Jim Wagner

Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology is slowly finding its way back into corporate networks. But instead of being used to download the latest Britney Spears single or pirated DVD, it’s zipping bulky data and rich-media files on the cheap. In its purest sense, P2P is the transfer of data files from one Internet- or LAN-connected computer to […]

IBM officials said Thursday that one of the largest mortgage processing companies in the country was using its Web services middleware across its business to better serve customers. In the coming months, Fidelity Information Services (FIS), a subsidiary of Fidelity National Financial, will broker the approximately 24 million loans it handles through seven organizations online […]

UPDATED: Intent on stopping the spread of Internet viruses, Microsoft has begun beta-testing a security-monitoring feature for its Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) that will be included in the final product in mid-2004. The tool, which checks for third-party anti-virus and firewall software and lets users know whether it is enabled or not, is […]

Sun Microsystems used the opening day activities of the RSA Conference 2004 in San Francisco to announce the launch of a sweeping security initiative to include all its software products, officials said Tuesday. First to get the security treatment — which ties together authentication, identity management and risk management — is the Santa Clara, Calif., […]

Earthlink , one of the largest broadband Internet service providers in the U.S., is investing $500,000 in a broadband Internet technology only recently approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), it was announced Friday. Officials at Ambient Corp., a Newton, Mass., communications company specializing in broadband over power line (BPL) broadband Internet, announced the ownership […]

Beating out several rivals, IBM on Friday announced a four-year mainframe deal with German financial IT services provider Sparkassen Informatik (SI). The hardware, software and services agreement is worth “hundreds of millions dollars,” officials said, and extends the Armonk, N.Y., company’s current relationship with the European outfit. An IBM spokesperson said its mainframe contract was […]

IBM will invest $250 million over the next three years to find ways that health care companies can rein in costs. Initially, the Armonk, N.Y., IT giant will hire health care specialists and collaborate with Duke University Health System and the Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute. The partnerships will produce IT-managed software and services […]

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The gulf between two Java programming language integrated development environments (IDEs) grew wider Wednesday when IBM and Sun Microsystems released enhancements for their respective platforms. The release signals that both companies could be willing to forgo a unified Java developer tools platform and instead concentrate on their respective IDEs: Sun’s NetBeans and IBM’s Eclipse. An […]

Officials at enterprise application integrator (EAI) SeeBeyond are extending credit to IBM customers who switch to its integration software platform. The move is the second time in recent months the Monrovia, Calif.-based, company has launched an aggressive campaign to steal market share from another EAI provider in a crowded software sector. In late November, SeeBeyond […]

IT lifecycle management vendor Altiris took the wraps off its first major software revision Tuesday, featuring consolidated code and new features. The Lindon, Utah, company has been showcasing Altiris 6.0 for the past couple weeks, taking its software suite on a road show throughout the U.S. and showing off application improvements aimed at making software […]

Officials at the world’s largest online auction site announced Thursday the first major expansion of its developer program in a year, hoping to draw in more programmers to build applications around its platform. In Spring 2004, eBay said it will roll out support for Java and the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Web services standard […]