Jim Wagner

CHICAGO — Application service provider (ASP) eAgency is taking its business outside the PC and onto Blackberry-powered mobile devices, after a two-month development effort with Sun Microsystems and Research in Motion . The announcement came Tuesday evening, during the RIM Wireless Enterprise Symposium. Newport Beach, Calif.-based ASP eAgency caters to independent insurance agents, most of […]

CHICAGO — Palm OS licensees will be able to connect between Palm-powered and RIM Blackberry devices thanks to a new distribution agreement, inked Tuesday by the two companies. Solidifying the partnership, developers at PalmSource showed off a pre-alpha version of Palm OS Mail for Research in Motion’s (RIM) Blackberry Connect to attendees of the Research […]

CHICAGO — PalmSource CEO and President David Nagel told the wireless faithful here that yes, IT really does matter in the wireless world. Speaking at Research In Motion’s (RIM) Wireless Enterprise Symposium, Nagel’s comments were positioned against a controversial article called “IT Doesn’t Matter,” by Harvard Business Review’s Nicholas Carr. The article raised hackles in […]

Infrastructure software maker webMethods rolled out two value-add components to its business activity monitoring (BAM) application Monday. Officials at the Fairfax, Va.-based integration company are positioning the BAM Workshops, a best-practice session, and its Business Process Report Card, as a path to polish a customer’s six-to nine-week return on investment (ROI). BAM applications are best […]

IBM is expanding its outreach program to Linux developers on its 64-bit architecture and updating old and new development languages to meet the demands of Web services and services-oriented architecture technology. Software demos, a collaboration portal and training documentation, went up on IBM’s beefed up POWER microprocessor architecture development site this week, while WebSphere Studio […]

At a time when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is being challenged in court by its own constituents, a relative outsider has been tapped to lead the organization’s 2004 Nominating Committee (NomCom). Jean-Jacques Damlamian will work with 17 voting members to fill vacant posts within an organization charged with managing the […]

IBM’s announcement that it would offer desktop applications server side isn’t a new concept. Sun Microsystems has offered a similar product for three years. Both are trying to chip away at the dominance Microsoft and its desktop Office suite enjoys in the workplace. But analysts say enterprise infrastructure has evolved to a point that enables […]

Only hours after Norwegian Web browser company Opera announced version 7.5 was out of beta, a vulnerability affecting earlier iterations was published. The flaw is a telnet URI handling vulnerability which, depending on the security access granted, could disable Opera. Security firm iDEFENSE reported the problem to Opera officials April 7. Specifically, the vulnerability seizes […]

Novell has announced comprehensive support for SuSE and Ximian on desktops, servers and laptops to allay CIOs’ concerns about introducing Linux into the enterprise. Under six levels of premium service, customers will have access to 600 Linux engineers (nearly 70 percent of them are field technicians) from 10 support centers worldwide. “Customers making the move […]

Lindows officials are in a Dutch court this week after Microsoft lawyers argued the desktop Linux vendor is in violation of their original settlement. The hearing, set for Tuesday afternoon in Amsterdam, is expected to decide a few issues: Whether Lindows, the San Diego-based company, will need to pay a $100,000 Euros-a-day fine (approx. USD$118,000) […]

Big Blue is hoping to add to its presence in the office space, and beef up sales of its Lotus division, by offering desktop productivity applications from a server, distributed to a variety of devices. Improvements to Lotus Workspace Messaging (LWM), Lotus Workplace Documents (LWD) and Workplace Client Technology, Micro Edition (WCTME) are three new […]

Officials at the SCO Group said Friday one of its primary investors is cashing out, converting 10,000 equity shares to common stock and selling the rest to fellow investor BayStar Capital. In October 2003, BayStar and the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) invested $50 million in SCO, a company facing daunting legal battles against some […]