Laura Rohde

Napster Inc. continues its struggle to filter out copyrighted music from its service as the company faces a deadline Monday to demonstrate to plaintiffs and a U.S. District Court that it is complying with a pretrial court injunction issued last week.

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The CEO for battered U.S. anti-virus software vendor Network Associates Inc. (NAI) is making the rounds in Europe to assure customers, investors and pundits that the company is ready to put its bad times behind it and get back to business.

Hackers now have a new tag in the U.K.: cyberterrorists. Under the Terrorism Act 2000, enacted into law beginning Monday, people who endanger lives though the manipulation of public computer systems will be punished under the anti-terrorism law as would any other terrorist.

Sun Microsystems Inc. is teaming with smart card manufacturers Gemplus International SA, Oberthur Cards Systems SA and U.S. technology services company Schlumberger Ltd. to develop interoperable SIM (subscriber identity module) cards using Sun's Java technology, an Oberthur spokeswoman confirmed Monday.

Microsoft Corp. is set to reveal today further details of the newest version of its popular operating system, Windows XP

U.S. technology services company Schlumberger Ltd. will acquire IT systems and services company Sema PLC in a deal valued at US$5.2 billion, the company announced Monday.

To paraphrase the term: it's about the Internet, stupid. With that in mind, Microsoft Corp. has anointed its new versions of its popular software programs Windows and Office with an "XP" at the end of the names, the software giant announced Monday.