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Oracle sued by i2 for patent infringement

Oracle has been sued for alleged patent infringement by supply chain management vendor i2 Technologies, i2 said on Wednesday.

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No jail time for Nugache worm creator

A 20-year-old man from Cheyenne, Wyoming, has been sentenced to five years’ probation for creating what researchers called one of the most sophisticated botnet networks of hacked computers in recent years.

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Watchdogs smack FCC over E-Rate

A report issued by the by the Government Accountability Office this week claims that it is virtually impossible to measure the success of the Federal Communications Commission’s E-Rate program because the agency has still not set concrete performance goals.

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Revving up telework, Obama style

John Berry, the newly installed director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Wednesday announced a five-part plan to increase participation in the federal government’s longstanding but poorly adopted telework programs.

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Four indicted in giant college spam operation

A federal grand jury in Missouri has indicted two brothers and two other people on charges related to an alleged e-mail spamming case that targeted more than 2,000 U.S. colleges and sold more than US$4.1 million worth of products to students, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

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Signs of IT spending recovery emerge in surveys

IT buyers say they plan to increase their investments in technology before the end of 2009, recent survey results show, as a noteworthy number of high-tech decision makers revealed they expect in the next six months to put more budget dollars into IT.

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Research could instantly wake shut-down laptops

Researchers have developed a technology that could allow laptops to wake up instantly from a shut-down state without draining battery life the way sleep states do.

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Google pushes back in tussle over book search settlement

Google is standing behind its proposed settlement with U.S. authors and publishers over its book search engine.

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Panel calls for national dialog on gov’t cyberattacks

The U.S. needs to engage in a national dialog about its government’s use of cyberattacks against other nations, and the government lacks a comprehensive policy about how and when it will engage in cyberwarfare, a new study said.

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Phishers hit Facebook with scam messages

Facebook users were hit Wednesday with a phishing attack that tried to steal names and passwords from users of the popular social network.

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Microsoft unveils its first online management service

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)has unveiled System Center Online Desktop Manager, the first online service built around its management tools.

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IBM gives developer portal social-networking makeover

IBM is looking to drive interest in its DeveloperWorks information portal for programmers with a major dose of social-networking mojo.

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Microsoft takes aim at IBM in Web campaign

Microsoft will take aim at IBM Thursday in a Web campaign touting Windows Server on Intel-based hardware as a better, more economical performer than IBM’s AIX and RISC server platform.

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