Laura Rohde

Cybercrime is on the rise in the United Kingdom and for the first time, those businesses that are hit by hacks are more likely to be attacked by hackers from outside of the company instead of inside, according to a study published Wednesday by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).

Faced with stiff competition in a market that is becoming increasing crowded, Handspring Inc. has lowered its suggested retail price for its Visor line of handheld PDAs (personal digital assistants), the company announced Monday.

Nokia Corp., the world's largest mobile handset manufacturer, announced on Friday that it has completed what it called the world's first 3G (third-generation) W-CDMA (wideband code-division multiple access) voice call over a commercial 3GPP (third generation partnership project) standard network.

Palm Inc. finalized a deal to acquire the software company Be Inc. for US$11 million, the handheld computer maker announced Thursday.

When it comes to security online, the Internet still has an image problem, with 86 per cent of U.S. adults indicating that they are very concerned about the security of online bank and brokerage transactions, according to a study released Tuesday by Gartner Inc.

Though British Telecommunications PLC (BT) was able to make headway in paying down its massive debt, underlying pretax profit for the company fell 71 per cent in the first quarter of fiscal 2001/2002, BT reported Thursday.

German regulators are looking into a downward revision of SAP AG's net profit report for the first half of the year, a spokeswoman at the Federal Supervisory Office for Securities Trading (Bundesaufsichtsamt f

U.K. handheld computer maker Psion PLC announced this month that it is refocusing on providing digital networking and in doing so will lay off 250 employees in addition to taking a US$40.9-million one-time charge.