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IT services provider Affiliated Computer Services has won a five-year $48m contract renewal from the Wyoming Department of Health to provide services for the state's Medicaid and Dental program.

Computer maker Psystar has lost a countersuit in which it alleged Apple used anti-competitive practices to restrict sales of its Macintosh operating systems.

Management and IT consulting services provider BearingPoint recently released third-quarter earnings that showed an operating profit for the third consecutive quarter, despite an ongoing revenue drop. However, it has so far failed to find itself a buyer, due in part to the global economic meltdown that has had a substantial impact on M&A activity.

Business process management provider Pegasystems has opened an R&D center in Hyderabad, India, to expand its global research, development, and training footprint.

AN EDS Australia employee attempted to take his own life after he was told he had lost his job.

T-Mobile USA will provide Yahoo's OneSearch search engine on its phones, a Yahoo executive said Wednesday.T-Mobile is placing a OneSearch button on its phones in a deal that is to be announced soon, said Marco Boerries, executive vice president and head of Yahoo's Connected Life Division, at the Open Mobile Summit conference in San Francisco. The carrier's decision to place a OneSearch button in the software of its subscribers' handsets is a much-needed win for Yahoo as it struggles against Google and Microsoft for search advertising dollars and looks for a successor to outgoing CEO Jerry Yang.[ Take InfoWorld's guided tour of T-Mobile's G1, the first phone to carry Google's Android operating system. | Get the latest on mobile developments with InfoWorld's Mobile report newsletter. ]Yahoo's latest partner has a close relationship with Google in at least one area. Last month, T-Mobile USA became the first mobile operator

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A COALITION of film heavyweights has sued iiNet for allegedly "ignoring" acts of copyright infringement by its customers.

An Austrian security vendor has found a vulnerability in Windows Vista that it says could possibly allow an attacker to run unauthorized code on a PC.The problem is rooted in the Device IO Control, which handles internal device communication. Researchers at Phion have found two different ways to cause a buffer overflow that could corrupt the memory of the operating system's kernel.[ Discover the top-rated IT products as rated by the InfoWorld Test Center. ]In one of the scenarios, a person would already have to have administrative rights to the PC. In general, vulnerabilities that require that level of access somewhat undermine the risk since the attacker already has permission to use to the PC.But it may be possible to trigger the buffer overflow without administrative rights, said Thomas Unterleitner, Phion's director of endpoint security software.The vulnerability could allow a hacker to install a rootkit, a small piece of malicious software that is very difficult to detect

Sun Microsystems has heard from a company concerned about the vetting process of Java and open source, a Sun official said on Wednesday.Lawyers for the concerned company said they cannot be sure the results of the process are legally pure, said Patrick Curran, chair of the Java Community Process (JCP), during a panel session on open standards development at the QCon conference in San Francisco on Wednesday afternoon. The JCP serves as the process for updating Java standards. Curran would not name the company.[ For more news from QCon, see "Ruby hailed as economic solution." ]"There is concern that if you do your development work in a completely open source manner through something like OpenJDK, that it is possible something will slip into the source code base that has not been appropriately vetted," Curran said in an interview after the session. He described the issue as not a big deal but a concern.?Sun began open-sourcing Java two years ago.Also during the panel session, Spring Frame