George A. Chidi Jr

Attorneys general from Iowa and Connecticut issued a short, sharp statement Wednesday evening denying they were actively considering a second antitrust suit against Microsoft Corp. over the Windows XP operating system.

Lucent Technologies Inc. got into financial trouble when it started financing equipment purchases for its customers, many of which had questionable ability to pay their debts.

The standard for 10G-bps (bits per second) Ethernet hasn't been ratified, yet the largest networking equipment makers continue to march forward to test products, as Nortel Networks Inc. is now doing with its 10-Gigabit Ethernet Optical Adapter for Servers.

In the latest perverse trickery pulled off by someone taking pleasure in computer users' pain, a fake virus warning is circulating by e-mail asking people to delete an innocuous and uninfected executable Microsoft Corp. Windows file and then to pass the warning on to others.

No definitive link has been found between cell phone use and health risks, but more research is needed to assess possible long-term effects, according to a report released Wednesday by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) that repeats the conclusions given by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and telecommunication industry groups.

Leaders of the fastest-growing technology companies say the era of clever, tricky and complex new-economy business plans is over.

The largest business merger in U.S. history cost almost US$1 billion to complete, according to an annual report filed Wednesday by AOL Time Warner Inc. with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Mobile e-mail device maker Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) announced Thursday it had been granted a U.S. patent for connecting multiple devices via a single electronic address.