Jim Wagner

Microsoft again went on the attack against software pirates, filing four lawsuits against companies it said sold illegal copies of its software to consumers, officials announced Wednesday. The lawsuits name five companies — East Outlet, Super Supplier, #9 Software, CEO Microsystems and Wiston Group — that were allegedly selling illegal copies of Microsoft products or […]

UPDATED: Yahoo acquired VoIP provider Dialpad Communications on Tuesday to bolster its computer-to-computer telephony service. At its Web site, Dialpad Communications officials stated its software will be used as a core component for Yahoo’s voice communications products across its portal network, as well as in its instant messaging (IM) application. According to Dialpad officials, Dialpad’s […]

Oracle announced an update to the JD Edwards World application suite, part of the enterprise resource planning (ERP) giant’s commitment to JD Edwards’ customers. JD Edwards also reinforced its partnership with IBM . JD Edwards World, made up of six enterprise applications to managed operations within a business, is optimized to run on top of […]

Microsoft announced patches to correct vulnerabilities addressed in 10 security bulletins, three of them critical, security officials announced Tuesday. The first is a patch to a vulnerability found in several versions of Internet Explorer (IE) 5 and 6 affecting Windows 98/ME/XP and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. A remote code execution bug targeting Portable Networks […]

IBM provided more details on the next version of its Lotus Notes application featuring back-end compatibility with Workplace, officials announced at a Notes Users Conference in Hannover, Germany, on Tuesday. The update to the popular messaging and collaboration program, code-named Hannover, will allow developers to create applications from either a Domino or Workplace platform, used […]

Sun Microsystems has published the source code for an open source version of its Solaris operating system. The next step is figuring out how much of a say the open source community will have in future development of the code. The company released all of the code associated with Solaris 10 at OpenSolaris.org: the core […]

Black Duck Software and VA Software will release an integration kit later this month to combine the strengths of their respective software offerings, officials said. With the service pack, a free download for customers using the two products, developers can keep tabs on the open source intellectual property (IP) and licenses contained in the code […]

Microsoft will soon release 10 security bulletins to shore up security weaknesses in its product line, officials announced on their security site Thursday. The patches cover several products in the Redmond, Wash., software company’s offerings, including critical updates to the Windows operating systems. More details about the vulnerabilities will be addressed in Microsoft’s monthly patch […]

In a process that took more than a year to accomplish, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) board of directors gave its blessing to VeriSign as managers of the .net top-level domain (TLD). The Mountain View, Calif., Internet services company beat out four other bidders, Afilias, Denic, Sentan Registry Services Co. and […]

Hard drive manufacturer Seagate Technology plans to ship the first notebook drives using perpendicular recording technology, officials said Wednesday. Perpendicular recording supplants the industry-standard longitudinal recording method used in the hard drive industry. Where longitudinal recording aligns data bits parallel to the surface of the disk, perpendicular recording aligns the bits vertically, allowing manufacturers to […]

Officials at Computer Associates put another feather in its business management portfolio cap with the $350 million acquisition of IT governance developer Niku , officials announced Thursday. The all-cash purchase is expected to close within the next three months, officials said, pending regulatory and Niku shareholder approvals. CA has been reselling Niku’s Clarity IT-Management and […]

CHICAGO — Commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) told SUPERCOMM attendees their hands are tied regarding competition rules that that the telecommunications industry calls unfair. Officials at telephone companies are angered over requirements that force them to negotiate contracts, on an individual basis, with local communities around the U.S. to provide video services. Earlier […]