TechnoLawyer: Online/Cloud

Coming October 14, 2005 to Fat Friday: Timothy Cleary reviews Trend Micro's PC-cillin, Brad Jensen sets forth his plan for a spam-free world, Bruce Avery defends the use of $500 PCs in law firms (plus our publisher weighs in with a related controversy), Mark Bassett explains why courts might want to ban all cell phones even if they don't have cameras, and David Ach reviews a new online travel service. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming October 17, 2005 to Answers to Questions: Terese Deboo and Nicholas Hagoort review Stamps.com (the good, the bad, and the price), Jeffrey Franklin provides several options for sharing your calendar and contacts, Michael Raskin explains why your backups may let you down (and we point to a must-read article on this topic), and John Gordon reviews PCAnywhere. Don't miss this issue.

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Below you'll find one of the five articles from today's edition of TechnoLawyer NewsWire:

Give Your Data the Protection it Deserves
By Jill Bauerle
In light of recent natural disasters, highly publicized security breaches and increased regulatory compliance mandates, many law firms have developed a keen interest in what once only received lip service — data backup and disaster recovery. Though many firms routinely perform onsite backups, they struggle with off-site backup. Let's face it — storing your backups at home or at your other office across town may not be far enough away — plus it's a hassle. The solution — an online backup service, but which one? EVault looks like a good bet given its breadth of services, profitability ($24 million in sales last year), and large client base (7,000 clients and counting). Perhaps most importantly, EVault provides "end-to-end 256-bit encryption" of your data during all transfers. EVault can backup both your desktops and your servers, including Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server. EVault offers three services for different size law firms: EVault Small Business Edition for firms with fewer than 20 employees, EVault Protect for medium-size firms, and EVault InfoStage for large firms and firms with multiple offices. Each EVault service comes with free e-mail and telephone support. Once an EVault representative walks you through the 20-minute setup, off-site backup becomes fully automatic, eliminating the possibility of human error. EVault Small Business Edition costs $139 to setup and $85/month for up to 5GB or $150/month for up to 10GB. Additional storage sells for $15 or $20/GB depending on your plan. Contact EVault for pricing of its other services. Learn more about EVault.

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Coming October 10, 2005 to Answers to Questions: Frederic Wolfram reviews Acronis 8 and its role in the backup system at his firm, Oliver Wendell provides a quick fix for disaster recovery, Erin Baldwin reviews the ins and outs of Stamps.com, Patricia Dennis reviews Outlook for case management, and Steven McNichols directs WordPerfect users to a Web site offering free Bates stamping macros. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming October 6, 2005 to Answers to Questions: Jason Havens reviews STI's PracticeMaster/Tabs3 combo, Jack Turnquist explains his simple Windows backup solution using DOS, Jeanetta Stewart reviews the pros and cons of Stamps.com (she has used the service for five years), Perry Adanick provides some helpful tips regarding our ongoing spyware discussion, and Lee King offers more reasons why you may prefer a trackball over a mouse. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming October 5, 2005 to Answers to Questions: Rob Howard reviews a reliable online backup service, William Shilling reviews several accounting/time-billing applications for Mac users, Craig Bramley reviews programs for Bates stamping TIFF files, Stephen Seldin writes in with a promising input device for disabled lawyers who have trouble using a mouse, and Joseph Sferrazza discusses his experience using PCLaw for time-billing over the past three years. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming September 13, 2005 to TechnoFeature: Hurricane Katrina serves as a sobering reminder that one catastrophe — earthquake, fire, flood, hurricane, terrorism, etc. — can destroy an entire law practice. In this article, Wells Anderson and Joe Hartley explain how all law firms can supplement their in-house backup procedures with off-site safe, secure, and affordable Internet backups. In doing so, they review the leading online backup services. In the wake of Katrina, Wells pulled his originally-scheduled article to pen this one with Joe Hartley in the hope that it will help law firms stay in business when disaster strikes next. We will publish the article originally scheduled for today on January 17, 2006.

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Below you'll find one of the five articles from today's edition of TechnoLawyer NewsWire:

Share, Access, and Syndicate Your Files (Without E-Mail)
By Jill Bauerle
News Flash: Your colleague has added an important new audio clip or document to your case file. How do you know? You store your case files securely on Box.net, a new online file storage service that features RSS file sharing. Thanks to your Box.net RSS feed, you see your colleague's audio clip and document right in your preferred RSS-enabled browser or newsreader (e.g., MyYahoo, MyMSN, Firefox, BlogLines, FeedDemon, NewsGator, Safari). Click on the file link in your reader and it downloads to your desktop. An account with Box.net provides you with 1, 2, or 5 Gigabytes of secure online storage, enabling you to share and syndicate documents, photos, presentations, and video and audio clips from any computer or Internet-enabled handheld mobile device. When you share your files or folders, you can either provide public access via a unique RSS feed or shared download Web page. Box.net's mobile interface doesn't require any additional configuration on your phone, BlackBerry, or Treo, so you can easily share files from your Box.net account no matter where you are. To use Box.net for group or project collaboration, you can designate sub-accounts to provide clients and colleagues (group members) with access to the files and folders you designate. As the administrator, you can manage the access and upload privileges for all of your group members. If you have a Web site or blog, Box.net provides buttons and links that clients and colleagues can use to subscribe to your RSS feeds with a single click. Instant intranet and extranet! Box.net is Web-based, so there's no software to download or install. You can start sharing files within minutes thanks to Box.net's user-friendly interface. The price is even friendlier -- as little as $2.99 per month for 1 GB of storage or $8.99 per month for 5GB of storage. Learn more about Box.net.

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Coming August 23, 2005 to TechnoFeature: You may have heard of Wikipedia, the collaborative online encyclopedia, but what exactly is a wiki and how can one help your firm? When someone in your firm leaves, most likely some of their professional knowledge goes with them. Some departments may develop manuals for complex procedures, and many lawyers keep personal notes. But what if you could collect all that information in one place, readily accessible to everyone in your office? In this article, open source advocate and all-around tech guru Eric Skiff discusses the use of wikis for law firm knowledge management. Learn how to create, develop, and maintain an "internal wiki" and discover the many benefits for your firm.

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Coming July 18, 2005 to Answers to Questions: Diane Bowers explains how to integrate Hummingbird DM5 with Outlook, Douglas Folk and Tim Palmer respectively suggest possible solutions for publishing a legal treatise online, Sean Tierney reviews Google Desktop Search's PDF capabilities, and Warren Knowles reviews Hummingbird DM5's integration with GroupWise. Don't miss this issue.

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Published Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, Answers to Questions is a thrice weekly newsletter in which TechnoLawyer members answer legal technology and practice management questions submitted by their peers (including you if you join TechnoLawyer). Like all of our newsletters, it's free. Please subscribe now.