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The intellectual property suit that mobile phone developer Sendo Holdings PLC initiated Thursday against mobile operator Orange SA actually centres around technology developed by a Taiwanese manufacturer supplying handhelds to Orange, a representative for Sendo said Friday.

Oracle Corp. is making a US$5.1 billion bid for enterprise software provider PeopleSoft Inc. in a move to increase earnings and enhance future versions of its eBusiness Suite, the company said Friday.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has begun selling inexpensive, Linux-based notebooks in Thailand, in a move that underscores the open source platform's growing popularity in emerging markets.

WorldCom Inc., newly branded as MCI, has won a U.S. government contract to build a Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) digital cell phone network in Iraq as part of a post-war rebuilding effort, the GSM Association confirmed Monday.

Microsoft Corp.'s MSN network has teamed with Orange SA to deliver MSN Hotmail and MSN Messenger services to Orange's mobile phone customers across Europe.

Technology startups may have a more difficult time luring seasoned executives to top posts, a new survey indicates, as candidates increasingly opt for stability and cash over the traditional dotcom trademarks of risky ventures and stock options.

Mobile phone users in the Americas may have expanded roaming capabilities when traveling abroad thanks to an alliance VeriSign Inc. forged with International Mobile Communications Inc. (IMC) that allows it to offer mobile carriers access to IMC's global roaming agreements.

Microsoft Corp. has scrambled to shut down a flaw in its Passport service that could potentially reveal users' critical personal information, a company spokesperson confirmed Thursday.