Laura Rohde

Xerox Corp. has added another twist to its accounting controversy by admitting it paid out bribes totalling up to US$700,000 in connnection with sales to Indian government customers.

Xerox Corp. has added another twist to its accounting controversy by admitting it paid out bribes totalling up to US$700,000 in connnection with sales to Indian government customers.

After a flood of negative reactions from civil rights groups and opposition political parties, the U.K. government has put on indefinite hold plans to expand the authority of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) to a myriad of government departments.

New York IT consulting firm Scient Inc. has partnered with AOL Time Warner Inc. to develop and sell services in the business services market using America Online Inc.'s instant messaging (IM) platform and secure e-mail system, Scient said Thursday.

Technology is a key aspect in fighting terrorism and will also help lead the United States toward economic prosperity, U.S. President George W. Bush said to more than 100 IT executives in a speech Thursday at the White House.

Emboldened by its renegotiated software licensing agreement with Microsoft Corp., the U.K. government is debating the possibility of using open-source software to complement or even replace some of its Microsoft software.

The U.K. government has tapped British e-mail-security company MessageLabs Ltd. to protect its e-mail system from mass-mailing viruses in a deal valued at

The U.K. government has tapped British e-mail-security company MessageLabs Ltd. to protect its e-mail system from mass-mailing viruses in a deal valued at US$1.5 million, the Gloucester, England, company announced Monday.