Federal prosecutors want a judge to order a Colorado woman to provide the password to decrypt her laptop, which the government seized with a search warrant.

With backup from digital rights groups, the woman is fighting the feds, arguing that being forced to provide her password violates the Fifth Amendment’s protection against forced self-incrimination.

Colorado U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn is expected to rule any day on whether to force defendant Ramona Fricosu to decrypt her Toshiba Satellite M305, which authorities seized from her in 2010 with a court warrant while investigating...

When it came time for Ginni Rometty to reach out to IBM's 400,000 employees, she passed on the group e-mail option.

Virginia Rometty took over this week as the first female CEO in IBM’s storied history. She’s new, but is she a new kind of leader?

By all accounts Rometty — who got her start as an IBM sales engineer 30 years ago — was groomed by outgoing CEO Sam Palimsano and isn’t expected to radically change direction at the 100-year-old company. IBM’s services business has evolved into its most important division under Palmisano, and that’s where he encountered Rometty, who was eventually made...