Laura Rohde

Global mobile phone unit sales continued to slide in the first quarter of 2002, a quarter that also saw falling sales

Worldwide demand for PDAs (personal digital assistants) continues to decline as manufacturers attempt to switch from selling electronic organizers to handheld wireless devices, according to International Data Corp.'s quarterly PDA report.

The global economic decline in 2001 was mainly due to the slump in the IT industry, which will continue to retard any sort of recovery in 2002, the World Trade Organization (WTO) said in its latest economic report.

Hackers can potentially exploit a format string vulnerability in remote wall requests in order to execute arbitrary code in Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s version of the Unix operating system, security experts have warned.

Hackers can potentially exploit a format string vulnerability in remote wall requests in order to execute arbitrary code in Sun Solaris, security experts have warned.

Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) and BEA Systems Inc. are working on a development tool to help rogrammers create software and Web services for BlackBerry wireless devices, the companies announced Wednesday.

A classified report from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is warning that the Chinese military is developing plans to launch wide-scale cyber attacks against computer networks in the United States and Taiwan, according to a report Friday in The Los Angeles Times newspaper.

Worldwide demand for PDAs (personal digital assistants) continues to decline as manufacturers attempt to switch from selling electronic organizers to handheld wireless devices, according to IDC's quarterly PDA report.