iConect Presents: Predictive Review: Burden, Bad Choices and Fear

[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] In our last blog posting, we discussed the fact that predictive review can reduce costs, improve quality and sometimes even save your case but many legal professionals don’t use it because they don’t trust it. A second reason is that they believe predictive review is too difficult and…

Where is the Data for Malaysian Airlines Flight 370?

[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] The French island of Réunion lies off the coast of Madagascar in the West Indian Ocean.  Wreckage found washed up on the island was examined by French and Malaysian authorities to determine whether or not it was part of the ill-fated Malaysian flignt MH 370, which disappeared in…

Can you Trust Predictive Review?

[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] We are swimming in data. According to IBM, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. And it’s growing faster than ever. Ninety percent of the data in the world has been created in the past two years. And “The Internet of Things” will create even more…

Chipotle Roll Your Own Data

[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] It seems fashionable for some these days to claim not to like Chipotle.  Others may, more practically, to wish to grow a business big enough to attract such detractors. But one thing is for certain:  Chipotle is rolling out a lot of burritos, and people are eating it…

Streaming Data Drives Cloud-Based Netflix Growth

[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] In 2005, if you’d purchased 100 shares of Netflix— remember that company that delivered DVD movies to your mailbox?—it would have cost you a little over $11,000. Not an insubstantial investment—stock analysts already liked the Netflix model, and investors had already priced a lot of future growth in—so…

Tech Failure or Tech Triumph?

[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] Yesterday, everyone was bombarded by the news that not one, not two, but three separate entities encountered technical problems that necessitated shut-downs:  United Airlines was forced to ground flights, The Wall Street Journal’s web portal was shut down, and the New York Stock Exchange—the veritable backbone of American…

Uber Drives Data

[column parallax_bg=”disabled” parallax_bg_inertia=”-0.2″ extend=”disabled” background_color=”” background_image=”” background_repeat=”” background_position=”” background_size=”auto” background_attachment=”” hide_bg_lowres=”false” background_video=”” extended_padding=”false” vertical_padding_top=”0″ vertical_padding_bottom=”0″ horizontal_padding=”0″ more_link=”” more_text=”” left_border=”transparent” class=”limit-wrapper” id=”” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” width=”1/1″ last=”true”] [column_1 width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] Ride-sharing service Uber announced it was leaving Broward County at the end of July, 2015.  They cited the ‘onerous’ regulations put in…

Are You Protected Against Identity Theft?

[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] The #1 ranking consumer complaint at the Federal Trade Commission for 15 years in a row has been identity theft.   And again, the state of Florida ranks first in complaints out of all 50 states— Florida has, in fact, more than 1/3 of all reported identity theft incidents…

Apple Music Launches Beats 1 Radio Service

[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] Apple Radio started this week.  The new music streaming service comes from the folks who kick-started the digital music frenzy with the introduction of their iPod back in October of 2001.  Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film “2001:  A Space Odyssey” may have been prescient back then with its view…

Power Distilled

[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] Some people enjoy a drink now and then.   And it’s interesting to note that the pleasure of indulging usually happens with very little idea of the actual process and ingredients behind the creation of the preferred alcoholic beverage.  For instance, did you know that beer, whiskey, and ‘moonshine,’…