The Internal Revenue Service has undercut the effectiveness of its electronic filing mandate because of the legal interpretation of the word “file,” according to a new government report. The report, ...

The latest issue of Technology Research News (TRN) contains a short item about how photos can make icons meaningful. Researchers from Northwestern University are working on semanticons which will help ...

There are dozens of file formats for word processing documents, database files, graphics, spreadsheets and so on. If a file was created in one application and you want to use it in another, you can ...

Transferring a file from one folder to another is accomplished with the file manager that is part of every operating system (see file manager). Transferring a file from one application to another ...

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