Jim Wagner

AOL is back in the Microsoft Sender ID for E-Mail camp after the Redmond, Wash., software giant announced it had made two significant changes to its specification and filed them with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Monday. Ryan Hamlin, Microsoft’s general manager of anti-spam technology and strategy group, said the company has amended one […]

Microsoft’s Sender ID for E-Mail might be down, but it’s certainly not out. Next week, a Canadian ISP will roll out what may be the first commercial service for an application of the e-mail authentication scheme that’s come under so much fire worldwide. Internet Light and Power (ILAP) plans to start its $3.75 (U.S. dollars) […]

Officials announced the launch of an IBM Innovation Center in Beijing Thursday to find better ways to get software from ISVs around the world into the computers of small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in China. It’s not as easy as it may sound. The hundreds of researchers IBM officials say are now in the country […]

Hoping to expand its user base, Sun Microsystems announced expansion efforts to its Java Studio Creator (JSC) platform Wednesday. The Santa Clara, Calif., software company and shepherd of the Java programming language added Mac OS X and x86-based Solaris platform support to its developer tool, as well as its first internationalized versions in Japanese and […]

Microsoft officials confirmed the existence of two vulnerabilities within Internet Explorer 6.0 that affect all versions of Windows, including Windows XP Service Pack 2 users. It’s a continuation of the “drag-and-drop” flaw security officials at Microsoft have spent more than two months fixing. The flaws, rated “highly critical” by security outfit Secunia Research in a […]

UPDATED: The copyright-themed trial between SCO Group and IBM took another twist as the presiding judge ordered both sides to provide information previously considered privileged, SCO officials said Tuesday. Judge Brooke Wells, U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Utah, has ordered affidavits from Sam Palmisano, IBM chairman of the board and CEO, Irving […]

John Musarra, a long-time Mozilla fan, is getting ready to help launch the forthcoming release of the Firefox 1.0 browser the old-fashioned way: by throwing a party. But the coming launch, organized by volunteers, is also featuring a mix of traditional grassroots efforts along with a pitch for some big media coverage. He’s organizing what’s […]

JBoss, owners of the popular JBoss open source development community, added another piece to its middleware product portfolio with the addition of the Java Business Process Management (jBPM) Project, officials announced Monday. Tom Baeyens, jBPM founder and lead developer, will continue his work on the project as a full-time architect and project lead at JBoss […]

Interwoven , the enterprise content management (ECM) vendor known more for its Web-based TeamSite offering, is now going after company intranets, officials announced Monday. In order to woo customers, the Sunnyvale, Calif., company has infused its new intranet deal with simplicity, knowing enterprise workers and IT staff have other things to worry about than learning […]

After six difficult days, PayPal is back in business. Full site functionality, as well as the ability to make money transfers, is back online after a scheduled site architecture update crashed the system last Friday, according to a statement on the site Thursday afternoon. Access throughout the bug fix process was sporadic — some members […]

A slight change in the fee structure for registrars was just enough to ratify Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number’s (ICANN) $15.8 million budget measures. The new fee structure goes into effect Nov. 1. The ICANN announcement, made earlier this week, signals the end of a nearly three-month holdout by the companies who buy […]

Officials at IBM took the wraps off its Rational-based update Wednesday, code-named Atlantic, focusing on an application development environment that includes both programmers and business analysts. The new application lifecycle management (ALM) tools are expected to be available for download Dec. 3, with full availability by the end of December. The Armonk, N.Y.-based company moved […]