AT&T Wireless CEO John Zeglis opened his Comdex keynote last week with a mea culpa for his industry's history of "over-promising."
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.
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.
Gates pitches seamless computing - McNealy touts AMD-Sun pact - Siebel gets CRM fever - more ...
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.
Siebel jumped out of hosted CRM. With SalesForce.com looming nearby, Siebel is set to jump back in.
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.
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.
InstallShield Express offers an easy way to build setup packages for applications that don't need all the power of a high-end setup.
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) recently became the latest convert to Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). RFID tags are small, integrated circuits that can hold identification data.
Actional has brought out the general
availability of management tools specifically designed for .NET and Windows.
Sun has agreed to work with the China Standard Software Co. Ltd. to develop desktop computers based on Sun's Linux-based Java Desktop System.
If you're building a product that needs to handle lots of XML documents, TextML Server provides an embeddable component with attractive licensing terms for ISVs.
Sun Microsystems launched a new initiativethat it believes will accelerate the adoption of its Java Card technology for smart cards.
Sun has teamed up with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to develop 64-bit servers based on AMD's Opteron processors.
Borland Software last week released the latest version of Janeva, a tool designed to help developers build applications for the Microsoft .NET Framework that are integrated with software based on J2EE and CORBA.
Logidex offers a software development asset management tool integrated with Visual Studio .NET. If they can continue to improve the metadata for Microsoft content, it could be very useful indeed.
The early glimpses of refactoring in Visual Studio "Whidbey" aren't particularly
encouraging.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates focused his opening keynote at this year's Comdex on "seamless computing," his designation for the next phase in the evolution of information technology in which the interactions among disparate devices will be smoothed and refined -- made "seamless." It's a challenge that Gates sees as a software issue.