PARIS - A French government crackdown on digital piracy backfired Thursday as lawmakers rebelled by endorsing amendments to legalize the online sharing of music and movies instead of punishing it.
 
The vote by members of France's lower house dealt a setback to Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, who introduced

Symantec on Wednesday named more than 60 of its products as affected by the critical vulnerability disclosed earlier this week, and said it was pushing out a "heuristic detection that would spot potential exploits. However, no patches have yet been released.

The number of impacted products was among the largest ever for

Advanced Micro Devices said it expects to solve supply issues with some of its desktop processors by the first quarter.

The Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker sent a letter to some of its partners stating that several of its desktop processor models were in high demand and would continue to be difficult

America Online has begun testing an AOL toolbar for the Firefox browser and a version of its Web-mail service that features an integrated calendar.
 
AOL's Web mail service, available to AOL paying subscribers and to users of its free AIM instant messaging service, is being integrated with AOL Calendar, says

3Com Wednesday reported a smaller loss and slightly higher revenue in its second fiscal quarter, driven by increased sales.

Marlborough, Mass.-based 3Com, which makes network infrastructure equipment, reported a net loss of $10.7 million, or 3 cents a share, compared to a loss of $48.8 million, or 13 cents a share, for

MANHASSET, N.Y. — Belgium-based wireless technology company Option and Toronto-based Nortel Networks Corp. have completed demonstrating High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) data card calls reaching wireless transmission rates of 3.6 megabits per second, faster than current broadband connections.

The test were carried out on commercial HSDPA network equipment at Nortel's research campus

A security research firm said Wednesday that McAfee's anti-virus line is vulnerable to attack, the second such warning issued about anti-virus software in two days.

Reston, Va.-based iDefense said that a flaw within a DLL used by a number of McAfee products could be exploited by attackers to write data to the

Research In Motion Ltd, makers of the popular Blackberry mobile email device, reported on Wednesday that profits in the third quarter rose by a third, but the company, which is embroiled in a patent dispute, lowered its subscriber forecast.

The Canadian company said net income for the quarter ended Nov. 26 was

T-Mobile USA is expanding has been coverage area and has started discussing its 3G rollout plans, according to an interview with a company executive published by the BetaNews Web site.

In particular, the company is expanding its GSM service in the 850 MHz portion of spectrum, which could expand its coverage area

BANGALORE, India — Sanra Software Ltd., a Chennai-based firm, has unveiled what it claims is a breakthrough anti-virus technology based on the intention of malicious codes, protecting PCs from not only known viruses but also from unknown malicious codes including viruses, Trojan horses, worms, spyware, keyloggers and hackers.

"Our path-breaking technology takes a