Jim Wagner

High-tech companies won their bid to get an Internet space roped off for mobile devices. The mobile top-level domain (mTLD) initiative, made up of companies like Microsoft , Nokia , Vodafone and Samsung Electronics, got the nod and a 10-year contract from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to move forward with […]

UPDATED: In a rare display of industry cooperation, Yahoo and Cisco merged their e-mail authentication specification, officials announced Monday. The Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM) specification is the combination of two related, competing, technologies: Yahoo’s Domain Keys and Cisco’s Identified Internet Mail (IIM). While the two technologies are similar in concept in that they both […]

Anti-spam and anti-virus filtering service AppRiver is taking some of the menace from Hurricane Dennis with an offer to protect e-mails in the event of a network crash, officials said Friday. The free service is available to any organization with their own Internet domain name in the Southeast U.S. that feels the hurricane’s wrath might […]

The author of the Sasser and Netsky worms was sentenced in a German court Friday to one year and nine months of probation. Sven Jaschan was 17 years old when he was arrested by German authorities in May 2004 for creating and distributing two of the most damaging e-mail worms in Internet history. He was […]

Microsoft gave users a heads-up on three security bulletins, some critical, on tap for its monthly patch schedule for July. The Redmond, Wash., software giant normally releases security patches affecting its software products on the first Tuesday of the month unless a vulnerability is severe enough to warrant an immediate fix. Two of the security […]

News and blogs sites in the United Kingdom were hard hit as word of multiple explosions in London Thursday morning had concerned surfers looking for the latest word. The four blasts, which occurred between 8:51 and 9:47 London time, claimed a growing number of lives, and injured scores more. Officials surmised it was an al’Qaeda-style […]

The next version of the Opera Web browser will support peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, which has been the focus of a lot of legal discussions recently. A technical preview of Opera 8.02 released Thursday allows users to download BitTorrent files directly from the browser rather than downloading the file and using a client application like Azureus […]

The European Parliament voted overwhelming, 648-14 with 18 abstentions, against a proposed software patent directive Wednesday. The Computer-Implemented Inventions (CII) patents directive, if passed, would have given software patent owners unified protections across the European Union (EU). The EU floated the proposal to the parliamentary body in May 2004 to bring patent laws in line […]

Microsoft took the wraps off its delayed CRM software update on Tuesday to show off new capabilities for existing users and new options for small businesses. The technology preview, announced at the start of the company’s TechEd 2005 Europe show in Amersterdam this week, will be available to existing Microsoft CRM customers at the end […]

China is throwing its weight behind an international anti-spam coalition of government agencies and private sector organizations to combat unwanted e-mail messages. The country announced its intention to join the U.S.- and U.K.-led London Action Plan on Spam Enforcement Collaboration, a group of 29 governmental agencies and 17 private sector groups promoting information sharing and […]

The enterprise content management (ECM) industry is in a period of flux, a surprising fact considering the process of managing records has been around for decades. John Mancini is the president of the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), an organization founded in 1943 to serve the needs of the content management community, whether […]

Sybase introduced what it says is the first application development environment to meet the challenges of developing programs in a service-oriented architecture (SOA), officials said. WorkSpace is a unified application environment spanning three aspects of software development — application design (modeling), application development and application deployment — to drive down development costs and speed up […]