Juan Carlos Perez

Microsoft Corp. will launch a new tool this year called Microsoft Update designed to automate a company's process of publishing and distributing Microsoft security patches, Steve Ballmer, the company's chief executive officer, said Thursday.

Financial services firm Manulife Financial Corp. has awarded IBM Corp.'s services unit a 10-year, US$563 million outsourcing contract to manage its IT infrastructure in Canada and the United States.

A steady and strong growth in residential Internet use in Latin America over the coming years will make it increasingly feasible for providers to offer users a variety of online services, an analyst predicted recently.

Latin American countries have adequate laws to protect Internet and software intellectual property, but the enforcement of those laws is weak and inconsistent, legal experts said March 22 at a University of Miami symposium.

A U.S. federal grand jury has indicted Arthur Andersen LLP on an obstruction of justice charge, a development that hurts the embattled accounting firm's efforts at surviving the Enron Corp. debacle it is involved in.

A U.S. federal grand jury has indicted Arthur Andersen LLP on an obstruction of justice charge, a development that hurts the embattled accounting firm's efforts at surviving the Enron Corp. debacle it is involved in.

Mexico residents will be spending more on wireless services than on traditional fixed-line services by 2006, a study predicts.

Latin American companies bought more high-end servers in 2001 than in 2000, leading to an increase in revenue generated from server sales in the region, according to a Dataquest Inc. study released Monday. But despite the revenue hike, overall server unit shipments fell.