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Google launches its challenge to financial news websites in US: “Google Finance is trumpeting features that will allow users to monitor their portfolio and get access to chief executives’ pay details without wading through annual reports.”
Press release: “Sprint Nextel Corp. announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against a private investigation firm that employs deceptive practices to illegitimately obtain customer call detail records, and then sells the confidential information to online data brokers. In its complaint against San Marco & Associates of St. Petersburg, Fla., Sprint Nextel states that …
Final Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Future Strategic Strike Skills (89 pages, PDF), March 2006. This report is unclassified.
Defense Critical Technologies, (151 pages, PDF), March 2006. This report is a product of the Defense Science Board (U.S.) and the Defence Scientific Advisory Council (UK). This report is unclassified.
Wikipedia has published an extensive comparison of over two dozen web browsers. Included is information on each respective browser’s general history, features, operating system support, web technology support, languages in which the brower is available, and technical vulnerabilities. Readers note that all data is subject to verification, as this is a collaborative, open source publication.
ComputerWorld reports on enterprisewide search applications implemented by large corporations for a range of tasks, including competitive intelligence, e-discovery, and generating intranet content. Solutions such as FAST, Autonomy and Endeca index formats including text, audio and video.
The Memory Hole has recovered content from the Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT) website, apparently removed from public access within the past month. The recovered website pages have been posted by Russ Kick here.
OIG-Identified Management and Performance Challenges Facing the FDIC (2005)
The United States Statutes at Large (Volume 117, 108th Congress) is now available online from the U.S. Government Printing Office, with future volumes to follow as they become available.
Press release: “Neil Holloway, president of Microsoft Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), unveiled a global law enforcement campaign that will target cybercriminals behind phishing attacks. Microsoft Corp. announced that by the end of June 2006 it will have initiated legal actions on more than 100 cases in EMEA against individuals suspected of committing online …
Federal Bureau of Investigation: Weak Controls over Trilogy Project Led to Payment of Questionable Contractor Costs and Missing Assets, Full-text, GAO-06-306, and Highlights, February 28, 2006. “The Trilogy project–initiated in 2001–is the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) largest information technology (IT) upgrade to date. While ultimately successful in providing updated IT infrastructure and systems, Trilogy …
As reported by Raw Story tonight, a filing on March 17 by Libby’s defense names current and former White House and State Department officials as having leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame prior to Libby’s dissemination of the information. AP: Potential witnesses in the upcoming criminal trial of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, as …