Jim Wagner

Salesforce.com wants to help Nextel Communications customers pull customer relationship management (CRM) tools out of thin air — or at least off their wireless Blackberry devices. The San Francisco based software vendor is teaming with Nextel to offer Nextel subscribers (who use the service with RIM’s Blackberry wireless e-mail devices) access to their company’s latest […]

Officials at outsourcing giant EDS plan to cut more U.S. jobs in the next three years but expand its overseas ranks in order to cut losses while remaining competitive in the global outsourcing market. In a conference call with analysts Tuesday, officials at the Plano, Texas, IT and business process outsourcing (BPO) company said they […]

For the second time this month, Apple has released security patches to correct vulnerabilities found in several versions of its Mac OS X. A “moderately critical” vulnerability in two Apache modules, mod_alias and mod_rewrite, could conceivably give a network user escalated privileges or let them launch a denial-of-service attack . Security officials also modified how […]

Following up on a pledge to support J.D. Edwards’ customers after it bought the business software company, PeopleSoft officials are launching a hosting and application management support product for mid-market customers. The new offering, announced Monday, is offering hosted services normally reserved for major Fortune 100 companies to mid-market customers: storage, database and hardware outsourcing, […]

Since its beginnings, the application server and the market surrounding it have evolved. So, too, have the strategies of the companies making the software. Java 2, Enterprise Edition version 1.4 is the latest step in the evolution of the application server, and vendors have been scrambling to get this version of the popular programming platform […]

Purchasing software maker Ariba will pony up $493 million in cash and stock for supply management services firm FreeMarkets . The deal gives the merged company a more complete offering to woo enterprise customers who want to automate some of their purchasing. Ariba and FreeMarkets logged approximately $52 million and $37 million, respectively, during the […]

Content management portal and collaboration software provider Vignette got the first quarter of 2004 off to a fast start Thursday, announcing that it will buy Tower Technology for $125 million. The purchase fills an important gap in the Austin, Texas, company’s portfolio by adding a records and document management software. Vignette needs a more robust […]

Officials at the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) moved quickly to dispel the e-voting gloom created by a group of computer scientists who find the Internet too vulnerable to attack, publishing a report earlier this week recommending an immediate halt to Internet voting. The Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE) was established by […]

News of a $27 billion bid to acquire AT&T Wireless by Cingular Wireless reached a fevered pitch Wednesday, though officials everywhere are mum on the subject. Peter Rowe, a spokesperson at the No. 3 wireless carrier, wouldn’t comment on a Dow Jones report that claims AT&T Wireless has gone so far as setting up a […]

Hutchison Whampoa subsidiary 3 Hong Kong plans to launch 3G wireless phone service in Hong Kong Tuesday. Originally planned for a June rollout, officials mulled a December 2003 launch of the Wideband – Code Division Multiple Access phone service, which delivers advanced wireless phone services including video-conferencing, movies and video news feeds, before announcing the […]

Customer relationship management software provider Siebel Systems announced Tuesday its decision to acquire hosted telephony provider Ineto Services for approximately $5 million. Officials expect the deal to close by the end of the month. The deal fills a void in Siebel’s CRM On Demand enterprise software offering. Currently, new CRM customers need to migrate their […]

Beating Sun Microsystems to the punch, German-based Innoopract released an Eclipse plug-in to its popular World Wide Web Windowing Toolkit (W4T) Monday. In beta testing the past seven months, the application lets Java programmers on the open-source tool integration platform create Web applications entirely in one interface. A free trial version with limited functionality is […]