Chip designer ARM has unveiled a new version of its Java acceleration technology designed to reduce application memory footprint and increase the speed and overall performance for mobile handsets running Java applications.
The RFID revolution may have a price: network data overload. As radio frequency identification technologies proliferate, the torrent of information generated by the world's burgeoning bevy of RFID tags threatens to clog the corporate net.
It's time for the software industry to recognize that code quality is in a critical state, says Nigel Cheshire, CEO of Enerjy Software. It is, he says, the most underestimated problem facing the industry.
Trilibis Mobile recently introduced SmartPath Mobile Publishing, an app dev platform the company says will enable developers to create an app once that will work on every mobile, application platform, handset and network.
Quest Software has introduced a new version of its JProbe Suite, a performance toolkit for Java code tuning. The new version is intended to help developers and QA teams diagnose and resolve complex memory and performance problems to find and fix problems faster in their J2EE and J2SE applications, the company says.
Sun Microsystems is expected to use its annual JavaOne developer conference, under way this week in San Francisco, as a launch pad for new initiatives aimed at Java jocks.
Sun Microsystems is set to make a number of announcements at the company's annual
JavaOne developer conference this week at San Francisco's Moscone Center.
With a four-person development team spread around the world, the IT department of global medical charity organization Mercy Ships (www.mercyships.org) turned to Borland’s JBuilder 2005 and Together 2005 products to modernize its IT architecture and to take advantage of Web services and open-source systems.
Compared with some companies, auto parts supplier Behr America's Dayton, OH, facility isn't exactly crowded with PCs. But with 450-plus desktop clients distributed in five buildings across the 1.1 million-square-foot plant, a sneakernet approach to software management and maintenance just isn't an option.
Trend Micro is delivering an upgraded version of its InterScan Web Security Suite that the company says will stave off viruses and other Internet threats that continually target enterprises.
Vendors are making significant announcements this week in San Francisco at
the annual JavaOne conference, which marks the 10th anniversary of Java.
WebMed Technology, a healthcare technology consultancy, practices what it preaches. The company provides services such as Web site development and custom application development to hospitals, physicians, pharmaceutical companies and other healthcare organizations across Canada.
Companies aren’t making decisions on a whim anymore. Instead, they’re banking on reliable, honest and timely information to organize their enterprise data and enhance analytics capabilities, according to recent survey by Knightsbridge Solutions.
IBM’s plan to combine technologies from its recent acquisition of Ascential Software with its existing information integration portfolio moved forward with the company’s announcement of the beta release of two new products: IBM Rational Data Architect and IBM WebSphere Information Analyzer.
Oracle is set to ship the latest version of its Database 10g software. Oracle 10g Release 2 is a high-quality, robust maintenance release for the company’s installed base, says Andy Mendelsohn, Oracle’s SVP of data server technologies. But, he adds, “we did include a small number of new features that we felt were critical to get out to market, fast.”
The good thing about Web services is that they expose interfaces, streamline connections
and accelerate business processes. The bad thing about Web services is that they
expose interfaces, streamline connections and accelerate business processes.
Microsoft plans to extend its Office Communicator 2005 instant-messaging client to the Web, the company disclosed, with a server-side component dubbed Office Communicator Web Access.
eBay is giving the members of its developer programs access to the source code for various eBay and PayPal tools and sample applications. The code is being released today on the newly launched eBay Community Codebase Web site, which the company created to serve as an online forum for open-source developer collaboration.
Developers are justifiably eager for the forthcoming Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 specification (due with J2EE 5.0), says Pierre Fricke. EJB 3.0 overhauls the Enterprise JavaBean architecture that drives business logic and persistence for J2EE applications, simplifying the programming model to significantly improve developer productivity.
Magic Software is preparing a new version of its eDeveloper app environment for release on Aug. 1, with added features such as capabilities for XML handling in applications, support for Unicode and functions for date-time support.