Jim Wagner

There are 10 candles on Netscape Navigator’s birthday cake today, but owner AOL is also celebrating the pending birth of a new browser. Company officials say AOL is headed in its own browser direction with the fall launch of AOL Browser, a stand-alone browser based on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) technology. An AOL source familiar […]

A recent monthly update to its Web site caused no end of trouble for online transaction company PayPal. But after an outage that plagued the site, PayPal appears to be back online. According to a notice by eBay , which owns the PayPal service, the introduction of back-end code Friday morning to upgrade the site’s […]

IBM is easing restrictions on its ISV membership program, opening the door for more marketing and sales help for companies that make software based on IBM’s middleware platform. There are three levels in IBM’s PartnerWorld program for ISVs: Member, advanced and premier. Previously, advanced membership level was an invitation-only affair by an IBM client rep; […]

Oracle officials took the wraps off software formerly known as Sales Analyzer and Financial Analyzer today, giving it a new database engine and name. Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting (EPB) fills a gap in the Redwood Shores, Calif., company’s ERP software suite, providing real-time monitoring of customers’ business activities. Officials say EPB allows users to […]

The entertainment industry filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court in order to get what they say is a definitive ruling whether software companies should be allowed to create software used to facilitate pirating copyrighted material. “Unless the laws keep pace with innovation, we run the risk of imperiling the creation and development of […]

UPDATED: Three days after a jury found Sun Microsystems had infringed on Eastman Kodak patents, the two parties settled their lawsuit out of court. For $92 million, Sun doesn’t have to face the prospect of paying up to $1.06 billion in damages for infringing on Kodak’s software patents. In a statement Thursday afternoon, Sun officials […]

Competitors are publicly happy about Computer Associate’s $430 million acquisition of Netegrity , but there might be a hint of trepidation over the combination of the two security software players. Less than a day after officials at the Islandia, N.Y., company announced the acquisition — which pairs CA’s eTrust Identity and Access Management suite with […]

Privacy advocates and the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) will get their day in court, again, to appeal a federal ruling that allows Internet service providers to store and copy their customers’ e-mails. This time, seven federal judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston will determine whether Bradford Councilman, […]

Actuate, which stewards the open source business intelligence reporting tool (BIRT), is planning an early 2005 launch, following the approval of the Eclipse Foundation. Actuate and Eclipse officials first announced the BIRT proposal to the organization’s developer community in August. It is an open source application that will allow Java developers to automate reporting process […]

In a deal that could expand its identity and access management (IAM) portfolio, Computer Associates is buying software security developer Netegrity for $430 million in cash. In the functionality department, the Netegrity addition is seemingly a win for CA’s eTrust Identity and Access Management (IAM) products, which protect enterprise networks from unauthorized entry. Netegrity’s flagship […]

Officials at EarthLink rolled out an expansion of its VoIP service for broadband users Tuesday, giving its 1.2 million high-speed users unlimited free calls to other SIP-enabled phones. EarthLink, one of the three largest ISPs in the nation alongside AOL and MSN , has been offering a $29.99 unlimited VoIP offering since last year, powered […]

Developers of the NetBeans released the second beta iteration version 4.0 software last week, squashing more than 900 bugs found in the first beta release. The release, according to officials at Sun Microsystems , means a public version of the integrated development environment (IDE) will be available to Windows and Linux users Dec. 17. NetBeans […]