Jim Wagner

While our grandparents and parents had to deal with world wars fought on land, sea and air, future generations are going to have to worry about the threat of attack on a new level: cyberspace. A study released Tuesday by Gartner Research predicts voice over IP and other converging network technologies make the possibility of […]

China had 79.5 million Web surfers at the end of 2003, a report by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) out of Beijing stated Thursday. The number catapults the country ahead of fellow Asia-Pacific region country Japan, which has 56 million Internet users but below first-ranked U.S., which has 165.75 million Internet users, according […]

Officials at Hewlett-Packard Wednesday announced a five-year, $1 billion investment to its manufacturing operations in Singapore that is attracting some heavy criticism. The move, according to the computer and printer maker, is to provide more production capabilities to meet the growing demand from Asia-Pacific countries for high-end servers and printers, according to news reports. HP […]

Software migration specialist Altiris said today it will convert 10,000 workstations at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to Microsoft Windows XP. Financial terms were not disclosed. Under the deal, the Salt Lake City-based company will also provide inventory assessment and patch management for the entire agency. With Altiris’ automated migration suite — which […]

Officials at the Middleware Company, owners of popular Java developer forum TheServerSide.com, announced Tuesday the launch of a sister site catering to Microsoft’s .NET programming environment. Like the premise of its J2EE developer site, officials are pitching TheServerSide.net as an independent community free of corporate oversight dedicated to delivering news, forums and information on the […]

SCO officials are planning to hand over specific Linux code they contend was released to the open source community by IBM , allegedly in violation of SCO’s copyright. Blake Stowell, SCO spokesperson, confirmed the move, telling internetnews.com he expects the evidence will be enough to convince the judge overseeing the contract dispute between SCO and […]

After nearly 50 years in the business, Equant officials Thursday created a dedicated services division it says caters to the communications needs of multinational corporations (MNCs). At the same time, the international communications provider — fashioned through the merger of Equant and Global One, a subsidiary of France Telecom, in 2000 — said it would […]

Supporters of Linux cried foul this week when Microsoft rolled out research reports that it commissioned from research firms IDC, Giga Research and the META Group that questioned total cost of ownership (TCO) of the open source operating system. In the process, analysts involved with the reports are finding themselves under fire over them, including […]

IBM is giving developers a glimpse of the latest code in its next application server version, WebSphere 6, more than two years since the release of its current application server and development platform, WebSphere 5. Big Blue officials claim that WebSphere 6 will be the first major vendor-released software suite to be Java 2 Enterprise […]

Sun Microsystems put its Java Tools Community (JTC) in motion Tuesday as an answer to its rejection of the Eclipse Project, the company announced Tuesday. But instead of the Java-buster many within the open-source community feared would happen as a result, core members of the new organization say they are going to work closely with […]

The telecom sector contracted some Tuesday, after officials from Cogent Communications and FiberNet Telecom Group announced separate acquisitions. The Washington, D.C.-based Cogent, for the first time, enters the European market, buying up LambdaNet Spain and France. The two carriers are former subsidiaries of Firstmark Communications, a European carrier with operations throughout the continent, which restructured […]

PeopleSoft officials Monday announced the general availability of Enterprise Financial Management (EFM) 8.8, featuring a host of time-saving improvements. The enhancements are designed to drum up interest in software that helps enterprises fulfill federal financial reporting guidelines established by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA). Research indicates that while companies seem to realize the importance of reporting […]