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To place a document in the public records. All such documents are time and date stamped when received;this is important because the priority of deeds and of liens is usually on a race-to-thecourthouse,first-to-file basis.In many states,if a judgment is recorded against a seller only minutes before a deed to the buyer is recorded, then the buyer's new property is subject to the lien, which must be paid or the judgment creditor may execute and take the property and sell it for satisfaction of the debt.

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The digital files taken by Dixon were capable of being sold and, therefore, they constituted "property." It noted the Crimes Act's definition of "document" included an electronic file and if a Microsoft Word document is property, then so are other forms of digital files.

New Zealand Supreme Court: digital files constitute property

Saving your document as a digital file will be meaningless if you lose your data because of a computer virus.

Let's get physical... digital

FolderShare, a free online service provider for digital file sharing and a unit of ByteTaxi Inc, has been acquired by software giant Microsoft Corp.

Microsoft reveals acquisition of FolderShare

This has created consumer digital imaging's "dirty little secret" that industry leaders and few other people want to talk about--the lack of a long-term archiving method for digital file originals.

Image archiving: digital imaging's "dirty little secret"

DSpace stores a checksum for each digital file it manages, and the system should constantly monitor its asset store for file corruption or other problems.

Exploring variety in digital collections and the implications for digital preservation

The free test drive available at http:// www.RE3W.com gives real estate professionals 20 days of unrestricted REFile(TM) digital file creation and unrestricted access to county data within their target market.

Test drive a virtual office experience

With PKI, the person who sends a document holds a digital file on his hard drive--also called a private key.

Sign here: looking for the most direct route to the paperless office? Start with e-signatures. (Special section: financial aid)

Anyone involved in any aspect of a premedia operation must be able to locate and correct errors in a digital file as early in the work flow as possible.

Schools navigate preflight software for smooth, accurate printing. (Applications)

Through the process, fine art is scanned and a digital file is created.

Rainbow man: Larry Mccarthy's new color-management venture could revolutionize the printing and fine arts industries. (Infocus)

In the future, movies will be stored in digital file servers for on-demand delivery, piped directly into homes anywhere in the world, wirelessly.

Is film dead?

For manuals that have been converted to a digital file format such as PDF, page counts still exist, so per page pricing methodology can be applied.

Technical Data Support for Foreign Military Sales Naval Air Systems Command Customers

Available directly from the photographer for $75, each 12-by-48-inch "photorama," Night Trails of Africa, is custom printed from the digital file (allow up to three weeks for delivery).