While both the Mobile Digital Scribe and ZPen would be more palatable if they captured natively into a more standard file format such as JPEG or PDF, both do a solid job of recording pages of notes and line drawings.

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"Just as credit-card companies accept some level of loss as a cost of doing business, so some CIOs are saying 'if I do a really solid job of protecting my systems, then I can live with the low-level pain that some break-ins cause, ' " said Paller.

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