Jim Wagner

Computer Associates will restate six years’ worth of financials dating back to 2000 to account for some recently discovered irregularities, officials announced Thursday evening. The news came at the same time the Islandia, N.Y.-based software company reported numbers below analyst expectations in its fourth quarter results for fiscal 2004. Officials at CA were not available […]

Developers at AOL are working on a fix to the latest bug found in Netscape 8 that affects Internet Explorer (IE), officials said Thursday. Microsoft officials first confirmed Wednesday a bug found in the Netscape browser that breaks the XML rendering in IE. Users who have installed Netscape 8 but use IE anytime thereafter are […]

Finnish phone manufacturer Nokia made a pledge yesterday to not assert any of its patents infringed by the Linux kernel. The statement, though, was overshadowed by the introduction of its first Internet tablet, the Nokia 770. What’s curious about the patent amnesty is its timing. Was the pledge merely part of a marketing campaign to […]

IBM opened the door to new resources for ISVs who create — or are thinking of creating — software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications for businesses, officials announced Wednesday. The most visible bonus to developers in Big Blue’s PartnerWorld Industry Networks program is a directory for customers that promotes their wares, called the “Software as Services Showcase.” (IBM […]

UPDATED: Specialty chemicals manufacturer Degussa AG signed a five-year, $45 million contract with AT&T to put its worldwide network under one roof, officials announced Wednesday. With the contract in place, the Dusseldorf, Germany-based multinational will connect its entire network of 45,000 employees, 63 production facilities and 327 offices worldwide under AT&T’s Multiprotocol Label Switching-based virtual […]

UPDATED: It’s back to the future for palmOne , which will change its name to Palm, Inc., later this year after buying the rights to the name from PalmSource , officials announced Tuesday. PalmOne will pay $30 million over the next three-and-a-half years to PalmSource, developers of the Palm operating system, for its 55 percent […]

Optical networking manufacturer JDS Uniphase announced the $760 million cash-and-stock purchase of telco test vendor Acterna Monday. The deal will round out JDS’ hardware portolio, adding a test and measurement component to its line of telecommunications and optical networking gear. Acterna provides test and measurement (T&M) systems to telephone and cable companies, as well as […]

Storage and enterprise content management (ECM) vendor EMC will sport a new search engine under its Documentum hood, officials from Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced Monday. FAST replaces Verity as the search engine used in EMC’s upcoming Documentum releases, which is the company’s first win in the ECM market, according to officials. FAST will […]

Officials at the non-profit standards body OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) announced Monday its approval of the OpenDocuments 1.0 specification as a standard. The ratification puts OASIS’ seal of approval on a single XML-based file format for text, spreadsheets, charts and graphical documents — an area dominated by Microsoft and its […]

David Nagel, president, CEO and director of mobile operating system developer PalmSource , is vacating his role at the company, officials said Monday. Taking his place is the Sunnyvale, Calif., company’s top salesman, Patrick McVeigh, senior vice president of worldwide licensing, who the board of directors nominated as interim CEO. Nagel will remain with the […]

IBM and Nortel researchers will collaborate on a new class of blade servers targeting the carrier market, officials announced Friday. The two companies will build a Nortel-IBM Joint Development Center in North Carolina to reduce research and development costs, pooling their respective expertise in hardware and software. George Bailey, a partner with IBM’s business consulting […]

Microsoft is working on new software to wrap up all existing and upcoming identity management systems under one framework, code-named InfoCard. Redmond expects to give developers a sneak preview of the technology later this month. The framework will create a level of abstraction to individual identity management systems and allow them to “plug” in new […]