Japanese DRAM (dynamic RAM) manufacturer Elpida Memory has agreed to plead guilty and pay a US$84 million fine for participating in an "international conspiracy" to fix DRAM prices, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday.
A Washington, D.C., civil liberties and consumer group has filed two complaints against Web-based marketer 180solutions, accusing the company of "duping" Internet users into downloading intrusive advertising software.
Antivirus software vendor F-Secure issued a patch for a wide range of its products last Thursday after a security researcher in Luxembourg reported vulnerabilities to the company.
A 10-point drop in the estimated 35 percent global software piracy rate would create 2.4 million jobs and US$400 billion in economic growth over four years, according to a study released by a software trade group Thursday.
More and more software will be developed in Asia in the coming years, with China and India far outpacing the number of computer science graduates the U.S. produces each year, Microsoft's chief executive officer said Wednesday.
MCI on Tuesday announced the upcoming release of a network-security managed service, saying it will be the most comprehensive package available.
Would Internet users want to pay US$0.05 every time they visit Google.com, Yahoo.com or any other Web site? That's one possibility if the U.S. Congress fails to include strong "network neutrality" rules as it debates a comprehensive telecom reform bill, a group of open Internet advocates said Friday.
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) Wednesday announced a new software product and a multimedia service designed to help telecommunications providers move to the all-digital networks needed to offer voice, data and multimedia services on the Internet.
Netgear has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing the company of inflating the data speeds of its Wi-Fi networking devices in advertising materials.
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case in which eBay was successfully sued for patent infringement by a developer of a Web auction site.
Hubert Mantel, one of the founders of the SuSE Linux project, has resigned from Novell, which acquired SuSE in January 2004.
Verizon Communications reported Thursday net income of US$1.9 billion for the third quarter of 2005, with income essentially flat from the third quarter of 2004.
A U.S. district court judge monitoring Microsoft's antitrust settlement with the U.S. government scolded company lawyers Wednesday because the company recently announced a lengthy delay in a project to improve technical documentation for its communications protocols.
VeriSign has settled a breach-of-contract lawsuit accusing the organization that oversees the Internet's addressing system of delaying new domain-name services, the company announced Monday.
IBM on Monday reported quarterly income from continuing operations of US$1.5 billion (AU$2 billion), down slightly from US$1.6 billion in the third quarter of 2004.