By combining the results of a number of powerful techniques for studying material structure at the nanoscale, a team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working with colleagues in other federal labs and abroad, believe they have settled a long-standing debate over the source of the unique electronic properties of a material with potentially great importance for wireless communications.

Former Enron Corp. Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey McMahon will pay $300,000 to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges that he aided and abetted the energy-trading company's financial fraud, The Associated Press reported Thursday.

A prominent Washington lawyer yesterday settled civil charges that he misappropriated secret information to buy Vastera stock in advance of a merger, reported The Washington Post.

Former CA Inc. sales chief Stephen Richards has agreed to pay $29.7 million in restitution after pleading guilty last year to criminal charges in a scheme to artificially boost the software maker's quarterly revenue through backdated sales contracts, reported The Wall Street Journal.

Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, today announced the MCP73811 and MCP73812 Li-Ion/Li-Polymer charge-management controllers