Jim Wagner

UPDATED: LokiTorrent, a Web site that tracks and indexes BitTorrent files, says it’s setting up a legal defense fund to fight a lawsuit filed by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The site’s operators have collected $13,955 of the $30,000 needed to start defending themselves from the MPAA’s lawsuit, according to a recent posting […]

As the official death toll from the tsunami in southern Asia grew, tech players were offering any aid and support they could in response to devastation. Fortune 500 companies and individual bloggers were offering donations and free services in order to support relief operations to the stricken regions across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Somalia, Sumatra, […]

Officials at Delta Air Lines subsidiary Comair said they have been in constant talks with federal authorities about last week’s disruptions, even before a public memo aired by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Norman Mineta. In a memorandum to Kenneth Mead, the DOT’s inspector general, Mineta requested an “expedited review” of the events […]

Two PC manufacturers fared best in this year’s online holiday shopping onslaught, according to officials at Web site performance monitoring firm AlertSite Tuesday. The Web sites for Dell and Gateway experienced the best response times and success rates among a crop of major e-commerce sites, notably Amazon.com and Walmart.com. AlertSite rated the top online sellers […]

Novell’s promise of a blended Linux and Netware networking environment became reality with the recent launch of the public beta of Open Enterprise Server (OES). The public beta was release about a month later than originally scheduled. The software, which features the NetWare 6.5 and SuSE Linux 2.6 kernels and associated services, is a suite […]

UPDATED: Comair airlines was scrambling to contain the fallout from a cancellation of over 1,000 flights on Christmas Day after its computer systems for reservations crashed, saying it expects to be running at 60 percent by Monday evening. Officials of the Cincinatti-based subsidiary of Delta Air Lines blamed severe weather in the middle state regions […]

It was a great year for catching cyber criminals, but the culprits behind some of the most damaging software viruses of 2004 are proving adept at eluding authorities, security experts say. Tracking virus writers — and more importantly, gathering evidence against them — is a thorny problem for law enforcement agencies worldwide. While the number […]

The .mobi domain name extension will hurt the Internet, according to a number of industry folks opposed to its potential approval. The Device Independence Working Group (DIWG) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is just one group making noise amidst .mobi negotiations. Last week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) entered […]

Internet registries around the world are preparing to submit their bids on one of the oldest, and most popular, domain extensions. The deadline for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN) request for proposals (RFP) for .net is Jan. 18, 2005, at which time an as yet unnamed third-party technical review board will […]

Revenues fell and losses deepened for SCO Group during the company’s final fiscal quarter, driven by changes to its operations, officials announced Tuesday. The company declared a net loss of $6.5 million for the fourth quarter, down from a loss of $1.4 million in the same period last year. In fiscal year 2004, the company […]

eBay won a minor victory in New Delhi after a judge granted bail Tuesday for one of its executives arrested last weekend in a case involving a pornographic tape that a customer tried to sell on the auction site’s subsidiary. Avnish Bajaj, India country manager for Baazee.com, a subsidiary of eBay, was jailed after arriving […]

Google fixed a flaw in its beta desktop search tool that could have given hackers access to users’ local searches, officials said Monday. The vulnerability, discovered and reported by three members of Rice University’s computer science department, proved it was possible for a malware writer to grab information from a Web page containing any desktop […]