Laura Rohde

The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) released its XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) Basic specification as a W3C recommendation on Tuesday.

The International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) Special Study Group on IMT-2000 (International Mobile Telecommunications 2000) has established its agenda for publishing recommendations for the future development of 3G (third-generation) network standards.

It doesn't sound like the Christmas party at Web information access provider Ask Jeeves Inc. is going to be very merry. The Emeryville, Calif.-based company announced on Tuesday that in order to restructure itself into two divisions, it is laying off 25 per cent of its employees and taking a fourth quarter one-time pre-tax charge of US$10 million to $12 million in order to do so.

Two articles published last Friday in the U.K. medical journal The Lancet have reignited the debate over the dangers that mobile telephones may pose to children's health, yet the U.K. government has still not established a team to carry out research that it promised in May.

Speech-recognition software vendor Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products NV (L&H) continues to suffer internal turmoil. The company has suspended Joo Chul Seo as president and general manager of L&H Korea and removed him as a director of L&H Korea, it announced last week.

EMI Recorded Music, a division of U.K.-based EMI Group PLC, has agreed to launch an online streaming music service with Internet-based subscription music provider, Streamwaves Inc., the companies announced Monday.

The mobile Internet will soon be "bigger than the fixed Internet," said L.M. Ericsson Telephone Co.'s president Kurt Hellstr

Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp. are teaming up to develop GPRS- (general packet radio...