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Need ILM? Try RIM
If I were to say the letters “R-I-M,” would you know what I was talking about? I see some hands go up, that’s good. I also see some quizzical looks. But that’s good too because now I have your attention.

When Your End User Is a Judge
The vice president of records management at a large financial services firm once quipped that his end user was a judge. He should know, having been through a high-profile legal discovery process that required producing terabytes of electronic records along with truckloads of boxes filled with paper records. And do you know what he prefers to give the judge first and foremost? Paper records.

Fed up with tape, hospital moves to storage jukebox
When Cabell Huntington Hospital installed a new image and records archiving system late last year, it was given a choice of sticking with its optical disk jukebox with spinning disk arrays or going back to magnetic tape.

Pirates to Worry You: Chinese Manufacturing Partners
Somali pirates who brazenly attacked container ships in the Indian Ocean have garnered a lot of recent attention. But for companies that source products from Chinese manufacturing partners, there are even greater and longer-term business risks due to pirating attacks on companies' intellectual property and supply chains.

The Internet Kill Switch
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A Lesson in Compliance from the Chemical Industry
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A Wolverine in Fox's clothing
The Internet is a bad, baaaad thing. It turns otherwise normal people into criminals. And if you don't use it correctly it can get you fired. Erstwhile Fox News movie reviewer Roger Friedman found out this out the hard way when he reviewed a pirated copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine -- and found himself X'd out of a writing gig.

HITECH: Be afraid, be very afraid
Maureen Martin of The Heartland Institute, a think tank promoting public policy based on individual liberty, limited government and free markets, argues that the new Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act  exposes too much personal information.

Facebook exec on balancing privacy, business needs
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IBM layoffs, Manifesto saga, Google tweaks
IBM is laying off thousands more employees and is likely to ship more of those jobs overseas, news of which riled up a whole lot of people. A back-and-forth over a "secret" document regarding cloud computing -- of all things -- also stirred it up in some quarters, making us think that some folks really do need to get out in the sunshine a little more. Google brought some happiness to the mix, though, announcing it has added some semantic technology to its search engine.

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