Jim Wagner

In a move designed to ease customer concerns about deploying open source software, open source software company JBoss has announced unlimited legal support for many of its customers. The new indemnification plan now offers unlimited legal support to any customer sued for intellectual property infringement of open source software supported by JBoss. It also provides […]

UPDATED: The Open Source Initiative (OSI) board of directors is holding a meeting with stakeholders Wednesday to crack down on the proliferation of open source licenses, said Eric S. Raymond, the organization’s co-founder and president emeritus. The goal of the meeting, which will take place at the Open Source Business Conference this week in San […]

Officials at security software vendor eEye say two high-level vulnerabilities are targeting numerous versions of Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 operating systems. But Microsoft isn’t saying much more. Details of the two vulnerabilities, which were first reported on March 16 and March 29, respectively, will remain sketchy until the […]

The PHP Development Team released updates to the PHP 4 and 5 code base, fixing two security vulnerabilities that open the door to Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks Wednesday. PHP is a popular open source scripting language used by Web developers. In February, an anonymous researcher discovered that two functions that handle images uploads used within PHP […]

You see them everywhere. You might even be one: mobile warriors with a BlackBerry, pager and cell phone arranged in matching holsters around their waists. They’re the folks racing through the airport while negotiating deals over their cell phones, and zipping through the crowds on the way to a connecting flight. They’re also the ones […]

The Mozilla Foundation’s Bug Bounty Program has netted some of its community members $6,000, nearly half of it going to one German developer, officials announced earlier this week. South African venture capitalist Mark Shuttleworth and Linux vendor Linspire instituted the bug-quashing program in August 2004 to encourage Mozilla software users to report security vulnerabilities in […]

Security vendor Panda Software Thursday announced a 300 percent increase in calls reporting online child pornography over the last three years. Protogeles, a European non-governmental organization (NGO) formed to track and remove child pornography from the Internet, said it has received a total of 28,900 complaints and identified roughly 1,900 pedophile communities around the world […]

Sun Microsystems announced its position in the instant messaging (IM) protocol debate with its inclusion of the Jabber protocol in the latest version of the Java System Instant Messaging application. Officials at the Santa Clara, Calif., software company said version 7 of the IM platform now supports the extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) , […]

Popular online blog and news feed aggregator site Bloglines.com is one step closer to its goal of a universal inbox for dynamic Web content with the launch of a package tracking service Wednesday. Bloglines said it would now track and update the status of FedEx, UPS and U.S. Postal Service packages through the user’s MyFeeds […]

Officials at CRM leader Siebel Systems said their commitment to hosted software remains priority one, as shown with the Tuesday launch of CRM OnDemand 7. While the new release features a unified communications desktop and new analytics tools, the San Mateo, Calif., company showcased the functionality of its new Contact OnDemand Module, which is built […]

UPDATED: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) released its recommended list of the top-rated organizations to take over management of the .net domain extension. VeriSign , the current registry operator for the third-largest domain extension, is in line to keep its job for another six years. Mountain View, Calif.-based VeriSign was expected […]

UPDATED: Microsoft’s next operating system, code-named Longhorn, will feature a new personal data repository, according to a news report Monday. The service, called Info-cards, would reside on the user’s PC and aggregate personal information like names, credit card numbers and mailing addresses, and will allow people to use them when they shop or conduct business […]