The despised business of videoconferencing is about to get a new lease on life.
This weeks Economist has an article on Telepresence. The full title is “Behold, telepresence – Far away yet strangely personal”. (Requires subscription). Image above is from the article.
Here are a few excerpts to whet your appetite for the story
BEN STEVENS
THE MAC LAWYER
If you are a lawyer and you use a Mac (even if you only use it at home) and you do not already know Ben Stevens of The Mac Lawyer Blog, then allow me to introduce you.
Ben is a bright Spartanburg, South Carolina, lawyer with an all Mac-based
The Seattle Times wrote about Kevin O’Keefe today, the creator of my blog (not to mention the blogs of my Edge colleagues Ed Wesemann and Robert Millard). They featured Kevin in a "Business and Technology" article called: LexBlog teaches lawyers the basics of blogging.
It is no surprise that he understands the legal profession
Richard Susskind says:
the ‘really exciting stuff’ [is] due to take place in the next decade
Richard goes on to say:
By and large, most lawyers have now got their BlackBerrys, they Google regularly, and they think they are on their way the transformation has occurred,” he said. “The plumbing is in place, the
Richard Susskind opines on the future of law books. 
In his article: It’s a book, but not as we know it, reader Richard explores whether (or when) we will give up law books in favor of devices like the Sonyｮ Reader. PUNCHLINE: Susskind is probably right – it is not whether; it’s when
Today’s story in the Register, Server bug cripples Dublin law firms, is about Dublin law firms getting one-half million unwanted emails on top what Is likely a large volume in the first place. I contend that the usual flow of emails is crippling. So, at Edge International, we are working with pilot clients on
Bruce MacEwen mentioned his attendance at our global Edge International meeting in London last weekend (see his post Dateline London). What his modesty prevents him from telling you is that his own presentation was “killer”. His inspired ideas have already found their way into a discussion with a large network of European law
Richard Susskind is not short on credentials. Richard has a first class honours degree in law from the University of Glasgow and a doctorate in law and computers from Balliol College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the British Computer Society, and was awarded an OBE in the
The Winter 2005 edition of our quarterly magazine, Edge International Review, is now available for downloading as a PDF. This is a full color 40 page magazine so may takle a few minutes to download. (Some browsers will display the magazine without downloading it.) Senior management team members in law firms may request a complimentary
With nearly four million air miles in the last 10 years, I often joke that I “live in the sky”. The impact of allowing cell phone usage during flights is significant to me. This could either be an opportunity or a disaster. I think it is an opportunity for all of us and we can
