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.
Cisco Systems has finally made its long expected move into the burgeoning storage area network (SAN) market with the recent announcement of a definitive agreement to acquire privately held data storage equipment maker Andiamo Systems Inc.
DataWatch is betting that small- to medium-sized businesses are ready to tackle XML projects. --Aug.30
Swingtide Inc. is developing applications to deal with problems such as 'XML service creep.'
Curl Corp. offers a 'client/Web' solution that focuses on speeding up client-side processing.
As part of its new focus on developers, Tivoli has started opening up its APIs to developers.
Last week, Fujitsu unveiled Linux implementations of its mainstay COBOL products.
Sagent Technology Inc., Mountain View, Calif., last week brought out a set of adaptive project mart tools dubbed Enterprise Information Integration (EII).
Formed in June for the express purpose of marketing Pretty Good Privacy -- the public-key encryption software better known as PGP -- PGP Corp. completed its acquisition of the PGP Desktop and Wireless encryption product lines from Network Associates in July.
Embarcadero Technologies upgrades DT/Studio; targets companies looking for advanced ETL functionality at a lower price point and with less complexity than more established products.
Crystal Decisions Inc. this week reached
out to the Java developer community with the unveiling of a new version of its
reporting software.
The Eclipse consortium moved this week to expand on earlier IBM efforts with the creation of the Eclipse Technology Project, an open-source project that supports research, education and engineering initiatives undertaken to integrate multiple computing technologies using the so-called Eclipse Platform.
Many organizations yearning to get their feet wet with custom analytic applications are running into problems caused by a lack of necessary Java
and JavaScript resources. That problem led analytics software company Alphablox Corp. to take a do-it-yourself (or, more accurately, a "let-them-do-it-themselves") approach with the latest version of its Alphablox development platform, which works with multiple vendors' application servers to create J2EE-based analytic
applications.
XML, SOAP, UDDI and WSDL are not generally associated with fun and games, but a Los Angeles-based company named YaYa has developed an
application that combines play and Web services with serious CRM results.