George A. Chidi Jr

Federal prosecutors of an accused Mafia loan shark invoked the Classified Information Protection Act last Thursday in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey to keep secret the technical details of a computer keystroke logging tool.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) lost some ground in its evolving price war with Intel Corp. as IBM Corp. said it would drop AMD's Athlon microprocessors in PCs sold in North America.

A federal court ordered the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday to reveal technology used to track the computer keystrokes of a suspect, in a case observers say has an impact on privacy in this era of IT surveillance.

The scythe of the telecommunication and Internet downturn casts a wide arc, mowing down the strong, the weak and the in-between. On the heels of grim earnings reports from major players like WorldCom Inc., SBC Communications Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc., other companies are beginning to trim costs even more aggressively, lay off workers, or just give up and go home.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Thursday rejected Microsoft Corp.'s request for a rehearing on its decision that the software giant illegally "commingled" operating system and browser code. In doing so, the court denied the software maker's bid to reverse a ruling handed down last month affirming that the company illegally tied its software code for the Windows operating system to its Internet Explorer Web browser.

Cisco Systems Inc. unveiled a new appliance for converting HTML (hypertext markup language) and XML (extensible markup language) into other data formats suitable for use on wireless devices, cellular phones and PDAs (personal digital assistants), the company announced Wednesday.

The research arm of IBM Corp. has a software tool under development to identify wireless LAN nodes that are vulnerable to a sneak attack by hackers, the company announced this month. Prototyped on a Linux-based wireless personal digital assistant (PDA), the device will be able to automatically monitor 802.11 wireless LAN networks and collect security-related information.

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