Andrew Calvin - law, information technology and rants

You might be interested in the latest email scam I received. Lawyers are often targeted with these and while the story differs (debt collec...

In-house lawyers with standard contracts should review the Notices clauses in their contracts since Australia Post changed its delivery g...

Many power, gas and water utilities maintain lists of products that are approved to be used on their network. Contractors may only u...

Australians have access to a number of on-demand video services, such as Presto, Stan and Netflix, and these are changing the way we consum...

I've played Ingress (ingress.com) for a year or so now, to encourage me to walk. Some people find it very social, whereas I don't i...

I have a Samsung Galaxy Alpha phone, which I have come to really not like at all. It has had many issues, including simply not working for ...

I bought a Samsung Galaxy Alpha SM-G850Y some months ago and still have mixed feelings about it. It's not a terrible phone, but it does...

 In 2010 the government of Iceland decided it wanted to create a haven for new media that would be at the forefront of data security in Eu...

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Meh. It does photos differently. Don't worry about it. Seriously.

A lot has been written in the last week about the rebadged software now known as Outlook . I have to say that most of it is uninformed and...

Yesterday I downgraded my Nexus 5 from Lollipop (5.0.1) to KitKat (4.4.4).  Why? I've actually got two Nexus 5 phones. One is my wo...

If you sell into the European Union you should find out more about the Consumer Refund Directive . http://www.techtimes.com/articles/23710/...

Having recently returned to private legal practice, it's been an interesting time to think about best practices for data storage, infor...

If you work in the Sydney central business district, the NSW State government has issued a map and details of an exclusion zone around the ...

I'm happy to be corrected on this, but today I had an app that misbehaved on Yosemite, and the Force Quit... command didn't interru...

Over the last few days I've done a quick review of a number of Microsoft Exchange email clients for Android. I like to keep work and pr...

I've had the over-the-air update to Android 5.0 Lollipop for 36 hours, and I have a few observations: Skype stopped workin...

Although I have used Macintoshes professionally since System 6, I by choice use Windows computers since Windows 7 - working in enterprises ...

I have, as a university student, a 4 year subscription to onedrive for four years for USD$100. That gives me at least 1 TB but that might b...

The problem: You receive a phone call while on the go, and you really should make a written file note of what was said. You try to remember...

The Australian Senate has passed the National Security Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2014 . It has a lot of interesting amendments to...

For whom the TPG bell tolls: NBN competition heats up : (source - Financial Review) So TPG is now offering 100 Mb down, 50 Mb to selected ...

The Claim:  Microsoft Matter Center for Office 365 boosts law firm productivity : I've used SharePoint for many years, and was even ...

Kevin O'Keefe correctly explains that lawyers' blogging is good for the dissemination of news... http://abovethelaw.com/2014/08/can...

Using Netflix in Australia is a breach of the customer contract between the user and Netflix, even if you are normally domiciled in the USA...

The final piece The Journal of the Law Society of New South Wales  is changing, and this is the last journey through cyberspace that I’ll...

You may have read about the recent case of Mickle v Farley [2013] NSWDC 295 (29 November 2013), in which a former Orange High School st...

There are a few lessons to be learned as a result of the massive attack on the Meetup web site in early March 2014. That attack meant that...

I'm presently in France for two weeks, and was interested in using a local pre-paid SIM. I settled on Lebara, which is a global virtua...

That old chestnut The Sydney Morning Herald reported on 14 February 2014 that the Federal government was once again considering requir...