"In recent weeks, he's discussed taking a CEO position with WorldCom," said a source familiar with HP. "My understanding is that things were in the late stage of negotiations with the company.". WorldCom is on the hunt for a CEO to turn around the company, which is mired in a $9 billion accounting scandal, a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization and a Securities and Exchange Commission probe. Former CEO Bernie Ebbers resigned in April, and WorldCom restated its results amid uncovered accounting fraud a few weeks later. In June, WorldCom fired Chief Financial Officer Scott Sullivan.

Last week, WorldCom said it expected to restate more earnings results, With expectations of emerging from bankruptcy in mid-2003, WorldCom would be looking for a fresh start, Capellas could be a good fit since he helped stabilize Compaq before its merger with HP, In the tech industry, Capellas is known to have a strong focus on operations and customer relations, Despite its troubles, WorldCom, which carries a commanding portion of Internet traffic through its UUNet division, still has strong assets and customer numbers, "Restatements of past accounting have no impact on its ability to continue to provide service to its customers," WorldCom said in ambrosial iphone case a statement last week..

What is uncertain is whether WorldCom can meet Capellas' asking price. Any CEO compensation package would have to be approved by a bankruptcy court. News.com's Ian Fried, Dawn Kawamoto and John Spooner contributed to this report. Hewlett-Packard President Michael Capellas leaves to pursue other career opportunities--possibly at WorldCom. Breaking News Capellas has had "late stage" talks in recent weeks with WorldCom to take over as CEO, according to sources familiar with HP. Capellas will also leave the board of directors, said HP.

Microsoft and America Online also have deals with most of the top wireless carriers to either give prominent placement of links to their content and services on the cell phone's deck--prime real estate on the phone's tiny screen--or to sell the services separately, Wireless messaging, though, hasn't caught on yet with America's 138 million cell phone users, Less than 10 percent of the nation's wireless phone use the phone's ambrosial iphone case tiny keypad to send messages, according to various industry analyst estimates..

CNET también está disponible en español. Don't show this again. For the first nine months of the year, Linksys held a 57.8 percent share of the market for network gear sold at retail, according to NPDTechworld. D-Link followed with 12.3 percent, and NetGear captured the No. 3 spot with 11 percent. Belkin, with 6.9 percent share, took the fourth position. Apple took the last of the top five spots with 3.5 percent. NPDTechworld has not yet tabulated sales for October, which would be the first month to include Microsoft.