Martyn Williams

Expanding its business horizon beyond the Internet, VeriSign Inc.'s chief executive officer (CEO) said Wednesday the company sees itself at the intersection of the Internet and telecommunication networks within five years.

Expanding its business horizon beyond the Internet, VeriSign Inc.'s CEO said Wednesday the company sees itself at the intersection of the Internet and telecommunication networks within five years, providing a huge database that links users and devices on both networks with routing and authentication technologies.

Intel Corp. was once the leading advocate for RDRAM (Rambus Dynamic RAM), but on Friday its executives declined to confirm whether its future chipsets would support the high-speed memory interface technology, saying Rambus is not the current first choice of consumers.

Samsung Electronics plans to put on sale in the United States a new version of its Palm OS-based personal digital assistant cell-phone handset in April.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the much maligned nonprofit group charged with overseeing basic technical matters related to addressing on the Internet, is in need of fundamental reform, according to a frank assessment of the organization written by its president and presented to board members over the weekend.

With just hours to go before Microsoft Corp. launched its Xbox games console in Japan, Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates underlined the importance of software in the success of his console and the buzz his company can create among consumers.

Hitachi Ltd. and Avaya Inc. are going to work together to develop customer relationship management (CRM) systems, they announced Thursday.

Just over a month after Microsoft Corp. chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates unveiled his company's new Mira technology, which allows users to access their Windows XP desktop from a portable, wireless-equipped terminal, four of Japan's top personal computer makers have signed on to support the system in their PCs.