Jim Wagner

The California State Assembly passed an amendment to its vehicle code, which went into effect Thursday, making it illegal to run most video displays in the front seats of automobiles. The bill is an elaboration of a standing law forbidding television displays, and extends to include devices like laptops, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and video […]

Today’s corporations are using their existing application and integration servers to automate business processes, says a new report by research firm IDC, rather than buying into classic middleware or end-to-end software suites. A survey of more than 750 IT managers in North America shows 17 percent of them are sticking with their standalone application server […]

Officials at Bellevue, Wash.-based VoteHere, Inc., announced Monday evening they have found the intruder who was able to gain access to its corporate network in October. Jim Adler, VoteHere president and chief executive officer, said his team has been working with agents from the FBI and Secret Service for the past two months to discover […]

Executives at Toshiba’s fledgling PC & Network Company are facing a tough sell for the division. The company was spun off internally earlier this week and is making its public debut Jan. 1 and is looking to recapture its magic in PC sales around the world. At one time, Toshiba outpaced Dell in PC shipments. […]

Microsoft agreed Wednesday to pay Imagexpo $60 million to settle a case involving disputed technology used in the Redmond, Wash., giant’s NetMeeting product. Imagexpo is a subsidiary of SPX Corp., an electronics manufacturer based in Charlotte, N.C. NetMeeting is an application that let remote users communicate via text, voice or video, and includes collaboration tools […]

Analysis Microsoft’s recent decision to pursue a royalty-bearing licensing strategy, which includes its internally developed FAT Allocation Table (FAT) file system , is stirring up new theories in the technology world. Where many industry watchers applauded the move by the world’s largest software company to open up its intellectual property, others saw it as a […]

Making good on its promise to focus on suites of Web services and enterprise management packages such as its Unicenter line, Computer Associates has sold off its business application subsidiary for $110 million in cash. The 90 percent ownership of CA’s subsidiary, ACCPAC International, passes to The Sage Group, the United Kingdom-based parent company of […]

Next year is going to see a metamorphosis in computer architecture, as companies throughout the world switch from 32-bit to 64-bit processing, according to a report by investment research firm American Technology Research. Although the two largest chipset manufacturers plan to roll out 64-bit enabled processors in 2004 — Advanced Micro Device’s Opteron and Intel’s […]

The SCO Group isn’t letting the holidays slow down its copyright payment quest with users of Linux, as well as its pursuit of what it claims are copyright infringements with parts of the open source operating system. The company has distributed a new round of notices to licensees of its Unix V operating system and […]

Officials at application server software play BEA Systems and Tokyo-based network hardware maker Oki Electric Industry Co. are forging a new alliance that is mixing BEA’s enterprise application software with Oki’s communications software. With the integration of their products, both companies are looking for more traction in the market for supplying voice over IP products […]

NTT DoCoMo officials are testing a new service that lets its users pay via an embedded integrated circuit in selected Sony N504iC and SO504iC models of wireless handsets. The two companies will create a company, FeliCa Networks, Inc., in January, 2004, in order to cement the arrangement between telecom and manufacturer that is necessary to […]

Officials at Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (NTT) DoCoMo said they are investing 37 billion Yen (U.S. $342.7 million) over the next two years for the development of Linux and Symbian operating system technology on its next-generation wireless phones. The news comes as the telecom giant is making a big push in the Japanese market for […]