Jim Wagner

A Web browser that’s in step with all World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) standards doesn’t exist, but the noticeable shortcomings of one has led to grumbling in the Web development space. The recent admission by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 development team that the browser would not pass the Acid2 test was met with disappointment from […]

Wages for high-tech workers remain steady in 2005, but they’re lower today than last year at this time, according to a report by job-placement specialist Yoh. According to the quarterly report by the Philadelphia-based recruiting company’s Yoh Index of Technology Wages, paychecks have dropped 1.2 percent from the second quarter of 2004 to the second […]

Interest in the relatively new global top-level domains (gTLD) is showing signs of taking off in the Internet community, according a to report published by VeriSign Wednesday. The Mountain View, Calif.-based registry company’s quarterly “Domain Name Industry Brief” shows registration gains for .biz (2 percent), .info (5 percent) and .name (1 percent). According to the […]

Software security developer Symantec introduced a new partnership program to round out its security appliances, officials announced Tuesday. The message security solutions compatibility track ensures that software used on Symantec’s security appliances is compatible with its own product line. ”By integrating select, complementary third-party products with our key messaging security solutions, Symantec and its technology […]

Professional open source vendor JBoss has repackaged its migration service offering in a bid to entice more companies to move away from proprietary software competitors. The new service offering provides a standardized assessment and implementation methodology for JBoss Application Server, the popular open source program that company officials said has been downloaded 6 million times. […]

Officials at VeriSign announced a new program for universities with security issues Tuesday, offering discounts to institutional members of Educause. The Mountain View, Calif., IT services company is providing the non-profit organization discounts on its managed PKI service for authenticated user provisioning and digital certificates. The service is available through Educause’s Identity Management Services Program […]

If you use Microsoft products but don’t download security updates every month, you might want to think twice. A worm discovered over the weekend targets computers that haven’t plugged a recently patched vulnerability. Zotob.B has been identified as a low-risk threat by security firm Trend Micro, but if the user is infected with the worm, […]

Citing a need to focus its energies on its core business, equipment test manufacturer Agilent sold its semiconductor business for $2.66 billion and shed roughly 1,300 jobs from its roster Monday. The Palo Alto, Calif., company also announced its intention to sell its stake in Lumileds for $950 million and repay $50 million of debt […]

IBM is donating Web accessibility code to the Mozilla Foundation, officials from the Armonk, N.Y.-based computer giant announced Sunday. IBM is donating DHTML accessibility technology currently wending its way through the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) standards process. Big Blue is also contributing code that makes it possible for Web pages to be automatically narrated […]

Google won’t scan any more copyrighted material found in libraries until November to give publishers time to determine what books they want showing up in the search engine, a Google official said Friday. The Mountain View, Calif.-based search engine giant has been scanning copyrighted and public domain works under a project called the Google Library […]

Some relatively new Google applications have prompted renewed interest in a programming technique that is years old. Google Suggest and Google Maps gave Web users the sense they were using a desktop application instead of an Internet-based tool. Google Suggest fills in words for suggested search terms, and typing an address into Google Maps […]

IBM expanded its updated WebSphere Application Server add-on for grid and autonomic computing management, officials said Thursday. The capability to support a heterogeneous environment is one of many enhancements the company introduced in IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment 6.0 (XD), which is available today as a download and will be generally available on Aug. 30. According […]