Apple now offers the company's largest laptop screen, its smallest full-featured laptop
and its fastest communications standard.
The bitter rivalry between Microsoft Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. appears to be back in full force after several Apple moves disclosed by CEO Steve Jobs during last week's MacWorld conference in San Francisco.
Following up on the November announcement that it was taking over the PKI Forum, OASIS announced this week that it has formed a new technical committee to "advance adoption of the Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI) for Web services and other applications."
Developer's Corner, http://dev.systinet.com/, a new online community for users of Web services tools from Systinet Corp., launched this week.
A group of Gartner Inc. analysts begin 2003 with a list of eight resolutions that can help IT personnel of all ranks keep their careers on track.
Telecommunications equipment maker Lucent Technologies rang in the new year with a big win, consummating a $100 million deal with US Cellular to deploy the wireless carrier's third-generation (3G) infrastructure.
In what was widely seen as an attempt to upstage an expected Microsoft software unveiling, Apple Computer last week launched the commercial version of its much anticipated multi-device synchronization software, iSync, ahead of its scheduled introduction days later at the Macworld trade show.
To show that not all Web services deployments are
back-office integration efforts, Microsoft is touting a .NET application bringing together FAA and related information to provide business travelers with real-time flight data.
A roundup of current industry news.
You don't need a crystal ball to find what the killer application for Web services will be in 2003, maintains John McGuire, co-founder and senior vice president of engineering at Cape Clear Software, a Dublin, Ireland-based Web
services tool maker, because it's under every IT manager's nose: The simplification of application integration inside the firewall.
Linux is coming to a camcorder near you -- and a TV, VCR and a ''smart'' microwave oven -- that is, if a new agreement between Sony Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. to adapt the open-source operating system for consumer electronics bears fruit.
Monitoring the performance of distributed systems remains one of the great challenges for IT managers today -- one that has only intensified with the advent of Web services.
According to a new report by analysts at the Boston-based Aberdeen Group, worldwide spending on IT products and services will increase 4.0% in 2003, with U.S. spending projected to increase 3.6%.
Maintaining that ''the lack of adequate monitoring and management tools has
delayed the promise of Web services,'' Confluent Software Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., has announced plans to release ''Interceptor'' technology for Microsoft .NET.
IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP have joined forces to create a new Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) technical committee to work on XML standards aimed at speeding up lingual translation of Web content in global business applications.
Enterprise software maker Sybase moved to strengthen its position at the
front of the line in the burgeoning mobile/wireless middleware market last week
by signing a definitive agreement to acquire AvantGo. The all-cash deal, reportedly valued at approximately $38 million, is expected to close by the end of Q1/2003.
Three software companies -- OpenLink Software, Winfessor and Tipic -- recently weighed in with their support for Mono, an open-source implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
Sun Microsystems said last week that it will
begin shipping an evaluation version of BEA WebLogic Server 7.0 with its Solaris 9 Operating Environment System Administrator's Kit, beginning January 3, as an alternative to its own Sun Open Net Environment (SunONE) application server.
A federal judge said he is prepared to grant Sun Microsystems’ request for an injunction requiring Microsoft Corp. to distribute Sun’s Java plug-in as part of its Windows XP operating system and Internet Explorer Web browser. -Dec.23
Veritas Software Corp., Mountain View, Calif., is buying Precise Software Solutions, Westwood, Mass., in a planned stock and cash transaction valued at $537 million.