A law firm from Salt Lake City, Utah, has filed a class action suit against Sprint Corp. on behalf of Utah residents, saying they have received unsolicited e-mails, or spam, from the company since US anti-spam legislation came into force.
The U.S. server market has seen its second consecutive month of growth, while the worldwide market has remained flat, according to Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Inc.
WorldCom Inc. has hired two new members to its board of directors. They will join a special investigative committee looking into the company's accounting practices, WorldCom said in a statement Sunday, the day on which it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
IBM has expanded its Web hosting service to include SAP AG, Siebel Systems Inc. and its own WebSphere Commerce applications, it said in a statement Monday.
Forgent Networks announced last week that it holds the patent to the JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) image compression technology, for both color and black and white images, and intends to license it to a variety of manufacturers.
WorldCom Inc. will be taken to court Tuesday by 25 of its 27 banks in an attempt to recover a US$2.65 billion unsecured loan they provided in May, according to press reports.
Microsoft Corp. would be prepared to license the intellectual property for its proposed Palladium security chip to any software manufacturer, but certification of that software would be essential if the system is to work, the company's U.K. chief security officer Stuart Okin said Wednesday.
Awareness of XML (Extensible Markup Language) and the need to use XML databases has grown faster in Europe than in the U.S., said Philippe Gélinas, chief executive of server software development company Ixiasoft at Microsoft Corp.'s Tech Ed conference Tuesday.
XML (Extensible Markup Language) will provide the technology standard necessary for Web services and Microsoft's .Net platform will be the premier platform for development, general manager of developer platform and evangelism Vic Gundotra said in a keynote speech at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Barcelona Monday.
Every time a visitor to your U.S. Web site clicks on a link to another site, you could owe British Telecommunications PLC (BT) some money. Or at least that's what the company is trying to prove in court in a U.S. case against Prodigy Communications Corp.
News and technology company Reuters Group PLC has developed an instant messaging (IM) application for the financial services industry, and on Wednesday announced an agreement to incorporate monitoring technology from FaceTime Communications Inc. into the software.
IBM has improved its carbon nanotube (CNT) transistors to the point where they can outperform the most advanced silicon transistors in prototype today, it said Monday.
An e-mail hoax pretending to be a virus warning has been playing on users' fears and causing them to delete their Java Debugger Manager file, called jdbgmgr.exe, by telling them it's a virus, Symantec said Friday.
Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group, part of Siemens AG, will license Nokia Corp.'s Series 60 software platform, the companies announced Thursday.
Vodafone Group PLC is to increase its stake in China Mobile (Hong Kong) Ltd., it announced Thursday.