Jim Wagner

Qwest met its St. Patrick’s Day deadline and raised its bid for MCI nearly $500 million, increasing the value of the acquisition to $26 per share, according to a Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) filing by the company Thursday. According to a statement by MCI, the company said it has received and is currently reviewing […]

With hours to go before a deadline comes due on new bid for MCI , Qwest’s chairman and CEO vowed his company is still committed to winning. “Our activities over the next 24 hours will demonstrate our commitment to winning MCI,” Richard Notebaert said in a statement Wednesday afternoon. “It is unfortunate that some in […]

Officials at Sun Microsystems are putting the finishing touches on two new licenses that could spell the end of its Sun Community Source License (SCSL). Late last year, the shepherd of the Java platform released the Java Research License (JRL), tailored to researchers and developers who wanted to experiment with changes to the Java 2, […]

IBM announced the launch of a SUSE Linux development and certification program for ISVs at nine of its 25 Innovation Centers, officials said Wednesday. The addition of the popular Novell Linux distribution comes three months after the Armonk, N.Y., IT giant launched a similar program for developers on the Red Hat platform. The certification initiative […]

Yahoo and Cisco are working to find some common ground in their respective e-mail authentication specifications. Often confused as anti-spam technology, e-mail authentication attempts to verify that an e-mail is really coming from the person listed in the e-mail header. The technology is then used as a foundation for traditional anti-spam software and hardware like […]

The SCO Group’s chairman of the board solidified his hold on the software company after a settlement was reached with venture firm Canopy Group Friday. Ralph Yarro, SCO chairman and former Canopy president and CEO, as well as two other former Canopy executives, sued the venture firm after they were sacked in December 2004. They […]

In a case closely watched by media sites online and off, a judge in California has ruled that Apple has the right to subpoena an ISP in order to gain information about unidentified sources it charges stole its trade secrets. Judge James Kleinberg of the Santa Clara County Superior Court ruled Friday that Nfox, the […]

The U.S. government will not get a head start on other Windows users when it comes to Microsoft security updates, the company said Friday in response to news report that suggested otherwise. The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Air Force will receive early versions of software patches through Microsoft’s Update Validation Program (SUVP) […]

Robert Lyttle, one of two hackers behind the Deceptive Duo team responsible for a number of network breaches in 2002, including a U.S. Navy database, has decided to plead guilty to the charges filed by the U.S. Attorneys’ Office last year, according to documents filed in the case. The plea agreement between federal prosecutors and […]

Business can buy all kinds of information about you these days — even fraudulent ones can get their hands on your personal data, as the ChoicePoint and other data leak cases pointed out. But can you get your hands on that same information to make sure no one’s applying for a driver’s license or committing […]

A subsidiary of Retail Ventures has reported the loss of an unknown amount of credit card accounts. Officials at DSW Shoe Warehouse said they discovered the theft of approximately three month’s worth of credit card transactions from 103 of its 175 shoe stores nationwide. The Secret Service was notified earlier this week and is involved […]

Software vendor Computer Associates , looking to modernize businesses systems still running COBOL applications, has launched the Legacy Renewal Solution for that goal. Dubbed a services-and-software solution by the Islandia, N.Y., software company, the system comes at a time when 75 percent of the world’s business data is still processed using the venerable and second-oldest […]