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  • Business owner sentenced for E-Rate fraud

    The former owner of two Illinois technology companies was sentenced Thursday to serve 30 months in prison for participating in a conspiracy to defraud a U.S. Federal Communications Commission program to help schools and libraries in poor areas connect to the Internet, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

  • Obama 2012 campaign playlist revealed courtesy of Spotify

    Depending on your taste in music and tolerance for others’ tastes, President Barack Obama’s latest social media move – sharing his 2012 campaign playlist via streaming music website Spotify – might be a case of over-sharing: Ricky Martin, REO Speedwagon and James Taylor all made the cut.

  • Citadel banking malware is evolving and spreading rapidly, researchers warn

    A computer Trojan that targets online banking users is evolving and spreading rapidly because its creators have adopted an open-source development model, according to researchers from cyberthreat management firm Seculert.

  • Dassault Systèmes buys personal analytics site Netvibes

    3D design software company Dassault Systèmes has acquired Netvibes, a website that allows the creation of personalized dashboards combining social network updates, news alerts and RSS feeds, the companies announced Thursday.

  • Xbox issues open letter in response to compromised accounts

    In the wake of attacks on some Xbox Live accounts and long wait times for account recoveries, the company has issued an open letter to assure users it is working to resolve these problems quickly.

  • Researchers crack satellite encryption

    Researchers at a university in Bochum, Germany claim to have cracked <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/100609-layer8-algorithm.html">encryption algorithms</a> of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) that are used to secure certain civilian satellite phone communications.

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    Obama's H-1B answer in forum may haunt him

    WASHINGTON -- Until President Barack Obama responded to a question about H-1B visas during an online forum last week, the administration had said little about the controversial program.

  • Swedish e-commerce startup's execs linked to NYC sex crime

    Two Swedish nationals with the same names as top executives of e-commerce startup Klarna were arrested on Saturday in New York and charged with criminal sexual abuse.

  • Airvana sues Ericsson over femtocell technology

    Femtocell developer Airvana is charging Ericsson with breaching their contract over femtocell technology, in a <a href="http://www.airvananetworksolutions.com/default/assets/File/document.pdf">lawsuit</a> filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York.

  • Researchers claim 100-fold increase in data storage speed

    European researchers may have found a way to speed up data storage 100-fold, breaking one barrier holding back how fast data can be transferred.

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