Jim Wagner

Intel executives were quick to issue a statement about its business practices in the wake of a damning report by Japan’s watchdog organization Tuesday. A Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) report found the Santa Clara, Calif., chipmaker in violation of section three of the country’s Antimonopoly Act. According to the report, Intel, finding its market […]

IT automation vendor Opsware Monday added the next layer to its systems automation platform, with the announcement of Network Automation System (NAS) 4.0. Today’s announcement is the first phase of a three-phase integration roadmap, and it comes three months after the Sunnyvale, Calif., company bought the technology with its $33 million acquisition of Rendition Networks. […]

A coalition of eight tech companies has formed the Compliance and Management Electronic Information (CMEI) working group in a bid to give companies a hand in formulating a comprehensive compliance framework for their business. The group, made up of Oracle , Hewlett-Packard , Veritas, Sun Microsystems , Open Text , Hitachi Data Systems, Network Appliance […]

UPDATED: Lawyers await word on whether a judge will change his mind regarding a preliminary ruling that forces three bloggers to reveal their sources for upcoming Apple technology published on their sites. A hearing was held Friday in the Santa Clara Superior Court by Judge James Kleinberg, with lawyers representing Apple and three Web sites: […]

As the boundaries between cell phones and desktop functionality blur, the danger of a worldwide wireless virus increases. Do those sound like the words a doomsayer would revel in pronouncing? After all, Paris Hilton and her T-Mobile address book aside, there hasn’t been anything approaching a worldwide cell phone security problem since carriers first started […]

The Java Community Process (JCP) executive committee (EC) voiced its approval for the next version of Java, code named Mustang, earlier this week. An early release snapshot of Mustang, otherwise known as Java 2, Standard Edition (J2SE) 6.0 or Java Specification Request 270 (JSR-270), was made publicly available in November 2004. Mustang is scheduled for […]

Professional open source company JBoss kicked off its first-annual JBoss World 2005 conference in Atlanta with the launch of two programs designed to beef up enterprise support for open source software, officials announced Tuesday. The JBoss Network and JBoss Open Source Federation build upon the Atlanta-based company’s JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS) platform, a collection […]

Security firms have detected as many as 15 variants of the Bagle worm in the past 24 hours that are currently attacking end-user computers. Officials from iDefense said the wave of attacks started late Monday evening in the United States, or at the start of the business day in the Asia-Pacific region, and are mainly […]

With its PartnerWorld 2005 conference as a backdrop, IBM officials announced the expansion of its ISV support program Monday. The Armonk, N.Y., company’s PartnerWorld program matches software from independent developers to prospective customers. Monday’s announcement is a continuation of IBM’s decision to move away from developing software applications; instead, Big Blue focuses on its middleware […]

Officials at SAP announced their intentions to acquire retail software specialist Retek for $496 million Monday. The deal, approved by Retek shareholders, is still subject to shareholder and federal regulator approval. SAP is expected to file an $8.50 per share cash tender offer to shareholders later this week; officials expect the deal to close in […]

Borland is taking a bigger stake in the organization it helped found, joining the Eclipse Foundation’s board of directors as a strategic developer, officials will announce in a press conference Monday at EclipseCon 2005 in Burlingame, California. The software delivery provider is also preparing to propose a project based on its software delivery optimization (SDO) […]

IBM is handing over more than 30 of its open source projects to the popular SourceForge.net repository, officials announced Friday. The Armonk, N.Y., company also announced a partnership with Zend Technologies to integrate its database into PHP . Officials said that while IBM hosts a lot of open source projects from its developerWorks site, the […]