If we could have a great big file with our credit card numbers, checking account funds, government ID, and Facebook profile information made accessible through an iris scan, many might just opt in.
"If you think about a dial-up connection to the Internet and I was to get a very big file -- a huge file -- something that normally would take me on a dial-up connection 10 hours to download, I would download using this at one second, " explains Terabeam CEO Dan Hesse.
And while tax law is famously complex, it is even more complex when you look at the nuances of businesses and business entities that already file big and opaque tax returns.
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One criticism is that being first-to-file gives big and sophisticated organisations, highly experienced at the difficult job of filing for patents, an advantage over smaller outfits that may be technically brilliant but not legally savvy.
Ford briefly gained some kudos among politicians and the public for being the only one of Detroit's big three carmakers not to file for bankruptcy in the wake of the financial crisis, but is now stuck with higher costs than its rivals.
If such an incident did happen, there could be a report on file at one of the big Western airports.
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That means big business for PGP, the leading provider of file-scrambling software.
File away all the fine words and big promises you hear in the Swiss mountains over the course of this week and re-examine them in 11 months time.
But Eric Garland, Big Champagne's chief executive, says illegal file-sharing is likely to overtake legal downloads in the coming weeks, given that many of those 1.2 million legitimate sales were pre-orders taken during the 10 days between when the band announced the album and its actual release last Thursday.
This product enables enterprises to manage unstructured file-based data effectively to best utilize big data.
The big Hollywood studios are alarmed at the potential for "file-sharing" - recording programmes and then sending them to friends with PVRs - which they see as a form of piracy which damages the interests of rights holders.
Moreover, if doing away with closing loopholes goes for big businesses and small, then the small business owners who file a very different tax form than corporations do will want to see their overall tax burden lowered.
The big game may be a day away, but fans will file into the stands this afternoon to watch some of their favorite celebrities compete in a football game taking place on over one million pounds of sand.
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When solar equipment manufactures began posting big losses during 2011, forcing some to close factories or even file for bankruptcies, many of them wondered: when will the market recover?
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In the latest bankruptcy by a big newspaper publisher, the holding company for MediaNews said it planned to file for Chapter 11 in a prepackaged agreement with creditors.
File On 4 was told that rehearsals for Terminal 5's big day had already revealed signs of problems.
So this also frees the Falcons up in terms of having to deal with the players association, which would probably have been prepared to file some type of grievance and it would - it's been a big mess.
If Apple keeps growing the way it has, it may be too big for the media giants to ignore: Apple has 160 million credit-card numbers on file thanks to iTunes, while Comcast (CMCSA) has 23 million.
The real big innovation Brinkofski is working on could very well set Hulkshare apart from the rest of the file-hosting pack: Profile pages that artists could have total control over, something akin to a MySpace, Bandcamp, or Facebook page.
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If you have a big tax issue (say a lawsuit recovery, a casualty loss or conservation easement), keep that file separate.
According to market research firm Big Champagne, there were on average 8.7 million simultaneous users on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks in May of this year.
Low interest rates play a big role because people buy the policies often when they are in their 50s or 60s, but might not file for claims for decades.
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