Stories by Robert Mullins

Vendors seek Web code of conduct

Major Web companies, educators and a variety of human rights groups are banding together to protect privacy rights and freedom of expression on the Internet.

Apple Q1 earnings top records, forecasts

Apple, caught between the promise of its new iPhone and the peril of a stock options investigation, has reported record earnings for the first quarter of its fiscal 2007 year.

US Attorney investigating Apple stock options

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California is investigating the stock options backdating activities of computer and consumer electronics manufacturer Apple.

MACWORLD - Cisco sues Apple over iPhone name

Cisco Systems is suing Apple to prevent it from using the name iPhone for the new smartphone Apple introduced Tuesday at the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco.

MACWORLD - It's not just about iPods

Although much of the speculation about new product announcements at the upcoming Macworld Conference & Expo centers around video iPods, a possible Apple mobile phone and iTV, business people have their own product wish lists.

MACWORLD - VMware for Macs may have limited appeal

VMware reports strong initial interest in its virtualization software designed to run on the Mac computer platform, but skeptics doubt it will improve Apple's share of the enterprise market.

Microsoft pulls four planned security patches

Microsoft has eliminated four of eight previously announced security patches scheduled to be available to system administrators on Tuesday.

Plaintiffs to amend Apple stock-options lawsuit

The attorney for shareholders suing Apple Computer executives and directors over stock options backdating says he will amend the federal lawsuit to reflect new information Apple disclosed about its internal investigation of the matter.

Wikipedia-like search engine in development

The founder of Wikipedia, the user-edited online encyclopedia, is developing a Wiki-based search engine to compete with established commercial search engines from Google and Yahoo.

YouTube generation needs more broadband

Technology industry experts meeting in Silicon Valley recently said broadband Internet access in the U.S. needs to improve for the "YouTube generation" to really flourish.

Silicon Valley worker faces trade secrets theft charges

A former Chinese national is facing U.S. federal charges of stealing trade secrets from a Silicon Valley company and selling them to foreign governments.

HP and Microsoft challenge IBM with new deal

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is strengthening ties to Microsoft to provide a broadened portfolio of business software products to the enterprise market while delivering a competitive blow to rival IBM.

Intel speeds up introduction of new quad-core chip

Intel says it has rushed introduction of a new quad-core chip originally scheduled for next year to Monday to meet demand from server manufacturers for the processor.

HP settles civil lawsuit over spying

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has agreed to a US$14.5 million settlement in the California civil lawsuit related to the company's spying scandal.

HP takes workstation out from under the desk

Financial traders at a London company wear shorts to work because heat from workstations under their desks is so bad. Hewlett-Packard (HP) has invented technology to take the workstations out from under the desks and replace them with blade-style com...