Jim Wagner

HP was awarded a $290 million, 10-year outsourcing contract with the Defense Logistics Agency’s (DLA) Enterprise Data Center (EDC) program, officials announced Wednesday. The contract is a big win for HP, giving the Palo Alto, Calif., IT giant access to the ground floor of the DLA’s new initiative. According to a DLA spokesperson, the contract […]

Officials at VeriSign , manager of the “.com” and “.net” generic top-level domains (gTLD), say the demand for Web sites remains strong, pointing to figures from its second-quarter Domain Name Industry Brief released today. New domain name registrations topped 4.6 million in the second quarter, off slightly from last quarter’s 4.7 million, but still well […]

Microsoft officials have announced two patches as part of its monthly releases for September — one rated critical, one important. The critical flaw that Microsoft announced today addresses a remote code execution vulnerability when users open a JPEG image on an infected machine. When the PC processes the image, the malware causes a buffer overrun […]

UPDATED: Lawyers for the SCO Group have filed an 83-page memorandum asking the U.S. District Court in Utah to hold off on any decisions regarding IBM until the fact-finding calendar deadline is met next year. According to filings in the case, SCO is looking to buy time until the court can hear its arguments compelling […]

UPDATED: Microsoft’s undeclared patent claims on Sender ID technology are holding up adoption of the e-mail authentication specification, and it’s not clear when the issue will be resolved. The MTA Authorization Records in DNS (MARID) working group was supposed to conclude its discussion of Sender ID Friday and send it to the next stage of […]

Have you ever wanted to put a picture of your wife, husband, kid, dog or favorite shirt on a postage stamp? Stamps.com thinks it’s a good idea, and so it was able to convince the U.S. Postal Service to bless a pilot program called PhotoStamps. Unfortunately for Stamps.com, the editors of the Smoking Gun, a […]

IBM is looking to get a leg up on the competition with the October 15 launch of eServer 326, a rack-mounted server that supports AMD’s upcoming dual-core 64-bit processor. Though the AMD Opteron chip isn’t due to hit the market until sometime in mid-2005, the Armonk, N.Y.-based tech giant is positioning to protect its market […]

The working group charged with finding an acceptable method for authenticating e-mails to reduce spam now has a proposal to consider before Sender ID adoption grinds to a halt. The proposal, posted Wednesday by Andrew Newton, co-chair of the MTA Authorization Records in DNS (MARID) working group, is an alternative to the current Microsoft-sponsored Sender […]

Officials at Sybase are jumping on the database giveaway bandwagon with an offering tailored to the Linux community. Unlike similar moves from IBM with its Cloudscape and Computer Associates Ingres, the free download of Sybase’s Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) Express Edition for Linux isn’t an open source donation, officials said. Rather, it’s a full-featured version […]

UPDATED: Officials at Oracle used its Open World show in London as a springboard to launch an application server offering for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMB) Tuesday. Available by year’s end, Oracle Application Server Standard Edition (SE) provides the full functionality of its Application Server 10g at half the price, though the company’s lack of […]

Oracle is preparing to release its next major upgrade to the E-Business Suite application suite in the next couple months. It promises more functions tailored to meet specific industry needs. E-Business Suite 11i.10’s new features were unveiled at Oracle Open World in London Monday, the biggest update to its application suite since the July 2003 […]

VeriSign officials tried to minimize the damage caused by an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) warning yesterday, which gave the .com and .net registry about two weeks to fix 17 violations in the WHOIS database. It’s a problem that likely wouldn’t have come to light in the first place, if VeriSign officials […]