Mark Berniker

Australia’s highest court Tuesday granted a businessman the right to sue a U.S. publication in Australia over an article published online in the U.S. and distributed over the Internet. The case is considered a landmark ruling and could set a precedent for global media companies publishing content in their home countries, while being subject to […]

Netzee is calling it quits and has decided to sell its assets and dissolve the company. The Atlanta-based provider of Internet banking and bill payment services agreed to sell its assets, which include Internet and telephone-based products it sells to over 800 financial institutions, to Certegy for $10.4 million. That’s about $6 million less than […]

After a week of hearings, several statements by a federal judge indicate he may favor Sun Microsystems in its legal bid to get an injunction that would force Microsoft to include Sun’s Java programming language in its software products. U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz made some unusual analogies in his court when he said […]

A federal judge made comments potentially favoring Sun Microsystems in its ongoing hearing with Microsoft expected to conclude Thursday. The federal judge hearing the case, J. Frederick Motz, asked whether Sun would consider changing its request for a preliminary injunction to a permanent injunction that would force Microsoft to carry Sun’s Java in future versions […]

On the first day of arguments in a federal court in Baltimore, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft traded views on whether Sun’s Java programming language should be bundled into future versions of Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system. U.S. District Judge Frederick Motz gave some indication on how he may be leaning in the antitrust hearing, which […]

Investors hammered Nokia shares after making cautious comments about the global mobile phone market. Nokia executives speaking Tuesday at a bi-annual strategy meeting for investors in Irving, Texas, also raised concerns about the future of the wireless infrastructure business in 2003. But it wasn’t all gloom from the Finnish wireless company. Nokia is predicting that […]

Microsoft and Sun Microsystems are headed to a U.S. federal court in Baltimore today over an ongoing legal spat that is asking a federal judge to force Microsoft to include Sun’s Java programming language in Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system. Microsoft attorneys on Tuesday are expected to present arguments before U.S. District Judge J. Frederick […]

Reuters Group Plc is purchasing AVT Technologies Ltd., as part of its push into the online foreign exchange business. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. For Reuters, its foreign exchange information and trading tools division is already its biggest business unit, and the deal expands its presence in the market for automated, online trading […]

On Monday, Finnish wireless equipment provider Nokia said it welcomed a bailout pact struck between Germany’s MobilCom and France Telecom . On Friday, France Telecom and Germany’s MobilCom AG struck a $7.6 billion conditional deal ending its cooperation to develop a next-generation mobile phone network in Germany. France Telecom in a statement said the rescue […]

Broadcom Corp. says it cutting more than 500, or 16 percent, of its 3,067-person workforce. The job cuts are part of an overall cost-reduction plan that aims to improve the financial picture of the leading maker of semiconductors for cable modems. Broadcom continues to face soft demand for some of its chip products, and the […]

With the Senate’s passage of the new Department of Homeland Security, President Bush is expected to soon sign the bill into law paving the way for a new wave of federal information technology spending. Input, a Chantilly, Virginia-based firm, specializing in IT market research, is out with a report estimating the new department, which brings […]

The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), a standards group for the mobile phone and wireless computer industries, has released technical details that aim to drive open standards and interoperable mobile services for wireless devices worldwide. Created back in June 2002, the OMA is pushing for open specs over a variety of networks, countries and mobile devices. […]