Via Larry Dignan/ ZDnet
President Obama rolled out his $3.8 trillion proposed fiscal 2011 budget that’s teeming with technology projects throughout the Federal government’s departments and agencies.
I went through the budget with an information technology lens so you don’t have to. Here’s a look at the notable technology projects and investments
Department of Defense: Better health IT [...]

Larry Dignan via ZDNet
Apple said Tuesday that it is suing HTC for infringing on 20 patents related to the iPhone.
Specifically, Apple is suing HTC in a Delaware district court and the U.S. International Trade Commission for violating patents related to “the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture and hardware.” Apple didn’t detail the specific patents involved.
In [...]

Microsoft’s security response team is investigating reports of a potentially dangerous code execution vulnerability in its flagship Internet Explorer browser.
The company warned that an attacker could host a maliciously crafted web page and run arbitrary code if they could convince a user to visit the web page and then get them to press the F1 [...]

By Akil Burgess
I recently bought a new palm pre and was having problems making a call due to the phone being in airport moded. Here are some steps take the airport mode off. There are also other tips here to making your phone more productive and useful.
Enter / Exit Airplane Mode
The Pre’s Airplane Mode deactivates the [...]

By: Brian Prince via EWeek

China officials have shut down Black Hawk Safety Net, the country’s biggest hacker training Website, and arrested three people for making hacker tools available online.
China announced it has arrested three people in connection with operating a hacker training school that distributed malware and hacking tools to its members in online forums.
According to Xinhua, China ’s state-run [...]

by John Paczkowsk via All things Digital
Online attacks that inspired Google’s (GOOG) “new approach to China” have been traced to computers at two educational institutions in the country, including one with ties to the Chinese military.
Anonymous sources close to the investigation into the attacks, which targeted dozens of American corporations, tell the New York Times [...]

By Mike Challis
Did you know there is a very good free office program available?
I used to use MS Office until I found the free OpenOffice.org office suite software about 5 years ago. I work on computers every day and I run my own business. I need to be able to write letters and faxes. [...]

Q: I have an HP DV6700 series laptop with an AMD Turion 64 X2 dual-core processor and Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1. As long as I’m just running applications that don’t need to do security authentication, the system’s speed is acceptable. However, any time an application does need to authenticate, the screen [...]

By BOB SALSBERG, Associated Press Writer
BOSTON – A computer hacker who helped orchestrate the theft of tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers from major retailers in one of the largest such thefts in U.S. history pleaded guilty Tuesday in the last of three cases brought by federal prosecutors.
Albert Gonzalez, a one-time federal [...]

Daniel Allen
@thehuffingtonpost
Earlier this month, Digg.com, a popular social bookmarking site, experienced something akin to an online riot. Like a real-life riot, it began with a trickle, not a bang.
At its heart, Digg is a very simple system. Any user can submit a link for the consideration of the entire Digg userbase; if enough users “digg” [...]