Research in Motion (RIM), the company behind the BlackBerry wireless email device, was ordered to pay almost $US9 million in enhanced damages in a post-trial ruling on a patent dispute with NTP, a US court has ruled.
Accenture will introduce a set of preconfigured Web services for communications service providers this week.
Dell Computer will announce its first own-brand printers in March, aiming them at home office users and large workgroups, Chief Executive Officer, Michael Dell, said.
Intel has chosen Centrino, the Italian word for a lace table centerpiece or doily, as the brand name for its forthcoming wireless computing technology, it announced Wednesday.
There's nothing more irritating, when I'm at the theater to enjoy a play or a movie, than to have the performance interrupted by a mobile phone ringing.
Hewlett-Packard is to release a wireless-enabled addition to its Jornada range of PDAs (personal digital assistants) at the GSM World Congress in Cannes on February 19.
The European showcase for all things Apple has fallen victim to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre in New York. Apple Expo, which was to have taken place in Paris from September 26-30, is cancelled.
Oracle consolidated its lead in the overall database management systems (DBMS) software market in 2000, although Microsoft narrowly edged ahead in sales of Windows NT relational DBMS, according to figures released by market analyst Dataquest this week.
Antivirus software manufacturers are reporting the appearance of the first virus to infect applications on systems running either Linux or Microsoft Windows - although it presents little danger, they say.
Microsoft could face a legal challenge to its use of the Xbox name for its forthcoming video game console. Microsoft filed its claim to the name with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on October 1999, but a Florida company registered its use of the Xbox mark with the USPTO on March 1999.
Gateway's new chief executive officer Ted Waitt - the company's founder and chairman - will refocus the company on its direct sales roots, he said in a conference call on Tuesday.
Sun Microsystems has published details of two new interfaces to link its Java programming language to XML (extensible mark-up language).
As expected, Apple Computer chief executive officer Steve Jobs used his keynote address Wednesday here at Apple Expo to announce the availability of the public beta version of Mac OS X. Jobs also introduced new additions to the company's iBook line of portable computers, and announced a faster graphics card option for the company's G4 desktop range.
Intel has mapped out the way to improved, 0.13-micron versions of its Pentium III and Pentium 4 microprocessors, according to a report published by microprocessor analyst Bert McComas of Inquest Market Research.
No longer thrilled by the novelty of the experience, today's e-commerce customers can't be fobbed off with any old rubbish, according to Keng Lim, president and chief executive officer of e-commerce service provider Escalate.
