Finally, FINRA admonished that for most of the relevant time period, Iola failed to annotate the documents with footnotes or disclaimers that the regulator suggests was necessary to made the date understandable.

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Microsoft may have solved that problem with MyLifeBits software, still in development, which is letting users annotate their stored data with hyperlinks and voice notatations, while automatically recording web pages, IM transcripts, radio and television.

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They annotate the assigned material with responses (as if in Google Docs).

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One Web site, www.scipionus.com, is combating the confusion by encouraging users to annotate a Google Map of New Orleans with information about specific locations.

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Here, you can annotate documents by hand, but not create them with handwriting.

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Unlike other e-book devices, Samsung's E6 and E101 enables handwriting directly onto the display, allowing users to annotate their reading selections, calendars and to-do lists with a built-in electromagnetic resonance (EMR) stylus pen.

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Teachers can collaborate, annotate, and share curriculum and content in many formats, including Flash, with all the students while walking around the classroom.

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