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Introduces the radio-frequency identification (RFID), a technology adopted by the International Paper Co. that promises to revolutionize the way businesses manage vast supply chains in the U.S. Offer on RFID consulting services to other companies; Statement of Alan Clark, general manager of Smart Packaging for International Paper; Benefit offered by the RFID consulting services.

Reports on the increase in paper prices due to a shortage in the United States.

Focuses on the deployment of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology by corporations in the U.S. Requirement for the implementation of RFID technology; Implementation of the technology by International Paper Co. RFID-compliance mandates set by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and the Department of Defense; Companies that launched a consulting and integration service for the deployment of RFID.

Reports developments related to information technology (IT) in the U.S. as of August 2003. Appointment of Scott Paper as strategic adviser to IT firm Blackwell Consulting Services; Selection of Richard Roscitt as president and chief operating officer of MCI; Decision of Dave Orrico to join Salesforce.com.

Presents news briefs related to corporate investment in the United States as of January 1, 2001. Evolution of the customer account management and billing software of Edocs; Investors of Digital Paper; Business model of Access 360.

Reports on the use of electronic-discovery technologies among law firms in the United States. Technology features and functions; Applications in legal investigations and lawsuits; Major electronic-discovery software and services providers.

Reports on the plans of United Airlines to discontinue the use of paper tickets in the U.S. in July 2002. Amount charged by the company for paper tickets issued; Reason for the plan to discontinue the use of paper tickets.

The article reports on the concern raised by Edward Felten, a professor of computer science and public affairs at Princeton University, over the vulnerability of the electronic voting machines used in election in the U.S. According to Felten, the Diebold AccuVote-TS system that has been used in the country's election for more than two generations can easily be hacked, noting that he and two of his grad students were able to install a computer virus in the e-voting machine undetected.

Stresses the need to build a strong electronic voting system for the United States. Move by the federal government to make funding available through the Help America Vote Act to aid state governments in upgrading voting equipment and systems; Effort by Maryland to promote e-voting and to make the entire state election process electronic.

Reports that the U.S. Office of Management and Budget believes that only half of federal government transactions covered by the Government Paperwork Elimination Act are expected to meet the October 21, 2004 compliance deadline. Requirement set by the act; Focus given on the great job being performed by the National Archives and Records Administration; Major stumbling block to wide-scale compliance with the paperwork act.

Reports on the career developments of several executive in the information technology industry in the U.S. Retirement of Charles Wang as chairman of Computer Associates; Resignation of Lou Gerstner as chairman of IBM; Indictment of Phil White, former chief executive officer of Informix by the federal grand jury on charges of securities fraud.

Reports on the document-imaging system used at the Saint Louis Sewer District in Missouri to reduce its paperwork. System from Compulink Management Center; System's capacity.

The article discusses strategies that can be used by companies in the U.S. in selecting their next chief information officers (CIO). Internal candidates are insular and inexperienced while external ones are overburdened with expectations. The paper provides suggestions for formulating a successful CIO succession plan.

Focuses on the electronic commerce initiatives of the manufacturing industry in the United States. Ways in which manufacturing companies are creating electronic links; Hurdle in the manufacturing industry's supply chain goal; Examples of ongoing electronic business projects of Textron Inc.; Impact of online exchanges on trading relationships; Companies using extranets to streamline their selling channels. INSETS: Take My Post-It, Please--And Electronic Paper, Too;SNAPSHOT MANUFACTURING.

Focuses on American companies that spend at least $1 billion on information technology. Description of companies included in the group; Business operations; Importance of information technology in the companies' operations; Impact on the companies' competitiveness. INSETS: AT&T sees end to paper trail.;Chase's new image.;UPS expands online package.;IT drives MCI.

Provides an overview on information technology programs of distributors of electronics, paper and components parts and assemblies in the United States. Primary challenge in tuning distribution supply chains; Arrow Electronics Inc.'s adjustment of its business model to account for the shift of manufacturing activity in Asia; Percent decline in the IT budget of Arrow.

Reports on the work of information technology organizations for financial institutions in the U.S. Development of business-technology initiatives to support growth strategies; Modernization of paper-based processes; Improvement in the customer services.

Reports on the efforts of Kemper Insurance Cos. to digitize paper-based information and automize data handling. Damages suffered by the company due to the September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States (U.S.); Laws in the U.S. concerning the use of paper documents by insurance companies; Software selected by Kemper for its digitization efforts; Challenges faced by the company concerning the matter.

The article reports on the move of Xerox Corp. to apply for a patent for a printing technology that creates images that last for one day with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Dubbed "Erasable Paper," the company emphasizes that it will be used for e-mails and documents that are printed for brief viewing. Moreover, the paper could be reused once the image fades. The said technology came from the company's collaboration with Palo Alto Research Center Inc.

Reports on the move of Binghamton Giant Markets Inc. to replace paper prices tags in its merchandise with the wireless electronic tags from NCR Corp. Advantages of electronic price tags over paper price tags; Benefits of wireless electronic price tags; How the wireless electronic price tag works.

The article reports that Google Inc. has turned down the subpoena of the U.S. Government requesting for search data. Through resisting the subpoena, Google was praised by privacy advocates. But the truth behind their refusal was to guard their trading secrets on how the world's best-known information factory operates. Google used to disclose information regarding their products. An example is the paper "Web Search for a Planet: The Google Cluster Architecture," which was published in 2003.

Focuses on the natural disaster preparedness of the business enterprises in the U.S. Compilation of critical document paper; Analysis of the business processes; Inventory of the unstructured information.

Reports on the declaration of President Clinton that private enterprise must lead the world into global electronic commerce. Advocacy of the president regarding Internet; Paper the president will issue regarding E-commerce; Paper's principal author; Head of the US delegation to the G7 E-commerce policy group; Proposal of Clinton and Gore regarding taxes and tariffs on digital trade.

Reports on Westinghouse Savannah River Co.'s establishment of an enterprisewide system for electronic document and records management. Conversion of paper into digital files; Storage of millions of documents and images from different sources; Use of Documentum's Enterprise Document Management System, Adobe's Acrobat and Capture software, and RSA Data Security's encryption software.

The article reports that U.S. President Barack Obama has instructed federal agencies to improve the management and accessibility of government records by accelerating the move from paper to electronic documents. steps agencies need to take in pursuit of updated records management systems and processes.

The article reports on the importance of a one-button option to download electronic health records which have been highlighted in the policy paper by Markle Foundation in the U.S.

The article profiles Vercie Lark, chief information officer of U.S.-based Embarq Corp. The paper provides information on Lark's educational attainment, professional experience, business philosophy and management style. His advice for other chief information officers is to stay abreast of technology trends and take the time to acquire skills in business administration, economics or finance.

The article presents news related to the information and computer industry in the U.S. compiled as of October 2007. Art Wittmann has written a paper about the latest gear and techniques to make date center state of the art. APO expert Michael Biddick discussed trends in delivering high quality voice and video.

The article reports on the proposal of a federal advisory committee of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission that would help secure electronic voting in the country. It promoted the idea of installing and auditing new voting machines by paper trails or other technology. The recommendation was made following the issuance of a draft report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

The article reports on the complaint for e-voting in the U.S. CEO of Common Cause Chellie Pingree said that the complaints has included lack of poll worker training, missing parts and machines that failed to register the right choices and lack of paper trail for recounts. Further, founder of Verified Voting Davil Dill said that he is expecting revelations about e-voting problems. He adds that vote flippings may have been the caused by the calibration problems.

The article reports on a September 2005 study which found that only 14% of group practices had electronic-records and people in the field have not seen much change a year after Hurricane Katrina destroyed millions of paper medical records. It comments on the implications of the findings on U.S. President George W. Bush's 2004 goal for most Americans to have e-health records in 10 years.

The article reports that the U.S. Census Bureau will use global positioning system (GPS)-enabled hand-held devices in its 2010 population count. Major part of the data will still be gathered through mailings of paper forms, the Internet, and telephone calls. Census takers will go to households that have not responded to surveys to get information and verify addresses and corresponding GPS coordinates. It is intended to improve accuracy of census. Census data is used to determine the federal grants to each state and its number of Congressional representatives.

This article reports that a good argument for why health-care providers should adopt electronic medical-record systems can be found in the tens of thousands, if not millions, of pages of paper files and charts that were destroyed in doctors' offices, clinics, and hospitals across the Gulf Coast states because of Hurricane Katrina. It's estimated that less than 20 percent of hospitals in the U.S., and even fewer doctors' practices, have adopted electronic medical-records systems. Kindred Hospital New Orleans is one of those few. The 54 patients who were evacuated from the long-term, acute-care hospital a few days after the hurricane--with protection from military guards because of reports of looters and snipers--were able to have their digitized records electronically sent to the other Kindred facilities in Houston and Baton Rouge where the patients were transferred.

The article presents information on the business plans of Colgate-Palmolive Co. About 70 per cent of Colgate-Palmolive's $1.32 billion net income on more than $10.6 billion in annual revenue last year came from sales outside the United States. With so much business being done outside U.S. borders, the company is taking greater advantage of the Advanced Planning and Optimization module, a component of mySAP's supply-chain software that includes demand and production planning. The module will help Colgate-Palmolive move to regional-procurement systems for the direct materials it uses to manufacture products from toothpaste to pet food and for indirect products used throughout the company, such as computers and paper. On Colgate's plate now is upgrading to SAP's NetWeaver integration technology.

Highlights the Controlled Substance Ordering System, developed by PEC Solutions Inc. to replace paper-based order forms by electronic transactions in the pharmaceutical industry in the U.S. End to a time-consuming and expensive process using the Drug Enforcement Administration's Form 222; Issuance of digital certificates to individuals at pharmacies or distributors who are certified to order schedule II drugs; Requirement of technology investments throughout the industry.

Announces the introduction of request-for-quotes platform to define parts-purchase specifications for suppliers of Honda of America Manufacturing Inc. in the U.S. Significance of the new platform to standardize ordering by factories; Replacement of the paper process of the company with the new platform; Ability of the portals to reduce costs and to improve overall quality management.

Reports on the plan of the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to ask Congress for funds to upgrade systems for data collection and sharing systems. Efforts to eliminate antiquated paper-based reporting systems and implement a nationwide initiative to automate and synchronize the collection and sharing of data on traffic-related deaths and accidents; Department's need for wireless communication equipment to facilitate electronic data collection and transmission during traffic-safety stops. INSET: SAFER DRIVING.

Reports on the imaging needs of the business enterprises in the U.S. Reduction of paper and manual processing; Integration of information contained in documents into complex business applications; Customer services.

Features the Web site of John C. Fitzpatrick documenting the life and works of former U.S. President George Washington in the U.S. Number of personal letters and papers on Washington available; Volumes of the text; Insights provided on the personal and political life of Washington.

Discusses several issues on information technology (IT). Views of Rob Hassell, retiring chief information officer of Freightliner, on IT management; Employment problem of Roger Behnke, who is being retired from a paper products manufacturing plant in Appleton, Wisconsin; Ways that computer software product WiseWan is being marketed by NetReality.

Deals with the problem being faced by online business trades in the United States for the lack of technology that drives efficiencies in supplier and channel-customer relationships. Comments on Extensible Markup Language; Remarks from Greg Dismuke, a business-process analyst at the J.R. Simplot Co.; Components of solutions for the integration of electronic and paper world.

Deals with artifacts, memorabilia and papers donated to Stanford University by Apple Computer. Interesting memo found by the technology curator; Computer prototypes.

Focuses on the apparent loophole in the consent decree between the Justice Department and Microsoft that could allow the software company to engage in anticompetitive licensing practices. Papers filed by a personal computer manufacturer a group of anonymous Microsoft competitors alleging the consent decree as `expressly excluding' Microsoft's Windows NT operating system from the safeguards that apply to Windows licensing.

Reports that the United States (U.S.) Federal Trade Commission, the Senate Committee on Small Business, and @vantage will launch scam prevention and education tools to protect against deceptive telemarketers that perpetuate office-supply fraud. Features of the Web site, Scam Buster Central; Statistics on office supply fraud in the U.S.

Reports that eventhough the portable computers run in more than U.S. public school classrooms, the pencil is still the number one power tool for schoolchildren. Comments of Incense Cedar Institute, a pencil-wood trade group, on the presence of computer in public schools.