Jim Wagner

UPDATED: Officials at San Jose, Calif.-based eBay expressed outrage after the head of its Indian operations was arrested over the weekend for a pornographic video file listed on its site. Avnish Bajaj, Baazee.com country manager, was arrested Saturday after traveling to New Delhi to help authorities track down the source of the sale of a […]

Industry watchers don’t expect any trouble from regulators or competitors when it comes to the proposed Sprint Nextel merger. The two companies announced their “merger of equals” Wednesday after nearly a week of rampant speculation. The merger would create the third-largest wireless phone carrier in the United States, behind Cingular (a joint venture between BellSouth […]

As promised, IBM’s newest software division has released WebSphere-based middleware to improve the supply chain management (SCM) of RFID information. The three WebSphere RFID products — Premises Server, Device Infrastructure and Remote Server for Retail — were scheduled for a late-2004 release by the Armonk, N.Y., giant as part of its $250 million investment in […]

Sun Microsystems announced the availability of two upgrades to its software development platforms on Tuesday. Java Studio Enterprise (JSE) 7, the Santa Clara, Calif., company’s corporate-level development environment, is available for download and purchase immediately, while a free download of NetBeans 4.0 will be out Wednesday. Officials also announced Sun Studio 10 — the 32- […]

UPDATED: Sprint and Nextel have agreed to merge, to better compete with Cingular and Verizon Wireless for voice and data customers. The new company, Sprint Nextel, will serve more than 40 million wireless subscribers. Shareholders from Sprint and Nextel will each have a 50 percent stake in the combined company, with each common share of […]

Officials at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced the start of negotiations with two more sponsored top-level domains (sTLD) Monday. The two proposals, .mobi and .jobs, cater to the mobile device community and human resources communities, respectively and brings the number of corporate-sponsored domain extension proposals to four. In October, ICANN […]

Analysts at investment firm Legg Mason said Tuesday any Verizon plan to acquire Sprint would face a “significant” hurdle from government regulators. Legg Mason released the report to investors in the wake of a Wall Street Journal report that Vodafone — Verizon’s joint venture partner in Verizon Wireless — would support any Sprint buyout plan. […]

Microsoft officials announced the release of its own desktop search application Monday, hoping to make up Google ground established two months ago. Desktop search joins the recently released beta version of MSN’s Web search functionality and is wrapped in the Redmond, Wash., company’s beta version of the MSN Toolbar Suite. The beta program is currently […]

Firefox use in the United States climbed 34 percent in the last month, according to a report published by Web analytics company WebSideStory Monday. The report comes hours after the Mozilla Foundation, an open source organization working on several consumer-based applications, announced it had reached the 10 million mark in downloads for its Web browser. […]

JBoss officials are set to announce Monday a re-branding effort to portray the company’s offering as a whole middleware platform, not just the application server. Information on the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS) is already available on its site; the marketing effort is essentially the fact that their platform is the sum of all the […]

Sprint and Nextel are in talks to merge into the third-largest wireless phone carrier, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal Friday. Spokespersons for Sprint and Nextel had no comment on the story. According to the WSJ, the merger would top $30 billion and consolidate 75 percent of the mobile carrier business under […]

Submarines in the U.S. Navy’s fleet will next spring sport Oak Grove System’s business process management (BPM) technology to get its administrative tasks ship-shape, officials said Wednesday. The deal highlights Oak Grove’s recent expansion from a primarily embedded player in the BPM market — one of its primary business models to date has been to […]