Jim Wagner

Rich Schinnell is a dedicated PC enthusiast. If his Maryland license plate featuring the letters “IBM PC” doesn’t convince you, the fact he beat out 27 other people in the Build-Your-Own-PC Race for Charity competition at Comdex 1998 by assembling a PC in less than seven minutes should seal the deal. Schinnell is one of […]

UPDATED: Executives at Siebel Systems said its competitors in the CRM space aren’t doing enough to meet the needs of small- to medium-sized businesses (SMB). So they have a plan to deliver it themselves. The San Francisco-based software company is taking a three-pronged approach to delivering on its CRM Channel Program: a go-to-market model, a […]

The United Kingdom’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) passed a complaint from a London-based consumer organization over Apple’s iTunes pricing policy to the European Commission (EC) Friday. In a statement, officials at Which?, the consumer advocacy group that filed the original complaint to the OFT, said they were pleased by the agency’s decision to pass […]

With a nod to regulatory compliance and integration, officials at Serena Software launched an update to its development platform. Dimensions is one application within the San Mateo, Calif., company’s Serena Application Framework for Enterprises (SAFE) software suite, the platform from which developers track and manage enterprise applications. The suite is one of several competing versions […]

The Mozilla Foundation released the final version of Thunderbird 1.0, the standalone open source e-mail client application, which is available for public download. The launch by the open source organization is quite different than the worldwide marketing blitz surrounding Thunderbird’s kin, the Firefox 1.0 browser. But officials are hoping for the same amount of success. […]

Computer Associates announced the general availability of three updates to its mainframe management software, with a focus on interoperability, officials said Monday. Work has begun on the current crop of applications in the Unicenter r11 mainframe suite — NetMaster, CA-OPS/MVS Event Management and Automation and CA-SYSVIEW Realtime Performance Management — and will continue with the […]

UPDATE: IBM announced the online availability of more tools to help third-party application developers build programs and market their products to small- to medium-sized businesses (SMB). Scott Hebner, IBM vice president of ISV developer relations, said the latest round of resource tools is a continuation of the company’s pledge to spend $1 billion in support […]

Officials at the Mozilla Foundation are getting ready to release the final version of Thunderbird 1.0 next week, officials said Friday. That word comes just two days after the open source organization — more popularly known for development of the standalone Firefox Web browser — released a preview Thunderbird 1.0 release candidate (RC) of its […]

Ten years ago, you might have thought hiring an IBM employee to head up Linux development at the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) a strange move. After all, IBM was once the poster child for a business culture that emphasized conservatism, dark suits and white shirts; the roots of the Linux movement, on the other […]

With the increasing use of RSS on blogs and other sites, feed aggregators are gaining in popularity. That’s why Bloglines has gone international, it announced Wednesday. The Redwood City, Calif., company now includes language-specific versions of its Web site in order to accommodate the millions of bloggers and readers around the world who use RSS […]

Outsourcing deals worth more than $1 billion are icing on the cake after IBM officials announced the completion of acquisitions Wednesday that solidifies its push in the European transportation and logistics industry. The Armonk, N.Y., IT giant acquired Maersk Data, the consulting arm of Danish container shipping company A.P. Moller – Maersk. IBM also acquired […]

VeriSign is reporting the largest quarterly growth in new domain names in Internet history, 5.1 million, in its latest report, officials said Wednesday. The 5.1 million new registrations in the third quarter is nearly a half-million more than the previous quarter’s addition of 4.7 million, and puts the total number of domain names around the […]