Brian Sullivan

Networking equipment company Nortel Networks Corp. will realign its optical long-haul business, a move that might mean as many as 3,500 layoffs, the company said Wednesday.

The Internet, software and life sciences will the three biggest growth areas in technology in the coming year, according to a Deloitte & Touche LLP's survey of CEOs in its Fast 500 index.

Internet portal Yahoo and a coalition of online trade associations have gone to U.S. federal court in St. Louis in an attempt to overturn a lower court

The company that oversees the day-to-day operations of the space shuttle uses auctions on eBay as a tipsheet for finding available computer parts. But it doesn't actually compete in auctions to capture hardware for the shuttle program.

A pair of antivirus companies is warning users to look out for an e-mail worm that could allow attackers to take over their machines and try to damage firewall and security programs.

Walter Hewlett will open the final round of his battle to stop Hewlett Packard Co.'s merger with Compaq Computer Corp. when the trial against the merger opens Tuesday in Delaware Chancery Court in Wilmington.

General Electric Capital Corp. is expected to lay off 7,000 of its 90,000 workers worldwide, but the job cuts won

Security consultants aren't surprised that someone managed to take a voice mail Hewlett-Packard Co. chairwoman and CEO Carly Fiorina left for HP chief financial officer Robert Wayman last month and transmit it to the world.