The three officers will serve prison time for the charges related to optical disk drive sales.

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) and software giant Microsoft on Tuesday announced a new pact under which the two companies will partner to offer a variety of Bing related services to BlackBerry smartphone and PlayBook tablet users. Bing is Microsoft's Web search offering, and it's one of the top three search engines along with Google and Yahoo Search, according to Hitwise.

AT&T will buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion in cash and stock, easily making AT&T the nation's largest wireless carrier, ahead of top-ranked competitor Verizon Wireless and reducing the number of major national wireless carriers from four to three.

Computer system problems at one of Japan's biggest banks continued on Friday, with Mizuho Bank unable to process salary payments for more than half a million people. The bank also said its Internet banking service and ATMs would be offline over Japan's upcoming three-day weekend.

HP CEO Leo Apotheker and three directors broke company rules by participating in the nomination of five new board members, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

Google has released three new tools as part of its Google Apps suite, designed to increase collaboration in the enterprise.

Cisco Systems will make a three-pronged attack at Mobile World Congress this week on what it sees as an impending flood of mobile data, especially video, by extending its current product lines with tools for better content delivery.

Three men found guilty of being accessories to crimes against copyright law for their part in running The Pirate Bay have lost their appeal, while a fourth man still awaits trial.

Three men found guilty of being accessories to crimes against copyright law for their part in running The Pirate Bay have lost their appeal, while a fourth man still awaits trial.

Viacom's US$1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against Google's video-sharing site YouTube has been dismissed by the court, ending for now an acrimonious legal battle between the companies that has been going on for more than three years.

In a reversal of course, Google now says that it will give European regulators data it secretly collected from open wireless networks over the past three years.

Nearly three weeks after admitting that it had sniffed sensitive data from open wireless networks around the world, Google is now facing at least six U.S. class-action lawsuits over its practice.

The inquiry follows complaints filed by three Google rivals.

Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft will invest US$250 million over three years on a product integration strategy meant to "significantly simplify" technology deployments for companies of all sizes, they said Wednesday.

EliteBook laptops will come with up to three USB 3.0 ports.

A federal appeals court today ordered Microsoft to stop selling its popular Word software in less than three weeks, rejecting the company's appeal and confirming the ruling of a lower court.

Google denies problems, but finds could raise more questions over the safety of storing data in the cloud.

Microsoft will release three sets of security updates next Tuesday, fixing at least one critical bug in its Windows operating system.

Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, is planning to spend a few billion U.S. dollars over the next three to five years to build a digital city with the latest technologies added to make it a healthy, clean place to live, the chairman of the company said Wednesday.

Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut, according to France Telecom.