11/23/2008
Grading Our Schools Databases (The Scranton Times-Tribune)
Click on the links below to access the databases. You'll be able to get back to this page by clicking on the Grading Our Schools Index link. Be sure to scroll down and watch the video on how to use the databases.
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11/20/2008
Navicat for Oracle handles Oracle databases (MacNN)
PremiumSoft has introduced the first Mac version of Navicat for Oracle, its Oracle administration tool. Users are able to produce and edit databases, generate reports and SQL queries, and connect to multiple databases as well as remote ones. Its interface is primarily graphical, and users are provided with tools for related tasks such as SSH tunneling or data and structure sync....
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11/20/2008
Interpol to investigate Mexican databases (UPI)
LYON, France, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Interpol is sending a team of authorities to Mexico to investigate whether its communications system and databases are being used legitimately.
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11/23/2008
AP IMPACT: Govt pays millions for unapproved drugs (AP via Yahoo! News)
Taxpayers have shelled out at least $200 million since 2004 for medications that have never been reviewed by the government for safety and effectiveness but are still covered under Medicaid, an Associated Press analysis of federal data has found. Millions of private patients are taking such drugs, as well.
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11/22/2008
Data: Are you owed money Search missing IRS refunds (The Appleton Post-Crescent)
The Post-Crescent has compiled databases on a variety of topics. Click on the headline to view several featured databases.
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11/23/2008
From the dot-com attic, lessons of survival (International Herald Tribune)
The Dot Com Archive contains data that has begun to reveal interesting insights into the dot-com bubble, and lessons for entrepreneurs today.
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11/22/2008
Quantum computing comes closer to reality (New Kerala)
London, November 22 : Stanford researchers say that they have made a significant advance towards creating quantum computers that will dramatically outshine tradioinal computers in tackling certain key problems like searching large databases, factoring large numbers, creating uncrackable codes, and simulating the atomic structure of materials.
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11/22/2008
Jones-Kelley regrets allowing database searches (The Oxford Press)
COLUMBUS — Suspended Director Helen Jones-Kelley of the Job and Family Services Department said Thursday, Nov. 20, she should not have allowed the searches of state databases for information on Samuel Joseph — "Joe the Plumber" — Wurzelbacher, who emerged as a key figure in the Ohio presidential campaign.
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11/22/2008
Mexico: no leaks from Interpol office to cartels (AP via Yahoo! News)
Mexican prosecutors have assured Interpol that no sensitive information from the international police agency's database on criminals and terrorists was leaked to drug cartels, officials said Saturday.
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11/22/2008
Computer search system now has unique sign-ons (The Oxford Press)
COLUMBUS — A powerful system that allows law enforcement to search multiple public and private databases in a matter of seconds was used by a state contractor to look up information on Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher and numerous other people, according to Ohio Inspector General Tom Charles.
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