Nancy Weil

A U.S. District Court judge Wednesday denied Microsoft Corp.'s motion that she dismiss the antitrust case of nine states and the District of Columbia against the software maker, ruling that the company has no legal basis to seek the dismissal.

Security technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), third-generation (3G) networking products and services, voice over Internet protocol and all things wireless are the hot technology areas and trends that IT executives who spoke over the weekend at the annual Harvard Business School Cyberposium have on their radar screens.

The nine states that have refused to sign a settlement agreement in the U.S. government's antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. urged a federal judge on Monday to deny the software maker's request to push back a hearing on behavioral remedies.

Africa has made enormous information and communication technology strides, with 2000 proving a "watershed" year, as soaring mobile phone use eclipsed fixed-line service, according to a new report from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

As a consequence of Tuesday's terrorist attacks on the United States, both the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Nasdaq will remain closed Thursday, each announced with statements on their respective Web sites.

Although financial institutions with offices in the destroyed World Trade Center issued statements Wednesday that operations are continuing and data has been thoroughly backed up, the global financial market is likely to remain topsy-turvy as shaken investors trade stocks at a rapid clip and consumer confidence further slips with possible long-range ramifications, a leading market analyst said Wednesday.

Within moments after word went out on television and by word of mouth that airplanes had slammed into the World Trade Center towers in New York on Tuesday morning, telephone communication ground to a standstill along the upper Eastern Seaboard and Internet traffic snarled major news Web sites.

Colleges and universities are offering IT vendor and professional certification classes that up until now have been largely the province of commercial training centres.