Poet Software and other vendors have launched an interactive Web community for educating users about Java Data Objects.
BEA has a new version of its popular WebLogic application server. Enhancements include a new security framework. -Mar. 21, 2002
Expenditures for XML implementation in financial services may reach $8.5 billion by 2005, driven by the need for so-called Straight Through Processing. -Mar. 21, 2002
Putnam Investments has signed an agreement to install data navigation and analytics technology from Endeca Technologies Inc. -Mar. 21, 2002
"Election night" could be prolonged as the blockbuster HP-Compaq merger is put to shareholders. It looks like a close one. -Mar. 20, 2002
A new market has been created by the convergence of biological
sciences and IT, and it is referred to as "bio-IT." -Mar. 19, 2002
In the next five years, Web services will democratize enterprise application integration, predicts Annrai O'Toole, CEO at Cape Clear Software. -Mar. 15, 2002
Precise Software Solutions has acquired from EMC Corp. the exclusive rights to sell and support the Luminate Analysis Suite for SAP R/3. -Mar. 13, 2002
An addition to Pacific Edge's set of project portfolio management software provides bi-directional XML-based connectivity between Pacific Edge's Project Office and Microsoft Project 2000. - Mar. 14, 2002
Nascent applications that identify people via fingerprints, facial contours, DNA, iris scans, voices, or other characteristics are popping up. -March 12, 2002
Sun Microsystems has filed suit against Microsoft Corp. for what Sun described as anticompetitive acts. -March 9, 2002
In a practical implementation of XML and SOAP, San Jose, Calif.-based Cadence Design Systems uses the standards to provide real-time updates to its employee directory. -Mar. 7, 2002
Will tomorrow's software developers go Hollywood? They will if Web software pioneer Jeremy Allaire is right about the growing value of Macromedia's Flash plug-in. -Mar. 6, 2002
As more work is done with Web services, some developers say they are encountering "limitations" in the technology. -Mar. 7, 2002
Question for Web services champions: Once the world is overrun with the technology, who's going to keep track of Web services to let them be used efficiently? -Mar. 7, 2002
Loudcloud Inc., the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based hosting management services provider, last week signed an agreement to acquire smaller MSP rival Frontera Corp., Los Angeles. -Mar. 5, 2002
Richard A. Clarke, White House Special Advisor for Cyber Security,
plugged his proposal for the creation of Govnet, a private network
exclusively for sensitive government computers at the annual RSA
Security Conference held last week in San Jose, Calif. -Feb 27, 2002
U.S. cyber security czar Richard A. Clarke kicked off the eleventh
annual RSA Security Conference last week with a warning that future
terrorists may exploit glaring weaknesses in this country's computer
systems. -- Feb. 27, 2002
Struggling Corel Corp. unveiled a new brand name and a new strategy at
last week's Seybold Seminars conference in New York. XML and content management are part of the plan. --Feb. 27, 2002
Collaborative software maker TeamShare has just
released TeamTrack 5.5, which the company sees as a defect-tracking
solution that can expand beyond the developer team to meet the needs
of business managers.