Rick Perera

Intel Corp. is standing by its plans to invest in a new semiconductor plant in eastern Germany, despite controversy plaguing the project. President and CEO Craig Barrett restated his support during a visit to Germany this weekend, a spokeswoman for the company's local subsidiary, Intel GmbH, said Monday.

Canadian telecommunication carrier 360networks Inc., along with several of its subsidiaries and affiliates, has filed for bankruptcy protection in Canada and the United States, the company said in a statement Thursday.

Microsoft Corp. has decided to drop the controversial Smart Tags feature from its forthcoming Windows XP release. The feature will not appear in the final version of the operating system, scheduled for release Oct. 25, or in the new Web browser Internet Explorer 6.0, the company said Thursday.

A specially modified mobile phone that encrypts conversations is now available worldwide, offering business executives, government officials and law enforcement officers the ability to talk via a secure connection even while on the move.

Compaq Computer Corp. is poised to topple Palm Inc. from its position as the number-one earner in the PDA (personal digital assistant) market, according to a new report from research and consulting company Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Inc.

An advocacy group for press freedom says that a new law under consideration in Turkey would drastically limit the right to publish information on the Internet.

A specially modified mobile phone that encrypts conversations is now available worldwide, offering business executives, government officials and law enforcement officers the ability to talk via a secure connection even while on the move.

The rate at which business software is being pirated failed to decline in 2000 for the first...