A key U.S. standards committee remains undecided about whether it will support a document standard proposed by Microsoft Corp., even while the company asserted that the committee has already signalled its "yes" in an upcoming... More...

ONE OF THE major themes for politicos of all stripes this year is digital rights management. When you and I think about it, we think of annoying things that keep you from exercising your rights... More...

AMD today announced that Hector Ruiz, president and chief executive officer of AMD, has been appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as a member of the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC).... More...

A star researcher in electronics at Bell Labs has been fired after an outside review committee found he falsified experimental data. The committee concluded Jan Hendrik Schon made up or altered data at... More...