Vonage should pay $58 million for violating Verizon's patents for voice over IP, a jury found. Vonage says it will appeal and that the ruling won't change its service. Verizon contends it should limit Vonage to offering calls between its customers, a death sentence for the startup. ... The Securities and Exchange Commissionhas suspended trading on 35 companies that have been touted in recent spam campaigns. The SEC estimates 100 million pump-and-dump spam messages are sent every week. ... Microsoftchairman Bill Gates testified before Congress, urging three actions: raise the H-1B visiting worker visa cap; make it easier to study and stay here from abroad; and improve tech education in an effort to double the number of science, math, and tech grads by 2015. ... Red Hat has teamed with Exadel, a pioneer Ajax tools supplier, to offer open source tools for building applications aimed at its JBoss middleware. JBoss tools join a growing number available as open source Eclipse platform plug-ins. ... Last year, 161 exabytes of digital information were created and copied, according to IDC research sponsored by EMC. That's about 3 million times the amount of information in all the books ever written.