SYS-CON Media News Desk

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... (more)

SYS-CON Events announces that, due to popular demand, more 'AJAXWorld University Bootcamps' 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 Hotel in midtown Manhattan. Han... (more)

Sixty finalists for the 16th Annual Flashforward Film Festival have been announced. 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 Flashforward200... (more)

In an effort to raise awareness to the benefits of integrating search engine marketing services into your overall digital marketing strategy, digital-telepathy, Inc. joined SEMPO, Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization. SEMPO is a non-profit professional association w... (more)

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. Aside from seeing whether people push Microsoft off... (more)

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. The money follows on a $4 million A round almost three years ago, when the ... (more)

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... (more)

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... (more)

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 ... (more)

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, drive... (more)

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 Chr... (more)

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 Mar... (more)

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. SavaJe Technologies h... (more)

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. ... (more)

Macromedia and Limelight Networks have announced the immediate availability of Limelight MediaEdge Streaming for Macromedia Flash. The service enables scalable Flash media streaming on the advanced Limelight content delivery network and leverages the new Macromedia Flash Media Se... (more)

Ray Ozzie was in the news in our most recent podcast, and now, he’s back. Tod Nielsen was appointed new CEO of Borland. Suse Linux SUSE Linux Co-Founder and Kernel Team Member Hubert Mantel is leaving Novell. Former New York Giants linebacker Gary Reasons, now with Oklahoma C... (more)

MySQL Ceo Martin Mickos defends company strategy, discusses upcoming 5.0 release. Novell is reportedly laying off 20% of its workforce. OpenOffice 2.0 is now available. JadeLiquid WebRenderer Server beta is now available. SYS-CON is producing panels focused on SOA and Open Source... (more)

Top stories: Bill Gates proclaims a golden age of software to college students. Macromedia opens MAX 2005 in Anaheim, California. The first of several reports from a recent SYS-CON trip to India is now posted. Dion Hinchcliffe writes about the potential demise of cyberspace. ... (more)

Web Services will take over the world. This is the opinion of sys-con publishing director Jeremy Geelan, who writes in hits latest column that recent pronouncements from Sun COO Jonathan Schwartz and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates say it will be so. A contrasting view to Jeremy G... (more)

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 has been released and is now available for download. David Ferrucci, from IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center, believes that a new open-source called UIMA, or you-ee-ma, offers advantages to developers and users alike in a wide variety of industries. Servi... (more)