Rick Perera

Swiss police have confirmed the arrest of a person suspected of the hacking of computers at the World Economic Forum. The man, who is 20 years old, Swiss, and works part-time as an IT consultant, was taken into custody Friday in Bern, Switzerland, said a spokeswoman for the Geneva police.

Music file-swapping service Napster Inc. has filed a petition for a rehearing in the court ruling that found the company in violation of copyright law. The company is requesting that the full Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals hear the case, Napster said in a statement late Friday.

Deutsche Telekom AG (DT) on Monday declined to confirm a report giving the value of properties it is seeking to sell off, though the company confirms it is on a campaign to dispose of non-core holdings.

Worldwide sales of mobile phones were up 45.5 per cent in 2000 to 412.7 million units, said research and consulting company Gartner Group Inc.

A 20-year-old man has turned himself in to police in the Dutch province of Friesland, identifying himself as the author of the so-called Anna Kournikova virus, police spokesman Robert Rambonnet said Wednesday.

Five Holocaust survivors are filing a class-action suit against IBM Corp., charging that the huge technology company "aided and abetted crimes against humanity" by providing the punch-card systems used to catalogue and process victims of the Nazi German genocide against Jews and other groups during World War II.

German and American scientists are working to develop a new information storage technology using ordinary commercial adhesive tape as a medium. Private European Media Laboratory GmbH (EML) and Stanford University have signed a three-year cooperation contract, the EML announced in a statement last month. A chief goal will be to work together on the storage development and EML expects the project to take about five years to develop.

Semiconductor giant Intel Corp. will take a minority share in a new chip fabrication plant to be built in the eastern German city of Frankfurt an der Oder. The new enterprise, under the name Communicant Semiconductor Technologies AG, was officially founded Wednesday, said a statement from the publicly funded research and development organization Institut f