Jim Wagner

U.S. software giant Oracle took a majority stake in India’s i-flex, officials announced Tuesday. The Redwood Shores, Calif., company announced its plans to buy Citigroup Venture Capital International’s 41 percent majority position in the Mumbai, India-based company, though the deal is subject to regulatory approval. Under Indian law, Oracle is also required to offer to […]

IBM added another piece to its information management portfolio with the acquisition of Toronto-based DWL, officials announced Tuesday. They would not comment on the financial details of the purchase, which is subject to U.S. and Canadian regulatory approvals, but did say DWL would keep its offices in Toronto and Atlanta. The purchase is a natural […]

One day after Cisco Systems slapped a restraining order on a researcher for disclosing details of a flaw in its software, security officials at the company released a patch to fix the problem. Cisco and Internet Security Systems (ISS) on Thursday filed for, and received, a permanent injunction against Michael Lynn, a former ISS researcher, […]

UPDATED: Symbol Technologies President and CEO Bill Nuti is leaving his company for a bigger role in the technology arena, taking the helm of National Cash Register (NCR ), officials announced Monday. Nuti will take over as NCR president and CEO, and become a member of the financial and retail software vendor’s board of directors […]

Microsoft this week released another update to the beta version of its anti-spyware tool. The update to Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware, version 1.0.615, is the fourth from the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant since releasing the initial beta in January. Since then, there have been more than 21 million downloads, according to officials. The updated beta corrects […]

Moving ahead with a program the feds didn’t want to touch, Michigan and Utah are will have e-mail registries to protect children from unsavory content. The “Child Protection Registry” is a database containing the e-mail addresses that children use or have access to that will soon be off limits to e-mail senders pitching deals on […]

Executives at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Friday are pleased with a United Nations (UN) report outlining four possible futures for Internet governance. But Vint Cerf, ICANN chairman, and Paul Twomey, ICANN president and CEO, speaking at a press conference from the organization’s tri-annual meeting held in Luxembourg this week, wouldn’t […]

Officials at Oracle released the company’s quarterly allotment of security fixes earlier this week, plugging 49 vulnerabilities in its software line. The update also includes a number of non-security patches that are needed because of interdependency issues with the security patches. The “Critical Patch Update” affects the Oracle Database Server, Application Server, E-Business and Applications, […]

IBM is taking its emerging technologies to school with a new program aimed at academic institutions, internetnews.com has learned. IBM plans to announce Thursday an Academic Licensing program designed to “train, educate and build a loyal base of future developers on emerging technologies and open standards,” according to an IBM note about the plan. The […]

At Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday, security officials announced they fixed three critical vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities open the door for remote code execution by malware writers, allowing them to completely take over the user’s machine. Once accomplished they would have full administrative rights to view, change or delete data on the hard drive. The first is […]

UPDATED: Officials at the open source Mozilla Foundation released an update for the Firefox browser Tuesday. Firefox 1.0.5 is the first update to the popular alternative browser since May 11, when the organization fixed three critical bugs to the Mozilla Update Web service. Firefox 1.0.4 was rushed out the door days after two of the […]

A group of software vendors and technology organizations wants a universal definition of the term spyware before attempting to limit the technology’s reach, officials said Tuesday. The Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC) published a 13-page draft report detailing the many terms used in the spyware lexicon, how they work and basic tips to get rid of the […]