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SEC subpoenas Pre-Paid Legal Services documents

noreply@blogger.com ((hris) — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:20:00 +0000

Associated Press - April 15, 2010 4:25 PM ET ADA, Okla. (AP) - Pre-Paid Legal Services Inc. says the Securities and Exchange Commission has subpoenaed documents tied to customer complaints and...

Legal aspects of Russia's accession to WTO to depend on EU, U.S.

noreply@blogger.com ((hris) — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:20:00 +0000

RBC, 15.04.2010, Moscow 13:32:23. Russia's timely submission of legal documents for the accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) depends on the EU and the U.S., First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov stated during today's meeting of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.

Legal clinics adjust practices for economy

noreply@blogger.com ((hris) — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:20:00 +0000

In Elon University's School of Law, legal clinics serve as important learning tools for students. But many legal clinics are modifying practices because of the economy.

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Vatican Launches Legal Defense Over US Lawsuit (The Huffington Post)

noreply@blogger.com ((hris) — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:20:00 +0000

What's Your Reaction? VATICAN CITY â" Dragged deeper than ever into the clerical stimulate abuse scandal, the Vatican is launching a legal defense that the church hopes will shield the pope from a lawsuit in Kentucky seeking to have him deposed.

More in hospital after using 'legal high' drug (Yorkshire Post)

noreply@blogger.com ((hris) — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:20:00 +0000

NEW calls have been made to ban mephedrone after a hospital near the town where a young woman died after taking the deadly legal high confirmed it has treated a number of user

Pa. AG outlines legal challenge to health care law (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

noreply@blogger.com ((hris) — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:20:00 +0000

Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett says he's joined a legal challenge to the constitutionality of the new federal health-care law because he says he believes the government shouldn't be forcing people to buy health insurance.

NY court to consider legal services for the poor (WCAX-TV Vermont)

noreply@blogger.com ((hris) — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:20:00 +0000

Associated Press - March 23, 2010 5:55 AM ET ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York's top court is hearing arguments in a class-action causa that accuses the state of failing to provide effective legal...

Modi will exercise his legal rights: BJP (The Hindu)

noreply@blogger.com ((hris) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:20:00 +0000

NEW DELHI: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi â" who has been summoned by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) appointed by the Supreme Court to look into some Gujarat 2002 riots cases â" will decide on how to respond on the basis of legal advice given to him, the Bharatiya Janata Party said here on Thursday.

Free legal aid for May 10 teachers (Manila Standard Today)

noreply@blogger.com ((hris) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:20:00 +0000

THE Integrated Bar of the Philippines and the Department of Education signed an agreement on free legal aid for public school teachers who might get involved in court cases for their election-related duties.

Ruiz' Blood Alcohol Over Legal Limit (Albuquerque Journal)

noreply@blogger.com ((hris) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:20:00 +0000

Vehicular homicide suspect James Ruiz was nearly three times the legal blood alcohol limit the night he allegedly rear-ended a vehicle in Santa Fe Friday night, killing two teenage sisters, according to state Department of Health spokeswoman Deborah Busemeyer. A blood sample taken from Ruiz revealed that his blood alcohol concentration was 0.22 percent, well above the state's presumed level of ...

Legal challenge over Yarl's Wood protest (BBC News)

noreply@blogger.com ((hris) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:20:00 +0000

BBC East speaks to those involved in recent protests at Yarl's Wood immigration edifice as lawyers increase a legal challenge in the High Court.

Legal issues stall Syracuse building's demolition (The News-Times)

noreply@blogger.com ((hris) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:20:00 +0000

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) â" Legal issues are stalling the demolition of a crumbling downtown Syracuse building that has forced the closure of a section of interstate highway, disrupting the daily commute for tens of thousands of people.

NRZ leader in slander suit requests legal aid from city (The New Britain Herald)

noreply@blogger.com ((hris) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:20:00 +0000

NEW BRITAIN â" A resolution that would require the city to provide Richard Marzi, president of the North-Oak Revitalization Zone, legal counsel of his choosing at city expense was tabled without any action Wednesday.

Microsoft to use legal strategy to bust botnets (MalaysiaNews.net)

noreply@blogger.com ((hris) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:20:00 +0000

Microsoft will use the same legal tactic it deployed successfully last week to strike at the Waledac botnet's command-and-control centres to go after other botnets.

Microsoft to target other botnets with legal weapon (CIO)

noreply@blogger.com ((hris) — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:20:00 +0000

Microsoft has several other botnets in its crosshairs, and believes it can use the same legal tactic against them that it deployed last week to strike at the Waledac botnet's command-and-control centers.

Non-Human Life Forms to be Outed on Internet Soon

noreply@blogger.com ((hris) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:32:00 +0000

Start-Up Links 65 Million IP Addresses To Users, Readies Targeting Platform

By Wendy Davis, Thursday, February 25, 2010
Web users who don't want to be tracked via standard HTML cookies can opt out in various ways, including rejecting cookies at the browser level or regularly deleting cookies. Users who don't want to be tracked via Flash cookies also can delete those cookies -- though doing so isn't as easy as deleting HTML cookies.

But even the most tech-savvy users might be stymied by some of the newer, harder-to-control tracking technologies. Two years ago, NebuAd began purchasing data directly from people's broadband providers. While the company said users could opt out of its online behavioral advertising program, it's since come to light that some ISPs that tested the system never gave subscribers that opportunity.

Now, the company ClearSight Interactive is getting ready to launch a form of targeting based on users' IP addresses. ClearSight, which describes IP addresses as the bridge between users' offline and online data, has spent the last 18 months acquiring more than 100 million IP addresses -- along with email addresses and postal addresses -- from publishers. As of today, ClearSight Interactive believes it has collected enough data from publishers to reliably link 65 million "sticky" IP addresses -- typically for people who connect to the Web using cable modems -- to specific individuals, ClearSight president Tim Daly told MediaPost today during a break at the OMMA Behavioral conference.

The publishers collect a host of data from customers -- including their IP addresses -- when they register, says ClearSight . Generally, publishers ask customers if they are willing to share information about themselves with third-party marketers. If they check the box indicating yes, the publishers pass along their names, email addresses and other information -- including the IP address logged at the time. While some of those IP addresses are from work addresses, libraries, etc., others are from users' homes.

ClearSight Interactive, which hopes to launch in the next four to six weeks, intends to serve ads to visitors whom they can identify based on their IP addresses. The company's model involves working with ad networks -- who would get the IP addresses dynamically from publishers, and then serve ads to specific addresses.

For now, the plan is to target those users only by their neighborhoods (ZIP-codes plus-four) but not to append other data about individual users to the IP addresses. Not yet, anyway. CEO Tom Alison says the company will first wait to see what happens in Congress, where Rep. Rick Boucher (D. Va.) has vowed to introduce privacy legislation.

Alison also makes the debatable claim that users have opted in by agreeing to let publishers share data with third parties. But this position seems to distort the meaning of opt-in, considering that users almost certainly believe they're signing up to receive emails from third parties when they give publishers permission to share data. Surely it hasn't crossed many Web users' minds that a publisher would share its IP logs with a third-party targeting company.

Alison also says that people who have previously opted in also can opt out at the publishers' sites. Again, however, if users don't realize that someone has passed along their IP address for targeting purposes, it won't occur to them to opt out.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau has devoted enormous resources to lobbying against regulation of online ad targeting. The IAB, and other ad groups, argue that the industry can on its own ensure that companies notify users about ad targeting and allow them to opt out.

But when companies continue to push the envelop on targeting -- or on fundamental matters like the meaning of opt-in -- calls for new regulations will only grow stronger.

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First-of-its-Kind Behavioral Targeting Suite Launched by ClearSight Interactive

ClearSight Interactive, one of the most robust and sophisticated behavioral targeting services offered, announced the launch of operations today. ClearSight Interactive's proprietary technology allows advertisers to improve their ability to reach target customers by evaluating their online behavior and connecting it with offline profile data, conversions and sales. With a first-of-its-kind approach, ClearSight Interactive bridges IP addresses to verified postal addresses and email addresses, to provide a solution that couples both offline and online mediums in a way that has never been done before. ClearSight Interactive's solutions help identify consumers more successfully online, evaluate which ads are being delivered effectively, optimize ad delivery to focus on the most relevant audience, and canvass consumers across multiple marketing mediums.

Foster City, CA February 26, 2009 -- ClearSight Interactive, one of the most robust and sophisticated behavioral targeting services offered, announced the launch of operations today. Founded by industry veterans Albert Gadbut and Tim Daly, ClearSight Interactive allows advertisers and publishers to more effectively target the consumer by monitoring and evaluating both online and offline demographic, psychographic and consumption behavior for the first time at this level. With a database of over 165 million permission-based online users -identified with state-of-the-art data verification and predictive data modeling strategies - ClearSight Interactive boasts one of the largest collections of online user data, making it possible to generate the most highly-targeted online ad campaigns.

The proprietary system opens new possibilities to businesses that want to save valuable marketing dollars while enhancing the effectiveness of their online and offline marketing campaigns. ClearSight Interactive's proprietary technology allows advertisers to improve their ability to reach target customers by evaluating their online behavior and connecting it with offline profile data, conversions and sales. After a consumer views or clicks an ad, the company can then monitor the users future behavior using contact information databases to determine if they later made a purchase - e.g. did someone who viewed a car ad actually visit the dealership and purchase a vehicle? By accessing this contact information database of interested parties, businesses are also able to target their current and potential consumers via multiple channels beyond banner ads such as email and direct mail to create focused, yet comprehensive marketing plans.

"We are proud to offer advertisers and publishers a lasting solution to the problems that have plagued them since the inception of the web," said ClearSight Interactive President and co-founder, Tim Daly. "These solutions will help foster innovation and increase opportunities previously unavailable to online advertisers, publishers and media buyers throughout the industry. At a time when the economy is struggling and with marketing budgets being slashed, it is a necessity for businesses to streamline their marketing dollars to ensure they are reaching their desired audience in the most effective and cost-efficient manner, rather than using a blanket, non-specific approach," he added.

With ClearSight Interactive's tools, businesses can now better track the effectiveness of a particular banner ad at reaching its target audience and driving sales for the company. As a result, campaigns that do not meet marketing objectives will be optimized in real-time or possibly eliminated and replaced by more effective media strategies that work.

With a first-of-its-kind approach, ClearSight Interactive bridges IP addresses to verified postal addresses and email addresses, to provide a solution that couples both offline and online marketing mediums in a way that has never been done before. ClearSight Interactive packages their proprietary technology and consumer insights into a suite of four products:

ClearTarget
ClearTarget offers the most complete data collection of online users and the most powerful predictive data elements for ad serving available. By limiting wasteful ad serving and improving user identification to better serve ads based on user behaviors and profile data, ClearTarget offers a new way for advertisers and publishers to run effective ad campaigns. ClearTarget is able to identify users within milliseconds to serve the most relevant ad to a user at the most appropriate time.

ClearAnalytics
Leveraging a database of over 100 million identified online users, ClearAnalytics provides insight into the demographic, psychographic and consumption traits of users. This reporting system evaluates the advertisers' target audience and how effectively their media buy is reaching them. Additionally, ClearAnalytics offers the capability to matchback offline sales to online banner impressions, providing valuable information regarding the true branding value of banner advertisements and allowing marketers to ensure their budgets are used effectively.

ClearTrigger
ClearTrigger offers advertisers an opportunity to engage and interact with prospective customers via email. With over 165 million permission-based CAN-SPAM compliant email addresses integrated into ClearSight Interactive's database, ClearTrigger allows for multiple communication touchpoints both through banners ads as well as email. ClearTrigger allows advertisers to re-engage the online user through email and speak with these users on a one-to-one basis about their product or service offering.

ClearMail
Web marketers are challenged by trying to reach a mostly anonymous audience. ClearMail allows advertisers to identify online users and match back their behavioral activities to a known postal address, therefore bridging both the offline and online mediums and allowing advertisers to communicate with their target market through multiple marketing channels.

ClearSight Interactive's solutions help identify consumers more successfully online, evaluate which ads are being delivered effectively, optimize ad delivery to focus on the most relevant audience, and canvass consumers across multiple marketing mediums. "The goal with ClearSight Interactive's suite of solutions is to eliminate errors committed in the advertising process, to not only make it more efficient, but also more productive and profitable in order to help business grow, particularly during such tough economic conditions. We want to stop advertising dollars from being wasted on non-target markets and improve ROI beyond expectations for advertisers and publishers alike," said Al Gadbut, ClearSight Interactive co-founder and Chairman.

ClearSight Interactive is currently in its Alpha stage of development and has already attracted an impressive roster of inaugural clients and development partners. To learn more about ClearSight Interactive and how their ground-breaking solutions can empower advertisers and publishers, visit www.ClearSightInteractive.com.

About Clear Sight Interactive
ClearSight Interactive provides a comprehensive range of behavioral targeting solutions for both advertisers and publishers. Taking the step forward as a pioneer in this industry, ClearSight Interactive bridges the divide between offline and online consumer marketplaces while identifying the largest volume of online users in the industry. Our proprietary technologies have intelligently identified over 100 million permission-based online users and have captured billions of behaviors concerning these individuals, from both online and offline sources. ClearSight Interactive is privately held, with headquarters in Foster City, CA and offices in New York and Philadelphia, PA.

Contact Information
Tim Daly
ClearSight Interactive
http://www.ClearSightInteractive.com
(215) 543-3492

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ClearSight Interactive
http://www.ClearSightInteractive.com

12 Haitian children in legal limbo (UPI)

noreply@blogger.com ((hris) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:20:00 +0000

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Twelve children flown from Haiti to Pittsburgh by a group including Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell are now in legal limbo.

Legal challenge could improve access to disabled housing (Canada.com)

noreply@blogger.com ((hris) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:20:00 +0000

A legal challenge launched Tuesday, if successful, could pave the way for new bylaws across the country to help the disabled gain equal access to housing.

Legal team wary of Jackson prosecutors (The Courier Mail)

noreply@blogger.com ((hris) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:20:00 +0000

THE legal team of Conrad Murray, the doctor charged with involuntary homicide over the death of Michael Jackson, said LA prosecutors are being "suspiciously slow" in turning over documents to them, reports said today.