SEC moves toward requiring interactive data filings
The Securities and Exchange Commission has taken a big step toward requiring public companies to file reports in XBRL format after a three-year transition period. Read more...

Xerox touts erasable paper, smart documents

'Revolutionary' collective intelligence of users touted at Web 2.0 Expo

TigerLogic touts upcoming browser-based search app

Mr. Gates goes to Washington as U.S. decision on OOXML nears

New travel site gives 'pain point' advice along with prices

Univ. of Md. launches data mining portal for counter-terrorism research

Microsoft to join Web 2.0 data portability group, says source

Generation Y biggest user of U.S. libraries, survey finds

Civil liberties group wants wiretapping legislation changed

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Been audited lately? Blame the IRS's massive, superfast data warehouse
Thinking of fudging a bit on your tax return in these troubled times? Don't do it unless you feel smarter than the IRS's 150TB Compliance Data Warehouse, which is responsible for a marked improvement in the agency's ability to spot potential fraud.

In-house Counsel
When a law firm gets hit with a discovery request of millions of files, its CTO takes the case

7 cheap ways to manage your online reputation
Hiring a professional online reputation management service is expensive. Do it yourself for free.

Mining the blogosphere to craft a reputation
Boosting the bottom line isn't always about cutting costs or improving distribution channels. One company found success by building a better online community.

Online reputation management is hot -- but is it ethical?
Search engine optimization vendors and other companies can help corporations and individuals monitor and manage their online reputations. But are they crossing ethical boundaries by tinkering with Web search results?

Opinion: Reducing your data through categorization
Reducing the number of e-mails and attachments that need individual attention means doing a better job of categorizing and identifying the data.

Opinion: Taking IT shops from marginalized to virtualized
Columnist Steve Duplessie says that by creating a virtual infrastructure -- a connection between the application and data -- we can solve most of today's primary IT problems and re-establish a tighter bond between IT and business.

Disaster Recovery Is a Disaster
Disaster recovery systems fail about half of the time, Mark Hall learns. But a new tool could help.

Pharma industry touts cure for data security ills
Every security professional is intimately familiar with the Law of Unintended Consequences; sometimes it even works in their favor. Case in point? The data-protection advances that RxHub needed to build to protect their real-time data-transport operation.

Ghosts in the machine, spooks on the wire
You're haunted these days by your own life, says Jon Espenschied, with every step you take recorded, categorized, aggregated and weighed -- and, too often, misinterpreted. Are we setting ourselves up for a perpetual house of horrors?

Specialists have retrieved about 99% of the data on a disk drive on board the crashed space shuttle Columbia. Don't miss the photographs of the recovered drive. These big ideas were supposed to revolutionize technology, but they never actually appeared. In a few cases, you'll be glad they didn't. Nearly 20 years after the first Internet worm, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols takes stock of the malware/anti-malware landscape and spotlights how the two sides are approaching the battle. Though some thought it was released too soon, Mac OS X 10.5 has matured into a solid operating system, says reviewer Michael DeAgonia.

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