Stories by Stephen Lawson

New worm may be first written in C#

Researchers this week discovered a virus written using Microsoft's C# programming language, a find that one antivirus expert said is a first.

Microsoft, Sony sued over vibrating game controllers

Immersion, which develops technology used in making video game controllers vibrate, has caused a legal rumble by suing Microsoft and two Sony subsidiaries for alleged infringement of its intellectual property, the company said in a statement Monday.

SEC probe into Global Crossing crosses Qwest's path

Disney pact with BellSouth is first for media giant

Yahoo posts Q4 net loss; president to step down

Compaq Computer Corp. Wednesday posted financial results for the fourth quarter of 2001 that beat analysts' expectations and its own earlier revenue estimates, though revenue still lagged behind its performance of a year earlier.

Compaq turned to profit in 4th quarter

Apple revenue up 37 percent in Q1

Judge rules Excite@Home can stop service

A U.S. federal bankruptcy judge ruled Friday that bankrupt service provider Excite@Home Inc. can cease service at midnight. Creditors requested the freedom to shut down the network as leverage in ongoing negotiations for either a buyout or more favor...

Vendors to tackle interference with Bluetooth

A chip set and software that are due to be unveiled here next month at the Bluetooth Developers Conference will aim to let Bluetooth wireless network products avoid interference from other devices that use the same radio spectrum.

Red-M opens Bluetooth to Palm developers

The drive to bring Bluetooth-based wireless link capabilities to handhelds based on Palm Inc.'s operating system moved forward Tuesday when wireless software and hardware vendor Red-M Communications Ltd. introduced two Bluetooth software development ...

IE flaw allows Web sites to get into cookies

Microsoft Corp. on Friday warned users of Internet Explorer (IE) 5.5 and 6.0 that a vulnerability in the software could allow a hacker to gather information from a user's IE "cookies" by enticing them to view certain Web sites.

IDC: Worldwide PC market down for first time ever

Global PC shipments declined by 2 per cent in the second quarter of this year from the same period last year, logging the first year-over-year quarterly decline ever, market research company International Data Corp. (IDC) reported Thursday.

Computex - Via blazes trail to 0.13 micron chips

Taiwan-based Via Technologies and its foundry partner, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC), on Tuesday left big-name US and European chip makers in the dust as they roared into new chip territory, introducing a new Via C3 processor manufactured...

Computex: Intel embraces DDR, SDRAM with new P4 chipset

Intel on Monday met the demands of system manufacturers and unveiled a new chipset that will allow the Pentium 4 microprocessor to be used with DDR-DRAM (double data rate dynamic random access memory) and SDRAM (synchronous DRAM) chips rather than mo...

Report: Gates no longer world's richest

Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect, is no longer the world's richest man, according to a survey released over the weekend by The Sunday Times newspaper in London.