Jim Wagner

Investors in SCO Group have called back about $20 million of their $50 million investment in the UNIX system company, saying the return of the convertible securities is because the Utah-based company breached an investment agreement. Shares of SCO Group tumbled over 13 percent Friday to close at down $8.37 after it announced it received […]

Almost 15 years after his work began on the first specifications for HTTP , HTML and URIs , Sir Tim Berners-Lee accepted Thursday the latest award thanking him for creating the World Wide Web (WWW). Officials at the Finnish Technology Award Foundation named Berners-Lee its first recipient of the Millennium Technology Prize 2004 from a […]

What better way is there to drum up interest in your software after a shift in its brand name? If you’re Lindows CEO Michael Robertson, you give it away. At least, that’s the reasoning he gave readers of his periodic mailing list Wednesday afternoon, after he announced that Lindows, the desktop Linux distributor, was changing […]

Lindows executives have rolled out a new moniker for its desktop Linux software and the name is…Linspire. The new name of the formerly Windows-sounding outfit is to comply with a European court’s ruling that said the company’s use of Lindows in its product cut a little too close to Microsoft’s Windows trademark. The company’s Web […]

UPDATED: Microsoft offered over 30 patch updates as part of its monthly allotment of security fixes Tuesday, including patches to plug a hole in Outlook Express and service packs of IE versions. The 20 vulnerabilites it covered in the package of updates were organized into four groups for Windows versions. Three are labeled “critical,” and […]

IBM added 40 data centers to its disaster recovery portfolio Tuesday with the purchase of the business continuity services unit of oil industry tech provider Schlumberger , bringing the total to 160 sites worldwide. Financial terms of the contract were not made public, though Big Blue officials expect the acquisition to close in the second […]

When Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems chairman and CEO wasn’t busy trying to convince the tech world he and once-nemesis Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, were really the best of friends from way back, he was busy convincing Sun devotees his $1.95 billion settlement agreement with Microsoft would benefit their customers. “Our companies will continue to compete […]

A hodgepodge wireless phone policy at the office is contributing to more than 25 percent of a company’s telephone bill, according to a report published by analyst firm Yankee Group Monday. Keith Mallinson, author of the report, “Despite Savings, Enterprises are Slow to Adopt Centralized Wireless Voice Purchasing Plans,” finds wireless voice and data accounts […]

The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) has published a security flaw that has no complete workaround, leaving PCs at risk even if protective steps are taken. The vulnerability lets attackers trick the InfoTech Storage (ITS) protocol handlers in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) to grab scripts from another domain (server) and gain the same privileges […]

Sun Microsystems has released the latest version of application server, the first major upgrade to the platform in nearly two years. Also released was a software development kit (SDK) for enterprise-centric Java 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.4, along with supporting documentation. The latest specification has been eagerly anticipated among corporate software developers, largely because it […]

While a Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) continues its investigation into accounting irregularities at software company Computer Associates , three former finance executives were pleading guilty to federal charges in a Brooklyn court Thursday. The three accountants — Ira Zar, CFO, and two former senior vice presidents of finance David Kaplan and David Rivard — […]

E-voting software developer VoteHere made its audit checking source code available for download Tuesday in a bid to prove its software does what it promises: provide a verifiable audit trail over every citizen’s vote. Much of the debate surrounding the electronic tabulation of votes has centered on the machines’ ability (or inability in this case) […]