Stories by Linda Rosencrance

Woman charged with breaking into email system

Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly has filed charges against a Middleton, Massachusetts, woman, accusing her of hacking into her former boss' computer system and forwarding confidential emails to former co-workers.

Court shuts cyberscam

A US District Court in Pennsylvania has ordered a cyberscammer to stop a scheme that used common misspellings of legitimate domain names to trap users into sites that bombarded them with adult-oriented pop-up ads.

How to succeed with disruptive technologies

Good companies don't fail because of radical new technologies. They fail because of the companies' reactions to those new ideas. That was the message from Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, the keynote speaker at yesterday's TR100 conference honoring the world's top 100 young innovators.

Job cuts by internet firms continue to fall

For the second time in three months, dot-com job cuts fell below 1000, according to a monthly report from Chicago-based outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas.

Apple recalls 570,000 power adapters

Apple Computer is voluntarily recalling 570,000 power adapters that were sold with older PowerBook models because they could overheat, creating a potential fire hazard.

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