Rick Perera

Microsoft Corp. paid Bill Gates, its chairman of the board and chief software architect, a total of US$666,754 in fiscal year 2001, an increase of four per cent over the previous year.

Business software maker SAP AG is creating a new unit to meet the consulting needs of multinational customers who implement the company's products on a global scale.

Internet domain registry and security specialist VeriSign Inc. has agreed to acquire network services company Illuminet Holdings Inc. in a stock transaction worth some US$1.2 billion, VeriSign said in a statement Monday.

Internet domain registry and security specialist VeriSign Inc. has agreed to acquire network services company Illuminet Holdings Inc. in a stock transaction worth some US$1.2 billion, VeriSign said in a statement this month.

A hacker has cracked a German-based Islamist Web site, publishing on the Web hundreds of e-mail addresses of subscribers to its mailing list, including one of a suspect in last week's terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York.

Amazon.com Inc. has suspended the affiliate status of the Web site Intifada.com, after a U.S. Internet entrepreneur started an e-mail campaign urging Jewish and business leaders to pressure the company.

There's more bad news for companies seeking to make a profit from the open-source Linux operating system, as an embedded operating system maker announces layoffs, and a supplier of Linux-based server hardware files for bankruptcy protection.

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) engaged the so-called Echelon communications monitoring network, following on warnings of possible terrorist attacks, as long as three months ago, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) newspaper reported.