Jim Wagner

UPDATED: Chinese Internet users who leave their computers unprotected are contributing to zombie proliferation, according a report Wednesday by e-mail security vendor CipherTrust. It almost reads like the movie synopsis to a bad 1950s B-movie slasher, replete with moaning, undead screaming damsels and overdone acting. But the reality of zombied computers is serious. According to […]

Brokerage company Ameritrade is warning about 200,000 former and current customers of the loss of a backup tape containing their personal information, officials said Wednesday. The company discovered the loss in February when it received a damaged package containing a number of backup tapes shipped from its secure facilities in the U.S. Katrina Becker, an […]

Members of the Associated Press who make a dollar using AP content online will soon have to pay for that right. Earlier this week the news cooperative’s board of directors announced it would begin charging an online licensing fee to its newspaper, television and radio-station members for AP content that shows up on their Web […]

Tardy Unix developer SCO Group is back in NASDAQ’s good graces and will trade under its regular stock symbol starting with the opening bell Thursday, officials said. The company received written confirmation from the stock exchange’s listing qualifications panel stating it was now in full compliance with its filing requirements for continued listing at NASDAQ. […]

UPDATED: A group of software vendors submitted Web Services-ReliableMessaging (WS-RM) to OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), officials announced Tuesday. IBM , Microsoft , BEA Systems and Tibco Software first published the spec more than two years ago to provide a platform for reliable messaging in a Web services environment. WS-RM sponsors […]

Executives at the popular CRM vendor Siebel are trying to shake the speculation surrounding their company’s fate after announcing their second new CEO in a year. Last week the board of directors at the San Mateo, Calif., software company decided to jettison its CEO, J. Michael Lawrie, less than a year after he first took […]

Software development tool vendor Borland updated its modeling platform for Visual Studio .NET developers, officials announced Monday. Together 2005 for Microsoft Visual .NET is the first update for the modeling tool in nearly a year, featuring roles-based modeling and support for Unified Modeling Language 2.0. Borland’s Together tool is the modeling foundation for the company’s […]

With the ink barely dry on the final Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 standard, officials at the Liberty Alliance are set to include the technology in its interoperability test bed Monday. The Liberty Interoperable Logo Program certifies software developers to create products that interoperate with products from other vendors using a variety of specified […]

A recent ruling by the New York Court of Appeals highlights a tax issue telecommuters might not be aware of: Which state gets the tax money on your income? If you’re working for a company in New York or a small number of other states, they do. Thomas Huckaby worked as a computer programmer working […]

Who are you really, Pamela Jones? For the chief executive of the SCO Group , the Unix vendor in the midst of copyright lawsuits over parts of Linux, this is a question the public needs answered in more detail. For the operator of a popular anti-SCO blog Groklaw.net, that is — Pamela Jones — the […]

UPDATED: J. Michael Lawrie has resigned as CEO of CRM software maker Siebel , less than a year after he took the reins of the company. Effective immediately, George Shaheen, the former CEO of consulting and outsourcing company Accenture , formerly known as Andersen Consulting, is stepping into the slot. “If you look at the […]

UPDATED: Microsoft released its latest batch of patches Tuesday, addressing a number of vulnerabilities in its software. April’s “Patch Tuesday” brings fixes to the Windows operating system, Internet Explorer (IE), Messenger, Exchange Server and Word. Microsoft rates five of the flaws “critical” and three “important.” As promised, Patch Tuesday also marks an end to the […]