Jim Wagner

As expected, the board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Friday passed the reform program pitched by its president several months ago. The blueprint was passed with no amendments, despite complaints from advocates over the make-up of the new board of directors — business and government representatives but no […]

Board directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) took feedback from attendees at its Bucharest, Romania, meeting Thursday on the eve of an important vote officials hope will reform a “failed” organization. The topic of ICANN reform was one of several issues up for comment at a press conference held Thursday […]

The voice browser working group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) gave its seal of approval Wednesday for further consideration and testing of a voice XML standard. While the standard is still considered a “work in progress,” voice XML 2.0 has been considered stable and a candidate recommendation for approval as an accepted standard […]

Officials at Agere Systems introduced Wednesday an integrated circuit platform, cutting down development time for new communications equipment by six months. In today’s world — where computers seem to be obsolete a few months after rollout and new wireless phones (with the cool new feature you’ve been dying to use) come out two weeks after […]

As much as $1.4 billion in Qwest Communications fiber sales are under the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) microscope as part of an accounting probe begun in February. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Qwest’s outside lawyer, Jonathan Schiller, called the accounting practices “reasonable” and hoped the SEC saw it that way, […]

The U.S. government is due for a “major” cyberattack within the next 12 months and is unprepared to counter the threat, according to report released Tuesday evening by the Business Software Alliance (BSA). This time, it isn’t the relatively uninformed opinion of the general public indicating worry over the security of government information, as a […]

Officials at the Big 3 of Internet portals — America Online (AOL) , the Microsoft Network (MSN) and Yahoo! — announced Tuesday that 93 percent of their Web sites are now labeled to prevent children from accessing adult and questionable material, but the real effectiveness of the program remains to be seen. According to the […]

Novell , a Web services developer to corporations around the world, won a key battle against a group of Georgia-based software pirates, officials announced Tuesday, resulting in $3 million in fines. The case highlights the seemingly slow wheels of justice in the American legal process, which take months (if not years) to determine intellectual property […]

AAA, the household name for roadside assistance and travel in the U.S., penned a three-year, $138 million deal Monday with AT&T , putting local voice services back in the hands of Ma Bell and potentially out of the hands of Baby Bells. Ma Bell had been a key contractor throughout AAA’s 100 years of service, […]

The latest iteration of Microsoft’s popular streaming media engine, Windows Media, is getting ready for prime time later this year and the software giant’s marketing arm is ramping up its own efforts before its worldwide release. The third-generation product, dubbed “Corona,” has been the subject of much talk and gained early vendor support from several […]

Several industry groups, looking to consolidate the efforts in creating a single source for mobile Web service applications, announced their intention Wednesday to form a single entity — the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA). OMA is an extension of the open mobile architecture initiative supported by many in the mobile industry today, pooling resources from groups […]

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) President Stuart Lynn spoke to a Senate subcommittee Wednesday afternoon, defending his organization’s right to secret meetings and reiterating the importance of dictating policy. The Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space heard testimony from a broad range of witnesses Wednesday to address concerns the Commerce Department […]