Jim Wagner

UPDATED: Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) lawyers will file suit against more than 400 college students across the U.S., officials announced Tuesday. The students from 18 different universities around the nation were using the high-speed Internet2 research network to trade copyrighted music, according to officials. The organization plans to file the lawsuits Wednesday. The […]

E-mail security vendor IronPort Systems sold control of its popular whitelist program to e-mail performance management company Return Path, officials announced Tuesday. As part of a long-term partnership struck a few days ago, Return Path will manage the operations, marketing and development of the Bonded Sender program, while IronPort will continue to provide back-end infrastructure […]

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN) board of directors has approved two top-level domains (TLDs). .Travel and .jobs join the six other sponsored TLDs (sTLD) already in existence and eight generic TLDs (gTLDs) that denote worldwide domain extensions. Country code TLDs (ccTLDs) are geared toward individual countries or, in the case of […]

Microsoft lawyers filed suits around the country to put a halt to the sale of counterfeit versions of the company’s software, officials announced Monday. Microsoft officials say seven computer system builders were charged with copyright and trademark violations for allegedly selling bogus copies to its customer base, despite cease-and-desist orders in the past. The eighth […]

Startup open source development vendor ActiveGrid released early versions of its grid computing development tool and application server, officials Monday. ActiveGrid Application Builder and ActiveGrid Application Server are based on the Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Python/Perl (LAMP) software stack, an alternative to J2EE and Microsoft .NET . The software, officials said, combines XML , open […]

UPDATED: Time Warner and Comcast have reached a preliminary agreement to acquire failing rival Adelphia Communications for $17.7 billion, according to news reports Friday. The joint bid would further solidify the U.S. market share dominance the two cable operators currently enjoy. Combined, Comcast and Time Warner subsidiary Time Warner Cable serve more than 30 million […]

Mandrakesoft created a new identity for itself, changing the name of its popular Linux distribution to Mandriva, officials announced Thursday. The name change will affect all aspects of the Linux distribution, from the company name and product line to its online support and retail sites. According to a statement released by the company, the name […]

Domain name registrar Register.com faces Nasdaq de-listing for failing to register its annual financial statement on time, officials said Thursday. The New York-based company was required to file its annual report, Form 10-K, with the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) March 16. On March 17, the company filed for an extension to the end of […]

UPDATED: A European group with backing from some large tech firms in the U.S. is looking to stymie Microsoft’s efforts to appeal an anti-trust ruling through the European Union (EU) courts. Members of the European Committee for Interoperable Standards (ECIS) have been in contact with EU officials over the past several months while it files […]

Enterprise content management (ECM) vendor Interwoven has launched a Web content tool that it claims can cut provisioning time for browser-based applications by 40 percent. The Interwoven Content Provisioning system takes application code and content from a development system, aggregates and standardizes it through the Sunnyvale, Calif., company’s provisioning zone and deploys them enterprise-wide. Company […]

A new company is taking the notion of professional open source to the next level with pre-tested and certified components for use in the enterprise, officials said Tuesday. SpikeSource offers more than 50 interoperable open source components, called Core Stack, as well as asset management and paid services to take the hassle of manually integrating […]

UPDATED: Computer Associates is shuffling its business units in order to adapt to the shifting winds in the industry. The company’s new CEO, John Swainson, said Tuesday that CA would alter its organizational chart in order to give more power to unit general managers in five areas. Shannon Lapierre, a spokeswoman at CA, said the […]