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<ed.note>I told ya it was comin’…</ed.note> We are proposing rules requiring companies to provide financial statement information in a form that would improve its usefulness to investors. Under the proposed rules, financial statement information could be downloaded directly into spreadsheets, analyzed in a variety of ways using commercial off-the-shelf software, …

May 14, 2008, By Grant Gross, IDG News Service\Washington Bureau, IDG, NYTimes.com The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has taken a major step toward requiring publicly traded companies to submit their reports to the agency in an interactive data format, with backers saying the change will make financial reports easier …

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Dec 1, 2007 By Michael Fickes, securitysolutions.com After years of talk, physical security systems are finally converging with IT networks to automate new tasks. “We are all talking XML today,” says Mark Allen, director of enterprise convergence solutions with Hirsch Electronics Corp. in Santa Ana, Calif. “Today we can put …

<ed.note>that subprime mortgage lenders and hedge fund managers didn’t have the tools of microfinanciers. Ok, so you already knew the answer but here’s another link.</ed.note>