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Anticipating lower revenues for its third fiscal quarter, telecom equipment giant Nortel Networks late Tuesday laid off an additional 7,000 workers to break even in a time when U.S. service providers continue to keep their wallets in their pockets. When the layoffs are completed by the end of the fourth quarter of 2002, Brampton, Ontario’s […]

In evidence that Web services are beginning to permeate IT segments beyond the network and PC, Palm’s hardware unit Tuesday said it is looking to use BEA Systems’ expertise to bring Web services to its handhelds. In the agreement, for which financial terms were not revealed, Palm will make software tools to simplify development and […]

Still angling to steal market share from Microsoft, Lindows.com Inc. Monday lured a San Diego system builder and retailer to sell PCs powered by the Lindows operating system in its stores. Datel Systems Inc., which also sells products by Microsoft , Intel and IBM , will sell the LindowsOS PCs with 10 free software applications […]

SONICblue late Thursday fired Chairman, President and CEO, Kenneth Potashner following a clash with the company board over loan policies. The company installed L. Gregory Ballard, currently the executive vice president for marketing and product management, as CEO until they can appoint a long-term boss. The Santa Clara, Calif. maker of audio, DVD and VCR […]

An exploit in the world’s most popular search engine’s toolbar could leave users vulnerable to malicious users. Including and prior to Google’s version 1.1.58 of its toolbar, users are at risk from hackers who can execute the following tasks: control all visual configuration options; hijack the toolbar and reroute searches; execute arbitrary commands; read local […]

The two most influential organizations steering the Web services ship will team together later this month to cosponsor the Forum on Security Standards for Web Services, as part of the XML Web Services One conference in Boston. On August 26, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) and the World Wide Web […]

Monday saw the marriage of two international standards councils as the Uniform Code Council (UCC) joined hands with RosettaNet. In the merger, the purpose of which is to bolster the development of B2B standards, Santa Ana, Calif.’s RosettaNet will become a subsidiary of Lawrenceville, N.J.’s UCC, while continuing to operate as an entity with its […]

The World Wide Web Consortium W3C continued in its crusade for helping Web language standards evolve this week with recommendation of a second version of XHTML 1.0. XHTML, or Extensible HyperText Markup Language , is a suite of current and future document types and modules that reproduce, subset, and extend HTML 4 — the fourth […]

Data-storage outfit Quantum Corp. had reason to smile Thursday as it announced the hiring of former Microsoft president and COO Richard Belluzzo as its new chief executive officer. Belluzzo is slated to take the helm at the Milpitas, Calif. firm on Sept. 3. He will succeed Michael Brown, who has decided to step down from […]

In an escalation of the lawsuit salvos fired between wireless software and handheld players, Research In Motion said Wednesday that it has filed a third lawsuit against its would-be rival upstart Good Technology. Waterloo, Ontario’s RIM alleged in a third lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware that Good Technology has […]

Security experts have detected four serious vulnerabilities in OpenSSL, an open source implementation of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and its successor, Transport Layer Security (TLS v1), according to the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (CERT). The flaws, commonly known as buffer overflows, could be used by a malicious perpetrator to execute code on […]

Proprietor of the influential Flash technology Macromedia Inc. Monday introduced a sample application built using the entire Macromedia MX product family — a suite the San Francisco firm is relying heavily on to help it compete in the much-hyped Web services arena. Dubbed Pet Market, the application portrays a fictitious online pet retailer. The company’s […]