Jim Wagner

Sun Microsystems is giving more of its code to the open source community under its new licensing scheme, this time with its JavaServer Faces (JSF) reference implementation. The source code for Sun’s JSF implementation (Version 1.2) was made available under the company’s Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) Wednesday. Sun’s JSF reference implementation 1.1 was […]

New specs are out on one of the hottest new chip architectures to hit the gaming world. But the caretakers of The Cell, the so-called Broadband Engine, said the architecture is ideal for more than gaming consoles. A brainchild of Sony , Toshiba and IBM , The Cell is slated for game consoles such as […]

UPDATED: FBI agents and local police in Davenport, Iowa, arrested a man they believe responsible for a number of phishing attacks targeting MSN customers. Law enforcement officials said Jayson Harris, 22, was charged with 75 counts of wire fraud for allegedly stealing credit card numbers and personal information in a phishing scheme targeting Microsoft’s MSN […]

The goals of the OSI’s license proliferation committee were thrown into question when the creator of the organization’s manifesto was recently denied entrance. Bruce Perens, the co-founder of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and creator of the Open Source Definition, went public with his displeasure that he wasn’t invited to take part in the committee, […]

IP-based telephone line shipments are expected to surpass those of traditional lines this year, signaling the continued growth of voice traffic on data networks. According to a report by market research firm In-Stat, network administrators are increasingly moving their telephone networks, the PBX , onto the data network as their traditional phone networks reach the […]

Middleware vendor BEA Systems acquired corporate portal specialist Plumtree for $200 million in cash, officials said Monday. The deal, which will pay Plumtree investors $5.50 per share, is subject to approvals by Plumtree shareholders and government regulators as well as closing conditions. The deal is expected to close in the Fall. After the merger is […]

The long-awaited update to Oracle’s Collaboration Suite, version 10g, is now available, representing the company’s first big step into enterprise content management (ECM). Collaboration Suite 10g, which previously went under the code name Tsunami, is the third generation of the product and includes two new features: Content Services 10g and Oracle Workspaces. Officials said the […]

Sun Microsystems is jumping into digital rights management with the launch of an open source version not dependent on devices. Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s president and COO, announced the launch of the Open Media Commons’ DRM/everywhere (DReaM) project in order to kick off the Progress & Freedom Foundation’s annual summit in Aspen, Colo. The intent of […]

IBM is expanding its ISV partner outreach in emerging markets such as China, India and Brazil with a virtual mentoring program featuring more than 40 online workshops. The expansion, announced Monday, is due in part to the success of its development centers, officials said, 30-40 facilities located worldwide that help small companies quickly re-design, build […]

The Eclipse Foundation will announced Monday an update to its C/C++ IDE with new features targeting embedded and Linux environments. C/C++ Development Tools (CDT) 3.0 is a fully functioning IDE for Eclipse 3.1, the open source platform for application development that’s platform-agnostic and used by many commercial vendors as a launching pad for their own […]

Three universities are testing a new service from VeriSign that puts wireless phones on IP networks. Texas A&M, Northwestern University and the University of Michigan started trials of VeriSign’s Wireless IP Connect Service earlier this week. The offering lets students and faculty place cell phone calls over a campus Wi-Fi or commercial wireless carrier network. […]

A new service by edge server specialist Akamai provides insight into the online news-reading habits of users worldwide. The Akamai Net Usage Index for News, launched Thursday, tallies traffic to the more than 100 online news sites. At press time, the sites had 1.75 million North American viewers per minute, while there were about 19,000 […]