Sendmail Inc. and IBM announced Tuesday that they will jointly develop, market and distribute Internet mail routing and hosting software that runs on IBM's Linux-enabled eServer family and software products.
One company registered 43 variations or misspellings of altavista.com
Lotus Development Monday launched its upcoming Web-access messaging client, code-named Shimmer, for public beta testing. The new product will allow users at small and medium-size organizations to gain access to many of Notes' features using a thin client.
Sun Microsystems Tuesday, in conjunction with several partners, announced that it has Java technology ready to ship for wireless devices.
Sun Microsystems, in conjunction with several partners, today announced that it has a new Java-based protocol to bolster content on wireless devices.
Online advertisers promote professional standards
Commerce One Inc. in Pleasanton, Calif., said this week it will use the Progress SonicMQ E-Business Messaging server from Progress Software Corp. in Bedford, Mass., to secure transactions through Commerce One's MarketSite.
Compaq Computer, in trying to clarify its brand names, has eliminated the Prosignia line and added the Deskpro EX, an update of the existing Deskpro EN product.
"Save Napster" manifesto left behind
The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan has unsealed a third complaint in the case of computer crackers from Kazakhstan who allegedly tried to extort US$200,000 from financial and news impresario Michael Bloomberg in exchange for not exploiting security holes in his Web site.
A pair of Kazakh crackers were awaiting extradition to the U.S. today on charges they threatened financial and news impresario Michael Bloomberg with exposing alleged holes in his Web site if he did not provide them "adequate payment."
Suit seeks $US700 million in punitive damages
Toys R Us has been hit with at least two class-action lawsuits charging its Toysrus.com unit with violating the privacy of online shoppers by sharing personal information it collected with a company that analyses the behavior of Web-site visitors -- a practice that became the subject of controversy earlier last week in the US.
The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), a Geneva-based United Nations entity that resolves disputes over the ownership of Internet domain names, has handed down two new decisions in cybersquatting cases -- one in favor of the company that submitted the complaint and one that went in the opposite direction.
Dutch engineers have found a pair of holes in Lotus Notes and Domino password encryption and the security on public versions of the address list.