Headlines from around the Web for Friday, Jan. 11, 2008
Compiled by Melanie Bender
White House Cuts Paper Out of Federal Budget
ComputerWorld
In a move that the White House Office of Management and Budget says will save roughly 20 tons of paper, or about 480 trees, the Bush administration will release the government's first-ever paperless budget on Feb. 4.
NY AG Subpoenas Intel Over Antitrust Accusations
The New York Times
The New York State attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, issued a wide-ranging subpoena to Intel Corp. on Jan. 10 as part of an investigation into whether the company violated federal or state antitrust laws in the way that it priced and sold microprocessors.
IE Still Top Dog Over Firefox in Corporate Browser Kennel
ComputerWorld
With a new CEO on board and a major update of its Firefox Web browser expected this year, Mozilla Corp. hopes to reinvigorate its campaign to pull users away from Microsoft Corp.'s still-dominant Internet Explorer software. But Mozilla continues to expend little energy on wooing IT managers to formally adopt Firefox for deployment within their organizations.
Complex Computer Scheme Victimizes Hundreds
Government Technology
A Colombian citizen pled guilty Jan. 9 to a 16-count indictment involving a complex computer fraud scheme victimizing over 600 people. According to the indictment, Mario Simbaqueba Bonilla set up a complex series of computer intrusions, aggravated identity thefts and credit card frauds designed to steal money from payroll, bank and other accounts of their victims.
Government Computer News
The Army plans to migrate all of its circuit-switched voice communications to packet-switched voice-over-IP technology. This transition, along with the implementation of a unified communications architecture and the movement to centralize IT applications in area processing centers, are the three primary initiatives that will dominate the agenda of the Army’s networking group for the foreseeable future.
InfoWorld
Some clever, sexy Christmas-themed spam and a long holiday season helped the criminals behind the notorious Storm Worm more than double their network of infected PCs over the past few weeks, security experts say.
Falling Dollar May Not be So Bad for Tech Industry
eWeek
The value of the U.S. dollar has been sliding for more than 36 months, but technology, a big U.S. export, may become cheaper overseas as a result. However, few see this happening anytime soon.
Mayor Offers Coverage to Voters Who Were Victims of ID Theft
The Tennessean
Metro voters will be able to sign up for a year of free credit monitoring to thwart thieves who made off with laptop computers containing the Social Security numbers of all 337,000 registered voters, Mayor Karl Dean announced Jan. 10.
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