Jim Wagner

Looking to expand its financial services reach and consulting engagements for business transformation, IBM announced Wednesday the purchase of order-to-cash outsourcer Equitant. The deal puts more industry expertise in the hands of the Armonk, N.Y., company’s business consulting services (BCS) division and its business performance transformation services (BPTS) strategy. BPTS is a major initiative to […]

Google watching has only intensified since the search player’s highly-successful initial public offering (IPO) last year. The latest move getting scrutinized is that the Mountain View, Calif., search engine company is now an accredited registrar through the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). As a registrar, Google can sign people up with a […]

Demand for IP telephony and convergence communications equipment are key drivers behind renewed growth in the telecommunications industry, according to an industry outlook report. The annual report by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) showed the most notable gains since the dot-com crash of the late 1990s. The TIA 2005 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast said […]

BURLINGAME, Calif. — A $4 million investment made by the Open Source Development Labs has helped create a center to provide free legal support to free and open source software (FOSS) projects. The legal firm now known as the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) will be run by noted copyright lawyer Eben Moglen from its […]

Executives at AT&T and SBC say the $16 billion merger of the two phone providers is a signal that consolidation is necessary in the sector. Analysts also see a potentially tricky merger to get past antitrust regulators — as long as it’s deemed suitable for providing customers choices. The merger, announced Monday, combines SBC’s local […]

Officials at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) expect to announce early next week the name of the third-party evaluators who will decide which registry is best suited to assume management of the .net domain extension. Kieran Baker, an ICANN spokesman, said the announcement could be made as early as Monday, setting […]

Spam and its attendant risks are only going to get worse in 2005, an e-mail security assessment report released by Postini this week said. Despite new technologies and laws introduced in 2004, the threat of phishing attacks, zombied computers and directory harvest attacks (DHA) continue to plague companies and end users. “The spam problem is […]

Microsoft is backing down from a cease-and-desist letter it sent to Engadget.com, a blog site that Redmond officials say ran stolen content previewing Windows Mobile 2005. Peter Rojas, Engadget’s editor and co-founder, confirmed the news Wednesday, saying only that the issue has been resolved. He would not provide any further comment on a situation that […]

The attorney representing Nick Ciarelli, owner and publisher of Mac enthusiast site ThinkSecret.com, is going on the offensive against a lawsuit filed by Apple lawyers. Terry Gross, a partner in the San Francisco-based Gross & Belsky LLP, plans to file a motion in February to dismiss the case with the court on the grounds of […]

UPDATED: An ambitious $1.2 million project to create new jobs in the city of Beaverton, Ore., is under way. The Open Technology Business Center (OTBC) will open its doors Feb. 1, according to its executive director, LaVonee Reimer, in a Tuesday afternoon press conference. The center will serve as an incubator for fledgling businesses who […]

Business-to-consumer (B2C) software developer Active Decisions rolled out the latest iteration of its guided selling software Monday. The Active Advisor for Handhelds is intended to give sales floor representatives instant expertise in any ware located on the showroom floors, from the latest home/office furniture to the most obscure type of printer ink cartridge. Focusing on […]

UPDATED: Ben Goodger, who has been serving as the lead engineer of the open source Web browser Firefox, is no longer employed by the Mozilla Foundation. This week, he announced that Google has retained his paycheck and services. According to Goodger’s announcement on the MozillaZine blog, Goodger made the official switch on Jan. 10, but […]