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Setting the stage for what likely will be a lengthy court battle, member states of the European Union have backed a plan to slap a record fine of more than US$600 million on Microsoft for alleged antitrust violations in the personal computer market ...

Sun Microsystems has revealed it is working on a server designed to enable faster and more expansive online game play. The company's goal is to create a dedicated server that can allow far more online gamers to play the same game at the same time. ...

A coalition of the U.S. government and private businesses has released a report calling for the formation of an early-warning system to alert companies to impending and ongoing cyber-security threats. In the report, the coalition laid out recommendations for increasing personal responsibility for securing the Web ...

Last-ditch efforts by high-ranking Microsoft executives to negotiate a settlement with European Union antitrust regulators apparently have fallen short, and the clock is now ticking toward a March 24th decision by regulators about what penalties to slap on the software giant ...

In an effort to seize an opportunity created by regional resistanceto the Windows operating system, Hewlett-Packard has said it plans to beginshipping more desktop computers loaded with the Linux operating system in Asia ...

Nortel Networks said it has suspended its two top financial executives pending the outcome of an internal audit, sparking fear that the telecommunications equipment maker could become the latest tech firm ravaged by accounting scandal ...

In what is being billed as the largest one-time investment of private equity in a technology firm, a leveraged buyout group led by two Silicon Valley venture capital firms has agreed to buy EDS' product design software business for US$2.05 billion in cash ...

Oracle has reported third-quarter sales rose 9 percent year over year to US$2.5 billion while profits climbed 11 percent to $635 million. Both numbers were in line with analysts' estimates. The company also issued a positive outlook for the rest of 2004, a prediction that could help the stock market end a week-long slide. ...

In a move that could threaten a key source of recent and future growth, Intel has said it will be forced to stop shipping some of its Centrino mobile computing processors to China because it cannot comply with that country's government-mandated standards ...

An alliance of leading Internet companies -- including AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo and EarthLink -- has filed a wave of lawsuits against "hard-core" spammers under the new CAN-SPAM law that took effect at the beginning of 2004 ...

In the latest example of a small software firm with cutting-edge technology being scooped up by a big-name tech player, privately held Trigo Technologies has agreed to be acquired by IBM, where its technology will become part of Big Blue's burgeoning middleware portfolio ...

Debt-rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) has downgraded Sun Microsystems' debt to junk-bond levels, citing the threat of increasing competition and Sun's inability to remain consistently profitable ...

Home improvement guru and media mogul Martha Stewart was found guilty Friday of charges that she obstructed the investigation into her 2001 sale of nearly 4,000 shares of ImClone, a close friend's company, just before the stock plummeted in value ...

The heated battle between The SCO Group and the open-source community took another turn this week as an e-mail became public that seemed to imply Microsoft helped SCO raise millions of dollars for its legal war against open source. ...

Michael Dell will relinquish the title of CEO at the company he founded in a dormitory room 20 years ago but will remain actively involved in day-to-day operations as chairman of the board, Dell Computer announced Thursday ...

Signaling its intention to remain a player amid the giants in the search engine battle, Ask Jeeves said it will acquire the parent company of the Excite Network of search engines for about US$343 million in cash and stock ...

In a reminder that the rising tide of technology recovery is not lifting all boats, Gateway said it will slash another 1,000 jobs over the next few months as it tries to bring its costs back in line with revenues. ...

In a move apparently designed to quell fears about widespread outsourcing of U.S.-based tech jobs to other countries, IBM has established a US$25 million worker retraining fund ...

Microsoft and eBay have forged an alliance to work together, making it easier for third-party software developers to build tools that can improve the auction experience for power sellers and buyers. The tools will use basic Web services to more closely tie Microsoft Office 2003 applications, such as Excel and FrontPage, to the eBay platform. ...

Microsoft has revealed it is considering rolling out an enhanced version of Windows XP, a move seen as a way to bridge what could be a longer-than-expected wait for its next-generation Longhorn platform. ...