Databases

Prosecutors in the Jerry Hobbs case said Tuesday that DNA evidence found on his daughter's body that does not match him has been submitted to state and federal databases for a possible match. At a hearing in Lake County court, prosecutors and defense attorneys for Hobbs, who is accused of killing his daughter Laura, 8, and her friend Krystal Tobias, 9, said they expect to announce the database findings at a Dec. 2 hearing. The defense also will argue for...

Q: What is value of my antique cheese cutter? It can be set so a wheel of cheese will cut 60 slices at five cents each. Other settings can be adjusted so the block cuts up to 165 slices. A: Just from the description, we can tell that this reader has no run-of-the-mill home slicer. A photo sent shows an early store slicer from around 1900. Such manual slicers were common store fixtures before the advent of electric slicers. Imagine a round wooden board about...

Aug 1 (Reuters) - New York's attorney general is investigating six of the top U.S. banks over reports that they are unfairly using databases to disqualify people seeking to open checking or savings accounts, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing people briefed on the matter. Bank of America Corp, Citibank Inc and JPMorgan Chase & Co are among the banks that received letters from state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, according to the...

How would you like to download the latest hit single by Justin Timberlake to play on your iPhone for free, or a read a best-seller by David Baldacci on your Kindle for free, or browse the latest digital issue of The Economist or Marie Claire on your tablet computer for free, or access the LexisNexis database for free? Oh yeah, and do all that without ever leaving your family-room sofa at 10 p.m. on a Sunday in your pajamas? Those are just some of the new-fangled things you can probably do...

When police arrested Carl Chatman this week — little more than a month after he was exonerated in a 2002 alleged rape — two state databases were mistakenly still calling him a sex offender. Despite the publicity surrounding his release from prison after 11 years, neither the state's Law Enforcement Agencies Data System nor the state's sex offender registry showed Chatman had been cleared. The glitch, according to government officials, is that the...

PARIS (Reuters) - The international police agency Interpol on Friday rejected a Malaysian suggestion that Interpol's database for checking passport were too cumbersome. Interpol said that although several other countries used the database millions of times each year, the Malaysian immigration department had not checked plane passengers' passports against its database at all this year prior to the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on March 8. The...

A federal judge Friday ordered the state Department of Children and Family Services to publish its investigation procedures in legal databases within seven days or risk a contempt of court finding. U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer made the ruling after plaintiffs in a class-action suit against the agency argued that DCFS had failed to follow a previous order that the procedures be made widely available. "Somebody other than the five lawyers standing in front of me and the state...

(Reuters) - A federal data-sharing system meant to prevent healthcare providers banned from one state's Medicaid program from billing another state's program isn't working as intended, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General. Two years after its creation, the data-sharing system contained no records from 17 states or the District of Columbia of doctors, nurses or other healthcare providers who had been...

On one side are the Chamber of Commerce, Consumers Union, research librarians and Charles Schwab. On the other side are the New York Stock Exchange, real estate agents and the American Medical Association. Yahoo! is on one side, eBay on the other. These odd alliances of lobbyists have formed over the question of whether databases--collections of facts such as telephone directories, weather reports, stock tables and real estate listings--can be copied, repackaged and distributed by...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Barack Obama defeated Mitt Romney in the 2012 U.S. presidential election, many political strategists saw it as a triumph of the Obama team's technological prowess, allowing it to identify likely Democratic voters and get them to the polls. It was a sore point for Republicans, who came out of that election vowing to nullify the Democrats' advantage in gleaning information from voter databases and social media to find potential...

When you think about the "killer applications" for the personal computer over the years, you think about spreadsheets, word processors, desktop publishing and multimedia. Databases seldom come to mind. Although they have played a significant role in desktop computing, databases tend to be big, bulky, boring things that, thankfully, we seldom have to think about. In the expanding world of the Internet and new media, however, databases are playing an increasingly vital role.

By Noel Randewich SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Oracle CEO Larry Ellison played down concerns on Wednesday about possible government snooping in his business customers' private data. At an industry conference in San Francisco, an audience member asked the Oracle cofounder what to tell potential Oracle cloud-computing clients who worry that the National Security Agency could access their information. "To the best of our knowledge, an Oracle...

St. Charles businesses have received a mailing from the Economic Development Department for the City of St. Charles and the Police Department to verify and update the information both departments use to serve St. Charles businesses. If the businesses have any questions regarding the economic development databases, they should call Ellen Divita, director of economic development, at 603-443-3685. For questions regarding the police databases, call Jaye Valadez-Wilger at...

Karen Baleno of Downers Grove had always known her grandfather was abandoned as an infant. Five years ago, she was able to learn more of the details after doing research at the Naperville Family History Center, housed in a small room in the rear of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at 1320 Ridgeland Ave. "I was able to do research on the small Italian town where he was found in 1889," Baleno said. "It was a beautiful story. The woman who found him wrote about seeing a...

Many of the nation's businesses have long trolled through commercial databases hoping to divine which consumers are likeliest to buy a particular luxury car or life insurance policy. Now, the FBI hopes to explore the same information to uncover terrorists before they strike. Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft recently announced that the Justice Department was loosening its guidelines to allow FBI agents to, among other things, dig into the vast commercial treasure house of data on consumers' buying...

A 12-year-old girl got a series of text messages this summer from her mother's boyfriend, Woodstock police Sgt. Charles "Chip" Amati, according to copies of the messages obtained by the Tribune. One message, punctuated with a text emoticon shaped like a heart, read, "Send me some sexy pictures!" The girl's mother said she alerted authorities, and Illinois State Police investigators discovered something else - that Amati had used a taxpayer-funded law enforcement database to...

Motorola Inc. has invested in a fledgling company that is developing computer databases aimed at helping find new treatments for diseases such as diabetes, breast cancer and Alzheimer's disease. The amount of the investment in TissueInformatics Inc., a private firm based in Pittsburgh, was not disclosed. TissueInformatics is developing virtual tissue banks designed to facilitate drug discovery, tissue engineering and the scientific evaluation of human and plant tissues. The databases...

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron is set to announce on Thursday that he will make public a new database of company ownership details designed to expose international money laundering and tax evasion schemes. The plan advances Cameron's efforts to push money laundering and tax evasion to the top of the global agenda, and follows up on a debate at a summit of eight of the world's wealthiest states (G8) in June. The "beneficial ownership...

If you use CompuServe's Internet connection a lot, here's a handy cost-saving program that can make your on-line dollar go farther. And even if you have your own Internet service provider, this time-saver can make the Internet just a little bit more manageable, especially if you have a modem that transfers data at 14,400 bits per second or slower. (I remember the days when having a 1,200 bps modem was like driving a Corvette). I'm talking about the Internet...