Jim Wagner

How much would you pay for Stuff.com or Home.net? Officials at Moniker.com hope you’ll pay a lot after agreeing to represent the now-defunct Excite@Home in the sale of its domain-name portfolio Wednesday. Domain-name registrar Moniker.com will sell the 119 domain names held by the At Home Liquidating Trust, the company that’s been holding what’s left […]

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has created a project to free developers from worry over violating intellectual property (IP) rights held by patent holders, the group’s CEO said Tuesday. The OSDL patent commons project is still in the planning stages, OSDL officials said, and will initially consist of a library and database to aggregate […]

Linux vendor Novell announced at LinuxWorld in San Francisco a number of partnerships geared toward expanding its presence in the enterprise Linux space. The Waltham, Mass.-based company has been looking to expand Linux beyond the servers that run on the SUSE platform. One of the partnerships is with Market Start, and it is designed […]

Microsoft released three critical fixes and three moderate-to-important fixes to the Microsoft software platform Tuesday as part of its monthly patch program. The security bulletins, which normally consolidate several vulnerabilities under the particular software component affected, provide more detail on vulnerabilities that were hinted at Thursday. The three critical patches are: MS05-038 fixes three vulnerabilities […]

Scott Richter, one-time spam king and now legitimate e-mail marketer, has reached an out-of-court settlement with Microsoft , officials said Tuesday. Richter agreed to pay Microsoft $7 million of the $18.8 million in damages it sought nearly two years ago. The settlement still needs court approval before it can be finalized. Microsoft plans to […]

Siebel Systems is throwing its weight behind Linux with the announcement it would support Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 operating system, officials said Monday. The company made the announcement at the launch of this week’s LinuxWorld in San Francisco. This is the CRM software developer’s first major step into the Linux environment. To date, […]

Media giant News Corp. reportedly floated a $3 billion acquisition bid for the popular VoIP developer Skype. The U.K.-based news site The Independent, citing “well-placed sources,” reported talks broke down between the two companies last month. Whether Skype is talking to companies, News Corp. included, about a possible acquisition remains open to speculation. “I will […]

System builder Dell continued its dual-core processor rollout with the introduction of two more Intel-based servers for businesses Monday at the launch of LinuxWorld in San Francisco. The Round Rock, Texas-based company was the first to release Intel-based dual-core, single socket, processors with the launch of the PowerEdge SC430 last month. The PowerEdge 830 and […]

UPDATED: In a move officials say will spur more end-user interest in its software, Novell is going to open up a community effort around its SUSE Linux Professional operating system. The software will be used as a foundation for a new community project called the OpenSUSE Project, which opens up shop on Tuesday at www.opensuse.org. […]

Cisco Systems is resetting the passwords of registered members of its Web site after discovering a flaw in its internal search tool that could have exposed them. John Noh, a Cisco spokesman, said the password reset, which the company initiated Monday, was a precautionary measure to ensure users’ safety. He added the company doesn’t believe […]

Long decried for its lack of Web standards support, Microsoft is throwing more Cascading Style Sheets (CSS ) functionality into the next iteration of Internet Explorer (IE) 7. In a blog post late last week Chris Wilson, IE’s lead program manager, announced the Redmond, Wash.-based company’s enhanced support for the technology that is used by […]

Linux vendor Novell said it is now providing comprehensive technical support for JBoss open source software. According to Novell, the support for the JBoss software positions it as the only Linux infrastructure vendor to provide JBoss support, and not just to customers of Novell’s SUSE Linux distribution. The Waltham, Mass., software company said it would […]