Industry

FCC endorses power line communications

French copyright law takes effect, to industry dismay

HP extends IT outsourcing deal with Canadian bank

Security vendor detects aggressive mobile worm variant

Bill Gates named to influential foreigner list in China

Joins Marx, Khrushchev as non-Chinese making the greatest impact.

IBM to acquire MRO Software for $740 million

AOL to slash up to 5,000 jobs worldwide

My backup stupid penalty

* Too many PC gotchas still getcha

Latest Linksys VPN router for small businesses is a cut-above the consumer boxes

* Linksys releases two small-business VPN routers priced at $130 and $200

VCs pour $3 billion into network start-ups

Wireless, software among biggest winners, quarterly venture capital survey finds.