would create the biggest carrier in the United States, with some 129 million subscribers. The union also raises lots of big regulatory, competitive and customer service questions, with about the prospects of this deal going down.

Beyond the devastating human tragedy that has been the world's main concern in the wake of Japan's earthquakes and tsunami disaster, the high tech industry has been impacted greatly as well. from Japan and concerns have been raised about as well. in Japan expect months of disruption and were damaged.

Google, Microsoft and Mozilla all released significant new versions of their browsers. focuses on security, speed and simplicity, with greater JavaScript performance, sandboxing technology for Adobe Flash, password encryption and an easier-to-use settings interface. also boasts speed, privacy and simplicity improvements, but with a stripped-down interface, tracking protection, pinned sites, jump lists and enhanced support for HTML5. got a speed boost and several feature enhancements that are so significant that they all have their own proper names, like Panorama, JaegerMonkey and Firefox Sync.

EMC's RSA Security division shook the industry in March when its executive chairman announced that a sophisticated cyber-attack on the company might have . The attack for remote access to sensitive information to stop doing so until RSA clarified the extent of possible compromise.