Intel is being investigated by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo over whether it broke anti-trust laws. Mr Cuomo is looking into claims that Intel stopped customers from dealing with rival Advanced Micro Devices.

Intel has cut prices and tried to boost efficiency as AMD has made efforts to become the world’s top producer. Mr Cuomo has issued a subpoena seeking documents and information from Intel over its conduct regarding AMD.

One of the most common pieces of advice doled to IT folks from career professionals is to improve communication skills. The logic follows that the better they are able to explain what IT can do in business terms, and interpret business demands through technology, the further they’ll get in any company.

Yet the ability to communicate well has at least as much use outside the office as it does within. Networking is an essential part of the job-hunting process, and more often than not, it is the acquaintances and recommendations–not "Help Wanted" ads or career sites–that connect people with their future employers.

Notes and Domino 8 heralds the most significant development changes since the release of R5. Now you can hit the ground running and harness the power of the new functionality with detailed explanations, live demos, practical examples, sample applications, and working code–only at THE VIEW’s Lotus Notes and Domino 8 Development Seminar.

Spend three days with Paul Calhoun, Julian Robichaux, and Lance Spellman and benefit from over 4 decades of experience, successfully developing Notes and Domino applications since Release 3. They’ve put Notes and Domino 8 to the test and they’ll share the real-world, actionable advice you need to master all the new development functionality.

BlackBerrys are the biggest usurper of IT time, according to a study, but many pros still blame compliance and unsavvy users. As wireless technologies have enabled more workers to telecommute and companies to employ a distributed work force, the support of wireless devices has increasingly burdened IT departments.

BlackBerrys were cited by two-thirds of respondents to a recent study as the device that usurps the most IT resources, according to CompTIA (Computing Technology Industry Association), an industry consortium that commissioned the survey. Pagers came in second, reported by nearly 11 percent of respondents, followed by digital music players (4.5 percent) and handheld computers (4 percent). Though productivity and work force efficiency can be enhanced by these go-anywhere technologies, IT bears the brunt of the extra resources and labor required to maintain them.

The Federal Communications Commission plans to investigate the network neutrality complaints filed against cable giant Comcast. The investigation will be the agency’s first major test of its network neutrality principles.

The complaint, which was filed in November by public advocacy groups and legal scholars from Yale, Harvard and Stanford, charges Comcast with interfering with its users’ ability to access legal content by cutting off peer-to-peer file-sharing networks such as BitTorrent and Gnutella, as well as business applications such as Lotus Notes.[Ed. note–Despite the fact they are denying it, Comcast does in fact deny subscribers access to peer-to-peer networks. As a matter of fact, just last month they released information stating they would begin blocking access to those services.]

In IBM Lotus Forms V3.0, a new JavaScript API lets you can manipulate and control the behavior of embedded Lotus Forms with simple HTML and JavaScript in a browser. A new event listener mechanism lets you write custom features to handle the forms and allows easier integration with other systems. This article introduces the JavaScript API in IBM Lotus Forms, describes the mechanism of the API, and provides examples of how to use the API. You should be familiar with IBM Lotus Forms.

Over the past month, a new type of malicious software has emerged, using a decades-old technique to hide itself from anti-virus software. The malware, called Trojan.Mebroot by Symantec, installs itself on the first part of the computer’s hard drive to be read on startup, then makes changes to the Windows kernel, making it hard for security software to detect it.

A recent spending survey of companies with active service oriented architecture projects conducted by AMR Research shows IBM "iswell ahead of its traditional competitors" doing SOA-related client work.

According to the AMR Research report, "SOA: The State of the Market" by research director Ian Finley, more than 67 percent of companies surveyed indicated they were either currently using or considering using IBM SOA consulting services. This figure was 40 percent higher than the results for the next-closest firm, which was named by fewer than half of respondents.

According to the AMR Research report, IBM’s SOA-related software products–based on its WebSphere portfolio–were being used or considered by 63 percent of companies with active SOA projects.

While shares in Lenovo, which bought IBM’s ailing personal computer business in 2005, have taken hits over concerns about consumer and corporate spending in the United States, its share price might not be the most accurate indicator of its ability to weather an economic downturn.

Lenovo shares dived more than 14 percent on Wednesday after a broker cut the Chinese firm to sell on growing fears of a U.S. recession. The fall, which wiped $1 billion off its market capitalization, brought the world’s No. 4 PC maker in line with larger rivals Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Acer, whose shares have plunged 15 percent since the start of 2008 on fears that consumers and companies may cut back on their technology spending.

A computer systems administrator was sentenced to 30 months in prison for trying to sabotage his company’s servers out of fear he was about to lose his job, prosecutors said. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Newark, N.J., said Yung-Hsun Lin received the longest ever federal prison term for a criminal attempt to damage a computer system. He was also ordered to pay $81,200 in restitution to his former employer, pharmacy benefit manager Medco Health Solutions.