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Computer Weekly, Tue, 09 May 2006 3:44 AM PDT
Storage: Is your company data well preserved?
http://www.computerweekly.com/Feeds/RS/Articles/2006/05/09/215805/Storage
+Is+your+company+data+well+preserved.htm
Your data is only as good as the media it is stored on and the format
that it is stored in, writes Danny Bradbury – and in the long term,
both are
transient at best
Quad-City Times, Mon, 08 May 2006 10:38 PM PDT
Museum technician brings R.I. Arsenal history to life
http://www.qctimes.net/articles/2006/05/09/news/hometowns/doc445ec14c6db7
7554782537.txt
A few weeks ago, Jodie Creen Wesemann ventured into New Orleans’ Ninth
Ward. On a mission to help restore artifacts at the historic Jackson
Barracks
Military Museum, the 34-year-old Moline High School graduate worked amid
near-silence to rescue uniforms, documents and artwork.
PICTURES of the PAST
Bangkok Post - Thailand
... Reflecting on royal life and important landmarks, the sienna-hued
photographs
produced with glass negatives demonstrate Thailand's role during the
early
19th ...
<http://www.bangkokpost.com/Outlook/09May2006_out10.php>
A $15 Million Penalty
CSO - Framingham,MA,USA
In January, the Federal Trade Commission levied a landmark $15 million
penalty against data broker ChoicePoint because it allowed criminals
posing
as ...
<http://www.csoonline.com/read/040106/penalty.html>
Bring past to life for future historians
ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
... of census have resided in what is now Library and Archives Canada,
and ... time, mandated that census records under the control of the
national
archivist might be ...
<http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/502304.html>
Compliance on the edge - an innovative approach by Chronicle ...
IT Directors - USA
... irrelevant information before compressing the records, indexing and
... code, or hash, for unique files and messages ... a check that
sensitive
documents containing key ...
<http://www.it-director.com/article.php?articleid=13277>
Rhode Island to Tackle Electronic Records Storage
Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USA
On Friday, the Department of Administration issued a Request for
Proposal
(RFP) for Records Storage and Services. This RFP includes ...
<http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php/99463>
Total charged with stealing Xstrata papers
Mining MX - Sandton,Eastern Cape,South Africa
... "Our cleaning staff came to us and said two people had approached
them
to give them confidential documents in return for money," she told
Miningmx.
<http://www.miningmx.com/mining_fin/304093.htm>
Mold trumps space problems when it comes to county records
Maryville Daily Times - Maryville,TN,USA
... Records Manager Jackie Glenn, who stopped accepting county documents
two years ago because she ran out of space, said being located in the
basement of the ...
<http://www.thedailytimes.com/sited/story/html/257073>
Computers act as detectives in businesses' legal battles
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Cherry Hill,NJ,USA
... are paperless, scouring through old e-mail correspondence or
accounting
records can seem ... And don't think hitting the delete button can erase
a scandalous e ...
<http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060509/BUS
INESS01/605090327/1003/BUSINESS>
Stumbled by bad data
CMPnetAsia - Singapore
Naturally, the figure ended up on documents used to calculate tax rates.
... providing businesses with cleaning supplies and document storage and
shredding services ...
<http://www.cmpnetasia.com/oct3_nw_viewart.cfm?Artid=28688&Catid=8&subcat
=75§ion=Features>
Ingham County deeds office is 1st in state to offer online filing
Lansing State Journal - Lansing,MI,USA
Banks, title companies and others will be able to file deeds, mortgages
and other documents electronically with the Ingham County Register of
Deeds, officials ...
<http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060509/NEWS01/605090337/
1001/news>
Gemstar Ex-CEO Ordered to Pay $22 Million
CFO.com Magazine - New York,NY,USA
... to Reuters, Yuen agreed to plead guilty to separate criminal charges
of obstructing a federal investigation, admitting he destroyed documents
sought by the SEC ...
<http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/6907979/c_6906912?f=home_todayinfinance>
Open records laws exempt autopsy photos
Bradenton Herald - FL, United States
TALLAHASSEE - Two measures dealing with which government records are
public
passed the Legislature in its final week, to the chagrin of advocates
for keeping ...
<http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/14514266.htm>
National Archive analysing new Milada Horakova documents
Radio Prague - Prague,Czech Republic
The National Archive in Prague recently received new material donated by
Jana Kanska, the daughter of Milada Horakova, the Czech resistance
movement
hero in ...<http://www.radio.cz/en/article/78679>
Quality Archives Key To Preserving Nation's History, Heritage ...
Bru Direct - Brunei Darussalam
... "It is therefore a professional obligation for every archivist to
get
... already been addressed at previous Sarbica seminars including the
archive legislation and ...
<http://www.brudirect.com/DailyInfo/News/Archive/May06/100506/nite12.htm>
Where there's a will
WHDH-TV - Boston,MA,USA
... In Plymouth you have to plow through computer records and then
cross-reference
paper files. Is your name here? How would you know? ...
<http://www1.whdh.com/features/articles/specialreport/BO19197/>
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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