Margret Johnston

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other groups championing "cyber rights" have complained to the U.S. Department of Commerce about a decision on generic top-level domains (TLDs) by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization that governs the Internet domain-name system.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has prepared a Spanish version of an IT management planning tool developed by the department to help small and medium-sized companies in Latin America determine how they might improve their business by using IT.

WorldCom Inc.'s chief technology officer on Wednesday detailed the company's plans for improving its network backbone and product offerings in 2001, including changes in switch architecture and the continued use of wave division multiplexing to reach performance milestones.

Information technology (IT) was a key driver behind the productivity gains of U.S. workers in the second half of the 1990s, and it would take a drastic reduction in U.S. business investment in IT to pull down the current strong rate of productivity growth, a U.S. Federal Reserve economist said Tuesday.

Siemens AG, in cooperation with Cingular Wireless Inc., will introduce a triple-band GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) cellular phone in the U.S. market in March, Siemens said Tuesday in a news release.

Seven African Americans have filed a US$5 billion racial discrimination lawsuit against Microsoft Corp., alleging that the company has passed them over for promotions, discriminated against them in hiring and firing practices and forced them to endure a "plantation-type mentality" at the company.

U.S. President Bill Clinton on Wednesday issued new rules designed to safeguard the privacy of medical records in response to heightened public concern that their most private data easily could be disclosed using new information technologies.

Microsoft Corp. further advanced its .Net framework at Comdex in Las Vegas with the beta release of...