Jim Wagner

Officials at IronPort Systems announced “defense in depth,” a partner alliance initiative Monday to integrate its hardware-based, e-mail security gateway with software from companies throughout the industry. The San Bruno, Calif.-based company also expanded its relationship with Symantec , signing a four-year OEM deal to use the company’s anti-spam and anti-virus engines in IronPort servers. […]

Apple and Microsoft have something in common after all — both are attempting to stop bloggers from publishing information about upcoming technology. Peter Rojas, editor and co-founder of the popular technology blog Engadget.com, said there is an “ongoing situation” over a post that went on his site Jan. 5. The article detailed some upcoming features […]

With the Baby Boomer generation inching closer to retirement age, providing tools to keep them productive should be on the lists of many companies. IBM is one such company paying attention to this segment, as it earlier this week released the latest version of Home Page Reader, its talking Web browser. The company first debuted […]

Third-party developers and affiliate sites can finally tap into the product data and information at Amazon.ca and Amazon.fr, officials at the e-commerce giant announced Friday. Amazon.com launched E-Commerce Services 4.0 (ECS) in October, an offering that gave developer access to the Alexa Web Information Service as well as documentation and code samples to launch affiliate […]

When Xamlon released Xamlon Pro, its application development package that allows developers to code in XAML, it beat Microsoft to the punch on spreading the declarative markup language to developers. Now, with its latest offering, the company hopes to do the same to Macromedia . Xamlon launched a beta version of Xamlon Pro, Flash Edition, […]

Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells ordered IBM to produce information on all its versions of AIX and Dynix, a court order handed down this week reads. It’s the latest in a long line of discovery motions and rulings since the SCO vs. IBM case first began in March 2003. IBM officials were not available for comment […]

A quartet of consumer electronic (CE) giants has banded together to create a software toolkit for devices that access copyrighted content, officials announced this week. The Marlin Joint Development Association (JDA) is the brainchild of Sony , Samsung Electronics, Royal Philips Electronics, Panasonic and DRM software company Intertrust. The group hopes to create an industry-wide […]

Enterprise content management (ECM) vendor Interwoven has released a new WYSIWYG tool for Web page creation, which officials say takes publishing out of the hands of IT and puts it into the hands of business. Now, instead of going to IT staff to make any changes to a Web page, individual business units can make […]

UPDATED: Officials at Public Access Networks (PAN) found itself on the receiving end of a domain-stealing incident that left its customers without Web or e-mail access over the holiday weekend. According to the Panix Web site, an unknown individual was able to register as the owner of its domain — panix.com — Saturday morning. As […]

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will announce in the next few days a list of bidders vying to take over management of the .net top-level domain (TLD). As previously reported on internetnews.com, there are several frontrunners, including VeriSign , deNIC and Afilias. Kieran Baker, an ICANN spokesman, said the organization will […]

Computer Associates (CA) is about to take the wraps off its new Unicenter Desktop DNA r11, the first update of its desktop management offering since it bought Miramar Systems in March 2004. Slated for release Tuesday, Desktop DNA captures application and system settings, user profiles and data files of individual employee computer stations and holds […]

Officials at LeapFrog announced a third-party developer network Thursday to follow up the launch of its FLY pentop computer, which is set for release in the fall. HP , Disney and several other companies have already signed on to provide new applications and products to supplement the New York-based company’s FLY platform. “Since we began […]