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Got some new tech toys (ahem, "business tools")
and not sure what to do with them? We've got a
few ideas for you.
Whether it's a new iPhone, Blackberry, WinMo or
Android, mobile devices are only getting more powerful
and useful. Here are some useful (and cool) things
you can do with them.
1. Wired?s 20 Favorite iPhone Apps of 2009
2. From the upcoming January OBJ article on iPhone
security:
Apple?s iPhone has been a trailblazer in the app
phone market with many lawyers switching to the
iPhone. The iPhone is great. One of the real drivers
for its sales has been the hundreds of thousands
of downloadable apps. Apple recently announced
more than three billion apps have been downloaded
from its App Store.
Some colleagues of mine, Sharon Nelson and John
Simek, made a bit of a splash this year with their
recent assertion that iPhones are too insecure
for law firm use. See ?Parting the Curtains on
the iPhone?s Security Problems,? Law Practice magazine,
online at http://tinyurl.com/yj76q74 .
This article prompted one law firm to ban iPhones,
according to an article in the ABA Journal.
While I cannot argue with Sharon and John?s expertise,
I also cannot jump on the ?Ban the iPhone? bandwagon
either. Nor would committed iPhone users listen
to me if I did! Be aware that these security flaws
involve someone with technical expertise finding
or stealing your iPhone with the goal of stealing
the information it contains. So, one needs to make
certain that one is knowledgeable on the emergency
feature that can remotely erase the data on an
iPhone if it is lost or stolen and the ?Find My
iPhone? feature that enables users to view the
location of their lost or stolen iPhone on a map.
Of course, a professional criminal knows to pop
out the SIM card to defeat these measures, so take
action quickly if it is lost or stolen.
And surely every lawyer with an iPhone has set
a PIN, so that anyone who finds it cannot have
instant access to all the information on it.
I cannot argue with the assertion that a properly-configured
Blackberry is generally more secure than an iPhone
if lost or stolen. So try hard not to lose yours
if you have one.
3. Save the OBA Web site to your
iPhone Home screen:
Open www.okbar.org in
your Safari browser and click the "+" button at the
bottom of the screen. Follow the prompts to add
to the Home screen and you'll see a new icon with
the OBA logo added to the program list.
4. See latest cases, news and the OBA calendar
at OKNewsBar on
the OBA Web site.
5. Electronic research made easy: visit www.okbar.org/research for links to the best legal research tools available. |
