Jim Wagner

UPDATED: SCO Group officials said they planned to launch a Web site Monday containing information about its lawsuits against IBM and other companies. But Monday came and went and there is still no site in sight. The company intended SCOinfo.com to counter Groklaw.net, the hugely popular source for all documents and legal proceedings pertaining to […]

Officials at Computer Associates announced the availability of an application aimed at simplifying and strengthening Wi-Fi networks. Wireless Site Management 4.0 (WSM), first introduced in May, is designed to augment the company’s Unicenter Network and Systems Management Network Performance Option — a reporting and network health application — and eTrust security management platform. WSM features […]

Agents at the U.S. Secret Service unmasked 28 people who thought they were safe behind anonymous identities and charged them in connection with alleged ID Theft activities. The U.S. Secret Service announced that arrests were made in eight states and six countries stemming from the investigation of public bulletin boards that were the focal point […]

IBM is rolling out an update to its Autonomic Computing Toolkit featuring more operating system support and the latest Eclipse platform. The update is part of Big Blue’s software development platform and is being used by ISVs such as Hitachi Software Egineering, Zero G Software and Macrovision to create software that is self-managing and self-healing. […]

IT companies are flocking to China, which is considered by many to be the biggest growth market in the world today. IBM , Cisco and Motorola are just a few of the large multinational companies that have been trying to boost their presence in the most populous country on the planet. With the Chinese government […]

Two of the 10 sponsored top-level domains (sTLD) vying for approval have made it past the technical review phase, officials at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced Wednesday. The next step for Tralliance and the Universal Postal Union (UPU), two organizations that applied in December 2003 to manage the .travel and […]

Some of PayPal’s 50 million account members are getting a break on their transactions Thursday as an apology from the company for a service outage that hobbled the site earlier this month. After six days, officials at the eBay-owned company restored functionality to the Web site, which crashed because of an architecture update — but […]

AOL is set to give away that which it sells at a premium — its McAfee VirusScan Online anti-virus software. The free service will be one of the services featured in the AOL 9.0 Security Edition due out next month, an update to the 70 MB AOL 9.0 Optimized offering it currently provides. AOL had […]

Dell officials announced Wednesday an agreement with Linux distributor Novell to distribute and support SUSE Enterprise Server 9 on its single- and dual-processor line of servers. The deal marks an expansion of the popular computer manufacturer’s server market strategy and a departure from its exclusivity with Red Hat as a Linux solution. For Novell, the […]

Sendmail officials Tuesday announced Mailstream Content Manager, the first application of the company’s Advanced Content Engine. The new middleware product sits between Sendmail’s Mailcenter e-mail server and end-user Intelligent Inbox. The product is part of a new initiative by Sendmail, a software company known more for the role it plays in the e-mail server industry. […]

Officials at Borland gave developers a look at the visual design component of its software delivery optimization (SDO), code-named Themis, called Together modeling. The demo took place at the Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA) Conference held in Vancouver, Canada., Appropriately named after the Greek goddess of law and order, Themis is Borland’s vision […]

Enterprise software developers Sybase and PeopleSoft rolled out applications designed to make navigating the popular BlackBerry handheld device a little bit easier for business users. The BlackBerry — a device manufactured by Research in Motion (RIM) that can download e-mail, surf the Web and act as a phone — still has all the limitations imposed […]