In his opening keynote at last week's Intel Developer Forum, Intel president Paul Otellini told a packed auditorium at the San Jose Convention Center that his company plans to continue boosting chip performance and adding features despite the downturn in PC sales.
Corel Corp. previewed its forthcoming Tablet PC application, Corel Grafigo, at the annual Seybold San Francisco conference last week.
XML database maker Ipedo continues its move into the realm of data integration with its recently released Ipedo XML Views product.
Amazon.com has moved to extend its Tibco Rendezvouse messaging software into the Java world by using Java framework and driver technology from SpiritSoft.
Miscellaneous news from the software industry.
The votes are in and the ebXML Messaging Service Specification 2.0 (ebMS 2.0) has won the approval of OASIS members to become the non-profit consortium's newest e-business standard.
The 64-bit Itanium microprocessor from Intel Corp. has received another boost with Compuware's unveiling of the DevPartner 64 debugging and automated error-detection toolset for Windows XP-based systems running on Itanium-based hardware.
Neon and Software AG have entered into a marketing agreement that may help to speed data access performance for Adabas, as well as other mainframe data and transaction sources.
Cape Clear Software wants to speed Web services development by offering corporate users a real graphical editor without charge.
Don Box says a continued emphasis on "plumbing" -- or building out middle-tier infrastructures -- is not good for the careers of developers.
The move by computer suppliers to the Grid computing model moved along today with news that Hewlett-Packard Co. has signed a systems integration agreement with grid pioneer Avaki Corp., Cambridge, Mass.
Issues surrounding Digital Rights Management (DRM) and piracy protection take center stage this week at the annual Seybold conference.
Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sensory Inc. recently announced that it has ported its Fluent Speech embedded speech engine to the Texas Instruments platform.
The latest version of Borland's popular Delphi Studio toolset is poised to play a major role in the next phase of Microsoft Windows-oriented application development.
As support for the Bluetooth wireless specification slowly expands in the
U.S., Gartner Inc. warns that in three years, Bluetooth-based technology will cost businesses and consumers worldwide an additional $5.6 billion annually due to increased support and usage costs.
Observers predict that UDDI will likely move forward now that the standard
has its own technical committee at OASIS.
In a research paper on Web services testing, Jason Bloomberg, an analyst with Boston-based ZapThink, concluded that Web services testing has a long way to go to achieve quality assurance.
DataWatch is betting that small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and departmental groups are finally ready to tackle XML projects -- and are looking for an affordable, tactical solution with a clear ROI.
Toshiba's Computer Systems Group and iPass Inc., joined forces to integrate hot spots based on Toshiba's technology into the iPass Global Broadband Roaming (GBR) service.
Trusting your development team to do their jobs, speaking the same language as your team and backing up your team are key attributes for managing software development efforts, according to a panel discussion at the XML and Web Services One Conference held last week in Boston.