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TOP STORIES - February 24, 2009 • Microsoft Bungles Severance, Asks for Money Back • Indictment Offers Glimpse of Complex H-1B Visa Fraud • Survey: Axed Employees Often Walk Out with Corporate Data • Microsoft Offers Online Job Resource • U.S. Broadband Investment Offers More Than Just IT Jobs SPOTLIGHT OpenSUSE 11.1 Takes On Ubuntu, Fedora See if Novell's latest Linux distro has what it takes to win mind share over Canonical and Red Hat's offerings. READ MORE >> BEST OF eWEEK • Scenes from Mobile World Congress 2009 • The Evolution of the Smartphone • Pics: HTC's Touch Diamond2, Touch Pro2 • First Look: Windows Mobile 6.5 FEATURED VIDEO Vista Upgrade Tips See why upgrading to Vista is the best way to prepare for Windows 7. WATCH NOW >> MOST READ STORIES • Top Products to Watch This Week • First Look: Dell's Inspiron Mini 10 Laptop • Cutting-Edge Handsets Star at MWC • Nokia Skips to Skype IN THIS ISSUE Microsoft Bungles Severance, Asks for Money Back In what appears to be a clear sign of the times, Microsoft is reportedly asking laid off employees to return portions of their severance pay that the company apparently overpaid. READ MORE >> Indictment Offers Glimpse of Complex H-1B Visa Fraud Federal investigators are delving deeper into an elaborate fraud that took advantage of H-1B visa workers and tried to pay them lower wages. Indictments indicate that prosecutors are looking at firms in New Jersey, Iowa and California. READ MORE >> Sponsored by Citrix Deliver Your Windows Apps as an On-demand Service with Citrix XenApp With Citrix XenApp(TM), you can deliver 100 percent of your Windows(R)--based applications without even leaving the datacenter. Eliminate the need to install or manage applications on individual user devices, making application testing, management and support easier and far less expensive. Learn more now! ADVERTISEMENT Survey: Axed Employees Often Walk Out with Corporate Data A study of people who left or lost their jobs in 2008 found close to 60 percent kept corporate data after leaving. READ MORE >> Microsoft Offers Online Job Resource The company is offering a new, online job training tool called "Elevate America," which is designed to offer technical skills for those looking for new jobs, according to Microsoft. READ MORE >> U.S. Broadband Investment Offers More Than Just IT Jobs With $7.2 billion set aside for creating better broadband networks, experts believe that this type of investment could offer more to the United States than just additional IT jobs. READ MORE >> Enterprise Collaboration: Five Top Blunders to Avoid This paper is designed to help you avoid the five biggest blunders others commonly make when choosing a collaboration solution. DOWNLOAD NOW >> How to Untangle the "Integration Hairball": Four Strategies Many companies have allowed their IT infrastructures to grow piecemeal into a tangle of poorly integrated systems -- a situation that unnecessarily complicates their ability to compete in an already complex global marketplace. DOWNLOAD NOW >>

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