Joris Evers

Taking another step toward post-silicon semiconductors, IBM Corp. scientists on Sunday presented a computer circuit made from a carbon nanotube, a tube-shaped molecule of carbon atoms that is 100,000 times thinner than a human hair.

KPN Mobile NV has ordered special handsets from an Asian manufacturer to support its European rollout of I-mode technology, slated for later this year or early next year, KPN said Thursday.

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A Dutch cryptographer claims he has found a way to crack technology developed by Intel Corp. that protects digital video from pirates.

Virus writing group 29A denied last week that any of its members created the Code Red or the Code Red II worm. The denial came after a German media report pinpointed 29A as the brains behind the malicious Internet worms.

Sircam, Code Red and Code Red II may be causing some inconvenience, but this is just a fraction of the damage a worm could do, according to a worm expert speaking at hacker conference here on Friday.

Windows XP will more prominently display non-Microsoft digital imaging software, a concession made by Microsoft Corp. in a dispute with Eastman Kodak Co., according to a report published Monday.

Proving again that it doesn't practice what it preaches, Microsoft Corp. on Thursday confirmed that the Code Red worm infected two servers used for its Hotmail Web-based e-mail service.