April 28, 1999

Law News Network.com reports that The American Bar Association has given its seal of approval to the use of e-mail to transmit client documents. Under most circumstances, a lawyer does not violate a client's confidentiality by transmitting documents via unencrypted electronic mail, the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility concluded in an ethics opinion announced last week. The actual ABA opinion is now availablavailable. See ABAnet Journal Technology News for an article entitled Red-letter Day for E-Mail - Client communication on Internet not ethics breach

April 29, 1999

Consultwebs.com has completed a Website makeover for the National Legal Research Group , an organization that has served the legal community throughout the nation by providing high quality, cost effective research, analysis and writing since 1969.

April 26, 1999

Appeals court outlaws clandestine trick used in e-commerce. Nando Times reports in the Technology News Section that a federal appeals court outlawed a stealth weapon in the Internet commerce wars by forbidding companies from using their rivals' trademarks to steal business. The ruling involves the practice of including a competitors' trademark or brand name in an Internet site, either as the address or through what are known as "meta-tags." Brookfield Communication Inc., a Los Angeles-based company that sells entertainment industry software. In a suit filed last year, it accused West Coast Entertainment of infringing on its trademark, "MovieBuff." Brookfield said the company, one of the nation's largest video rental chains, improperly took the Web address www.moviebuff.com and included it in the coding.

April 21, 1999

In a news story, CNET News.com reports that America Online is among five companies that today were named as "testbed" competitors to Network Solutions in the lucrative business of registering ".com," ".net," and ".org" domain names. ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is the new non-profit corporation that was formed to take over responsibility for the IP address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system management functions now performed under U.S. Government contract by IANA and other entities.

March 27, 1999

For news on a new "Melissa" that virus infects Microsoft Word documents using Visual Basic for Applications -- the built-in scripting language in the Microsoft Office suite, visit - the bulletin board. The virus has three main actions:
It infects Word and spreads to all Word documents you open.
It changes some settings to ease infection.
It e-mails itself using Microsoft Outlook, masquerading as a message from you.
Also visit the bulletin board for other information including news on Corel. This includes Corel's recent financial results, a PC World Corel 2000 review, and Corel's upcoming 2000 Roadshow.

March 26, 1999

Amid controversy, Network Solutions has quietly closed the Internic.net domain and moved everything to the Network Solutions domain. The whois search is now located at Make Changes.

February 19, 1999

The Happy99.exe worm (often called a virus) is real and causing widespread damage. See our Client Bulletin Board for more information on Happyy99.exe and removal instructions.

February 4, 1999

Consultwebs.com has completed a "shell" Web site for McDonald-York.com, a leading Raleigh, North Carolina general contracting, construction management, and design-build firm. Consultwebs.com often designs the foundation or shell of sites. This approach allows the client to add filler material and additional pages as desired.

February 3, 1999

Consultwebs.com has completed a Web site for Eddie Caldwell and David Ferrell of Hafer, McNamara, Caldwell, Cutler & Curtner, P.A. Consultwebs.com, also installed designed and installed sophisticated WordPerfect macros custom programmed by Gerald Kumpf that were designed to reduce the time spent distributing reports to multiple clients.

January 9, 1999

PC prices continue to drop. Compaq has released an under $2,000 server with 350-MHz Pentium II processor, with 64MB of memory, a 10/100 network card, and a 32X CD-ROM drive. Compaq Ships Sub-$1500 Server - IBM has released a $1599 for an entry-level ThinkPad, and $999 for a new Aptiva built around an AMD K6-2 350-MHz processor.

January 8, 1998

What's happening in the world of Internet Commerce? On-line holiday spending grew nearly 200%. Some good sources of information include The Electronic Commerce Guide which has articles on "Who Shopped" in 1998 and other trends. Year Ends on a High Note for E-Commerce - Retailers report strong sales continuing after the holiday crush is a good article to review. Some top e-commerce sites include MICROSOFT EXPEDIA - The best travel site: reserve hotels, rent cars, get flight info- schedules & costs, weather sites, currency converter, travel tips forum. All you need for travelling! Other travel sites include Travelocity and Travel Web. 2. E*TRADE - Access a wealth of individual stock data, up-to-the-minute stock quotes, performance history charts and earning estimates. Other sites in this field: Charles Swabb & Co. 3. GE TRADING PROCESS NETWORK - A network that links suppliers and buyers of industrial commodities. 4. AMAZON BOOKS - An online bookstore that offers more than 1.1 million titles. 5. MANHEIM ONLINE - A network for used automobile dealers.

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