Jim Wagner

Spurred by the interest and demand for more resources to develop applications on IBM’s Power architecture, officials announced Monday a bevy of training aids and free test environments. Officials from the Armonk, N.Y.-based tech giant also announced the inclusion of more Red Hat and SUSE Linux support for its reseller program, Leaders for Linux, to […]

Sun Microsystems’ Java 2, Micro Edition platform is among the most popular programming platforms in the industry. A scaled down version of Java 2, Standard Edition (J2SE), J2ME is used to create applications on PDAs, mobile phones and embedded devices. There are 350 million Java-enabled handsets today, a number that’s expected to grow to 1.5 […]

Officials at Alvarion, a Tel Aviv-based broadband wireless manufacturer, announced its decision to acquire 3G equipment maker Interwave for $56 million Wednesday. The all-cash merger, in which Interwave will become a wholly-owned subsidiary, is subject to shareholder approval. According to Carlton O’Neal, Alvarion vice president of marketing, shareholders will meet sometime next month, and he […]

As network administrators at Google and other major search engines finished shoring up their defenses to combat the latest strain of MyDoom, the virus’ secondary motive emerged: clearing a path for attacking Microsoft.com and opening up a backdoor to the user’s computer. Ken Dunham, director of malicious code at security firm iDEFENSE, released information Tuesday […]

Wireless systems maker Symbol Technologies has bought into the radio frequency Identification industry, buying Matrics for $230 million in cash. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter, pending regulatory approval. The acquisition gives Symbol a presence in a hot technology area that uses wireless chips to relay inventory quantities at the individual-item […]

Proctor & Gamble , one of the largest household products manufacturers in the world, is going to help shape digital home efforts when it takes a seat on the Internet Home Alliance’s (IHA) board of directors Wednesday. The maker of everything from diapers to toothpaste joins a board that is slowly expanding beyond the realm […]

UPDATED: A strain of the infamous MyDoom virus threat swept through inboxes around the world Monday morning, this one targeting popular search engine like Google and Yahoo. MessageLabs, the e-mail security firm, intercepted 23,000 copies of MyDoom.O within the first five hours of discovery. The new version, in affect, perpetuates the same distributed denial of […]

Executives at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) adopted its fiscal year 2004-2005 budget at the close of its tri-annual meeting in Kuala Lumpur Friday. The board of directors will have a hard time, though, convincing its members how much they pay into a budget that increased nearly two-fold in 12 months, […]

Intel is breathing new life into an open source test and performance framework at the Eclipse Foundation. The chipmaker will take over leadership of the Eclipse’s Hyades Core Platform, just as three new sub-projects emerge: Hyades Testing, Hyades Tracing & Profiling and Hyades Monitoring. Officials expect the Test and Performance Tools Platform Top Level Project, […]

UPDATED: Microsoft’s surprise announcement Tuesday that it would share about $75 billion with stockholders over four years has investors and analysts wondering if the world’s largest software company is still a growth company. If it is, they want to know what’s going to drive that future growth, at a time when the PC market where […]

The SCO Group’s breach of contract lawsuit against automobile manufacturer DaimlerChrysler came to a crashing halt Wednesday afternoon, after a judge ruled in favor of a dismissal motion. Lindon, Utah-based SCO sued its one-time customer March 3 for failing to provide documentation certifying its systems were abiding by the terms of the SCO licensing agreement. […]

Microsoft has opened up most of its Windows source code to its group of dedicated volunteers. The move to allow the software giant’s Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) to view and reference large portions of the Windows 2000/XP and Windows Server 2003 operating systems may come as a surprise to some, but Microsoft officials argue its […]