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Lightstreamer announced today that G.X. Clarke & Co., a New Jersey-based Institutional Dealer in U.S. Government, Federal Agency and Mortgage-Backed Securities, has implemented web based real-time streaming prices with Lightstreamer. This Streaming-Ajax (or 'Comet') solution from Light...
SYS-CON Events has announced that, due to popular demand, more 'AJAXWorld University Bootcamps' (http://ajaxbootcamp.sys-con.com) will be taking place on two new dates in 2007. The next two dates are January 22, 2007 and March 19, 2007 - both in New York City, at the historic Roosevelt...
Austin has announced the selection of sixty finalists for the 16th Annual Flashforward Film Festival. Chosen from designers, animators, directors and artists in 15 categories, final awards will be announced at the festival, which takes place in Austin, TX on September 13 during the Fla...
digital-telepathy, Inc., a San Diego digital marketing agency has joined SEMPO, Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization, to contribute to the awareness of search engine marketing best practices and to highlight the benefits of integrating search into your overall digital mar...
Novell's next-generation SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 platform started shipping on Monday. It includes both a desktop (SLED) and a server (SLES). Poor beaten-up Novell badly needs it to repair its reputation and improve its numbers.
Availigent, the Linux application virtualization start-up, has gotten a $12.2 million B round from Intel Capital, which led, as well as existing backers Diamondhead Ventures and Smart Technology Ventures.
DETROIT--April 11, 2006--Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) today introduced the new version of its QACenter Enterprise Edition functional testing solution, Compuware TestPartner 5.4. This new release offers a tight functional testing integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tea...
SYS-CON Media announced today the viewer statistics for SYS-CON.TV as 531,610 streams for the month of December up from 485,388 viewers in November 2005. Introduced 12 months ago, SYS-CON.TV has been one of the pioneers of Internet TV together with Amazon's Short Videos, another Flash ...
Will Google be subverting Microsoft's market dominance? This is the question of the hour within the entire technology industry, large parts of which are gathered in Las Vegas for the annual Consumer Electronics Show. Larry Page is expected to make an announcement of a $200 PC that may ...
Happy New Year to all of SYS-CON's readers! The start of the year marks the 15th birthday of the Worldwide Web, and the key people and companies associated it show no signs of slowing down. The Web has re-created a culture of loosely coupled, highly performing applications, driven by a...
Linux creator Linus Torvalds issued a Christmas Eve exhortation to members of the Linux kernel mailing list (www.lkml.org) to help him test Linux 2.6.15-rc7. Revealing classic geek-think in assuming that most mailing list members were going to be 'bored out of their minds' on Christmas...
It's time for the Top 10 predictions of 2006. SYS-CON Publishing Director Jeremy Geelan spoke with several industry leaders to get their fearless predictions for the new year. Meanwhile, SYS-CON' Real-World AJAX Seminar is set to be held at the Marriott Marquis in New York on March 13.
SYS-CON Events has announced the first 'iTVcon Internet TV Conference & Expo, to be held in New York. Calls for papers, delegate registration, and information about sponsorship and exhibit opportunities can be found at the conference website, www.itvcon.com.
The industry's leading SOA web services companies debated technical merits and strategic philosophies during an hour-long webcast hosted by SYS-CON Publishing Director Jeremy Geelan and popular JDJ contributor Yakov Fain.
Macromedia and Limelight Networks have announced the immediate availability of Limelight MediaEdge Streaming for Macromedia Flash.
SYS-CON publishing director Jeremy Geelan analyzes the recent 'leaked' memos by Microsoft's Ray Ozzie and Bill Gates.
MySQL CEO Marten Mickos defended his company's SCO agreement and touted the company's upcoming MySQL 5.0 in an exclusive interview.
Bill Gates has proclaimed a golden age of software, Macromedia has opened its MAX 2005 event, SYS-CON travels to India, and Dion Hinchcliffe questions the future of cyberspace.
SYS-CON columnists Jeremy Geelan and Derek Ferguson offer a contrasting view of web services. A blogger's handbook is released.
The latest Firefox browser from Mozilla addresses previous flaws. Google has publicly responded to a copyright infringement lawsuit. SOA is in the news again. IBM's David Ferrucci talks about UIMA.
Microsoft announced a major re-org as it strives to compete with Google and Yahoo in a renewed Internet Age. Oracle held its annual event, and the Eclipse Foundation announced that Nokia is one of its new board members.
Major announcements from Oracle, IBM, eBay, Sybase, salesforce.com, and an intriguing preview by Bill Gates have all made for a big week in the technology industry.
Katrina help is continuing, including a pair of new websites devoted to missing/safe person information. Apple and Motorola make big news with announcement of the Razr phone. Nexaweb names a new CEO, and Microsoft's Steve Ballmer talks about midsize companies.
Numerous technology companies are donating money and provide goods and services in an effort to provide relief to the hundreds of thousands of victism of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.
Demonstrating the role that Internet technologies can play in disaster relief and recovery, the Santa Barbara, CA-based National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue (NIUSR) has launched a web site aimed at facilitating the location of victims of Hurricane Katrina. The web site presen...
An IBM-sponsored study shows Linux with a lower TCO than Solaris or Windows for J2EE environments. JBoss is sponsoring a portlet contest for developers. IBM has completed its DWL acquisition. Yakov Fain is talking about open source on SYS.CON.TV and at www.sys-con.com
Earthlink disputes that Microsoft'Phishing Filter is first of a kind. PodSpider delivers access to podcasts. OnDemand Webservices delivers easy web services. Java and .NET vulnerabilities explored.
Sun COO Jonathan Schwartz says DRM standards must be built 'by the community, for the community.' New Parasoft software simulates a variety of hacker attacks.
'There it is,' wrote Linus Torvalds in announcing Linux 2.6.13. He added that changes people might want to make won't have to wait too long, as he plans to shorten the timeframe between releases of the open-source operating system.
Macromedia is holding seminars throughout the world in conjunction with its rollout of Studio 8. Apple will be buying G4 chips until the end of 2008, a year beyond its initial announcement of a transition to Intel. DataDirect has a new XML tutorial. Who are the Top 10 search companies?
Microsoft's Virtual Server 2005 Service Pack 1 is now called Virtual Server 2005 R2, due to significant enhancements that take it beyond the scope of a normal service pack. VitalStream will support newly launched Macromedia Flash 8 Player. Two universities have received funding for sea...
Microsoft is attempting to contact the OSDL for the purpose of conducting a joint analysis of Windows vs. Linux. Sybase and BMC extended a strategic agreement at this year's TechWave in Las Vegas.
Intel will concentrate on developing more energy-efficient microprocessors, according to company CEO Paul Otellini. Baidu feels the effects of overvaluation. Kapow customers benefit from BEA/Plumtree merger.
BEA has acquired Plumtree Systems for $200 million. SYS-CON Media will hold its second annual 'Application Server Shootout' pay-per-view event in October. Is EnterpriseDB Oracle?s biggest nightmare?
TechWave opens in Las Vegas. Wily 6 Announced. Torvalds defends Ozzie action. Eclipse Offers CDT.
Novell plans to sell 250,000 units of Linux into Argentina this year. Google remains the leader in search, although its competitors are closing the gap. SOA is moving past pilot projects and into the enterprise IT mainstream.
Apple has re-released a security patch for Tiger OS X. Symbian shipments tripled in the most recent quarter. Linux tries to enforce its trademark in Australia. IBM and JBoss show new commitments to open source.
Google will issue 14 million new public shares. The company will tough to remove from its leadership position, according to a SYS-CON.TV interview with John Dvorak. Also interviewed on SYS-CON.TV is Aduva CEO Zev Laderman, who talks about the company's product porting to IBM.
The Zotob virus is easy to fix, but is propagating rapidly throughout major media companies and other corporations. Meanwhile, technology journalist John Dvorak discusses open source and its potential in a wide-ranging interview on SYS-CON.TV
Bruce Perens says 'we have to fix the law' when it comes to the method of granting patents, during a wide-ranging interview with SYS-CON.TV. Other top stories include Google's Geico gambit, the rise (and fall) of C#, and a recent software validation between IBM and SOA Software.