Stephen Lawson

A computer tape from a Connecticut bank containing personal data on 90,000 customers was lost in transit recently, the bank reported. The tape contains information such as names, addresses, Social Security numbers and checking account numbers.

Consumer electronics makers and VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) providers are teaming up at this week's Consumer Electronics Show, eyeing a growing opportunity to capture the voice business in homes and small businesses.

Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have set aside their differences long enough to jointly help create an Internet services lab along with researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.

A federal judge won't hold up court proceedings in NTP Inc.'s patent lawsuit against Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), opening the door to a possible injunction that would stop sales of BlackBerry mobile e-mail devices, and shut down BlackBerry service, in the U.S.

The BlackBerry will continue to dominate the mobile enterprise market as telecom companies begin to push the deployment of EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) technology for faster wireless broadband access, according to an industry analyst. Already, telecom giants like Bell Canada and U.S. carrier Verizon Wireless Inc. are giving a speed boost to the BlackBerry 7130e, developed by Waterloo, Ont.-based Research In Motion Ltd.

For the first time, Microsoft Corp. Windows was the leading OS in new servers in the third quarter, as the overall worldwide server market grew a robust 8.1 per cent, market research company IDC said

The handheld devices used in enterprises traditionally have been like an executive's company car, leased and maintained by the employee, though paid for by the boss. But in some cases they're evolving into a corporate asset tightly controlled by the IT department, for security as well as productivity reasons.

Two families of network appliances announced Thursday and now shipping from Cisco Systems Inc. may help enterprises reach out to customers and branch workers more quickly and efficiently.