Jim Wagner

Microsoft is giving administrators a peek at its new Sender ID license agreement, which is an update to the company’s Caller ID for E-Mail technology proposed in February. Whether the terms are open enough for the open source community to climb on board in support remains unclear. The license is an update to an e-mail […]

Suggestions from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) conference about how to fight spam has an anti-spam expert questioning whether spam can really be wiped out. Matt Cain, META Group’s senior vice president of content and collaboration strategies, said the underlying e-mail framework, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol , makes eradicating spam nearly impossible. “It’s highly unlikely, […]

Bob Bemer, one of the computer industry’s greats, died of cancer on June 22 at his home in Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas. He was 84. Known as the ”Father of ASCII,” Bemer’s contributions to technology are considerable, having spent decades creating, shepherding and developing programming languages still in widespread use today. In addition to devising […]

Officials at MediaLive International, Inc., the company in charge of the once-mighty Comdex trade show, announced it planned to postpone this year’s Las Vegas event and focus on rebuilding it in time for next year. With the economic downturn of the past several years, attendance at the seminal tech trade show had withered. That, coupled […]

IBM’s announcement that it would offer desktop applications server side isn’t a new concept. Sun Microsystems has offered a similar product for three years. Both are trying to chip away at the dominance Microsoft and its desktop Office suite enjoys in the workplace. But analysts say enterprise infrastructure has evolved to a point that enables […]

Beta tests begin next month on Microsoft’s next iteration of enterprise instant messaging (IM) software, Live Communication Server 2005 (LCS 2005), in the hopes the final product will be ready in time for Christmas. “We want customers to be confident in the fact that our business unit at Microsoft is going to be putting out […]

This hasn’t been the best of weeks for enterprise software maker Computer Associates . The company saw the forced resignation of chairman and CEO Sanjay Kumar on the heels of the dismissal of nine employees amid an accounting scandal. After employees from the company’s finance and legal divisions were fired Monday, on Wednesday Kumar was […]

UPDATED: Wall Street reaction to the ouster of Computer Associates former chairman of the board and CEO Sanjay Kumar was mixed as the market closed Wednesday. CA’s new chairman of the board, Lewis Ranieri, announced on Wednesday morning the company’s decision to drop Kumar, who helmed the software giant through one of the biggest financial […]

UPDATE: The SCO Group will file lawsuits against two commercial Linux operating system users Tuesday night and announce their names Wednesday, officials said. Company spokesperson Blake Stowell told internetnews.com the lawsuits had not been filed yet and would not be filed in Utah but would be before the courts closed for the day. At press […]

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., […]

Less than a week after it discovered that parts of its Windows 2000 and NT source code were leaked to the Internet, Microsoft officials are now finding that a kind of grassroots peer review of its code is sprouting among programmers and the merely curious from all points of the globe. The Redmond, Wash., creator […]

The SCO Group took its intellectual property challenge of Linux to Harvard on Monday and received a cold reception from area students opposed to the company’s legal tactics. In a presentation hosted by the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology on Monday, Darl McBride, SCO president and CEO, and Chris Sontag, senior vice president and […]