Healthcare providers and insurance companies won't be the only ones facing challenges brought on by our aging population. Software developers are increasingly called upon to provide applications and systems that take into account age-related disabilities and other physical limitations.
Twenty-seven leading manufacturers of wireless LAN equipment this week announced an industry coalition to push the acceptance of a new, faster Wi-Fi standard.
Big Blue this week plans to contribute software development blueprints to the Eclipse Foundation to help developers make fewer coding mistakes.
Oracle and Zend Technologies began working together in May to develop a PHP 5.0 distribution integrated with the Oracle database client library.
Nokia's announcement that it joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer and Board member should come as no surprise to anyone watching either the software development tools market or the embedded systems space, says Nasser Iravani, director of the developer support network, Forum Nokia.
IBM recently introduced a Java library for developers to create collaborative, mitigation and multi-device applications.
Just in case you weren’t paying attention: webMethods released on Monday the results of a survey that reveals SOAs and Web services are catching on with global 2000 companies.
Pacific Edge Software recently introduced new IT governance software that allows companies to develop products for project portfolio management.
Have you noticed how lately, when the conversation turns to distributed computing, grid and cluster are used as synonyms? These two words do have different meanings, Donald Becker reminds us.
Compuware said on Monday it will introduce a new version of Compuware DevPartner Studio that will integrate with Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 IDE.
Forum Systems recently introduced its Unified Policy Management application, which creates, manages, deploys and governs service-oriented architecture security policies and Web services.
The popular open-source Java business rules engine known as Drools will soon become part of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System, says Pierre Fricke, JBoss's director of product management.
Oracle yesterday released PeopleSoft Enterprise Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) 8.9 and PeopleSoft Enterprise Supply Chain Management (SCM) 8.9.
Quest Software yesterday introduced software aimed at helping IT teams monitor their production app environments for better problem resolution, performance management and availability management.
Google and Sun Microsystems joined forces to promote and distribute each other's technologies, the two companies disclosed this week
Mozilla, the Firefox Web browser creator, launched this week its public beta of the Mozilla Developer Center (MDC), aimed at providing developers resources for building Web sites and Web applications for all Web browsers.
Altova this week introduced a Semantic Web development tool that enables developers to graphically create and edit in Resource Description Framework and Web Ontology Language.
A lack of quality tools is stifling wireless developers, according to a new study released by Evans Data.
Oracle recently introduced new software that it says will help organizations integrate and interact with information extracted from enterprise business applications and pull it into service-oriented architecture-based enterprise portals.
The next-gen SQL Server is Microsoft’s most feature-rich database offering to date, boasting almost completely retooled business intelligence innards, including a revamped ETL capability (the new SQL Server Integration Services, or SSIS), enhanced OLAP and data mining capabilities, and a version 2.0 release of Microsoft Reporting Services.