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we’re hoping to soon have intranet communities where such information can be shared. David: What we do for attorneys who have a laptop is send out e-mail updates with tips and suggestions. For tablets, there are a couple of sites dedicated to legal apps; we keep up with those and try to educate users on what they can do beyond e-mail. Larry: Like Donaldaid, users of some of these devices are educating us by sharing tips and information. It’s a cooperative and communicative process, and it works well for us. How do you dispose of old devices in an environmentally friendly way? Larry: Our users sometimes return their devices and we pass them on to a vendor for disposal. Sometimes they’re given to charities. Donald: Everything we dispose ourselves is done in a very environmentally friendly and secure way, but we’re probably less proactive than we should be. David: In our firm, we consider two aspects: the environment and the data that’s on the device. When someone asks for a new device, we let them know we’ll need to remotely wipe the data on the old device using Zenprise. If it’s less than 18 months old, we try to sell the device for the attorney or donate it to a charity. Ryan: We have a couple of ways. First we erase the device. If the device is owned by the attorney, they can keep it as a backup, give it to a family member, etc. We also offer to recycle it by using one of our software partners; they erase the device and give us a full disposition of whether the device was resold or recycled. Additionally, some of our offices periodically host an electronic recycling day. Any electronic device can be brought in to be responsibly recycled. At what point in the future do you believe we’ll see mobile devices as a solid computing platform and not merely an accessory? Donald: Great question, one we’re looking into right now. I think it’s as much a matter for the mobile devices as it is for the future of VDI, Thin Client, Cisco, application streaming and everything else. My dream is to be completely device- independent and agnostic, and be able to say that if you want to have an iPad or a new BlackBerry Tablet or whatever, go for it. Then regardless of the device, independent of the operating system on that device — whether IOS, Android, Windows Mobile or whatever — we can support it and users can get the same experience. That would be a wonderful thing to have! I know that Citrix, for example — being a big proponent of a virtual desktop — already touts that they give their employees 24 www.iltanet.org Peer to Peer an allowance to buy anything they want as long as it has Citrix on it. So you can have Apple, I can have Windows and someone else can have Linux, and we’re all going to have the same experience. Do I think it’s coming? I do. I think the question is whether it’s going to be an integration of various operating systems into the firm’s environment or finding some new tool like a Thin Client or virtual client that’s going to level the playing field so we can truly become device agnostic. I believe we’re getting there. It’s going to be a reality. Ryan: I think we’re starting to see it occur now. I think it will happen exponentially, and sooner than we thought. Larry: My take is that it’s up to the manufacturers and the vendors as to what we can do. In a way, it’s already here. There’s the Citrix Receiver for the iPad and there’s one for Android that allows these devices to connect to our network with a lot of efficiency. David: I think it’s already here! Apple and Android are certainly going that way, and Windows 7 is headed that way, too. ILTA Unruly mail files frustrating eDiscovery? Stymied by email files or formats you can’t access or search? LEXBE eDiscovEry services are the perfect solution. > outlookPDF+ converts Outlook PSTs — and attachments — to searchable PDFs that are joined to original email, making page-level Bates stamping possible. > PDF ocr+ makes masses of PDFs searchable; TIFFs can be searchable too,with TIFF OCR+. > Native file extraction, conversion. Prep native MS Word, Excel and others for review in Concordance, iBlaze and other litigation support programs. > Quick completion of even the largest jobs with our highly- scalable, proprietary eDiscovery processing architecture. > GB pricing makes costs reasonable and predictable. LITIGATION UNLEASHED for details or a quote see MailStorm.lexbe.com