Sun Microsystems Inc. reported its first quarterly profit in more than a year, on a 7% increase in revenue in its second fiscal period, which ended Dec. 31. Sun credited sales of its x64 servers and growing acceptance of the Solaris 10 operating system.

IEEE working group OKs 802.11 spec

The IEEE 802.11n working group has approved the next draft version of the wireless LAN standard specification. A release of the draft will begin shipping this week as Version 2.0. Voting on the final Version 2.0 is expected to be completed by the end of March. A new draft, Version 3.0, will be ready by the end of May.