Executives from a Seattle-area consulting company are facing prison time after pleading guilty to charges that they wiped a client's Web site off the Internet following a contract dispute.

In the 1997 science fiction thriller Gattaca, Ethan Hawke's character fights to make a life for himself in a world where pervasive genetic testing and manipulation has left the imperfect by the wayside. At the time, it was easy to dismiss the film as a futuristic flight of fancy, not an issue that people would be facing in the next 10 years. After all, the Humane Genome Initiative already had spent years trying to sequence a single man's DNA, and had years left to go.

The disclosure that executives at Satyam Computer Services engaged in fraudulent accounting has potentially big implications for U.S. companies that rely on the offshore outsourcing vendor.

Oracle Corp. will issue 41 security patches next Tuesday addressing vulnerabilities across "hundreds" of its products.

An Intel-backed suite of Enterprise 2.0 software, announced with much fanfare just over two years ago, is being put out to pasture.

Palm is hoping to get back on track with its new Pre touch phone, which comes equipped with the equally new operating system webOS, both announced on Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show.

Burger King has launched an application for Facebook users that offers a free burger for every 10 people cut from an online friends list.

President-elect Barack Obama laid out his plan for a huge economic stimulus package, with a broadband rollout, an Internet-based smart energy grid and computers for schools as part of the plan.

After selling them for just a few months, Nokia has decided to stop making its N810 WiMax Edition handheld computer.

Palm has announced a new operating system running on a new smart phone called the Palm Pre, which will ship by July exclusively on the Sprint Nextel 3G network.

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