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Brunswick bowls for Web services

Brunswick Corp., Vernon Hills, Ill., is probably best known as a maker of bowling and billiards equipment, but according to JT Smith, the firm's director of technology, Brunswick also develops open-source Web services integration products.

North America lags behind Europe, Asia-Pacific in hotspots

It looks like the global market for Wi-Fi equipment and services is going to grow like crabgrass in the next five years. However, when it comes to hotspot propagation, North America's side of the fence probably won't be the greenest.

Snapbridge set to unveil XML data federation tool

Snapbridge Software, an XML technology start-up based in San Diego, is set to unveil a drag-and-drop tool for XML and non-XML data federation at the XML Conference and Exposition in Philadelphia next week.

Report: 150,000 U.S. software jobs lost last year

The U.S. software industry lost 150,000 jobs last year, according to the Cyberstates 2003 report released last week by the American Electronics Association (AeA).

VMWare vs. Virtual PC

Choosing a virtual machine environment is an example of the classic tradeoff between price and features. But Microsoft's loss-leader pricing will give it a leg up for many developers.

XML Firewall -- Without the application coding

The Reactivity 2300 Series XML Firewall is said to take security code out of the layer of application code and out of the hands of developers.

Macromedia boosts rich UIs

Macromedia Inc. has unveiled Macromedia Flex, a presentation server and application framework for developers to use in creating rich, but not fat, Internet applications.

OMG at work on legacy transform spec

The Object Management Group’s (OMG) Legacy Transformation PSIG plans to release a set of standards for transforming legacy software.

The world according to Carly

Carly Fiorina outlines her views on IT's future and HP's role in shaping it.

Rivals IBM, BEA set to reveal Java specs

Tomorrow, longtime rivals IBM and BEA will publish three new jointly developed Java specifications designed to increase application portability across both of their app server offerings.

Review: RoboDemo

RoboDemo offers a flexible system for recording demonstrations as Flash movies (or other formats) from your computer. When you need to convey more than the written word can easily handle, check out RoboDemo.

Monday Morning Amusement

Somehow I don't think Microsoft really meant to post these source code comments to the Web.

AT&T CEO aims to convert wireless cynics

AT&T Wireless CEO John Zeglis opened his Comdex keynote last week with a mea culpa for his industry's history of "over-promising."

Grid software lures Big 3 platform makers

Enterprise information integration software provider Avaki Corp. (http://www.avaki.com), Burlington, Mass., has inked an agreement with Sun Microsystems calling for Sun to offer Avaki's Data Grid software to its customers.

Review: MasterList-XL

A free task-tracking program based on Excel, MasterList-XL is designed to let you see how much time you're spending on the truly important things.

News from Comdex 2003

Gates pitches seamless computing - McNealy touts AMD-Sun pact - Siebel gets CRM fever - more ...

Review: The Regulator

The Regulator is a full-featured regular expression tool for the .NET Framework. It offers innovative features including multiple document editing and connections to an online library of regexes.

ADT at Comdex: Siebel pitches CRM for everyone

Siebel jumped out of hosted CRM. With SalesForce.com looming nearby, Siebel is set to jump back in.

Thoughts on the Office XML Reference Schemas

Microsoft's release of the schemas for Word, Excel, and InfoPath is a great step towards openness, and they should be commended for publishing these schemas. But there still might be some hidden gotchas.

Mood Indigo: A boost to programmer productivity?

Indigo, the Web services subsystem that will be built into Longhorn, the next release of Windows, offers developers several advantages; but the key one is productivity, contends Steven VanRoekel, director of Web services at Microsoft.