EMC announced its newest distributed document capture solution that offers dramatic advances in Web-based distributed capture?EMC Captiva eInput 2.0. Key to streamlining paper-based transactional processes, eInput 2.0 makes the scanning and indexing of paper docum...

The recent popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo are costing UK corporations close to £6.5 billion annually in lost productivity, according to a poll conducted by Information security consultancy - Global Secure Systems (GSS) and...

Incansoft announced the release of its latest web application, WEB 2.0 Video Gadgets. Based on the YouTube Developer API and built in PHP and AJAX, Video Gadgets is designed to allow web site owners to seamlessly integrate targeted video from youtube.com for enhan...

The Web needs fixing. The standards and recommendations that define the Web were last revised in 1999. Since then, the Web has grown from a document retrieval system into an application delivery system. We have made significant progress since then, due to the cl...

Wedding retail specialist Truly Wedding has changed the way retailers engage customers by launching two new websites that harness the latest web 2.0 technology and marketing techniques. The websites are exceptionally user friendly, plug-in to the popularity of soc...

Nexaweb Technologies, Inc. announced it has been selected for the annual Editors' Choice Award from CMP's Intelligent Enterprise. The 2008 award was bestowed upon a list of 48 companies that provide exceptional vision, technology innovation and customer leadership...

Google's new-year special logo, which went live briefly as 2008 began, celebrated the 25th anniversary of TCP/IP - adopted by Arpanet on January 1st, 1983. While 'invisible' to most users, many of the layers built on top of TCP/IP are well-known even to laymen: HT...

IBM today announced it has acquired XIV, a privately held storage technology company based in Tel Aviv, Israel. XIV, its technologies and employees, will become part of the IBM System Storage business unit of the IBM Systems and Technology Group. Financial terms o...

Nimsoft, Inc. unveiled the NimBUS Enterprise Console '2.0,' a powerful online portal. It incorporates the next generation of intuitive dashboards built using Rich Internet Application technology that delivers dynamic views to help users track the health of their technology environment.

Phurnace Software, Inc. announced the general availability of its newest version, Phurnace Deliver 3.1. The latest software version provides IT operations staff with the resources they need to decrease deployment times and associated costs for faster, more cohesiv...

Tvtrip.com, the new, travel site where travelers get to check-out their hotel on video before they book it, announced today two major steps in its expansion. The site now offers 4 key destinations in the US (New York, San Franscisco, Chicago and Miami) and plans o...

Day Software has expanded its presence in the social media and open source markets with the acquisition of the founders and key innovators of Mindquarry, an open source collaborative software platform provider. Alexander Klimetschek, Alexander Saar and Lars Trie...

Sybase, Inc. announced Sybase WorkSpace 2.0, an integrated design and development environment combining enterprise modeling, database development, data federation, Web application development and services development and orchestration in an Eclipse, open-source ...

'This is a fantastic release that's absolutely stuffed with great new features, loads of fixes, and an incredible amount of polish,' gushed David Heinemeier Hansson on Friday as he announced the release, after a year's hard work by the Rails development team, of R...

In a partnership with Yahoo! and Research In Motion, the Canadian company behind the BlackBerry, JetBlue is equipping one of its Airbus A320s with a special version of WiFi that's compliant with the FCC ban on in-flight cellular communications. The result is that ...

ShoppingVale today announced the launch of its Web 2.0 Shopping Comparison Engine shoppingvale.com. Launched as a private beta in October 2007, ShoppingVale provides shoppers unbiased, unfiltered and immediate access to a variety of leading and emerging online retailers.

Extentech Inc. launched ExtenXLS 6.0 - the next version of the popular Java Spreadsheet SDK with the ability to automate functions in a spreadsheet application with an advanced Web2.0 API. In addition to spreadsheet handling available in Java, developers can now t...

JanRain announced support for OpenID 2.0. The latest version of OpenID assures its position as the dominant standard for next-generation digital identity. With new features that improve security and usability of OpenID, the user-centric single sign-on and online u...

MX Logic, Inc. released cyber threat and managed services predictions that will impact small, medium and large businesses in 2008. 'In 2007, cyber criminals have firmly established their intentions to focus on Web 2.0 applications. This trend, coupled with the inc...

ArgentVive plc announced that its Retail8 Consumer Division has entered into a development agreement with Redberry Digital Ltd. The venture will advance the Company's newly launched search tool BookRabbit, into a new book buying and social network hybrid that will...

Alfresco Software, Inc. announced an open source Social Computing Platform for the enterprise. The release integrates Alfresco's popular ECM software with leading Web 2.0 tools and services such as Facebook, iGoogle, Adobe Flex, MediaWiki, TypePad and WordPress.

Alfresco Software, Inc. announced the launch of Alfresco Enterprise Google Gadgets for ECM, which lets business users manage, create and edit enterprise content with traditional enterprise control from within their iGoogle homepage, and combine internal and extern...

A Bangalore start-up named InstaColl, co-founded, chaired and underwritten by Sabeer Bhatia, who did HotMail, which Microsoft bought in 1997 for a reported $400 million, has launched into the Office business sorta like Google, Zoho, Adobe et al with some hybrid on...

'We are pleased that Estonia and Estonian entrepreneurs - through Enterprise Estonia - have chosen San Jose as their West Coast landing pad to establish strong relationships with other top global technology companies here in the Silicon Valley,' said San Jose Mayo...

We believe this is a great opportunity,' said Andrew Paulson, CEO of international media company SUP, as it was announced today that Six Apart - which acquired LiveJournal in January 2005 from its founder, Brad Fitzpatrick - has sold LJ to Moscow-based SUP. SUP ha...

Internet Evolution (http: //www.internetevolution.c om/) announced that it has added a completely original Web interface designed to help users browse the plethora of opinion stored in its ThinkerNet blogosphere. Called 'The Wisdom of Clouds,' the graphical user int...

Jack Martin today announced Collaborative Democracy, which is a political framework where electors and the elected actively collaborate to attain the best possible solution to any situation using collaborative enabling technologies to facilitate wide scale citizen...

WaveMaker announced its new WaveMaker Visual Assembly StudioTM and Rapid Deployment Framework for Enterprise Web 2.0 applications. WaveMaker enables the visual assembly of scalable Web applications using AJAX widgets, Web services and databases. Using WaveMaker, F...

'The GigaSpaces XAP software allows programmers to build an application in a way that as demand grows, it can easily be met with zero architecture or code changes. You just throw in another box into your infrastructure and it scales linearly,' said Geva Perry, chi...

A new FSBO website has been designed to streamline browsing experience to help potential home buyers and sellers with their process. Fizber.com Web 2.0 services include Drive Score, Bike Score, Street View, Climate Watch, Fizber Video, integrated Google Maps, City Profiles and Blogs.

Online Media Solutions,Ltd. announced an agreement with Lookery, LLC. The two companies will supply services and applications that enable international advertisers to target US-based publishers operating in the world of social networks, by monetizing social networ...

The Enterprise Service Bus provides event-driven and standards-based message services that are fundamental to large and complex enterprise infrastructures. Traditionally the ESB has focused on message delivery between different disparate server-side systems. With ...

The rigid deployment architecture hindered the CPs from personalizing their order journeys as well as prevented BT from deploying new or customized services. In this session we will examine how the SOA and Web 2.0 technology-based platform developed in Openreach P...

Nexaweb Technologies has announced its Fall eConference Series created to help IT directors, executives and software developers examine how rich Internet applications (RIAs) enable the agile enterprise and what Forrester dubs the 'Information Workplace.' Technic...

At the end of last year the staff of Google passed the 10,000 mark for the first time; now just eleven months later a new milestone has been passed: Google shares this week hit $700 for the first time - just one month after reaching $600, in fact. It is no coincid...

At its analysts' day the other day, Google remained reluctant to forecast how its Google apps will fare and evaded off the question of whether it could get 5%-7% of the SMB segments saying predictions were 'dangerous.' It claimed it's a function of the penetration...

'There's definitely a lot of betting going on, and it's not rational.' - Book publisher and conference thrower Tim O'Reilly, who coined the phrase Web 2.0, on the Bubble-style amounts of money going into Internet start-ups as quoted in the New York Times where he ...

FatWire Software has acquired Infostoria, a provider of Web 2.0 collaboration and content sharing tools for the enterprise. Infostoria's technology enables single-click wiki creation and blogging, and offers an advanced content integration platform to help organ...

Launched in February 2004, Facebook is now worth $15BN - judging from the fact that Microsoft has reportedly just bought itself a modest 1.6% chunk of the company for a staggering $240M. Mark Zuckerberg, a former member of the Harvard Class of 2006, will not be sh...

In this session we will examine how the SOA and Web 2.0 technology-based platform developed in Openreach Portal by wiring up the existing rigid flows and deploying them for execution, through Web and Web service interfaces in real-time and zero down time, gave the...