobalCite at no additional charge no matter what their subscription level. GlobalCite works across Loislaw's entire collection. GlobalCite is included with the purchase of any Loislaw package that includes primary law. Learn more about GlobalCite.

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Juris Joins LexisNexis

What's In Your Printer?

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Thanks to Silverbrook Research's Memjet, HP's Edgeline, and Kodak's EasyShare we might someday look back at 2007 as the year the inkjet printer began to leapfrog the laser printer in terms of speed and cost per page.

A few weeks ago, Databazaar Blog published five interviews about the printer industry's past, present, and future with five printer pundits. They all agreed on the importance of 2007, but offered different forecasts of the future. However, they did agree on one issue — inkjet versus laser.

For example, Vince Ferraro of HP felt that both inkjet and laser printers would continue to play important but different roles in offices. Inkjet supplies analyst Andy Lippman of Lyra Research noted that even today "25% to 35% of all desktop inkjet devices are installed in a business environment." He expects this percentage to grow, but not necessarily at the expense of laser printers.

Art Diamond, a world-renowned toner expert and holder of several patents, agreed, noting that "old technologies die hard." M. David Stone, PC Magazine's resident printer expert, also agreed, adding, "Even if inkjets catch up in speed, there's still a quality issue."

Printer industry consultant Jim Lyons said he could see a day when inkjets make laser printers obsolete. "Toner may be seen as a temporary aberration in the long view," he said. "I'm still not giving up my LaserJets just yet though!" he added.

This issue was one of many covered. If your law firm is a heavy user of printers, check out all five interviews.

HP Executive Vincent Ferraro Discusses HP's Past, Present, and Future

Industry Expert Jim Lyons Discusses HP, its Competitors, and the Future of Printing

Toner Pioneer Art Diamond Reflects on His 52 Year Career and the Future of Printing

Inkjet Expert Andy Lippman Discusses Memjet and the Coming Inkjet Printer Revolution

PC Magazine Contributing Editor M. David Stone Closes Out Printer Pundit Week With Panache

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Coming July 12, 2007 to Answers to Questions: Steven Schwaber reviews his experience setting up and using Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9, Brett Burney discusses the ins and outs of a multiple monitor setup (including how-to videos), Brian Frabl adds his two cents to the Word v. WordPerfect debate, Paul Billings reviews Microsoft Office Document Imaging and PaperPort 11 for TIFF manipulation, and Gil Marquez offers a solution for anyone having trouble printing a large PDF file. Don't miss this issue.

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In today's issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire, lawyer and legal technology legend Dennis Kennedy covers an online service that can turn your camera phone into a scanner, a new high-speed scanner with a tiny footprint, and a universal driver that can make virtually any scanner Mac compatible. Don't miss the next issue.

Below you'll find one of the three articles from today's edition:

MacGyver Your Next Meeting
By Dennis Kennedy

Remember MacGyver? Often confronted with a near-impossible situation, he managed to use only the materials he found at hand to solve the problem and win the day. Imagine, if you will, that you find yourself in a situation where you need to make a copy of a document and have only your cell phone, or just a digital camera. What would MacGyver do?

He might very well use scanR, which has created applications and services that enable you to copy and fax documents using a camera phone or a digital camera. With scanR, you'll impress your clients and colleagues by capturing and sending the information you need.

scanR is a Web-based service. You create a user account. When you want to scan a document, you simply take a picture of the document, trying to fill the whole screen with your document. You can take pictures of documents, white boards, and even business cards. You can easily scan and store business cards from events or save what you've written on whiteboards before they get erased. For certain phones, you can download and install the scanR Mobile application to make the process easier and faster.

You then send your image to scanR from a camera phone using the MMS protocol or send JPEG photo images. Shortly thereafter, you'll receive in your email digital copies of your image in PDF format for you to use and print.

scanR provides a quality score to help you perfect the art of taking pictures of your documents. You even get messages alerting you that a photo is out of focus. You can send up to 15 pictures in one batch.

scanR supports sending faxes to most phone numbers in North America, Western Europe, and East Asia. You scan, fax, or email your images from your My Scans page. If you don't receive a copy, your scans are collected at your My Scans page in a searchable gallery. scanR is currently a free service. A premium service is planned. Learn more about scanR.

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Coming June 1, 2007 to Fat Friday: Sarah Laracy reviews the redaction capabilities of Acrobat 8 Professional, Don Angus shares his experience with Apple's Mighty Mouse plus a tip to keep wrist pain at bay, William Kelly compares the Treo 650 to the BlackBerry 8700, Charles Tievsky reviews Canon's DR-2580C scanner, and David Amkraut weighs in on New York's Lawyer Advertising Rules. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming April 20, 2007 to Fat Friday: Dave Culbertson reviews and provides a comprehensive guide to getting started with the Fujitsu ScanSnap s500 in a law firm, Eli Nelson discusses the risks associated with clawbacks and sneak peaks during discovery, Joyce Glucksman reviews her Treo 650 after nine months of use, Andrew Shear reviews PasswordMaker, and Charles T. Lester, Jr. explains how to see a file's metadata using Windows Explorer. Don't miss this issue.

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Printers are the Rodney Dangerfield of the technology publishing industry — they don't get no respect. In the mid-1990s, I subscribed to Flash, a zine that covered laser printers for hobbyists, but you would be hard pressed to find such a publication nowadays. Printers tend to work more reliably than other equipment once configured so perhaps that explains this void.

Nonetheless, we think printers deserve a publication of their own given their important role in our homes and offices. Fortunately, so does our client, Databazaar, the largest independent online retailer of printer supplies. So Databazaar hired us (our LandingPage agency to be precise) to do exactly that.

Databazaar Blog launched earlier this month. Every day, we cover printers and related topics using a variety of recurring features. For example, Printer News covers new printers for home and office use, PrinTips provides FAQs, how-tos, and other tips, and DoubleSided covers the unusual and esoteric.

Importantly, Databazaar has provided us with editorial independence. The blog is a marketing vehicle only in the sense that it's designed to generate traffic. The best way to do that is with helpful content.

I always hesitate to use the "i" word, but in this case I feel it's warranted. Databazaar Blog features a number of innovations that I have not seen in other blogs. For example, we grouped a create bookmark script, email subscription form, and RSS feed together in a section called Subscription Center, which should enable people to better understand how to "subscribe" to a blog. Perhaps someday every blog will have a subscription center.

As for the content, it's more interesting than you might think. For a sampler, check out these posts:

Savvisoft Draws Up a New Blueprint for Microsoft Outlook

Kodak EASYSHARE 5100 All-in-One Printer: The Holy Grail of Inkjet Printing?

How Can I Share a Printer Connected to My Windows Vista PC?

Seeing the Light: Xerox Invents Self-Erasing Paper

Believe it or not, Databazaar Blog is not the only game in town. Several other printer blogs also exist:

The Ink Blog: A printer blog by another online printer supplies store.

Jim Lyons Observations: A blog by a printer industry consultant.

The HP LaserJet blog by Vince Ferraro: A blog by HP LaserJet's vice president of worldwide marketing.

Please send me your thoughts and suggestions for Databazaar Blog. Also, we would like to publish an article about the oldest printers still in use. If you still use a printer more than 15 years old, please contact us.

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Coming March 2, 2007 to Fat Friday: Paulo Pina shares the ins and outs of his firm's paperless workflow, Kurt Walberg reviews his experience with a Brother HL-5250DN printer, Mary Payonk issues a warning about a looming crisis in the court reporting profession, Timothy Piganelli explains why moving LegalTech out of New York would benefit both vendors and attendees, and Robert Fleming gives us a sneak peek into his old-fashioned firm -- and why he likes it that way. Don't miss this issue.

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