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Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance, Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:13 PM PDT
United States Army Awards Contract to 3M for Pilot RFID Program To 
Track and
Manage Medical Records at Fort Hood
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060724/20060724005895.html?.v=1
ST. PAUL, Minn.----July 24, 2006--3M has been awarded a $3.76 million 
contract to develop and install a system that uses radio frequency 
identification technology to track medical files at the U.S.

Talks on Quattrone Case Near End
Wall Street Journal (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
... of his group endorsing a colleague's earlier message urging 
recipients
to "clean up" their files in compliance with the company's 
document-retention
policy. ...
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115370136608014934.html?mod=googlenews_w
sj>

Who's reading your email?
Australian IT - Australia
... has recorded a staggering 89 million breaches of records containing
sensitive ... up bogus accounts with the company and buy about 145,000
personal credit files. ...
<http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,19869644%5E15394%5E%5Enb
v%5E,00.html>

OUR VIEW: Protecting computer records
The Patriot Ledger - Quincy,MA,USA
... that all the town’s business is now kept on computer files and 
that’s ... recent example occurred at the Department of Veterans 
Affairs, when the records of 26 ...
<http://ledger.southofboston.com/articles/2006/07/24/opinion/opin01.txt>

Secret police files stolen from car
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... breach. Something had to be done immediately to ensure other highly
sensitive records did not fall into the wrong hands, he said. ...
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/secret-police-files-stolen-from-c
ar/2006/07/24/1153744731735.html>

SCO accuses IBM of destroying evidence
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
Proprietary UNIX vendor SCO has produced a veritable litany of bizarre
and questionable allegations since 2003 when it first brought its 
infamous
copyright ...
<http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060724-7330.html>


SCO shares glimpses of alleged IBM Unix misdeeds
CNet News.com Blog - USA
... the method from Dynix/ptx.". Also in the filing, SCO accuses IBM of
intentionally destroying evidence. "Weeks after SCO filed its ...
<http://news.com.com/2061-10809_3-6097847.html>

SCO claims IBM destroyed evidence in Unix case
Computer Business Review - UK
SCO Group Inc has accused IBM Corp of destroying evidence that it could
have used to support its case in the long-running breach-of-contract and
copyright ...
<http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=058BB63B-94EF-4F67-830A-4
CDCCAE5AF0D>

Brewery archives add on 100 years
BBC News - UK
Britain's oldest brewer has discovered that its home in Kent is at least
a century older than previously thought. Shepherd Neame ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/5209528.stm>

Office Workers Behaving Badly Due To ‘Desktop Distress Syndrome ...
WebitPR (press release) - North Hykeham,Lincoln,UK
... This ‘bad habit’ behaviour of employees could cost companies 
millions,
as well as leaving them vulnerable to hacking and corporate espionage.
<http://www.webitpr.com/release_detail.asp?ReleaseID=4279>

Microsoft relents on open documents
Washington Technology - Washington,DC,USA
... the formatting and structure of records that are ... Most government
offices can save their documents in whatever ... Microsoft Word, for 
instance,
saves files in the ...
<http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/21_14/news/28992-1.html>

Wall Street Journal
Office Technology
A New Take on Disaster Planning
By MICHAEL TOTTY
July 24, 2006; Page R7
In the shadow of September 11 and last year's destructive hurricanes, 
businesses are beginning to learn a new lesson about disaster 
preparation: focus on people, not just data.
In recent years, businesses have planned for the worst largely by 
safeguarding their computer systems, such as by storing their data in 
multiple locations. Now many companies are realizing that the human 
factor is just as important.
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115333826152811446-email.html>


Brewer discovers another 100 years of history
kentonsunday.co.uk - Kent,UK
... But previously unseen documents discovered while renovating its 
visitor
centre have shown ... Owen spent months looking at ancient ledgers and
deeds discovered in ...
<http://www.kentonsunday.co.uk/Kent-News/Brewer-discovers-another-100-yea
rs-of-history.aspx>

Nations battle over rights to ancient artifacts
MSNBC - USA
Just who holds the deeds to ancient artifacts—the institutes that house
them or ... victims of a 1997 suicide bombing in Israel, according to
court documents. ...
<http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14013753/>

ID FRAUD FEARS FOR 240,000 TOURISTS
Glasgow Daily Record - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
... The names, addresses and card details of 243,000 customers were 
stored
on a laptop stolen from a locked car in Texas in February. ...
<http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17435424&method=full&sitei
d=66633&headline=id-fraud-fears-for-240-000-tourists--name_page.html>

ThomasNet, Mon, 24 Jul 2006 6:26 AM PDT
Software converts email attachments to secure PDF files.
http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/487836/rss
Zetadocs PDF 3 can be used to merge any number of business documents 
nto single PDF file that can be emailed instantly to multiple 
recipients. Outlook Add-in lets users create PDFs on-the-fly when 
sending Microsoft Office attachments directly from within Outlook. To 
prevent unauthorized editing, printing, or opening by recipients, 
business documents can be password-secured by default.




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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