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'Digital black hole' threatens your documents BUSINESS (ZDNet India)
The European Union is funding a project involving national libraries and digital preservation groups aimed at fighting off a looming "digital black hole.

Double-Take Software: Solid Smallcap Software IPO (SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance)
Bill Simpson submits: There are 9 deals this week to end the bloated December calendar. With all the aggressive pricings and opens, most of the December IPO crop has not been able to hold initial opens short term.

Convention center fight resumes (Galveston County Daily News)
GALVESTON ? The city of Galveston and Landry?s are at it again, squabbling this time over the 2007 budget for the island?s convention center.

200 million unaccountable in school's ICT procurement says new report (PublicTechnology.net)
Becta , the government agency which oversees ICT in schools is unable to account for over Ł200 million spent on software for schools according to a report published by open source supplier, Sirius Corporeation.

ICT sector is "less optimistic" but should continue to grow say KPMG/Intellect (PublicTechnology.net)
Confidence in the business outlook among the Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) industries has waned slightly over the last six months, according to the second KPMG / Intellect survey, due to less growth in public sector spending and export sales, than previously expected.

Police test portable fingerprint sensors (San Jose Mercury News)
With a quick imprint of a suspect's two fingers on a handheld device, Columbus police can get instant access to the person's identity without making a trip to the booking office.

APAC's network security market earns $300 mn in Q2 2006 BUSINESS (ZDNet India)
Analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Asia Pacific network security market Q2 2006, reveals that the market - covering 14 major Asia-Pac (APAC) economies - earned revenues of US$300 million in Q2 2006.