Joris Evers

Consumer adoption of the Bluetooth wireless technology will be driven by hands-free use of mobile phones in cars, not by PCs and cordless keyboards, according to a UBS Warburg LLC research report released Tuesday.

Several versions of OpenSSH contain a Trojan horse that can allow an attacker to take over a system running the free network connectivity software, the makers of OpenSSH warned Thursday.

Microsoft Corp. warned of five vulnerabilities in its SQL Server 2000 database product, the most serious of which could allow an attacker to take over the server.

Lucent Technologies Inc. posted its ninth consecutive quarterly loss on Tuesday and said it would lay off another 7,000 people in an increased effort to curtail costs.

PC shipments in Eastern Europe grew in the second quarter, but a continued decline in shipments in Western Europe dragged down the PC market for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) as a whole, quashing hopes of a recovery, Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Inc., said Wednesday.

U.S. carrier WorldCom Inc. is planning to file for bankruptcy protection in the coming days, according to reports in the online editions of The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times on Friday.

A United States federal judge appointed former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Richard Breeden as corporate monitor in the civil fraud case against WorldCom Inc. on Wednesday. The case should be ready for trial by March 31.

IBM Corp. joined Microsoft Corp.'s Visual Studio .Net Integration Program to make it easier for developers to build applications for its DB2 database in forthcoming Windows .Net environments, IBM said Wednesday.