Jim Wagner

Microsoft is tweaking its infrastructure plans for mid-market businesses. Announced as part of its business summit Wednesday, the new infrastructure initiative will go by the code name of Centro and integrate its next-generation servers and Microsoft Exchange, bundled with security and management improvements. This combined product is supposed to make it easier for small IT […]

Worldwide adoption of IP-based TV is expected to grow significantly in coming years, though the U.S. will only be a bit player in the market, according to researchers from In-Stat Tuesday. The Scottsdale, Ariz.-based market research firm predicts 32 million subscribers will be watching TV provided by telecommunications providers in 2009, up from 1.6 million […]

Officials at instant messaging (IM) management vendor IMlogic launched a new service Tuesday to stop zero-day viruses and worms before they cripple the enterprise network. The Real-Time Threat Protection System (RTTPS) uses a combination of threat filters and reputation scoring to predict whether a link contains a security vulnerability. If a message meets the requirements, […]

Hewlett-Packard said it is teaming with Macromedia to deliver a consistent user interface (UI) across all devices via Macromedia’s Flash platform. HP said it was looking for a platform that could deliver a consistent user interface for its service delivery platform (SDP), one that works just as well from a desktop as it does on […]

Borland is launching an update to its Java IDE later this month featuring real-time code collaboration, the company is expected to announce Tuesday. JBuilder 2006 is the latest in the Cupertino, Calif.-based company’s annual update to its popular Java-based development platform. JBuilder 2005 was released to developers in September 2004. Filled with the refactoring , […]

Hard as it is to believe for long-time Internet denizens, online scammers and spammers are still reaping rewards from the community at large. Last week’s bizarre tale of a Los Angeles record producer claiming he was being chased by Nigerian scam artists is a high-profile example of the pervasiveness of the activities still evident today. […]

It’s East vs. West in the Chinese search engine race with the nod going to local favorite Baidu over Google , according to a study published Wednesday by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). The CNNIC report, which is published by the Chinese government, is the first of several on search engine preferences, by […]

UPDATED: IBM scored a big victory for its IT outsourcing division with a five-year, $1.87 billion contract with ABN AMRO, officials said Thursday. Big Blue will manage the international bank’s three core data centers in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Sao Paolo, Brazil, and Chicago and lay down an on-demand infrastructure to tie the company’s network and […]

The tech community is rallying to help residents and businesses caught in the wake of one of the most devastating hurricanes to hit the gulf region of the United States. The helping hand extended to those affected by Hurricane Katrina is similar to the aid rendered to victims of previous natural disasters, notably Hurricane Dennis […]

As Hurricane Katrina tears along the Southeastern U.S. coastline, the Internet is once again proving its worth as a medium for first-hand information. Approximately 52,000 people have been displaced in Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and Texas, according to Sunday estimates from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and is expected to be much worse before the […]

Messaging security hardware vendor CipherTrust is breaking out of the firewall with a new appliance and an enhancement to its flagship offering. The Atlanta-based company said Monday that it launched a Web site called the TrustedSource Portal that shows near real-time information on spam, phishing attacks and fraudulent e-mails encountered worldwide. The IronMail Edge is […]

Businesses have a lot of work ahead of them before they’re fully compliant with federal data retention and financial reporting rules under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a new study concludes. The survey, co-funded by PricewaterhouseCoopers and compliance software vendor Virsa, said businesses that hit their marks during the first year of reporting under the new law. […]