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For all the concern expressed about companies’ exposure to lawsuits in the wake of data breaches, a decision earlier this week by a federal appeals court shows yet again what a challenge it can be for consumers to actually win redress when one occurs.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Thursday rejected a proposed class-action lawsuit against Evansville, Ind.-based Old National Bancorp over a 2005 data-breach incident.

In dismissing the proposed suit, the judges argued that damages were unavailable to the plaintiffs in this case because they had failed to show how they had been monetarily affected by the breach at the bank.

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Acer plans to acquire Gateway in a deal worth $710 million that Acer says will make it the world’s third-largest PC vendor.

Under terms of the agreement announced Monday, Acer will purchase all of Gateway’s outstanding shares for $1.90 per share. The deal has already been approved by the boards of directors at both companies and should be completed by the end of this year, subject to government approval, Acer said in a statement. Gateway’s shares ended at $1.21 Friday on the New York Stock Exchange.

In a reversal, the American representative to the ISO standards body is now tentatively supporting the approval of Microsoft’s Office Open XML document format as an open standard this year.

The executive board of the Washington, D.C.-based International Committee for Information Technology Standards voted to approve a "Yes with comments" motion for Open XML, the native document format in Office 2007.

Twelve members voted yes, three voted no, and one abstained. A two-thirds majority is needed to pass.

IBM’s Rational Software unit is considering putting parts of its Jazz collaboration framework into open source, according to an executive of the company.

"We might think about open-sourcing some of the very lowest layers [of the framework] so that the APIs [application programming interfaces] are available, and people could build on the kernel," said Scott Rich, a member of the management committee of the Jazz project, on the sidelines of a Rational Software conference in Bangalore, India on Thursday. One benefit of this strategy is to make the Jazz framework "more pervasive," he added.

Trend Micro has patched several vulnerabilities in its ServerProtect, Anti-Spyware and PC-cillin products that could be exploited remotely to allow hackers to execute arbitrary code.

Several vulnerabilities affected ServerProtect, which provides anti-virus protection for Microsoft Windows and Novell NetWare servers. According to researchers at iDefense Labs, in Sterling, Va., an integer overflow exists within the RPCFN_SYNC_TASK function, which allocates memory based on a user-supplied integer within the request data.

IBM announced the first Service Oriented Architecture certification and training program for Federal IT professionals. The program was established to provide knowledge, and share important skill sets needed, for SOA development and adoption.

The 12-week certification program is sponsored by the IBM Federal SOA Institute, and will begin September 12th through December 4th. A second series is scheduled for Spring 2008.

According to a new survey from the IBM Institute for Business Value, the amount of personal time that consumers now spend on the Internet rivals the amount of time they spend watching TV.

A total of 66 percent of the new survey’s respondents reported viewing television programs from one to four hours per day, versus 60 percent who reported the same levels of personal Internet use. Moreover, researchers said the traditional TV set is increasingly taking a back seat to PCs and cellular handsets among consumers between the ages of 18 and 34.

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