Jim Wagner

UPDATED: Comair airlines was scrambling to contain the fallout from a cancellation of over 1,000 flights on Christmas Day after its computer systems for reservations crashed, saying it expects to be running at 60 percent by Monday evening. Officials of the Cincinatti-based subsidiary of Delta Air Lines blamed severe weather in the middle state regions […]

UPDATED: Sprint and Nextel have agreed to merge, to better compete with Cingular and Verizon Wireless for voice and data customers. The new company, Sprint Nextel, will serve more than 40 million wireless subscribers. Shareholders from Sprint and Nextel will each have a 50 percent stake in the combined company, with each common share of […]

Rich Schinnell is a dedicated PC enthusiast. If his Maryland license plate featuring the letters “IBM PC” doesn’t convince you, the fact he beat out 27 other people in the Build-Your-Own-PC Race for Charity competition at Comdex 1998 by assembling a PC in less than seven minutes should seal the deal. Schinnell is one of […]

The latest Symantec numbers appear to provide fresh hope for e-mail account holders weary of messages about Viagara and mortgage refinancing loans — a leveling of spam. Symantec officials said spam volume held steady at 66 percent between August and October this year. However, Symantec expects the amount of unwanted e-mails is going to increase […]

Symantec’s remote management tool is getting its first major facelift in more than a year, with added platform support and a new security scheme. Symantec’s pcAnywhere 11.5, due the first part of December, lets administrators manage servers or end users’ workstations without having to be physically present. With the pcAnywhere running as a host on […]

UPDATED: The Department of Justice (DoJ), FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office handed down a 10-count indictment against former Computer Associates (CA) chairman and CEO Sanjay Kumar and Stephen Richards, former CA head of worldwide sales. Both were charged with securities fraud conspiracy, obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Kumar was additionally charged with […]

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 […]