Joris Evers

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is touring Europe to spread its gospel of interoperability and to promote itself to Europeans, the W3C said Tuesday.

Oracle Corp. elbowed rival Sun Microsystems Inc. out of third place in the application server market in terms of revenue in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region last year, the company said Wednesday. Research firm IDC confirmed the statement.

Vendors are rushing 54Mbps wireless LAN (WLAN) products to the European market without waiting for the U.S. 802.11a standard to be adapted to meet European regulatory requirements. The European products offer less functionality and might not work with future devices that do support the forthcoming standard.

Microsoft Corp. has agreed to buy Danish business software developer Navision A/S in a transaction valued at about US$1.3 billion, the Redmond, Wash., software giant said Tuesday.

Jan de Wit, the 21-year-old Dutchman who was sentenced last September to 150 hours of community service for creating and sending out the Anna Kournikova e-mail worm, is appealing the verdict, his lawyer said Friday.

LCDs (liquid crystal displays) could become cheaper, thinner, lighter and more flexible with a paint-on LCD-making technology being developed by researchers at Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV.

The battle for the CRM (customer relationship management) customer has moved to the courtroom. SAP AG won a ban on a German advertising campaign by rival Siebel Systems Inc. and is contemplating legal action in the U.K.

The W32.Klez worm and its variants are still loose in the wild over a week after the latest variant was discovered, moving antivirus software vendor Symantec Corp. to upgrade it to a "level 4 virus threat" on its danger scale of five.