Chris Preimesberger

IBM said Tuesday it has acquired the assets of iPhrase Systems Inc., a privately held search technology company based in Bedford, Mass., and will integrate its operations into the Information Management Division of the IBM Software Group. Financial details were not disclosed. iPhrase, the 15th software acquisition IBM has made in four years, has developed […]

Researchers at Microsoft have created the prototype for new Wi-Fi software that allows a user on a PC with a single network card to connect to LANs concurrently via “virtual mirrors.” “VirtualWiFi is a virtualization architecture for wireless LAN cards,” lead researcher Ranveer Chandra said. “It abstracts a single WLAN card to appear as multiple […]

Linux system management software vendor Levanta Monday released its MapFS Linux file system management code to the open source community. MapFS, a key component in San Mateo, Calif.-based Levantas Linux management appliance, is a virtual file system that simplifies data sharing between multiple Linux machines connected to a shared storage medium, the company said. MapFS […]

Open Source Risk Management Inc. (OSRM), a New York-based software license compliance analysis vendor, Monday announced the availability of the first risk insurance policy for enterprises who wish to protect themselves from intellectual property lawsuits when they acquire a software company or produce software with open source components. Open Source Compliance Insurance is the first […]

A highly placed source at Novell Inc. has confirmed to Ziff Davis Internet that the company will lay off as much as 20 percent of its work force of 5,800 employees by the end of the year. The announcement is expected to be made sometime this week. On Friday, NewsForge speculated about the layoffs, reporting […]

A new Web browser with a socially conscious streak was released for public tryout Thursday night by a group of 15 young entrepreneurs housed in a garage just off the Stanford University campus in Northern California.Flock, as it is called, is a Mozilla Firefox-based, freely downloadable open-source browser that aims to get users around the […]

OpenOffice.org 2.0, the first office application suite to feature native support for the OASIS-approved OpenDocument file format, was released Thursday morning, one week following the projects fifth anniversary of its founding. The 2.0 final follows three beta versions—the latest released only last Friday. RC2 was released Aug. 31 after a review and repair of about […]

Researchers at Microsoft Corp. have created the prototype for new Wi-Fi software that allows a user on a PC with a single network card to connect to multiple local area networks concurrently via “virtual mirrors.” Wi-Fi—short for wireless fidelity—is meant to be used generically when referring of any type of 802.11 network, whether 802.11b, 802.11g, […]

BURLINGAME, Calif.—Zend Technologies, creator of the open source PHP web development platform, introduced Wednesday a new industry-wide collaboration project to standardize development on the fast-growing platform. The Zend PHP Collaboration Project is an open source initiative through which the PHP community and Zends corporate partners will create an industrial-grade, de facto standard PHP Web application […]

Red Hat Inc. co-founder and former CEO Bob Young, 50, has resigned from the board of directors of the enterprise Linux company he co-founded with Mark Ewing. The resignation was official Oct. 12, but Red Hat chose to release the information Tuesday. Young leaves Red Hat in good shape. The 12-year-old company, based in Raleigh, […]