Jim Wagner

Officials at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) have a tough job ahead of them — getting its constituents to foot an annual budget that continues to grow by the year. The group adopted its latest budget last month, which nearly doubled the previous year’s budget, partly by granting concessions (namely price […]

A new patent battle is brewing — this time over Microsoft’s claim over Caller ID for E-Mail. F. Scott Deaver, owner of Failsafe Designs, says Microsoft is guilty of the “outright theft” of his product name and intellectual property (IP), and will seek legal and financial redress from the Redmond, Wash., software giant and anyone […]

Microsoft added three new payment options to its Office Live Meeting service and changed the name of its service packages to “more closely align with the current Microsoft Office name structure,” officials announced in a statement Wednesday. Live Meeting, a multimedia chat room that features whiteboard, online polling and application sharing capabilities among other things, […]

Software development vendor Borland announced the September availability of JBuilder 2005, its IDE for Java programmers. The first major upgrade since last year’s JBuilder X, the software tool features some recent additions to the Java language, as well as plug-ins to create safer, more efficient code. “Today’s enterprise IT staffs face several challenges, such as […]

IBM recently migrated its business process modeling software to the XML-based Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), a specification that ties Web services to business processes. The reason for the move of version 5 of WebSphere Business Integration Modeler to BPEL is two-fold: it gives companies a standards-based platform to plot out operations to determine where […]

Microsoft released the source code of three software toolkits designed to tie its collaboration software with applications built by the competition, officials announced Monday. The company has been relatively quiet about its SharePoint product line since it launched SharePoint Services for Windows Server 2003 last October. The technology allows business users to share data files […]

Five Americans will make their initial appearance in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles later this month to respond to charges they participated in a scheme to defraud distributor Ingram Micro out of $10 million worth of computer equipment. The ringleader, Calin Mateias, 24, a computer cracker from Bucharest, Romania, was also indicted by […]

Oracle officials announced Wednesday that the company is releasing the latest version of its supply chain management (SCM) software within the next 90 days to improve collaboration around the world and within the enterprise. Oracle SCM 11i.10 targets global growth, government compliance/management and the “lean” enterprise at a time when software sales are starting to […]

UPDATED: In a move that officials promised “would alter the open source database landscape,” Computer Associates is launching a $1 million developer challenge Thursday to spark interest in its Ingres Enterprise Relational Database (Ingres r3). The management software vendor made the announcement Wednesday during the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco Wednesday in a […]

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is set to nominate Sender ID — a consolidated e-mail address anti-spoofing technology — as an Internet standard during its working group meeting Wednesday. Sender ID is the consolidation of Microsoft’s Caller ID for E-mail and Meng Weng Wong’s Sender Policy Framework (SPF). SPF is essentially a list of […]

For the second time in a week, a little-known database is making its way into the open source community. IBM released a copy of its Java-based Cloudscape relational database application to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), officials announced Tuesday. Last week, management software developer Computer Associates released its own database, Ingres Enterprise Relational Database (Ingres […]

Officials at BEA Systems are pretty happy with themselves going into this week’s LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. They say their efforts in the open source community are finally bearing fruit, or honey, as the case may be. Red Hat , HP and ObjectWeb’s Java Open Application Server (JOnAS) are endorsing Apache Beehive, […]