Joris Evers

Hosting provider Exodus Communications Inc. has agreed to sell the bulk of its business to London-based Cable & Wireless PLC (C&W) for about US$575 million in cash and the assumption of about US$180 million in liabilities, Exodus announced in a statement Friday.

The makers of popular file-sharing software KaZaA have to make it impossible for users to continue to share copyright-protected material using the software, or pay a fine for each day the product remains unchanged, a Dutch judge ordered Thursday.

The makers of popular file-sharing software KaZaA have to make it impossible for users to continue to share copyright-protected material using the software, or pay a fine for each day the product remains unchanged, a Dutch judge ordered Thursday.

With the latest 54M-bps (bits-per-second) 802.11a wireless LAN (WLAN) gear just becoming available, vendors at Comdex Fall here talked about the next step in wireless networking, a convergence with 802.11b, cellular networks and Bluetooth.

Instant messaging is coming to mobile phones and it will be interoperable with all major PC instant message (IM) applications, Openwave Systems Inc. promised Monday as it announced the limited release of its mobile IM product at Comdex Fall.

Sales of PDAs (personal digital assistants) dropped in the third quarter as users waited for Microsoft Corp.'s Pocket PC 2002, according to market researcher Dataquest Inc., a division of Gartner Inc.

L.M. Ericsson Telephone Co.'s chairman, Lars Ramqvist, will leave in March, the company announced Thursday, the same day it reported another quarterly loss and a grim financial outlook.

With Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products NV (L&H) declared bankrupt earlier this week, some of the company's customers are wondering about support and future relations, while others say they don't need L&H service to continue using the software.