Jim Wagner

UPDATED: As a new Sender ID specification for beating back spam wends its way through the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), some e-mail software vendors are not waiting around for its final approval before implementing the system. They could be taking a gamble. Or they could be acting in confidence that the IETF will eventually […]

Opera Software, known mostly for its desktop operating system, has announced that its smartphone browser will be available on Microsoft Windows Mobile devices in the first part of 2005. Opera uses a proprietary technology for rendering Web sites primarily designed for desktop users onto a mobile device. The technology, called Small-Screen Rendering (SSR), crunches an […]

Getting no traction at the federal level, VeriSign lawyers took their case against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to the state. The two-count breach of contract suit filed with the Los Angeles County State Superior Court Friday is essentially a carbon copy of the amended seven-count suit it filed in the […]

Hot on the heels of its decision to donate its Java-based Cloudscape relational database application to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), IBM has launched new resources for its site hosting database. Officials have spent the past several weeks revamping the IBM developer site — developerWorks — for Cloudscape. Officials announced they would donate the source […]

VeriSign has come out on the losing end in its breach of contract and antitrust lawsuit against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). A federal judge in the central district of California ruled VeriSign did not prove its seven-count suit that charged ICANN with violating the Sherman Act and conspiring to stymie […]

IBM announced Tuesday that it will acquire Venetica to manage access to its DB2 Information Integrator for Content software. Venetica is a content management software company specializing in unstructured data, which is the hard-to-pigeon-hole information contained in HTML , XML and audio and video files. IBM already has technology in place to manage such data […]

Continuing its transformation process, EDS sold off one of its wireless software ventures for $57 million, officials said Thursday. Syniverse Technologies, a telecommunications outfit specializing in wireless phone service in Tampa, Fla., paid cash for EDS’ Interoperator Services (IOS) North America to flesh out its wireless offering. IOS North America provides business intelligence reporting and […]

Officials at the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) confirmed Wednesday the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will announce arrests and indictments of several alleged American spammers at a press conference Thursday in Washington, D.C. The DMA said some of those arrests were the result of Operation Slam Spam, a partnership between the DMA and the FBI, […]

Microsoft is giving administrators a peek at its new Sender ID license agreement, which is an update to the company’s Caller ID for E-Mail technology proposed in February. Whether the terms are open enough for the open source community to climb on board in support remains unclear. The license is an update to an e-mail […]

Actuate, an enterprise reporting software vendor, is joining the Eclipse Foundation’s board of directors and will spearhead a new project to develop an open source reporting tool, officials announced Tuesday. The proposal known as the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) Project was publicly released on the Eclipse.org site for comments and Eclipse members will […]

Switch manufacturer Radware is putting more muscle in its software, announcing the general availability of SynApps Next Generation, officials announced Monday. SynApps is the software that dictates the actions of its switching product line, sometimes referred to as softswitching , which is like its biological namesake, synapse, which is the “minute space between a nerve […]

Officials at content collaboration software maker Workshare unveiled a software update to its metadata scrubbing software Monday, promising an end to embarrassing leaks of private information. Content metadata bears only a passing resemblance to the type of metadata most people are aware of. Web metadata is keywords associated with a Web site. By contrast, content […]