Jim Wagner

While not a win as large as previous announcements, Corel certainly scored Monday with a deal that puts its WordPerfect Productivity Pack on Gateway computers. The software alternate to the Microsoft-dominated application world is increasingly winning over PC manufacturers to put its Corel product line on machines instead of Microsoft Office applications. Corel has already […]

Microsoft officials announced Tuesday the first phase of their Web services suite for the e-business, dubbed project Jupiter, scheduled for release late next year. Jupiter, according to one Microsoft official, was created to address the problems created by legacy and proprietary e-business applications found throughout the enterprise, which the official called “overly complex.” Instead, business […]

CHICAGO — Wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) attending WISPCON here Monday found vendors offering equipment that goes beyond straight connectivity. Fixed wireless, the technology delivering Internet over the airwaves in the license-free Federal Communications Commission (FCC) spectrum — primarily 900 MHz and 2.4 and 5.8 GHz — has enjoyed widespread popularity the past few years […]

IBM has found a way to put yesterday’s transactional software onto today’s Web services platform, announcing Tuesday several WebSphere tools for IT managers and developers. What’s more, Big Blue officials say the changes can be implemented in hours, not days or weeks, thanks to applications that use setup wizards — instead of programming changes within […]

IBM will release new software in its Web services suite of applications early next year to address the problem of data security, officials announced Wednesday. The Tivoli Access Manager is scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2003, in what officials said would “provide integrity and confidentiality in Web services applications.” Tivoli’s upcoming version […]

A report released yesterday by the Dell’Oro Group show sales of high-end routers and switches, the equipment used to manage and move data traffic on national and international networks, has taken a plunge in recent months. It proves what everyone in the telecommunications industry already knows but was too afraid to ask — carriers are […]

Corporate America is spending more on IT equipment and services for the first time since late 2000, indicating an end to the recession that has cast a shadow over the entire tech landscape, according to a new report. The report, released by the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) Wednesday, doesn’t give the whole picture in […]

Flat revenue growth is the best Nortel Networks Corp. officials expect in the second quarter of 2002, prompting the Internet equipment maker to make cuts in one its least-productive divisions. Nortel took the proactive step of cutting 3,500 jobs in its optical long-haul division and recording a $600 million charge in the second quarter, rather […]

Programmers, network and database administrators and IT executives of all levels have faced a difficult labor market following the dot-com bust and new scrutiny over capital expenditures and might have better job prospects north of the U.S. border, according to two studies released Monday. Due to a dearth of demand for IT workers, the high-tech […]

Software vendors are firing the opening salvo in what is sure to be the next round of battles between Sun Microsystems and Microsoft Corp. by announcing support for Sun’s Web services framework over the airwaves. Sun, developer of the Java 2 platform enterprise edition (J2EE), is expected to announce a series of standards Monday morning […]

Belatedly convinced he’s not just another hacker, Battle Creek, Mich., officials are withdrawing an injunction and dropping charges against ORBZ blacklist owner Ian Gulliver, city officials announced Thursday evening. The news comes roughly 30 hours after he shut down the controversial service to avoid handing documents over to the Michigan district court, sparking widespread outrage […]

To filter or not to filter, that is the question now that one of the Internet’s more popular blacklists, ORBZ, is out of commission. One of three projects created in the wake of one of the first blacklists, ORBS (a blacklist broken up after a court case in New Zealand), the ORBZ demise has reopened […]