IBM has announced that the IBM System Storage DS8300 Turbo, introduced on August 22, 2006, is the fastest enterprise class storage system in the industry as measured by the Storage Performance Council's SPC-1 Benchmark, outperforming the previous DS8300 SPC-1 Results by 22 percent.

IBM has announced that Gartner has positioned IBM in the Leaders Quadrant in its November 22, 2006 report, 'Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, 2006.' According to Gartner, 'Leaders' are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction, and ar...

Unica announced the latest version of its web analytics solution, Affinium NetInsight 7.1. Innovative capabilities in Affinium NetInsight 7.1, including real time visual exploration capabilities, will enable online business marketers to optimize web sites and Web ...

At the Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Conference, Kapow Technologies, the provider of mashup solutions for the enterprise, unveiled openkapow, the industry's first software service and developer community designed to accelerate mashup adoption ...

This week at ITU Telecom World 2006, Microsoft is showcasing for the first time its full portfolio of solutions and services developed specifically for the global telecommunications industry. In its exhibit presence and participation in ITU Telecom World, Microsof...

The WildTangent Games Network (WGN), the fastest growing online games network in North America, today announced the release of the first ever 'Web 2.0' video game, BlasterBall 3. In a first for gamers worldwide, WildTangent Studios, the production arm of the WildT...

XandMail, announced it was chosen by Alcatel for the provision and integration of its e-mail software to Alcatel?s Voice Messaging Services (VMS) and Video Mail Box (VMX) platforms. Alcatel selected XandMail?s Web 2.0 Communication and Mobile Communication Solutio...

Sun Microsystems, creator of the open source Solaris OS, announced the launch of The Big Mashup, a unique online experience examining how the world of entertainment and news gathering is rapidly changing as the network blurs the line between audience and entertain...

Reality Digital, dealing in user-generate content (UGC) and video sharing for businesses, has announced partnerships with international technology resellers, Germany's ISC Opcorner AG [www.opcorner.com] and Italy's Bitage [www.bitage.it]. The resellers will add ...

Staff It Now, an innovative job sourcing and job marketing solution, has created an unique artificial intelligence program. This program, when combined with blogging and other Web 2.0 developments, will enable technology-based employers and better qualified cand...

Fotango UK, creator of software solutions for professional developers, has announced the launch of a web application design competition aimed at developers. The Zimki Application Design Competition has been launched to encourage web developers and application desi...

KnowNow, pioneer in enterprise-class Web 2.0 solutions, announced a preferred partnership with Automattic, the creators of the popular WordPress.com blogging service. Together, the two companies will provide a trusted blog communication and authoring platform for ...

Jadu's new range of Web 2.0 products have been designed to enhance the delivery of web-based content and services, help organise information and vastly improve communication. Jadu makes Web 2.0 technology accessible to local authorities to help enable the transformation of services.

Mashups represent a promising new development approach to building composite applications and enabling easier integration of existing applications, utilizing a host of Web 2.0 technologies such as AJAX, Ruby, RSS, ATOM, REST, and SOAP-based web services. openkapo...

HCL Technologies (HCL), a global engineering, R&D and IT services firm, launched FIRST 2.0, a proven methodology and suite of end-to-end engineering services that enables enterprises to compete effectively in the world of Web 2.0. The announcement is in line with ...

Web 2.0 University, offering fast-paced, highly intensive courses taught by renowned Web 2.0 advocate Dion Hinchcliffe and a team of experts will begin accepting registrations immediately, Kate Allen, Hinchcliffe & Company's Chief Operating Officer said.

Kapow Technologies has reported its best sales quarter ever, adding more than 20 new customers and a total of 30 deals in the period ending September 30th. First is the explosion of successful Web 2.0 business models that rely on seamless integration of HTML and t...

IBM has announced a new line-up of next-generation processor systems and blades, high speed connectivity and coprocessor acceleration technology for the IBM System Cluster 1350. With its improved ability to handle a broad range of application environments and capa...

IBM has announced Lotus Expeditor, a development platform for creating Eclipse-based and Web 2.0 applications. Lotus Expeditor's open standards-based programming model enables enterprises to integrate existing and new applications and deliver them to a variety of ...

Omniture, a provider of online business optimization software, has announced that Virgin America, a highly anticipated U.S. airline launching in 2007, has selected Omniture to measure and optimize their online channel. Operating under the mantra to 'build an air...

GoodStorm, an ecommerce company, has opened its GoodStorm API release 2.0 giving web developers access to ecommerce functionality and product metadata for selling books, non-DRMed MP3s, CDs, DVDs, and video games online.

Kapow Technologies, the enterprise mashup software platform provider, announced the addition of Joe Keller as chief marketing officer. As the company's first C-level marketing executive, he will be responsible for expanding and managing the company's worldwide m...

IBM and The University of Arizona have announced a new collaborative initiative to develop a course aimed at helping developers build online communities and social network systems using Web 2.0 technologies. The curriculum, which is designed to equip students with...

Sun Microsystems has unveiled Project Blackbox, a systems innovation designed to reset datacenter economics. Project Blackbox applies Sun's trademark innovation and network computing expertise to provide a simple, 'instant-on' modular datacenter targeting compan...

IBM has introduced software aimed at helping clients build more profitable customer relationships through master data management. IBM WebSphere Customer Center 7.0, part of IBM's master data management family of products, is designed to help businesses achieve a ...

MyBestDate.co.uk, UK's online dating service enhanced their services with a cut-edge web messenger technology, powered by Userplane. After the success of MyBestDate's built-in AJAX chat, MyBestDate decided to give a far more functional live chat with audio/video ...

San Francisco-based Wallop recently announced that its new social networking website has helped to trigger a new round of funding, in the amount of $10M. This Series B round of capital will help Wallop build out its site combining social computing with a marketpla...

Nexaweb announced it has secured $10 million in Series B venture capital funding from Egan-Managed Capital, Masthead Venture Partners and Velocity Partners. This latest capital investment supports Nexaweb's accelerated growth in the Enterprise Web 2.0 and Rich Int...

OpenAJAX Alliance, an open industry collaboration dedicated to developing and expanding AJAX, has announced new partners and initiatives around the AJAX Community, signaling continued momentum for AJAX-based Web technologies.

MSN has announced the U.S. beta release of Soapbox on MSN Video, a user-uploaded video service that makes it easy for people to express themselves by uploading, discovering and sharing personal videos with the Soapbox community and others around the world. Soapbox...

Gartner announced its 2006 Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle which assesses the maturity, impact and adoption speed of 36 key technologies and trends during the next ten years. This year's hype cycle highlights three major themes that are experiencing significant ...

In a keynote speech to leading technology executives, Rod Smith, IBM's vice president of emerging Internet technologies, declared that the technologies underpinning blogs, wikis and innovative sites like Google Maps and Wikipedia on the Web will transform the way ...

'Whether the demand is for highly usable interfaces or the power of real-time, event-driven access to enterprise information, Nexaweb can provide the solution needed,' said Chris Heidelberger, CEO at Nexaweb, Nexaweb Technologiesâ, Inc., provider of the leading ...

As consumer and enterprise users alike nowadays demand more from their online experiences, the timing of the release of v 2.4 of Nexaweb Studio 2.4 - the latest version of its Eclipse-based IDE toolset - could hardly be better.

Conducting small business on the Internet is still too complicated. Women who want to launch a part-time career to augment their earnings, or who desire to create a full time business from the Web face an immense learning curve of technology and services that stop...

Leading Web 2.0 sites such as YouTube, Flickr, Habbo Hotel, Linden Labs, CyWorld, Technorati, Facebook, FeedBurner, Feedster, Wikipedia, Digg, LiveJournal, Mixi.jp, SimpleStar, PhotoBucket, 37signals, del.icio.us, Trulia, Neopets, and Zimbra have all selected MySQ...

Exclaim launches Media Merchant, an exciting new service that plugs into any online social network to offer merchandising and selling options to photo-sharing shutterbugs, and to create a new revenue stream for service providers.

Author and publisher Ajit Jaokar, a contributing editor to SYS-CON Media's pioneering Web 2.0 Journal, has launched a brand new blog, the 'Mobile Web 2.0' Blog.

Eloquent Systems has launched two new modules which improve research and information access for the heritage industry. Leveraging the popular Google Maps and Google Earth products, as well as the power of leading search engines such as MSN, Google and Yahoo, Eloqu...

ZapThink released a report showing that demand for Rich Internet Applications and more sophisticated user interaction is increasing dramatically. RIAs provide an end user experience that combines the experience that users are most familiar with in desktop and clie...