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Former AIG VP of reinsurance Christian M. Milton has been sentenced to four years in prison for his role in a fraud scheme to cook the books, reports BusinessInsurance.com . Milton and four... More >
The American Institute of CPAs has opened an online Economic Crisis Resource Center to help accountants advise clients about dealing with the troubled economy, reports WebCPA.com . The site... More >
New England's high-tech companies are jazzed about the proposed economic stimulus package being crafted in Congress, especially the push to digital medical records, according The Boston Globe . &n... More >
Major technology companies, as members of The Trusted Computing Group, have announced standards for protecting data on storage devices , reports ZDNet.co.uk . Three sets of standards were re... More >
Oracle has upgraded its Audit Vault system to monitor competing enterprise database systems , reports InformationWeek . The software, designed to help companies meet compliance regulations for safe... More >
An organization of academic medical centers is protesting the proposal to strengthen the health privacy regulations in President Obama's proposed economic stimulus package, reports FierceHealthIT ... More >
A former Lockheed Martin Corp. employee has filed a whistleblower complaint that the company retaliated against her for the ethics complaint she filed against her boss, reports The Colorado Spring... More >
Mary Schapiro, who has a reputation as a tough-minded regulator, won unanimous approval in the Senate to become chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to WebCPA . I... More >
The security breach at Princeton, N.J., payment processor H eartland Payment Systems could be the largest ever, according to The Washington Post . Robert Baldwin Jr., the company's presiden... More >
It looks like Comcast's new network-management policy is doing a number on rival VoIP services. The Federal Communications Commission has given the company until Jan. 30 to explain why Skype... More >
Intel has slashed its chip prices, reports PCWorld . Intel's Core 2 Quad processors have been cut between 16 and 40 percent, while Xeon chips have been cut by up to 48 percent. Pentium and... More >
The European Union has announced new charges against Microsoft over its bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows, saying the practice "shields" the browser from "head-to-head competition with other... More >
The European Commission has issued a "preliminary view" that bundling Internet Explorer in Windows violates European competition law, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer . It sounds like déjà ... More >
The chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee has vowed to investigate claims made in an Associated Press story of software glitches affecting patient safety. The AP, in a story in ... More >
Four executives from South Korea's LG Display and Taiwan's Chunghwa Picture Tubes have pleaded guilty and face jail time in the United States in a price-fixing scheme for LCD displays, reports Net... More >
Aetna has agreed to pay $20 million and will work with the New York Attorney General's Office on establishing an independent database to determine insurers' out-of-network medical payments to settle ... More >
Those White House e-mails that have been missing for most of President Bush's second term have been found and will be turned over to the National Archives, a Justice Department lawyer told a federa... More >
According to The Wall Street Journal , IBM is planning on opening a new remote computer-services center in Dubuque, Iowa . The center will assist CIOs and database administrators needing advice on ... More >
A New York judge has dismissed Amazon's challenge to the state's decision to collect sales tax on online purchases, reports TechFlash . The state passed legislation last April reworking it... More >
The same headline, "Report Criticizes IRS Security," from this December post could apply to this Computerworld piece . It just refers to a different report and different issues. The conclusion, ho... More >
The U.S. State Department has warned employees they may be disciplined for hitting "reply all" on e-mail, reports The Associated Press in a story on Yahoo News. An e-mail storm on the depa... More >
Not giving up, despite losing various appeals to fight extradition to the United States, British hacker Gary McKinnon wants to plead guilty in his home country , reports The Guardian . McKin... More >
President-elect Barack Obama's transition team in a letter Thursday asked key members of Congress to delay the planned Feb. 17 switch to digital television , reports The Washington Post . PC... More >
Infoworld reports that Tod Nielsen, CEO of Borland Software , has resigned to take a newly created position at VMware: Chief Operating Officer. In his new position, Nielsen will be reportin... More >
Despite the buzz that President-elect Obama will name the nation's CTO Wednesday, CNET is reporting that won't happen. That piece delves into the confusion over what exactly the job will entail. ... More >
Infineon, STMicro and NXP said Wednesday their offices were among those raided in a European Union investigation of possible price-fixing on chips for so-called "smart cards," reports The Associat... More >
Portland, Ore. , which lost its free Wi-Fi network to poor economics, has broadband wireless service again thanks to Clearwire, reports the Puget Sound Business Journal . Users can get home Internet... More >
The Register reports that Wikipedia has exceeded its fundraising goal of $6 million, raising more than $6.2 million since the campaign launched in early November. More than 125,000 donors r... More >
Motorola plans to lay off 400 more employees in the fourth-quarter than it originally planned, reports Reuters in a story in InformationWeek. The cuts, which will bump up its charges to $189 milli... More >
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