Jim Wagner

Scott Richter, one-time spam king and now legitimate e-mail marketer, has reached an out-of-court settlement with Microsoft, officials said Tuesday. Richter agreed to pay Microsoft $7 million of the $18.8 million in damages it sought nearly two years ago. The settlement still needs court approval before it can be finalized. Microsoft plans to reinvest $5 […]

It seems that since Apple decided to move its processors away from IBM’s PowerPC and onto Intel, other companies might be looking for a way to get in themselves. Michael Dell, Dell founder and chairman, told Fortune magazine Thursday he wouldn’t mind adding Apple’s OS to its software product list, which includes a couple flavors […]

An industrial espionage ring currently under investigation in Israel is the largest case seen to date, said one security expert Tuesday, and likely to repeat itself in the future. Police in Tel Aviv are currently investigating 18 individuals in Israel and London involved in a scheme to grab sensitive corporate information from competitors and use […]

Microsoft is developing a thin-client version of the Windows XP platform targeting large organizations and businesses, analysts note. Code-named Eiger, the software will allow businesses to run Windows applications on a bare-bones PC with the bulk of the business logic performed at the server. According to Steve Bink at blog site Bink.nu, the client will […]

IBM is making a bid on professional open source with the acquisition of privately-held Gluecode, officials announced Tuesday. Financial and operational details of the merger were not announced at press time. Gluecode’s operations will be assimilated into IBM’s software group and expand the company’s WebSphere application integration middleware product line. Officials plan to offer customers […]

Site survey tool vendor Wireless Valley is launching a tool later this year to find out the true effectiveness of wireless deployments, officials said Wednesday. The RF Manager will be tied to the Austin, Texas-based company’s software suite to provide real-time information on RF (define) activity on the wireless network, evaluate bandwidth usage and report […]

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Executives at the popular CRM vendor Siebel are trying to shake the speculation surrounding their company’s fate after announcing their second new CEO in a year. Last week the board of directors at the San Mateo, Calif., software company decided to jettison its CEO, J. Michael Lawrie, less than a year after he first took […]

You see them everywhere. You might even be one: mobile warriors with a BlackBerry, pager and cell phone arranged in matching holsters around their waists. They’re the folks racing through the airport while negotiating deals over their cell phones, and zipping through the crowds on the way to a connecting flight. They’re also the ones […]

UPDATED: Microsoft’s next operating system, code-named Longhorn, will feature a new personal data repository, according to a news report Monday. The service, called Info-cards, would reside on the user’s PC and aggregate personal information like names, credit card numbers and mailing addresses, and will allow people to use them when they shop or conduct business […]