This late in the year, there isn't much in the way of iPhone and iPad news. If you are looking for something else to do after reading the stories I list below, please remember that the voting booths are open in the ABA Journal's Fifth Annual Blawg 100, which you can access by going to this page. After taking about 10 seconds to register, you can vote for up to 12 of your favorite blogs. If you enjoy reading iPhone J.D., I would certainly appreciate your vote in the legal technology category. And now, a look at the (minimal) iPhone and iPad news of note from the past week:
- Massachusetts attorney Robert Ambrogi relates the story of Jamie Daigle, a Portland attorney who has an idea for a better iPad case that he is trying to fund through Kickstarter.
- St. Louis attorney Spencer Farris writes about the TrialPad app on the iPad to present evidence during trial.
- Louisville, KY attorney Finis Price writes about ExhibitView, another trial presentation app for the iPad.
- The Law Firm Mobile website reports that of the 200 firms on the AmLaw 200 list, 37 of them have versions of their websites optimized for a mobile device like the iPhone. My own firm, Adams and Reese, is one such firm; here is a direct link to our mobile website, but it comes up automatically if you access the main website address from an iPhone.
- Matthew Berg, the director of IT at the Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks law firm, writes about integrating iPads into a law firm in an article on the TechnoLawyer Blog.
- Monica Bay, the editor-in-chief of Law Technology News, reports on a recent survey about lawyers' use of mobile devices.
- Are you a frequent traveler? Mark Sullivan of PCWorld reports on the the 20 best U.S. airports for tech-savvy travelers (Dallas-Ft. Worth International is #1) and the most tech-friendly airlines (Delta is #1).
- John Lasseter of Pixar wrote a short, interesting article about Steve Jobs for Time.
- John Mello of PCWorld reports that adults spend more time with mobile devices than with print media. That's certainly true for me. (via Niki Black)
- Dr. Iltifat Husain provides three reasons that doctors love Apple products: simplicity, solid build quality and uniformity. (via Brett Burney)
- And finally, David Pogue of the New York Times has some interesting tech-related gift suggestions, such as $300 light bulbs that are also speakers and the Parrot AR.Drone Quadricopter, a $300 four-propeller craft that you control from your iPhone.
