By reducing barriers to entry and making price information more widely available, the Internet is pushing down the prices of goods ranging from cars to books, and of services from insurance to air travel.

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"The stuff on the beach is harmless, but the Facebook entry also had address and personal information and that is a very different thing, " said Mr Black.

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One component of this project is development of a Hydro-meteorological data sharing information system called PIFMIS. Main theme of PIFMIS aka knowledge platform is Hydro-meteorological data entry, analysis, and display of flood related information in a user-friendly way.

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The first one being probably the entry, on a large scale, of computers and information technology.

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"It takes the paper and pencil and re-entry out of it, " said Jeff Painter, information specialist for the WSDA's plant protection division.

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"It can be very difficult to determine when and where the initial entry point was, " he said, adding that without firm information about that, throwing out the old hardware might be a reasonable choice.

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In a marketplace that has become exponentially competitive, in which there has been an erosion of key American values, and in which keeping up with the ongoing revolution in information technology is a mere cost of entry, building brands is, well, to put it mildly, a challenge.

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The DA, having access to this information within minutes of entry, can determine almost immediately whether the case should be prosecuted or not and what the bond recommendation should be.

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