31.  For years, companies have been trying to automate these transactions, with systems like electronic data interchange, or EDI.

32.  In the European Union, there are tight restrictions on the use of electronic data collected about individuals.

33.  Interactive Data will provide the Financial Times, a unit of Pearson Plc, with an entry into the U.S. market for electronic financial data.

34.  It argued that criminals could use encryption to frustrate legal wiretaps and render search warrants for electronic data useless.

35.  It must fight IBM and other computer makers for a share of the lucrative market for electronic data services.

36.  Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan ruled that for CD-ROMs and certain electronic data bases, publishers can reproduce without permission.

37.  Often called business-contingency planning, it encompasses everything from the protection of electronic data to coping with catastrophes that threaten the very survival of a company.

38.  She offered a list of culprits known to cause the electronic data to disintegrate.

39.  Some medical-records experts contend that electronic medical data may be easier to safeguard.