Articles by i-Technology News Desk

Microsoft-Yahoo! - First Reactions Reverberate Around the Blogosphere

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:15:00 EST

'One of the most important (if not the most important) news for 2008, and we are just in February,' remarked Nelson Cienfuegos of the In Digital Marketing blog. He and nearly 60,000 others bloggers have been vigorously chewing over the ins and outs of Microsoft's $44.6BN mega-bid to acquire Yahoo! Inc.

Microsoft Bids $44.6BN for Yahoo!

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:30:00 EST

'The combination of these two great teams would enable us to jointly deliver a broad range of new experiences to our customers that neither of us would have achieved on our own,' said Ray Ozzie, chief software architect at Microsoft, as the Redmond giant announced today that it has proposed to the Yahoo! Inc. Board of Directors to acquire all the outstanding shares of Yahoo! common stock for per share consideration of $31 representing a total equity value of approximately $44.6 billion.

i-Technology Milestone: The Domain Name System (DNS) Turns 25 This Week

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:00:00 EST

When the Domain Name System (DNS) was created 25 years ago, eight years before the introduction of the World Wide Web, a few hundred machines were connected to the Internet. Today more than 130 million are connected, and this number is expected to grow substantially as the majority of the world's population goes online. Without a simplified naming scheme like DNS today's Internet would not exist.

Wanted: Six Volunteers To Help Coordinate the Internet's Unique Identifiers

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:15:00 EST

'ICANN's work coordinating the Internet's addressing system is at the foundation of the Internet and its future - and we are always looking for people who want to make a contribution,' said Hagen Hultzsch, Chair of the Nominating Committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as he announced today that ICANN is looking for 6 volunteers to help it with the global task of coordinating the Internet's unique identifiers.

C#, Turbo Pascal, C++, PHP...and the LEGO Brick: Denmark's Leading Exports

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:45:00 EST

Google's main page today celebrates the 50th anniversary of the iconic LEGO brick. Today?s LEGO bricks still fit bricks from 1958, but more importantly it is one of Denmark's best-known exports, along with programming language creators Anders Hejlsberg, Bjarne Stroustrup, and Rasmus Lerdorf, who between them created C#, Turbo Pascal, C++, and PHP.

Where's i-Technology Headed in 2008

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 09:00:00 EST

2007 was undoubtedly the year of Social Networking, but what of 2008? Will '08 be the year of 'Unified Communications' or the year when CMS comes to stand for 'Community Management System' - or even 'Collaboration Management System'? Or will it be the year of the giga-merger, to beat the mere mega-mergers of 2007?

Is BEA the Next Big Acquisition Target?

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:00:00 EDT

BEA, Cognos, and Informatica have all been named yesterday by a Credit Suisse analyst Jason Maynard as possible acquisition targets in the wake of the SAP acquisition of Business Objects. In a note released to Credit Suisse clients yesterday, Maynard reportedly said: 'The SAP/Microsoft partnership seems to have fallen apart as the two companies appear to be on a competitive collision course.'

Sybase IQ Powers Largest Green Data Warehouse Including Unstructured Data

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:00:00 EDT

Sybase, Inc., has announced, in conjunction with Sun Microsystems and BMMSoft, that Sybase IQ powers the world's largest data warehouse implemented in history, as noted in the independently audited report. The benchmarks were achieved in large part due to the compression capability of Sybase IQ, a highly optimized analytics server not only for compression but also for query performance and lightning speed load performance.

"SOA Enables Business Flexibility," Says IBM VP Sandy Carter

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:00:00 EDT

'SOA is an increasingly important business requirement for organizations because of the business flexibility it enables,' said Sandy Carter, Vice President of IBM SOA and WebSphere, as MSC.Software this week announced its acceptance to the IBM SOA Specialty after successfully completing IBM's rigorous SOA technical and business requirements.

Web Age Solutions to Present at SOA World Conference & Expo

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:00:00 EDT

Kyle Gabhart, SOA Lead with Web Age Solutions, will be presenting 'Service Oriented Patterns and Anti-patterns' at the 11th International SOAWorld 2007 Conference & Expo in New York City, June 25-27, 2007.

TIBCO's Matt Quinn To Give SOA World Conference Session On Service Virtualization

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:45:00 EDT

Matt Quinn , SVP of product strategy for TIBCO Software, contends that many companies with large SOA deployments face two major challenges: how to promote service reuse and how to manage the complexity of a heterogeneous, distributed SOA that includes Java, .NET, and various legacy and packaged applications deployed across the enterprise.

Estonia Becomes E-stonia As Internet Voting Takes Off in Post-Soviet Republic

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:15:00 EST

In Estonia, where since 2002 an electronic identification card has been mandatory for all citizens above the age from 15, the success of e-voting in local government council elections last year has spurred the authorities to extend the scheme to the country's upcoming national election.

Industry Legend Mitchell Kertzman's 2005 Prediction On Virtualization Comes True

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:15:00 EST

At the end of 2005, 30,000+ SYS-CON.com readers enjoyed the benefits of industry legend Mitchell Kertzman's prescience about virtualization. Already back then, Kertzman - now at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners but still famous for having been the founder and CEO of Powersoft, which merged with Sybase in February 1995 - was clear how central a role virtualization was about to start playing in the IT landscape.

froglogic Launches v 3.1 of Squish, Its Cross-Platform Automated UI Testing Tool

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:00:00 EST

Hamburg, Germany-based froglogic, the company behind Squish, the professional automated cross-platform automated UI testing tool for GUI applications based on Qt, Tk or XView and for HTML-based web applications running in different web browsers, announced this morning that Squish version 3.1 is now out.

"SOA Web Services Edge" and "Enterprise Open Source" Conference Call for Papers Now Open

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:30:00 EST

SOA Web Services Edge East 2006 Conference & Expo and Enterprise Open Source 2006 Conference & Expo, both to be held May 23-25, 2006, announce that their Call for Papers is now open. Topics include all development and management aspects of Web services and Service-Oriented Architecture plus all development and management aspects of Open Source technology.

JotSpot Founders Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer Sell To Google

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 02:00:00 EST

JotSpot says it will no longer bill customers for the privilege of using the wiki service it previously charged $5-$200 a month to host. Whether JotSpot users will have to use Google IDs like Writely is unclear.

Grandma's Knitting Circle Enters Cyberspace – Taking Clubs and Associations to the Web

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 07:00:00 EST

If the idea of a crafting or collectors club makes you think of dusty community centers and corny newsletters, you're stuck in the wrong century. Today, even small clubs can look professional, run smoothly, and grow membership at the click of a mouse.

Apple Is Claiming It Owns the Word "Podcast"

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:00:00 EDT

On Friday, Wired's Listening Post blog reported that Apple has hit Houston-based Podcast Ready with a cease-and-desist letter claiming that the terms 'Podcast Ready' and 'myPodder' infringe Apple's trademarks. Podcast Ready produces software that makes it easy to find and download podcasts to assorted devices, from different computers.

HP Admits to "Pretexting," Non-Executive Chairman Patricia Dunn Falls on Her Sword

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:30:00 EDT

In a series of whipsaw revelations over the last 10 days - on which more ink seems to have been spent than Enron got - it has come to light that HP's non-executive chairman Patricia Dunn, who is supposed to be one of the most powerful women in America and was instrumental in removing HP CEO Carly Fiorina, set in train a search for a boardroom leak that involved getting the home and cell phone records of the HP board, nine journalists and two unidentified HP employees to see who was leaking to the press.

Forget Web 2.0, Says Berners-Lee: "Web 1.0 Was Already All About Connecting People"

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 04:00:00 EDT

'Web 1.0 was all about connecting people,' Sir Tim Berners-Lee says, in a podcast currently available on the IBM developerworks site. 'It was an interactive space, and I think Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it means. If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along.'

SYS-CON Media Names Carmen Gonzalez President and Chief Operating Officer

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:30:00 EDT

SYS-CON Media announced today that Carmen Gonzalez has been named President and Chief Operating Officer of the company effective immediately. Gonzalez, as the first employee of SYS-CON Media, started the company's marketing and sales organization in 1994, and has managed the sales department for more than 12 years, most recently in the capacity of Senior Vice President of Marketing & Sales.

AMD Cracks Another Intel Icon

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:30:00 EDT

AMD Tuesday cracked Lenovo's previously Intel-only enterprise-directed ThinkCenter PCs, but the sacred ThinkPad notebook that Lenovo inherited from IBM, responsible for 52% of Lenovo's sales in Q2, is still off-limits to the interloper - at least for the time being. Lenovo is putting AMD's single- and dual core Athlon chips and its low-end Sempron processor in a ThinkCenter A60 desktop or mini-tower. It comes pre-loaded with the ThinkVantage productivity and self-recovery technologies that IBM Global Service has started using to manage non-Lenovo boxes under a new deal the pair just signed. AMD needs corporate business.

AJAX Update: AjaxAnywhere – Initial Release of v1.0

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:30:00 EDT

The AjaxAnywhere project has made available its intial release - version 1.0. According to company sources, 'AjaxAnywhere turns any set of existing JSP components into AJAX-aware components without a complex JavaScript coding. Simply separate your web page into multiple zones, and use AjaxAnywhere to refresh only those zones that needs to be updated.'

Web 2.0 In The News: Social-Network Sites Are Leading a New Tech Boom, Reports Newsweek

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:45:00 EST

In the upcoming edition of Newsweek, dated April 3, the cover story features fledgling companies MySpace.com and Flickr and describes them as 'leading a charge of innovators making hay out of the Internet's ability to empower citizens and enrich those who help with the empowerment.' The story examines how user-generated Web sites are rocking the Internet and leading the next tech boom.

i-Technology News: Consequences of ICANN Board's .com Decision Are 'Far-Reaching and Permanent'

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 01:45:00 EST

19 leading Internet companies have joined to ask the Board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to reconsider a decision that they say would deprive the .com domain registry of future competition, to the harm of all Internet users.

Bye Bye Microsoft FrontPage, Hello AJAX-Based "Google Page Creator"

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:30:00 EST

Google is breathing down Microsoft's neck again. It has beta-launched Google Page Creator, which it describes as 'a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes.' Bye bye Microsoft FrontPage!

Is CMP's Dr. Dobb's Journal Pirating SYS-CON Media's Internet TV Content?

Sun, 19 Feb 2006 08:45:00 EST

Thanks to the all-pervasiveness of Google News's searchbots, it has been discovered that CMP Media is making available - for free - on its website content that it did not originate. It is being branded by CMP as belonging to something itcalls the 'Dr Dobbs Journal Research Center' - only problem is, it is an original Webcast devised, filmed, edited,and deployed not by Dr Dobbs or CMP but by SYS-CON Media. Or, to be precise, by the company's Internet TV arm, SYS-CON.TV (www.sys-con.tv).

Sybase Bases New Offerings On Quest Software Technology

Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:00:00 EST

'Our relationship with Quest Software underscores our commitment to providing ASE customers with the best database management and optimization solutions available,' said Kathleen Schaub, VP of product marketing, Sybase Information Technology Solutions Group, as Sybase and Quest Software today announced the general availability of the Sybase SQL Expert Option and the Sybase Database Expert Option for Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.0.

RIA Update: Nexaweb and Hitachi Partner On Deploying Rich Internet Apps

Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:45:00 EST

Nexaweb has been seeing rapid RIA adoption in Japan, particularly in the financial industry, and so has entered into a strategic alliance with Hitachi Systems and Services, Ltd. (Hitachi Systems), one of the largest providers of systems integration services in Japan.

As IBM Jumps On Board, There's Just No Stopping AJAX Now

Thu, 02 Feb 2006 06:15:00 EST

'We've seen the Web moving from a publishing paradigm to an e-business paradigm to an AJAX paradigm.' That is the considered verdict of IBM Software Group's CTO of Emerging Internet Technologies, David Boloker. And he's right: AJAX is here, it's growing, and it's (potentially) the biggest thing to hit the i-Technology world since Java.

"Web 2.0 Integration" Pioneer Kapow Achieves 865% Revenue Growth Over a 5-year Period

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 05:15:00 EST

'We are pleased to be among the top 100 fastest growing technology companies in the EMEA region,' said Glenn Hasen, CEO of Kapow Technologies, as the company whose Kapow Web Integration Platform is making waves through the information and application integration market was today announced as having placed 92nd in the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu's (DTT) Technology Fast 500 Europe 2005.

AJAX Tipped To Play Major Role in the Shape of i-Technology to Come

Sun, 22 Jan 2006 05:30:00 EST

AJAX, LAMP, Virtualization, SaaS, Open Source, SANs, Web 2.0, Blog consolidation, InfoSec, BitTorrent, Googlecrash, Adobe, IE7, SOA, REST, Single Sign-On, SemWeb, iComm, Structured Blogging, VPMNs, VoIP Phones, Semantic Technologies, Ruby on Rails, spam/phishing, VoIP, and WiFi: welcome to SYS-CON Media's roundup of i-Technology predictions.

NetBeans IDE 5.0 Release Candidate Download Becomes Available

Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:45:00 EST

A so-called 'release candidate' for version 5.0 of the NetBeans IDE 5.0 has just been released. It requires a J2SE JDK, version 1.4.2 or higher.

Will Security Be the Microsoft vs Linux Battleground for 2006?

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 04:30:00 EST

'If you look at Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, the average patch time is under a day. With the recent critical WMF (Windows Meta File) vulnerability, it took Microsoft seven days.' This, claims a consulting software engineer for Red Hat, is the key to interpreting the raw data published last week by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT).

AJAX Support Added To Opera Browser

Sat, 07 Jan 2006 18:15:00 EST

Opera CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner has confirmed that Opera Software has added support for AJAX to both the Opera browser and SDK (software development kit).

iPod and iMac Designer Recognized: H.M. The Queen Honors Jonathan Ive, Apple

Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:45:00 EST

The senior vice president of Design at Apple, Jonathan Ive, has been awarded a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in the UK's so-called 'New Year's Honors' list. The award recognizes Ive's international achievement in the field of industrial design, having led the team responsible for the design of groundbreaking products such as the iMac, iBook, Powerbook and iPod at Apple.

Portable Linux 80G Desktop Drive GlobeTrotter 2.0 Introduced

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 18:30:00 EST

Mandriva and LaCie will introduce a mobile USB hard drive named the 'GlobeTrotter 2.0.' The GlobeTrotter comes in 40 or 80GB and is pre-loaded with a specially tuned version of the award-winning Mandriva Linux operating system. Combined with the power and unique design of LaCie hardware, it allows users to turn any computer into their personal Linux desktop. Following the introduction of first-generation GlobeTrotter by Mandriva last year in Europe, LaCie received a significant response and will now offer this second-generation GlobeTrotter through its own worldwide dealer network. GlobeTrotter is perfect for those with serious capacity and power needs. Unlike CD-R's and USB keys that only store data, or laptops that are heavy and expensive, the GlobeTrotter offers a complete work environment in one cost-effective, lightweight package. Simply plug the GlobeTrotter into the USB port of a host PC and turn it on. The hardware on the host computer is automatically detected but is not modified in any way. After work is finished, the GlobeTrotter can be unplugged and taken to a different workstation with up to 80GB of user's data including applications and personal settings. Features include: - Linux-bootable 40-80GB USB hard drive designed by LaCie - Automatic hardware detection and storage of profiles - Pre-loaded Mandriva Linux specific edition with OpenOffice.org and much more - Free membership to Mandriva Club and Mandriva Online for a month For computers that don't support booting from a USB, a bootable Mini CD may be used instead.

HostMySite.com Wins Second Consecutive Award of Excellence in Hosting

Sun, 04 Dec 2005 03:00:00 EST

For the second consecutive year, HostMySite.com has been selected to receive the prestigious Marvin S. Gilman Award of Excellence for outstanding customer service.

Apple's Video iPod Plays SYS-CON.TV's i-Technology Programming

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 02:30:00 EST

The first SYS-CON.TV program that can now be downloaded free of charge and viewed on the iPod is Roger Strukhoff's 'India's i-Technology Triangle' show. Strukhoff recently visited India's i-technology cities and reported on the India's software business and its explosive growth in the recent years. Strukhoff also interviewed the CEOs of number software companies in India.

Firefox v1.5 Formally Released

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:45:00 EST

The much-awaited Firefox 1.5 will be available for free on Tuesday afternoon PST, at www.getfirefox.com and www.mozilla.com, says the Mozilla Foundation. About 20 locales are going to be released simultaneously.