Hewlett-Packard has filed another lawsuit against Acer, as competition in the PC industry continues to heat up.

The new suit alleges that Acer and a U.S. subsidiary have knowingly infringed on five HP patents related to PCs, according to the complaint, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

In the latest data-security breach, the United States Department of Agriculture, or USDA, has admitted it posted the Social Security numbers of 63,000 people who received grants from the department on a government Web site.

The identifying information has been online since 1996, but was finally removed last week. The Agriculture Department is offering free credit monitoring to the affected people–at taxpayers’ expense.

Learn how to develop client services portlet applications for Lotus Expeditor using Rational Application Developer v7 and Lotus Expeditor Toolkit v6.1. This tutorial is intended for software developers who are familiar with Java and Java Platform, Enterprise Edition, as well as plug-in development using Eclipse v3.2 technology.

Didn’t use all of your vacation days last year? You’re not alone. More than half of workers don’t use all of their vacation time, finds a survey published on April 18 by Hudson, an employment services firm.

The survey suggests that workers are apprehensive about using all of their vacation time allotted in a year, fearful that it will leave them without any room for flexibility should an urgent situation emerge. Of the workers surveyed, 56 percent said they did not use all of their vacation time each year and nearly one-third (30 percent) said they take less than half of their allotted time off.

Employer caution has extended the hiring process by weeks, even months. You may interview for a position several times, in person and by phone. No matter how long the process is and how well you’ve gotten to know your potential colleagues, it’s still perfectly acceptable to turn down a job offer. In fact, there may be many valid reasons that you should politely decline an opportunity, assuming, of course, that you’re not in dire financial straits.

Research In Motion announced plans to expand its support for Windows Mobile-based devices with a new software application suite that will enable devices from third-party manufacturers to benefit from the popular BlackBerry software applications and services. RIM plans to begin offering the new software application suite later this year for select devices based on Windows Mobile 6. Once installed, the software will provide users with a virtual BlackBerry application experience, including support for BlackBerry email, phone, calendar, address book, tasks, memos, browser, instant messaging and other applications developed for the BlackBerry platform. Devices running the BlackBerry application suite will be able to connect to BlackBerry services via BlackBerry Enterprise Server as well as BlackBerry Internet Service.

If CA is working to put its scandal-ridden past behind it and move back into prominence, the recommendation by the company’s Special Litigation Committee to sue former Chairman and co-founder Charles Wang for $500 million is not likely to speed the company toward that goal.

Just over a week before the start of CA’s revamped user conference, CA World, the committee released its report, which laid the blame at Wang’s feet for the company’s former practice of holding its books open past the end of its fiscal quarters to improperly record new contracts to meet Wall Street expectations.

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Moonwalk, the Australian developer of all-inclusive data management and protection software, introduced new disaster recovery features for its Moonwalk 6.0 software suite. Moonwalk software now delivers automated disaster recovery for migrated files in the event of a critical loss on primary storage.

Moonwalk’s extremely small-footprint agents create a "stub" for each file. The stub and the migrated file have a unique relationship contained in the metadata, including age, size, location, file type, file name, file creator and even more granular classification criteria. When stubs are lost due to a failure in a server and/or primary storage, Moonwalk software reviews these metadata from the previously migrated set, and restores the stubs to a location according to the direction of the systems administrator. Moonwalks DR tools not only maintain the continuity and integrity of the migrated environment across the enterprise, but also as an extension, allow the user to rebuild or repurpose their front end or their back end if they are replacing outdated servers or storage.

As new details emerged about cyberattacks against networks at the State and Commerce departments last year, politicians on Thursday said they’re concerned many federal agencies are ill-prepared to fend off such intrusions.

Members of a U.S. House of Representatives cybersecurity subcommittee said they weren’t confident that the computer systems at bureaus within the State and Commerce departments were adequately secured and scrubbed of backdoors that could allow cybercrooks to re-enter. They also questioned agency representatives on whether they could truly guarantee that sensitive information hadn’t been accessed or copied.