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US convicts first foreigner of phishing

A 23-year-old Romanian man has become the first foreigner to be convicted by a U.S. court for phishing.

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Feds give $50B IT services deal a second try

The U.S. federal government has chosen 59 IT services firms including AT&T Government Solutions, Nortel Government Solutions and IBM for a government-wide IT services program that could be worth US$50 billion over the next 10 years.

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Microsoft to shut down Encarta Web sites

Microsoft is shutting down its Encarta encyclopedia Web sites and will also discontinue its Student and Premium Encarta software products.

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Sprint CEO’s ‘08 compensation valued at $15.5 million

Although his company lost more than 4 million wireless subscribers in 2008, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse received an executive compensation package that the company valued at US$15.5 million.

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Sun confirms 1,500 job cuts this week

Sun Microsystems is laying off about 1,500 employees this week in a follow-up to a restructuring plan announced a few months ago, the company confirmed Monday.

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FBI: Internet fraud complaints up 33 percent in 2008

2008 was the busiest year yet for online fraudsters according to an annual Internet Crime Report released Monday by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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Conficker on April 1st: Eve of destruction or big joke?

Will the Conficker worm, expected to activate on April 1, set off viral destruction or be a dud?

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HP unveils Nehalem-based servers, touts energy efficiency

HP has built 11 new servers which use the highly anticipated Intel Nehalem architecture as well as HP technology to improve performance and manage power more efficiently, the vendor is announcing Monday. Each server in the new line uses fewer than half as many watts as its predecessor, says Paul Gottsegen, vice president of marketing [...]

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Intel’s Nehalem EP server chips hit the market

The first paragraph of the story, “Intel’s Nehalem EP server chips hit the market,” which was posted to the newswire Monday has been clarified to indicate that new server chips from Intel were released Monday in the U.S. That paragraph now reads:

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Intel may not ship Nehalem EX until early 2010

The fourth paragraph of the story, “Intel may not ship Nehalem EX until early 2010,” which posted to the newswire Monday has been clarified to reflect the release of new Intel chips on Monday in the U.S. The paragraph now reads:

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Fools and jokers coming to a network near you

While there is little known about the origins of April Fools’ Day, the list of gags go on and on and this year is certain to add to the list of potty-themed Wii games, scratch-and-sniff Web sites and police-finding mobile applications.

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Avaya announces server to unify communications via SIP

Avaya is announcing at VoiceCon Orlando a new server that connects disparate SIP-enabled PBXs into a single system with global dial plans and call routing – a cost-saving first step toward rolling out corporate-wide unified communications.

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Digium offers support of open source IP PBX

Digium announced at VoiceCon Orlando that it will support subscriptions for businesses using Asterisk, the open source IP PBX.

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China denies cyber spy network charges

China on Tuesday denied suggestions it could be involved in a cyberespionage ring that attacked computers worldwide from servers mostly based in the country.

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Fake security software scammers jump on Conficker

Google’s search rankings are being stuffed with links to fake security software that purports to remove Conficker, a widespread worm that’s currently the Internet’s number one security threat, but doesn’t.

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