Application Development Trends' News


The ROI of online customer service

Delray Beach, Fla.-based Levenger, a catalog company and retailer of high-end library and reading merchandise, deployed a Web application management solution as part of a recent re-launch of its storefront.

New security spec for wireless LAN

An industry trade group has taken the wraps off a new 802.11 wireless network security specification based on the Wi-FI Protected Access standard.

IBM chief sets 'e-business on demand' strategy

What do you get when you cross 'e-business' with 'computing-on-demand?' If you're IBM chief Sam Palmisano, you get a far-reaching enterprise computing strategy dubbed 'e-business on demand' -- and an opportunity to take your predecessor's vision to the next level and make it your own.

Update: Court agrees with most parts of Microsoft settlement

A U.S. District Court ruled largely in favor of Microsoft in its long-running antitrust case. --Nov. 1

Tool eases move to Liberty 1.0

Phaos Technology Corp. has released a Java-based toolkit for implementing Liberty 1.0.

Intel moves to spread WiFi

Intel Corp. has disclosed plans to invest $150 million over the next two or three years in start-up companies developing 802.11 wireless LAN technologies.

IBM moves to extend Web services

IBM's Allegro Framework, currently in beta, will provide mechanisms, including metering and billing, so businesses can sell and subscribe to Web services.

Borland lands TogetherSoft for $185 million

Borland Software is continuing its software tool buying spree. The company has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Java design and analysis tool maker TogetherSoft for about $185 million in cash and stock.

Tool aims to manage IP traffice

Seattle-based F5 Networks, a six-year-old maker of devices that manage Internet traffic, has unveiled a solution that officials say can apply the benefits delivered by Web-only traffic management products, such as high availability, scalability and increased performance, to any IP-based application.

Tool integrates portals and BPM

Portal software maker Corechange, Boston, this week unveiled a process management add-on that company officials said can enable business users to leverage Web services and other technologies to assemble and manage automated business processes.

Sun joins WS-I, plans to seek board seat

Sun discloses that it will not only join the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I)organization, but plans to run for election to the organization's newly expanded board.

Siebel leaps on .NET bandwagon

Siebel and Microsoft disclose details of a wide-ranging strategic alliance during Siebel's user conference.

Web services pioneer takes long view of 'UDDI in the sky'

The vision of public UDDI registries where enterprises could search for direct connections to far-flung Web services is little more than a futuristic dream, says Rajiv Gupta, but that does not mean UDDI is dormant.

War on information overload spawns growth

According to research from Delphi Group, the value proposition of information-retrieval technology has expanded dramatically from traditional search technology, and market growth over the next few years is predicted to reflect that.

In Brief: Distributed denial of service attack and more

Attack detected on 13 root DNS servers, SuSE Linux and TurboLinux in strategic alliance, and more.

Data Junction, NeoCore target 'XML on-ramps and off-ramps'

NeoCore Inc., Colorado Springs, Colo., and Data Junction Corp., Austin, Texas, this week disclosed plans to combine NeoCore's XML Information Management Systems (XMS) database with Data Junction's ETL capabilities.

XML busy under the hood of new Adobe servers

XML technology continues to contribute to advances in corporate computing. One of the latest examples comes from Adobe, which has just unleashed a new set of servers.

Intel, AMD in war of words

Intel and Advanced Micro Devices strut their stuff at the Micro Processor Forum trade show.

Intel, Microsoft season speech with SALT

Intel and Microsoft are jointly developing technologies and a reference design based on the Speech Applications Language Tags (SALT) 1.0 specification submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in August.

Make the most of XSL-FO; lively up those Web services!

XSL-FO, which provides a framework for the useful formatting of semantics for paginating information for better browser navigation and print support, can be a Web services creator's best friend, says Ken Holman.