Ed Sutherland

UPDATED: Rival chipmakers Qualcomm  and Broadcom  were both declaring victory after an U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled that even though Qualcomm violated Broadcom’s patent, it refused to ban U.S. imports of cell phones using Qualcomm chips. Broadcom hailed the decision by the ITC court to uphold a ruling by administrative law judge Charles Bullock […]

AT&T  wants a bigger piece of the action in China with its latest Internet data center in Shanghai. The latest build there doubles its Internet presence in the country. The telecom giant now has 32 Internet data centers worldwide, including nine in the Asian/Pacific region. AT&T said the new facility to open this summer in […]

HP announced today that Bob Wayman, its CFO and executive vice president, will resign from the company after 37 years. Wayman, 61, who in 2005 served as interim CEO after Carly Fiorina resigned, also plans to resign from the board of directors at HP’s upcoming stockholders’ meeting in March, according to the announcement. HP CEO […]

Trimble Navigation , maker of GPS-based navigation equipment for mobile devices, will pay $496 million for @Road . With the acquisition, Trimble enters the employee tracking field known as Mobile Resource Management (MRM). As part of the definitive agreement, Trimble will pay $7.50 per share of @Road — $5 in cash and $2.50 in cash […]

Database giant Oracle has given holdout i-flex shareholders until Dec. 23 to accept a new $1.3 billion offer for the India-based financial software company. As part of this latest offer, Oracle said it will purchase an additional 35 percent of i-flex stock at a 49 percent premium over its Thursday closing price of around $33. […]

In a move reflecting the growing Asian flavor of the Internet, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) yesterday approved the first top-level domain registry based in the Asia-Pacific region. The .asia top-level domain will join other Asian-Pacific Internet domains, such as Japan, China, and South Korea already managed by DotAsia Organization. The […]

UPDATED: California’s attorney general Bill Lockyer today announced a unique, $14.5 million settlement of its civil lawsuit related to the Hewlett-Packard leak probe investigation that resulted in federal indictments and Congressional hearings. Lockyer announced that HP will finance a new law enforcement fund to fight violations of privacy and intellectual property rights as part of […]

Palm said today it will pay $44 million to Japan’s Access Systems for a perpetual license of the operating system used by Treo smartphones and PDAs. The agreement ensures current and future Palm devices remain compatible with Palm’s Garnet operating system. Palm, which also licenses Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Edition OS, said the […]

MySpace said this week it has found a way to protect its users from convicted sexual offenders, but Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal calls it “ineffective.” Sentinel Safe, database technology developed by online verification firm Sentinel Tech and MySpace, will collect the background information on 550,000 convicted sex offenders now listed in numerous individual state […]

UPDATED: Microsoft is investigating “limited” zero-day attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in multiple versions of Word for both Windows and Mac systems, according to a security advisory. Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Word Viewer 2003, Microsoft Word 2004 for the Mac and Microsoft Word 2004 version X for Mac, as well […]

Can wildly popular social-networking sites such as MySpace.com retain an atmosphere of openness while closing the door on malicious hackers? That’s the question being debated in the wake of an attempt to redirect MySpace users to phishing Web sites. In this latest assault on the News Corp.-owned MySpace, hackers attempted to steal the user data […]

Alcatel-Lucent paid $320 million for Nortel’s money-losing UMTS access business, a move that finalizes a September agreement. The deal results in one-fourth of the 3G operators being Alcatel customers. In a statement, Alcatel said that once closed, the Paris-based company plans to thoroughly integrate the extended customer base. In addition to Nortel patents and technology, […]