Jim Wagner

Online advertising firm Commission Junction Service said third-party hosting glitches contributed to an outage Tuesday that left some of its thousands of users in the lurch for a few hours. A spokesperson at the Santa Barbara, Calif., company said the outage, which didn’t affect all its users and was intermittent throughout, lasted from 9 a.m. […]

IBM and Fujitsu announced a far-reaching agreement to collaborate on autonomic computing standards. The first step in the alliance begins with Fujitsu’s endorsement and promotion of IBM’s Common Base Event proposal within the Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) working group. The WSDM specification is for managing distributed resources in a Web services architecture. Future collaboration […]

UPDATED: The homepage for the SCO Group’s Web page is back to normal Monday after attackers defaced images on the site. In one case, an attacker was able to replace SCO’s existing Web site seminar image, which says “SCO Partner Webinars” and “Click here to learn more,” with one that says “We own all your […]

The recent success of the Firefox movement — thousands of volunteers spreading the Gospel of Mozilla to every corner of the Internet — is spawning a new kind of growth. Nearly 1,000 enthusiasts have spent this month celebrating the release of Firefox 1.0 at 394 launch parties around the world, from the U.S. to Pakistan, […]

The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) has been taking a lot of heat in recent years over software patents. Sitting at the center of the firestorm — and the patent process — is Nick Godici, the agency’s Commissioner for Patents. Entire Web sites, like The League of Programming Freedom and FightThePatent.com, are devoted to […]

The executive team at Computer Associates will focus on growth through acquisitions, as its new president and CEO-elect, John Swainson, transitions into his role. At a press conference Tuesday morning, Swainson, a former IBM worldwide software sales vice president, said time to market and return on investment concerns play a key role in any software […]

UPDATED: Security researchers are calling attention to what they called a “fairly significant” vulnerability in Sun Microsystems’ Java virtual machine that gives crackers access to a user’s files. According to iDefense, the vulnerability targets the internal packages within Sun’s JVM on certain versions of Java 2, Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.4.2 running on the Unix and […]

While the Windows vs. Java vs. Linux debate makes for good media fodder and even better “flame baits” on discussion forums, it does little to help an IT manager who needs to marry a Java-based database in one department with a Web-facing ASP.NET application in another. With such platform gaps in mind, Microsoft is rolling […]

Seven months after opening for business, officials at Fortify Software announced improvements to its analysis tool for weeding out code that leads to application hacks. The improvements to the Palo Alto, Calif., company’s Source Code Analyzer builds on its existing ability to detect patterns in software development that can lead to security vulnerabilities like SQL […]

A relatively low-impact but threatening virus is popping up on some SymbianOS-powered phones, according to an F-Secure anti-virus report Friday. The virus, which overwrites application info and icon files (AIF) on the C: drive with an icon of a skull-and-bones image, has been found at some Symbian shareware download sites under the filename “Extended Theme […]

Robert McLaws, president and chief software architect at Interscape Technologies, wants to pick a fight with the Java community. The 22-year-old .NET developer recently started a clan, a group of .NET programmers who also play Microsoft’s highly-popular Xbox game, Halo 2. So far, “MastersOfDotNet” has accumulated eight or nine like-minded developers. McLaws, one of the […]

America Online is bundling existing security features along with new ones for the Thursday launch of its AOL 9.0 software client, security edition. The goal of AOL 9.0 Security Edition (SE) is to make Internet security paramount while keeping the company’s mantra to keep it easy enough for the whole family to understand and use. […]