James Evans

Canadian law enforcement officials contend that the hacker who last week admitted responsibility for one of the most notorious attacks ever on commercial computer networks was no more than a youth with a tool and the instructions to use it.

A 16-year-old Montreal boy will be sentenced in April for his admitted guilt in paralyzing several U.S. Web sites, such as Yahoo Inc., Amazon Inc. and eBay Inc., while acting as the hacker Mafiaboy in February 2000.

Search engine AltaVista, a division of Internet holding company CMGI Inc., announced on Thursday that it would lay off 25 per cent of its staff, with most of the cuts coming at its Palo Alto, Calif. headquarters.

High-speed Internet provider NorthPoint Communications Group Inc. said late Tuesday that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco.

AT&T Corp. said Tuesday it has completed what it claims is the first U.S. coast-to-coast OC-192 (10G bits per second) IP (Internet Protocol) backbone and also announced it will more than double its Web hosting capacity this year with construction of seven more U.S. data centres and one in Asia.

Palm Inc. announced on Tuesday the availability of a trial version of its MyPalm portal, where users can download various online services from Palm, such as email and a calendar, through their PDA (personal digital assistant).

Online retail sales made a strong showing in the home stretch of the holiday season, a new study released Tuesday suggests.

AT&T Solutions, the networking services arm of AT&T Corp., last month announced enhancements to its Global Enterprise...