Jim Wagner

Executives at Cisco Systems took the wraps off a new security appliance designed to unify several security functions under one roof Tuesday. Announced at the Networld + Interop show today in Las Vegas, the Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 5500 series of appliances is a component of Cisco’s Adaptive Threat Defense (ATD) portfolio within its self-defending […]

As businesses prepare for another year of compliance requirements, business technology optimization vendor Mercury Interactive updated its IT governance software, officials said Monday. Mercury has beefed up its IT Governance Center software with more controls and options for IT managers at a time when compliance efforts have become a high priority within corporate offices. Regulations, […]

Communications software and systems provider Avaya rolled out its roadmap for intelligent communications, which calls for more emphasis on software and includes a software update, officials announced Monday. Software improvements are a key component to what officials at the Basking Ridge, N.J., company see as the future of IP-based telephony, or VoIP . Intelligent communications […]

UPDATED: IBM is integrating its security service with the Tivoli Security Compliance Manager (SCM), officials announced Friday. The result for current SCM customers is a service that provides an extra measure of security against today’s viruses, worms and exploits. James Galvin, a market manager for Tivoli security, said the integrated solution represents a big security […]

IBM and Cisco plan to launch a joint speech-enabled solution set later this year for contact centers, officials announced Thursday. The end result, officials hope, are contact center offerings around the world that people will use in place of resource-intensive human intervention. The two companies plan to provide a joint service using IBM’s WebSphere Voice […]

Siebel reported a net loss of $4 million in the first quarter of 2005 thanks in large part to a drop in license revenues, company execs announced Wednesday. License revenues year-over-year dropped $52 million from the first quarter of 2004 compared to the first quarter of 2005, from $127 million to $75 million. The revenue […]

Site survey tool vendor Wireless Valley is launching a tool later this year to find out the true effectiveness of wireless deployments, officials said Wednesday. The RF Manager will be tied to the Austin, Texas-based company’s software suite to provide real-time information on RF activity on the wireless network, evaluate bandwidth usage, and report areas […]

Domain name registrar GoDaddy.com is tops in the world, officials announced Tuesday. The new ranking comes from a recent report by analyst firm Name Intelligence and topples Network Solutions (NetSol) from the No. 1 spot it has held for years. “From 2002 to 2004, GoDaddy.com led the domain name industry in terms of net growth […]

Not that there’s ever a good time to find warm water to swim from Oslo, Norway, to the U.S., but Opera’s CEO Jon von Tetzchner picked a bad time of year to make good on his promise. Last week, the Opera leader vowed to swim from his homeland to the U.S. if downloads to his […]

Microsoft is releasing 64-bit systems for Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP today as it launches its Microsoft Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2005. During a launch event with AMD last Thursday in New York, Harry Patz, Microsoft’s general manager for the company’s North America communications sector, said the launch of Microsoft Windows XP Professional […]

UPDATED: The battle between NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) for new market listings heated up again Friday, with NASDAQ announcing it would purchase Instinet, the electronic communications network (ECN), for about $1.88 billion in cash. The news comes two days after NASDAQ’s rival, the NYSE, announced it would merge with ECN Archipelago […]

IBM’s plea for less paperwork worked, with Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells this week deferring 97 percent of the documentation required from a previous ruling. In January, the judge ruled IBM must hand over all applicable documents from the 3,000 programmers who played the biggest part in developing the AIX and Dynix operating systems. IBM subsequently […]