A public interest law firm is private, for-profit association of lawyers, like any other private law firm. However, public interest law firms are distinguished from private firms in that their primary mission is to assist under represented people or causes, rather than to make money. This difference in mission creates a difference in billing practices ...

Private Equity Intelligence reports that by 2006, the total net profits distributed to investors by private equity funds raised between 99 and 2003 was $430 billion. Read more about private equity on Henry Kravis page. Who benefits from these returns? The big winners are public pension funds, university endowments, and leading foundations. Together, these funds ...

Executives at companies large and small as well as marketing and PR people tend to pushback on the ideas of a World Wide Rave because they want to apply old rules of measurement to the new world of spreading ideas online (find it at Cydcor Offices). The old rules of measurement used two metrics that ...

A hosted PBX system delivers PBX functionality as your service, available over the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and/or the internet. Hosted PBX is provided by the telephone company, using equipment located in the premises of the telephone company’s exchange. This means the customer organization doesn’t need to buy or install PBX equipment (generally the ...

Recently, I was involved with the implementation of a replication solution at an electric utility company. This implementation was the center piece of a disaster recovery (DR) implementation for one of their power plants. Normally, when a replication solution is implemented, data recoverability at the remote site is mandatory. After all, what good is the ...

Not surprisingly, most folks see CES as a watershed event for tracking the latest in current, emerging and future consumer electronics trends. So why did I travel to CES 2010 in search of products related to business IT? Pure contrariness is one reply, but let’s also toss in the common, if sometimes subtle, linkages between ...

The New York Times says it will charge readers for full access to its Web site starting in 2011, a risky move aimed at drawing more revenue online without driving away advertisers that want the biggest possible audience. The potential pitfalls have made most other major newspapers hesitant to take a similar step. However, after ...