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What started out as a phone call between two CEOs to discuss licensing arrangements ended earlier this month in the surprise marriage of Hewlett-Packard Co. and Compaq Computer Corp.

Although financial institutions with offices in the destroyed World Trade Center issued statements Wednesday that operations are continuing and data has been thoroughly backed up, the global financial market is likely to remain topsy-turvy as shaken investors trade stocks at a rapid clip and consumer confidence further slips with possible long-range ramifications, a leading market analyst said Wednesday.

Users are shocked by the announcement of the US$25 billion deal that will combine two computer giants into a behemoth with $87 billion in revenue, while creating the world's largest PC maker and the dominant company in the server market.

What started out as a phone call between two CEOs to discuss licensing arrangements ended Tuesday in the surprise marriage of Hewlett-Packard Co. and Compaq Computer Corp.

If you need to connect 1,000 locations to a WAN and minimize your network access expenses in a secure, low-cost package, a VPN might be the ticket.

As his taxi crawled through traffic in downtown Toronto, Ben Sapiro fired up his laptop and, cradling a small antenna about the size of a kid

A cloud of fear and uncertainty hung over the 10th annual Usenix Security Symposium in Washington D.C. last week, as IT researchers wondered nervously whether they would be hauled off to jail by the FBI for revealing security flaws in an anti-piracy technology backed by the music industry.

Installing T-1 lines at remote offices is an expensive proposition. To reduce costs, a number of companies use Internet tunnelling to give satellite offices access to corporate systems.