Jim Wagner

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan said it arrested a Meriden, Conn., man on charges of trying to sell Microsoft’s Windows NT and 2000 source code after it was leaked onto the Internet earlier this year. Officials said they charged William Genovese, 27, with one count of unlawfully distributing a trade secret. His site, illmob.org, […]

Officials at Sun Microsystems announced updates to the company’s developer platform and 64-bit computing at its Tech Days Conference in New York Tuesday. Up first were beta versions of its IDEs , Java Studio 10 (JS 10) and Java Studio Enterprise 7 (JSE 7), which the company said are available today. One of the biggest […]

Microsoft’s controversial Sender ID for E-Mail dominated the opening panel of a two-day e-mail authentication summit sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In addition to Sender ID, the summit will focus on other technologies it is hoped will combat the growing amount of spam and […]

Despite feeling safer now than a year ago, 20 percent of businesses in a network security survey of 300 IT staffers in companies with more than $30 million in annual revenues admitted to unauthorized breaches into their company networks. The survey, conducted by security hardware vendor Britestream Networks and Q&A Research, reported that 76 percent […]

Microsoft cleared more legal cases off its plate Monday by settling with Novell and the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) over antitrust and other charges. In return for $536 million from Microsoft, Novell said it would withdraw its intervention role in the European Commission’s antitrust case with Microsoft, which is currently under appeal. The […]

The source code and binaries for Java 2, Standard Edition 5 (J2SE), otherwise known as “Project Tiger” went live on Sun Microsystems’ Web site Friday afternoon. Officials at the Palo Alto, Calif., software company released the code under the Java Research License (JRL) and Sun Community Source License (SCSL), which doesn’t give programmers full rights […]

There’s a lot of dour talk about the “Death of Software Innovation” these days, as patent lawsuits hit the court system one after another. But is this litigation mentality really the result of an old-fashioned and obsolete government agency that’s stifling new software innovation? Not quite. And although today’s raft of companies suing other companies […]

Officials at the SCO Group put a $31 million cap on legal fees, as they continue their controversial litigation against several high-profile companies over parts of the Linux kernel. According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), SCO paid its teams of lawyers $12.6 million to cover outstanding legal fees and expenses […]

Microsoft plans to open up who gets a sneak peek at its security bulletins. The company said the preview of its upcoming security updates and patches would be available for three business days before its monthly patch update (the second Tuesday of the month). It will contain a general summary of the planned security bulletins, […]

Along with the final results of Election 2004 comes the king of election night search terms, courtesy of specialty search and net play Lycos. If you guessed that “2004 Election Results” ranked the highest, you win. That search string, according to Lycos, rose in popularity by 686 percent in the past 12 hours. Next was […]

One of Register.com’s founding fathers resigned from his board of directors seat Wednesday, ending a 10-year stint at the helm of one of the biggest registrars in the world. Since co-founding the company — originally called Forman Interactive — with his brother Peter back in 1994, Richard Forman saw the registrar through the deregulation of […]

Robert Arbogast is one of many alternative domain name owners who are just now finding out their years-long investment in .travel might come to an end after a recent decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Arbogast, the owner of www.tickets.travel on New.net’s alternative domain name service, might soon be dealing […]