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Oil prices defied numerous predictions by rising slightly Thursday, as disruptions in Iraq and fears that other Middle East countries would be hit by terrorists countered OPEC's decision to boost production. Meanwhile, an OPEC minister said other unpredictable forces, such as a workers' strike in Ni...

National Semiconductor today reported a GAAP profit of US$126.4 million, or 32 cents per share, on revenues of $571.2 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004, which ended May 30th, 2004. National Semiconductor's fourth-quarter sales were 34 percent higher than the fourth quarter of fiscal 2003...

Manticore Technology, an application service provider for online marketing optimization software, recently announced the launch of Virtual Commerce Master 4.0, an integrated e-mail and e-commerce analytics technology designed to provide managers with insight into the effectiveness of their online bu...

The Bush administration said Wednesday it will not pursue an appeal of a court ruling that frees regional telecommunications giants from having to sell wholesale access to their networks to nationwide carriers at discount prices. The decision by U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson not to seek Supr...

Count Jonathan Bingham among those who weren't all that surprised by the reputed breach of security that may have resulted in Cisco's guarded Internet Operating System source code being pilfered and posted on the Web. It's not that Bingham, a former Forrester Research analyst who is now president of...

Microsoft probably does not mind that its monthly round of security patches for June are causing much less of a ruckus than previous months when the company was caught in the middle of a worm war that targeted its Windows systems and forced the company to play catch-up with vulnerabilities that were...

Sales of mobile phones jumped sharply to record-setting levels during the first quarter, but longtime leader Nokia saw its share of the market fall to the lowest level in five years, according to a report from Gartner. Nokia's share of the cell phone market fell from 34.6 percent a year ago to 28.9 ...

Antibiotech demonstrators faced off against police outside of the Bio 2004 conference on Tuesday in San Francisco. The confrontation resulted in 150 arrests, most resulting from demonstrators refusing to disperse from a busy intersection. The demonstrators crowded the streets around the Moscone Conv...

Attorneys for Oracle opened their challenge of the U.S. government's attempt to block the company's purchase of PeopleSoft by pointing to the recently revealed Microsoft and SAP merger talks as proof that the enterprise application business is much larger than regulators contend. Department of Justi...

Microsoft vowed Tuesday to appeal the recent European Union antitrust ruling that orders the company to modify its business practices, make product changes and pay a hefty fine. On Monday, the company delivered an application to annul the EU's decision to the European Court of Justice. After a five-...

In the midst of Oracle's trial to defend its takeover bid for PeopleSoft, Oracle will disclose merger talks between SAP and Microsoft. In a statement, Microsoft revealed Monday that in late 2003, it approached SAP to discuss the viability of a merger. After months of discussion, it became clear that...

Microsoft has announced that it will ask a European court to suspend parts of the European Commission's March 24th ruling, which ordered the company to change its business practices and pay a fine of US$612 million. In the ruling, the commission mandates that Microsoft must strip Media Player softwa...

EMC today announced several new technologies and services designed to help customers make compliance with regulations a seamless part of IT operations. The new EMC technologies for e-mail and content archiving, new platform functionality for compliance-related data management, and services for data ...

General Motors will invest US$3 billion to expand operations in China in the next three years, a massive outlay of capital that will enable it to double its output in the country that is home to one of the world's fastest-growing economies. GM, the world's leading automaker, and its partners will in...

Microsoft has won a patent related to the timing of button-clicks on handheld computers and similar devices, sparking concerns among some companies and industry observers that the software giant will attempt to reap licensing fees for what many view as a common practice. Patent No. 6,727,830 spells ...