Rick Perera

Thirty countries, including Canada, signed a controversial international treaty to combat online crime Friday

Thirty countries signed a controversial international treaty to combat online crime Friday. Representatives of 26 Council of Europe (CoE) member states, plus the United States, Canada, Japan, and South Africa, put their signatures on the document at an international meeting in Budapest.

A U.S. court has postponed a lawsuit by South Korean chipmaker Hynix Semiconductor Inc. against U.S. competitor Rambus Inc. in which Hynix had sought a declaration that its SDRAM (synchronous dynamic RAM) and DDR (double data rate) SDRAM products do not infringe upon certain Rambus patents.

Business users are warming up to instant messaging over the Internet, catching up with the explosive growth the service has enjoyed among home users, according to a new study.

Business users are warming up to instant messaging over the Internet, catching up with the explosive growth the service has enjoyed among home users, according to a new study.

Pakistan's fledgling software industry is feeling the heat from war in neighbouring Afghanistan, as foreign customers cancel orders based on what industry officials call a mistaken belief that violence is spilling over the border.

Users of SAP AG's business software will soon be able to pick and choose between elements, even integrating them with applications from other providers, thanks to a new open-standards policy.

Worldwide sales of workstations were down 17 per cent in the third quarter of 2001, but Dell Computer Corp. and IBM Corp. bucked the trend, according to research and consulting firm Dataquest Inc., a division of Gartner Inc.