Jim Wagner

Novell can finally put its rocky year behind it and concentrate on a better tomorrow, its top executives said on Thursday. The Waltham, Mass., software company announced its fourth-quarter and full-year 2005 results, which showed some progress as well as continuing challenges. Revenues for the quarter were $320 million, up $19 million from the same […]

VeriSign and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) avoided a temporary restraining order but still face a day in court soon. A judge with the U.S. District Court in San Jose will hear arguments by the Coalition for ICANN Transparency (CFIT) for a preliminary injunction to block a proposed agreement between ICANN […]

Now you can smile big and get noticed when placing calls on the Skype phone. Free voice-over-Internet (VoIP) provider Skype is joining the pack with a videophone offering to compete with the likes of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and Microsoft’s MSN Messenger. A public beta of Skype 2.0 was released Thursday morning with a full-screen […]

An updated version to the venerable GNU General Public License (GPL) , which hasn’t seen a refresh in 15 years, is a little closer to reality. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) released a process definition document this week, outlining the course they will take to shepherd work on GPL […]

There are a lot of ways to get an international meeting of constituents noticed, but the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) probably doesn’t consider lawsuits one of them. ICANN and .com registry operator VeriSign discovered that they were the subject of two federal lawsuits filed Monday alleging price-fixing and antitrust activities related […]

UPDATED: The Mozilla Foundation is set to release the first major upgrade to the Firefox 1.0 browser, featuring a number of accessibility, security and browsing improvements. The organization expects to make Firefox 1.5 available for download at its Web site later today. Firefox 1.0 was officially launched in November 2004 to great fanfare, and the […]

Whether it’s Black Friday or Cyber Monday, online holiday visits this week are bringing holiday cheer to retailers, as holiday shoppers flocked to the Internet for deals. A report last week notes online buying will increase with 34 percent of all consumers buying holiday gifts online. But retailers have their eyes just as set on […]

Microsoft is pushing mobility and security additions on its updated hosted messaging and collaboration suite, launched Monday. The updated suite, Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration version 3.5, is targeted at small- to medium-sized businesses (SMB) that want enterprise-grade applications but don’t have the resources to maintain the applications themselves. Hosted by service providers, […]

Borland’s new boss has a tough job ahead of him, with both investors and customers looking to see how the company positions itself for the future. Tod Nielsen was named president and CEO of the Cupertino, Calif., software development company Nov. 8, replacing interim chief Scott Arnold. A former executive with Microsoft , Oracle and […]

A San Mateo county trial judge has approved a settlement that requires Larry Ellison, Oracle CEO, to shell out $122 million to dismiss insider trading charges. The settlement, reached Tuesday, requires Ellison make $100 million in charitable contributions over the next five years and pay $22 million in legal fees to the law firm Berman […]

Turkey and the fixins aren’t the only things people will be digesting over the Thanksgiving and upcoming Christmas holidays. Expect more spam. Lots more. It’s a recurring theme seemingly as inevitable as Christmas carols and fruitcake, as internetnews.com has reported in 2002, 2003 and 2004. Security experts at anti-spam and anti-virus vendor AppRiver expect the […]

Developers and IT shops testing Microsoft’s upcoming enterprise application integration server can now have at the latest updates. The beta 2 version of BizTalk 2006 comes two weeks after the Redmond, Wash., software giant released a community technology preview of the server software during the launch of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 earlier […]