Laura Rohde

Memory system designer Rambus Inc. received a mixed ruling from the European Patent Office (EPO) in its ongoing patent infringement case, the Los Altos, California, company, announced Wednesday.

The partners of accountancy company PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) have approved the sale of its consulting division, PwC Consulting, to IBM Corp., the companies announced Thursday.

IBM Corp. intends to develop a demonstration platform for delivering secure digital broadband content to home users in partnership with the Telematics Institute and the Philips Research division of Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV, the companies announced Tuesday.

Hewlett-Packard Co. unveiled what it termed a major breakthrough in molecular electronics research on Monday, bringing the company forward in its goal to build complex molecular-scale chips that will in turn be developed into a future generation of smaller, faster and cheaper chips.

Siebel Systems Inc. will ship the latest version of its customer relationship management (CRM) eBusiness applications globally in the fourth quarter, the company announced Wednesday.

Debt-laden conglomerate Vivendi Universal SA has sold its 50 per cent share of the mobile content provider Vizzavi Ltd. to its partner Vodafone Group PLC.

German telecommunication giant Deutsche Telekom AG (DT) Wednesday reported a net loss for the first half of 2002 that was almost ten times greater than the net loss it posted last year.

German business software company SAP AG is to expand the functionality of its mySAP Insurance product to include financial services policy management capabilities by the end of 2003, the company announced Thursday.