Jim Wagner

Microsoft will take its first step toward a true open source-like OS when it releases Windows CE 5.0 to the public July 9. To date, the 2 million lines of the embedded OS code, version 4.2, have been available to the public as a reference guide only when developing applications for devices like clock radios, […]

Germany-based plug-in developer Innoopract released Yoxos, a program that ensures other Eclipse plug-ins are up-to-date and compatible with the popular Java tools platform. Yoxos is a $19.95 CD or download that includes a bundled version of Eclipse 3.0, as well as about 50 of the more popular plug-ins used on the platform. Also included is […]

It’s been a busy week for the four major U.S. ISPs . First, they issued a list of best practices and recommendations to fight the spew of spam clogging inboxes. Earthlink, Yahoo!, Microsoft and America Online, the quartet that founded the Anti-Spam Technical Alliance (ASTA), earlier this week released a slew of recommendations for ISPs […]

Bob Bemer, one of the computer industry’s greats, died of cancer on June 22 at his home in Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas. He was 84. Known as the “Father of ASCII,” Bemer’s contributions to technology are considerable, having spent decades creating, shepherding and developing programming languages still in widespread use today. In addition to devising […]

Java software maker Instantiations, Inc., is providing code for a new project that will connect the SOA and enterprise application framework of Apache Beehive to the Eclipse project. The code, a set of plug-ins and UI components dubbed Eclipse Pollinate, enables J2EE developers to create advanced applications using Beehive for their network in the Eclipse […]

The Web sites of too many Fortune 100 companies in the United States don’t take customers seriously, an upcoming report by research and consulting firm The Customer Respect Group concludes. The 2004 Online Customer Respect Study, which will be published Monday, shows that while companies like Microsoft (No. 1) and Hewlett-Packard (No. 2) performed very […]

Officials at MediaLive International, Inc., the company in charge of the once-mighty Comdex trade show, announced it planned to postpone this year’s Las Vegas event and focus on rebuilding it in time for next year. With the economic downturn of the past several years, attendance at the seminal tech trade show had withered. That, coupled […]

Shares of Salesforce.com began trading this morning on the New York Stock Exchange and the hosted customer relationship management software provider has immediately gained the attention of traders. Shares of the San Francisco-based company closed at $17.20, up $6.20 per share, or 56 percent, higher than the asking price. Jane Hynes, a Salesforce.com spokesperson, said […]

The head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) continues to see the government in a hands-off position for the most part when it comes to regulating the telecom industry. Chairman Michael Powell reiterated his belief in the power of innovation over regulation to a crowd of hundreds of industry manufacturers and providers attending this year’s […]

CHICAGO — SBC Communications , the second largest telecom carrier in the United States, will invest up to $6.2 billion in the next five years to deliver Fiber to the Node (FTTN), said Ed Whitacre, the company’s chairman and CEO, at Supercomm 2004 Tuesday. Also planned for later this year are field tests of the […]

CHICAGO — Judging by the talk of the panel of experts at Supercomm 2004, the telecommunications industry’s trade show in Chicago this week, there’s not much new to hype in VoIP . The buzz term at Monday’s panel discussion, “The Next Level of VOIP,” is IP convergence, that conglomeration of voice, video and data over […]

CRM software maker Siebel has aspirations of becoming an integration specialist, or in its vernacular, a universal application network (UAN) provider. The company is using the systems software of others as the backbone to build its own connectors and compete against SAP and Oracle to deliver customer-facing business processes to the enterprise. Nimish Mehta, Siebel’s […]