Emerging Tech

The judge who found Microsoft Corp. guilty of antitrust violations and ordered the company split in two was on trial as much as the software giant in last week's appeals hearings. As a result, many observers now believe Microsoft likely will win its appeal.

Microsoft Corp. announced Monday that it has released the final code of Office XP, the successor to Office 2000, to manufacturing.

Taking its first significant step into the corporate PC sphere, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) announced Monday that NEC Corp. will manufacture and sell computers incorporating AMD processors to corporate customers in Europe.

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (SingTel) began operating in Taiwan Friday with the launch of a telecommunications service there call Sparq. The service will be run by New Century InfoComm Co. Ltd. (NCIC), in which SingTel is the second-largest shareholder with a 24.3 percent stake.

Optical technologies such as wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) are moving swiftly from traditional long-haul segments into the metropolitan and access networks, and picking up IP (Internet protocol) momentum along the way.

Amazon.com Inc. subsidiary Bibliofind.com said Monday that hackers stole the company's customer records, including credit card information, according to a report in the online edition of The Wall Street Journal published Tuesday.

Intel Corp. has shaved a few dollars off the prices of its microprocessor chips for desktop computers, part of a broader effort to accelerate the adoption of its recently launched Pentium 4 chip.

Music file-sharing service Napster Inc. implemented file-filtering system Sunday night meant to block users from downloading a preliminary list of song titles provided by attorneys for the record industry, but by Monday afternoon users found they were able to bypass the system in some cases.