Stories by Brian Sullivan

Article | 26/05/2003 New Qualcomm chip sets add power, competition
The last few weeks have seen the age of "power phones" come a little bit closer. Last week, Nokia announced it would start producing more powerful CDM...
Article | 9/05/2003 General Motors on wireless cars and software crashes
Although the age of gasoline-powered cars may not yet be over, cars are becoming less mechanically complicated and more software- and wireless-depende...
Article | 4/02/2003 Preserving shuttle data will be key to finding cause
While it is unlikely that any data on board the space shuttle Columbia survived the fire of re-entry and the fall to earth on Saturday, a computer for...
Article | 4/07/2002 Feds suggest search sites disclose deals
The US Federal Trade Commission has suggested that search engine Web sites tell users when they are taking money from other Web sites to guarantee eit...
Article | 6/06/2002 Norwegian library needs help of cyberlocksmiths
Kirsti Langstoyl has a data recovery problem that might require a seance to solve. But she'll take a good IT professional with a knack for data recove...
Article | 4/06/2002 Microsoft agrees to stop accounting violations
Microsoft today agreed to stop accounting practices that violated federal securities laws in an agreement reached with the Securities and Exchange Com...
Article | 17/05/2002 Microsoft offers patch for six IE flaws
Microsoft Corp. has released a patch to fix six vulnerabilities, three of which are ranked "critical," that have shown up in its Internet Explorer (IE...
Article | 9/05/2002 'Cute' Trojan horse attacks through e-mail
A pair of antivirus companies is warning users to look out for an e-mail worm that could allow attackers to take over their machines and try to damage...
Article | 26/04/2002 AOL Time Warner hit hard by acquisition charge
The portrait of Walter Hewlett that emerged in cross-examination was of a man out of touch with the rest of the Hewlett Packard Co. board of directors...
Article | 26/04/2002 Hewlett spells out his merger opposition in court
The portrait of Walter Hewlett that emerged in cross-examination was of a man out of touch with the rest of the Hewlett Packard Co. board of directors...
Article | 24/04/2002 HP/COMPAQ - Fiorina denies sharing HP merger documents
Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina told a packed courtroom in Delaware Tuesday afternoon that she did not tell s...
Article | 16/04/2002 Intel pays $300 million to settle patent suit
Intel has agreed to pay Intergraph US$300 million in return for a group of patents, cross-licensing agreements and a cap on damages in a second lawsui...
Article | 10/04/2002 EBay has three outages in three days
Online auction giant eBay has experienced three outages of varying severity since Sunday, a spokesman for the San Jose-based company said.
Article | 8/04/2002 AOL says lawsuit closes a spammer's loophole
The settlement that America Online extracted from a pair of Florida men last week may have closed a loophole used by spammers to flood e-mail in-boxes...
Article | 5/04/2002 New Tivoli tool will help companies maintain privacy
A new free tool by IBM's Austin-based Tivoli Software will help companies maintain the privacy of their customers, the company said today.

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