Emerging Tech

The Dutch competition authority on Friday cleared two phone operators of suspicions of colluding during the country's auction of third-generation (3G) mobile phone licenses last July.

Internet bellwether Yahoo Inc. announced Friday the completion of its acquisition of Kimo.com Corp., Taiwan's leading Web portal.

Australian smart card vendor ERG Ltd. has ended an alliance it formed three years ago with Motorola Inc. to cooperate on selling smart card products and services, ERG announced Monday in a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange.

Music file-swapping service Napster Inc. has filed a petition for a rehearing in the court ruling that found the company in violation of copyright law. The company is requesting that the full Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals hear the case, Napster said in a statement late Friday.

The failure of Oakville, Ont.-based telecommunications provider Cannect Communications, which went into receivership early this month, is likely just the first in a line of CLECs to fall over the next two years, suggest analysts.

Much of our data is increasingly being stored in digital form. We already have digital music, movies and offices, and if Jim Balsillie is correct soon even our wallets will join the digital age.

Microsoft Corp. has identified another security hole in its Outlook e-mail software and said a fix is available for the glitch.

IBM Corp. launched an assault Friday against rival Sun Microsystems Inc., charging that Sun has engaged in a "desperate effort" to claim the lead in worldwide server sales. Big Blue shot back at Sun by citing new research figures due next week from Dataquest Inc. that put IBM atop the worldwide server market.