Stories by: Anna Scott

3Com Corporation has purchased Alteon Websystems Inc.'s Gigabit Ethernet NIC (network interface card) business for US$110 million in cash, 3Com announced Wednesday.

Alleging that their patented property was stolen, Stanford University and Litton Systems filed suit against 15 fiber-optic manufacturing companies, according to Randy Belote, spokesman for Litton Systems.

BOSTON (08/01/2000) - In the past eight weeks, Microsoft Corp. has ordered 7,500 Web sites and Internet auctions to stop selling counterfeit Microsoft software. Another 600 notices were sent out Tuesday. The software giant's secret weapon in combating piracy? An Internet monitoring tool which, according to the vendor, sniffs out Net fraud 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

In the past eight weeks, Microsoft has ordered 7500 Web sites and Internet auctions to stop selling counterfeit Microsoft software. Another 600 notices were sent out Tuesday. The software giant's secret weapon in combating piracy? An Internet monitoring tool which, according to the vendor, sniffs out Net fraud 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Despite a 17 percent increase in server operating system environment shipments worldwide, revenue in that market will increase by just over 1 percent by 2004, according to a new study from International Data Corp. (IDC).

BOSTON (07/24/2000) - Chip-supplier Cirrus Logic Inc. recently moved its optical-storage design center to Ebina City, Japan, where the company added a team of audio design engineers in late June, Cirrus said Monday. The design center had been located in Tokyo since 1993, but moved to Ebina City so that Cirrus engineers would have easier access to the customers, Philips Electronics NV, Sony Corp., Fujitsu Ltd., and Hitachi Ltd., said Cirrus spokeswoman Molly Muir.

WorldCom plans to expand its corporate data services to 40 more countries by the end of this year, giving global companies more options for conducting business transactions.

Even the less Internet-savvy can now do business online, risk-free, according to the creators of Freetailer, an Excite@Home Inc. service that offers anyone with an internet connection the ability to set up shop online.

BOSTON (06/23/2000) - Intel Corp. has opened a software development center in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, where workers will write and test code with the aim of building it into future processors to increase efficiency.

BOSTON (06/22/2000) - Inktomi Corp., which develops Internet navigation software, expanded its platform Thursday, adding South Korea to the ranks of its search engine users.

The small town of Leixlip in County Kildaire, Ireland, will be home to some of the world's most cutting-edge semiconductor technology thanks to the future arrival of Intel's new, multibillion-dollar wafer fabrication facility.