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The standards for setting charges -- and later sentences -- for hackers differs dramatically on a state by state basis. But one thing is increasingly clear -- authorities are stepping up action against hackers of mobile phones, PDAs and conventional computer systems. New developments in mobile phone...

The office of U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman initiated a special process under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules today to obtain information on China's intellectual property (IP) enforcement efforts. The United States is exercising a process established under WTO Agreement provisions on Tr...

AT&T lives. While the company itself is about to be swallowed up by a one-time subsidiary, the AT&T name, long synonymous with phone service in the U.S., will survive. SBC Communications, which is on the verge of closing its US$16 billion deal to buy the legendary telecommunications giant, a...

AT&T lives. While the company itself is about to be swallowed up by a one-time subsidiary, the AT&T name, long synonymous with phone service in the U.S., will survive. SBC Communications, which is on the verge of closing its US$16 billion deal to buy the legendary telecommunications giant, a...

AT&T lives. While the company itself is about to be swallowed up by a one-time subsidiary, the AT&T name, long synonymous with phone service in the U.S., will survive. SBC Communications, which is on the verge of closing its US$16 billion deal to buy the legendary telecommunications giant, a...

Research in Motion suffered a potentially damaging setback when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt lower court proceedings that could result in the BlackBerry maker being barred from selling its hugely popular hand-held e-mail device in the U.S. NTP, a firm that first accused RIM of patent infri...

Google is working on an online listing-collection site that could move it into competition with sites such as Craigslist as well as online person-to-person retail communities such as eBay and also provide content for its various search tools. Speculation about a product listing service hit a fever ...

Joining forces in a bid to usher in a new era of ultra-convenient payment systems, Japanese credit cards companies have banded together with wireless phone companies to form a "mobile wallet" alliance. JCB Co., the largest credit card underwriter in Japan, and others joined with mobile operators suc...

The Internet's governing body has agreed to settle several outstanding lawsuits involving domain registrar VeriSign, an agreement that will keep that company in charge of the key dot-com domain until 2012. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said the settlement is still s...

No type of management position has undergone more profound changes over the last ten years than that of client relations managers. Changes are being driven by economic globalization, competitive pressures and the information technology revolution. Changes in the roles of client relations managers pa...

Microsoft has abandoned a plan that would have excluded rival media players from being included on devices that were outfitted with the Windows Media Player. Microsoft had proposed that device makers that included a CD with the Windows Media Player with their devices not be allowed to include any co...

The third quarter results posted yesterday by Google had even reserved analysts reaching for new adjectives to describe the seven-fold increase in profits, the nearly doubling of revenue and the fact that Google's own Web site is driving a growing amount of advertising income for the company. "These...

Information management and storage vendor EMC yesterday announced a definitive agreement to acquire a document imaging technology provider. EMC will purchase Captiva Software for US$22.25 per share in cash, or approximately $275 million net of Captiva's cash balance. EMC said input management softwa...

The former chief executive officer of online marketing firm Intermix has agreed to give up profits allegedly made through the distribution of spyware as part of a settlement with the state of New York. New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said Brad Greenspan, the founder and former CEO of I...

AOL confirmed this week the layoff of about 700 employees, most of whom were working in customer call centers across the United States. The once-dominant Internet service company blamed the job cuts on its dwindling dial-up customer base, but industry watchers also viewed the layoffs as a ploy to pl...