Scarlet Pruitt

America Online Latin America Inc. (AOLA) is quickly running out of funds and could soon cease operations or file for bankruptcy, it said in a regulatory filing Tuesday.

Leaders of Sun Microsystems Inc.'s U.K. user group are trying to breathe life into the anemic organization with a relaunch aimed at getting back to its core purposes: sharing knowledge and asking Sun tough questions.

The European court weighing Microsoft Corp.'s antitrust appeal has approved the list of players that will be able to intervene in the case to voice their opinions for or against the rulings.

Many European IT managers find their jobs extremely stressful, and even those that feel that they have done as much as they can to protect their companies against emerging threats are operating under a false sense of security, according to a study out Tuesday.

Representatives from developing countries and mature markets came to loggerheads Wednesday over how to spur IT industry growth, with emerging markets pushing for further globalization while established markets looked inward. The debate, which took place at the Economist's Technology Industry Summit in Hanover, Germany could spell future friction over IT industry development as competition among all nations heats up. Representatives for developing markets saw continued globalization as an opportunity to gain more IT jobs and investment, while some mature-market leaders saw it as an increased threat.

A Dutch Web site claimed victory in a David and Goliath battle against Microsoft Corp. this week after the software giant's AntiSpyware program flagged the Dutch company's home page as malicious content.

Europe may be leading the way in making online privacy notices more palatable, thanks to a European Union plan that proponents hope will spread worldwide. The E.U.'s committee on data privacy, also known as the Article 29 Working Party, issued a guidance on corporate privacy notices late last year, calling for layered, easy to read privacy statements.

A Dutch Web site claimed victory in a David and Goliath battle against Microsoft Corp. this week after the software giant's AntiSpyware program flagged the Dutch company's homepage as malicious content. Microsoft has agreed to compensate and apologize to the operator of Dutch directory site Startpagina.nl for designating the site as a "browser hijacker" in the beta version of its free AntiSpyware software, according to Startpagina.nl Director Bert Wiggers.