News Story by Paul Krill

OCTOBER 20, 2005 (INFOWORLD) - PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) has caught on in enterprise-level Web deployments and is beginning to compete with Java, according to speakers at the Zend/PHP Conference & Expo 2005 event on Wednesday. The open-source scripting language for Web applications was center stage at PHP products-and-services vendor Zend Technologies Inc.'s conference.

"We think PHP is ready for enterprise use," said Ken Jacobs, vice president of product strategy at Oracle Corp.

"Java and PHP compete at some level, and I think it's great," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. This should serve as ....

By Jim Rapoza

More and more, a company's Web site is its primary public face for customers, partners and clients. But eWEEK Labs' daily browsing experiences show that many businesses don't put enough work into the design and structure of their Web site.
Web users can probably rattle off a list of sites they find unfriendly and difficult to use and navigate—as well as a list of sites that are intuitive and easy to browse and that, not surprisingly, keep them coming back. All businesses, especially those that rely on Web visitors for profit, should do everything they can to make ....

By Elsa Wenzel

Adobe is in the process of swallowing Macromedia, but both companies rolled out impressive digital design packages separately this year. Macromedia Studio 8 includes the Web site maker Dreamweaver 8, and the comparable GoLive CS2 comes with the Adobe Creative Suite 2.

These WYSIWYG Web site-editing apps allow you to design sophisticated pages without cobbling together code from scratch. Die-hard coders snub both Dreamweaver and GoLive because they can create "messy" code, but many creative types prefer these drag-and-drop tools to laborious typing.

Some design shops find that they may need elements of both company's rival suites. Only Macromedia ....

Showdown looms over U.S. Internet control
Other countries want an international body to oversee the Internet

News Story by Andy Sullivan

The U.S. is headed for a showdown with much of the rest of the world over control of the Internet.

Countries like China, Brazil and Iran don’t like the fact that the world’s only superpower oversees the system that guides traffic across the global computer network, and they have pushed for an international body to take over that role. But the U.S. believes such a body would slow the pace of online innovation to a crawl, requiring entrepreneurs to win permission from ....

News Story by John Blau

The U.S. government, in an unexpected turn, intends to indefinitely retain control over parts of the Domain Name System (DNS), the system that converts human-readable Internet addresses into computer-readable numerical addresses. Such addresses are used to direct traffic to Web sites or to deliver e-mail to the correct server.

"Given the Internet's importance to the world's economy, it is essential that the underlying DNS of the Internet remain stable and secure," and for this reason the U.S. aims to "maintain its historic role in authorizing changes or modifications to the authoritative root zone file," which is ....

By Mark Ward

Back in 1994, Yahoo had only just launched, most websites were text-based and Amazon, Google and eBay had yet to appear.

But, says usability guru Dr Jakob Nielsen, some things have stayed constant in that decade, namely the principles of what makes a site easy to use.

Dr Nielsen has looked back at a decade of work on usability and considered whether the 34 core guidelines drawn up back then are relevant to the web of today.

"Roughly 80% of the things we found 10 years ago are still an issue today," he said.

"Some have gone away because users have ....

By Matthew Hicks

Google Inc. has added customization features to its popular news search site by letting users choose categories and track keywords.

The Mountain View, Calif., company released the feature Thursday as a way for users to rearrange the presentation of news categories and to create their own sections.

Users can select among nine languages, 22 localized editions of Google News ranging from the United States to China, and news categories such as world news or entertainment news. Also, they can choose to create a section for tracking a keyword search of Google's news index.

Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer ....

By Clint Boulton

Sun Microsystems is poised to make its Java software play nicely with Microsoft's .NET software.

Sun said today that it is forging open source implementations of the key Web services (define) specifications required to interoperate with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Microsoft's Web services platform, formerly known as Indigo.

With the implementations, programmers will be able to work with Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) and WCF systems to create Web services software that runs on disparate computing operating systems, including Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows and Linux.

The idea, said Joe Keller, vice president of marketing for Java Web Services and Tools ....

One in 10 UK websites fail to work properly on the open source Firefox web browser, a study shows.

Some 100 leading consumer sites were assessed by web-testing firm SciVisum.

Websites that proved difficult for Firefox users to navigate included the government website Jobcentreplus.gov.uk and the cinema site Odeon.co.uk.

Firefox is an open source alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer and has proved popular since its launch in November last year.

While most people still use Microsoft's browser, Firefox is slowly making inroads.

Its share of the browser market grew to 8% in May, up from 5.59% at the beginning of the year, according to US-based ....

By Tracey Logan

Net users may have to get used to watching TV ads between web pages, if trials currently under way on high profile websites are successful.

The new video ads are being tested on 15 sites over the next five weeks.

They are the result of a collaboration between online ad developers, Unicast, and software giant, Microsoft.

But though users may find them annoying, they could ultimately reduce the overall number of web advertisements in the long term.

Hard to ignore

With the increasing commercialisation of the internet has come an explosion in advertising.

Most people have got used to filtering out the sales ....

News Story by Irwin Arieff

A group set up by the United Nations to devise a global plan for managing the Internet said yesterday that it has been unable to agree on who should do the job or how it should be done.

The Working Group on Internet Governance instead came up with four rival models for overseeing the Web and sorting out technical and public policy questions. In a report to be submitted to the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis in November, the group also proposed creation of a permanent forum to carry on the debate.

To understand ....

News Story by Robert Evans

The United Nations' International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is ready to take over governance of the Internet from the U.S., ITU head Yoshio Utsumi said today.

The U.S. has clashed with the European Union and much of the rest of the world over the future of the Internet. It currently manages the global information system through a partnership with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in Marina Del Rey, Calif.

"We could do it if we were asked to," Utsumi told a news conference. The UN agency's experience in communications, its structure and its cooperation ....

News Story by John Blau

Lawmakers in Washington are speaking out against efforts by several countries participating in United Nations-sponsored talks to force the U.S. to relinquish control over key Internet functions.

The most recent critic is Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.). Earlier this week, Coleman submitted a resolution aimed at protecting control of the Internet, in particular the domain name and addressing system, from being transferred to the UN.

"We cannot stand idly by as some governments seek to make the Internet an instrument of censorship and political suppression," he said in a statement. "We must stand fast against all attempts to alter ....

By Eric Auchard

Google Inc. plans to give away a set of analytic tools allowing Web developers, administrators and advertisers to fine-tune their sites including advertising, the Web search leader said on Sunday.

The tools are intended to address a key aspect of successful Web sites, which is the ability to track user behavior to determine which features keep visitors on the site and which ones make them click away.

Google Analytics can be used by Web site builders to figure out what keywords attract visitors, which promotions hold on to customers and how to design Web pages that draw attention.

Google, which derived ....

By Andy Sullivan and David Lawsky

The United States is headed for a showdown with much of the rest of the world over control of the Internet but few expect a consensus to emerge from a U.N. summit in Tunisia this week.

The very notion of "Internet governance" may seem an oxymoron to the 875 million users of the global computer network, which has proven stubbornly resistant to the efforts of those who wish to rid it of pornography, "spam" e-mail and other objectionable material.

But the United States, which gave birth to the Internet, maintains control of the system that matches easy-to-remember ....

By Sharon Housley

In order to create consistent sales cycles and a positive growth trend businesses usually engage in both short and long term marketing efforts.

Short-term marketing efforts tend to cause sudden sales spikes which rarely last. These sharp sales increases are usually the result of a targeted marketing campaign or time limited offer. While short-term marketing produces sales, long-term marketing efforts must be mixed in to sustain sales.

Short Term Online Marketing

Mentions

Positive product mentions in forums, newsgroups or within trade organizations can result in a traffic or sales surge. Product endorsements and newsgroup conversations are difficult for marketers to control and ....

The latest versions of Microsoft's enterprise software are now available. Learn all about the new features.

Focusing on usability, performance, and productivity, Microsoft is touting that the new releases of SQL Server, Visual Studio, and BizTalk Server give its users the features they need to handle mission-critical enterprise applications. Microsoft says these new versions focus on better support for a broader set of user roles, including software developers, IT professionals, system architects, software testers, business decision makers, and more. With an emphasis on business process management, Microsoft is trying to make it easier for these different user roles to get their ....

As the United States and Europe prepare to slug it out over the ownership of the Internet at the upcoming United Nations conference on information technology, there is growing concern that the World Wide Web is being excessively politicized, and that might hamper its innovative driving force

The three-day world summit brings together over 10,000 participants not only from governments, but also from the private sector and non-profit organizations, ostensibly to bridge the digital divide between poorer countries and industrialized nations. It kicks off Wednesday in Tunis.

The topic that has most piqued the interest of the richer nations has been whether ....

A tense dispute over US control of the Internet in the run-up to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) could eventually lead to the break-up of the global network and hamper seamless browsing, officials warned Monday.

The warning came as the United States told EU participants at negotiations on Internet governance that it was determined to maintain its oversight over the technical and administrative infrastructure at the root of the network.

In a letter seen by AFP, US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez called on the British presidency of the European Union to drop its ....

The breaking of the Monica Lewinsky scandal and this year's Live 8 concerts were voted among the most influential Internet moments of the past 10 years by organisers of the annual Webby Awards.

The committee that decides the awards -- the self-proclaimed Oscars of the Internet -- chose the dotcom boom and bust as the most eventful episode over the past decade.

Launched by Netscape's IPO in 1995, the boom spurred billions of dollars in private investment in the Internet, new technologies, marketing, and fiber optic cable and led to the development of such landmark sites as Google.

"Though now often synonymous with ....

Legal experts say that despite much caterwauling, the United Nations is unlikely to emerge as the next power broker of the Internet, and U.S. companies, which created cyberspace, are likely to retain their dominant role there.

"The Internet is a private network of private networks," Bill Semich, president and CEO of .NU Domain Ltd (nunames.nu), a domain registry service, told UPI's The Web.

Earlier this month the United Nations and the International Telecommunications Union, a multinational body, began arguing that the United States unfairly "monopolized" cyberspace, especially for domain name service, the registration of Internet site names. These organizations -- joined by ....

By Paul Krill, San Francisco

Although disappointed by product delays, Visual Studio 2005 beta users are nonetheless pleased with the product’s feature set, noting enhancements in areas such as ALM (application lifecycle management) and web development.

“In general, I’m very excited about [VS 2005], especially the improvements in ASP.Net and Visual Studio Team System,” says Joe Homnick, a beta user of Visual Studio 2005 and president of Homnick Systems, a learning solutions partner for Microsoft. He has been involved in three Visual Studio-related user groups in Florida.

But Homnick acknowledged delays with Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005. “Of course, I’d like ....

By Stephen Bell, Wellington

Alhough the emphasis in websites is often placed on graphic design, Irish web design expert Gerry McGovern cautions not to forget about the writing — indeed, he says, give primary status to the words.

McGovern gave this warning in the opening keynote to government-sector developers and users assembled at the Govis conference last week.

The major recent trends in information dissemination are the website, the blog, cellphone texting and email, he says. “What connects those up is writing.”

Written language is the dominant feature of the “content” rated as such a crucial factor in government’s digital strategy and, indeed, ....

By Eric Lai, Framingham

The Mozilla Foundation has released a second beta of the Firefox 1.5 web browser that, like the first version released last month, focuses on tackling nagging security issues.

Beta 2 became available last week for download. The release comes just a month after Beta 1 of the browser became available publicly. Version 1.5 is Firefox's first major update since the browser officially debuted last year.

Mozilla notes on its website that the latest beta "does not contain any major new features since Beta 1. Improvements to automated updated system, website rendering and performance, along with several security fixes, are ....

It all began when Thomas Myer overheard a client complain about a boring presentation made by a well-meaning colleague at a company meeting.

"The talk was on XML, a very hot topic in technology," said Thomas Myer. "But the way the material was delivered was pretty much 'death by geek'. So I decided to start a workshop series to explain the power of XML to clients and colleagues, emphasizing practical uses."

Thomas Myer, founder of Triple Dog Dare Media, decided to call the workshop XML for Mere Mortals. It was a one-day workshop that minimized the theory and emphasized hand's on work ....

Packt is pleased to announce the release of its second book on Microsoft Content Management Server; a more advanced guide that takes your MCMS development to a higher level of both power and integration.

Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 is a dynamic web publishing system with which you can build websites quickly and cost-efficiently. MCMS provides the administration, authoring, and data management functionality and you provide the Website interface, logic, and workflow.

Written by four of the leading Microsoft Content Management Server professionals, Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server Development is your gateway to squeezing every penny from your investment in MCMS and ....

La Jolla, CA

iHispanic Marketing Group LLC is proud to announce that Google Analytics (formerly known as Urchin) has chosen our firm as one among other Client Service and Support Consultants to service the global Hispanic market. This strategic alliance will help executives, marketing managers and webmasters receive professional services for training, advanced support, and expert web analytics consulting in Spanish and English.

Nacho Hernandez, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of iHispanic Marketing Group said, “Our loyalty to Urchin, Google and our clients have demonstrated great rewards. Google Analytics will help advertisers, publishers and website owners in the global Hispanic market ....

By AMAN BATHEJA
STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER

At a tech conference in San Francisco last June, Andrew Muse had an idea that was fresh and redundant.

Wouldn't it be great, he wondered, if you could shorten an overly long Web site link to make it easier to send to others? Tools for that already existed online, he knew, but one could go further by incorporating the latest technologies like RSS and tagging.

The idea drove Muse to his laptop, where he zapped instant messages to colleagues about the project.

Four days later, ElfURL.com was online and free to use. The project cost about $500. It has ....

Microsoft targets Google with developer platform, Microsoft will release new APIs today to allow developers to build applications for MSN services

By Elizabeth Montalbano, San Francisco

Microsoft will try to gain ground on competitors Google and Yahoo by unveiling a new web development platform today on which developers can add new search, mapping and instant-messaging features to online products from the MSN division.

The set of APIs will be announced at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC), the vendor's biannual developer gathering, which is scheduled to be held in Los Angeles later today.

Analyst surveys put Microsoft a distant third behind Google and Yahoo ....

Microsoft targets Google with developer platform, Microsoft will release new APIs today to allow developers to build applications for MSN services

By Elizabeth Montalbano, San Francisco

Microsoft will try to gain ground on competitors Google and Yahoo by unveiling a new web development platform today on which developers can add new search, mapping and instant-messaging features to online products from the MSN division.

The set of APIs will be announced at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC), the vendor's biannual developer gathering, which is scheduled to be held in Los Angeles later today.

Analyst surveys put Microsoft a distant third behind Google and Yahoo ....

By Thomas Powell, Auckland

The Google Search Appliance packages up the company's famously accurate technology into an easy-to-use search engine for intranets and public-facing corporate sites. In our Clear Choice test of the GB-1001 model, we found that while the searching and indexing features live up to the Google name, the product lacks polish and advanced management features.

The appliance's honeycomb case caught our eye, but the gloss wore off as we began to notice occasional unevenness in the appliance. For example, the appliance takes a number of minutes to start up and run its various system checks. To alert the ....

Development tool security hole threatens internet apps,Hole has severe implications for Gmail, Flikr and MSN Virtual Earth

By Matthew Broersma, London

A security hole in a popular development tool has severe implications for a number of the internet's most popular applications, including Gmail, Flikr and MSN Virtual Earth.

Tens of thousands of companies including AOL, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are likely to be affected by the flaw in CPAINT — a toolkit used to create applications using an approach known as AJAX — short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Rather than a technology in itself, AJAX is an approach to putting more dynamic ....

Oliver Rist

I poked a few fun fingers at Vista. Sure, I did. After all, I'm a pundit, and making obvious jokes at the expense of large corporate marketing departments is my job. But apparently, Microsoft is inured to name-blame jabs because just a few weeks after announcing that its new OS would be named after a line from White Men Can't Jump, the company actually used e-mail to ensure my full awareness of the name for its new anti-malware research project: The Strider HoneyMonkey project.

Now there are several possible explanations for this name. One: copious amounts of tequila and foreign ....

Website Services, Inc. (http://websiteservices.com), today announced the launch of its flagship publication, Website Services Magazine, a new publication with content specifically developed for those involved in the design, development, management and promotion of websites.

The magazine will be officially launched at Ad:Tech New York on November 7th, 2005 and distributed to an audience of over 25,000 individuals that own, operate and manage Web properties. The content will also be available to the broader Web community at http://websiteservices.com, where visitors (for a limited time) can sign up for a free subscription to the Website Services Magazine publication.

“This is the first offline publication ....

LOS ANGELES, CA (PRWEB)- In a recent article published by OneUpWeb® of the Fortune 100's websites only 13 have “properly optimized” their websites for natural Google placement. Of the remainder, 42 have only done a partial job, while 45 have done little or nothing. Why aren’t the ‘big boys’ participating in the game? “The answer,” says Ron Scott, an Internet publicist, “is really quite simple - they don’t see the need.

“The ’big boys’ have wisely chosen to focus their marketing efforts on branding and brand recognition,” Scott says, “and the logic behind the strategy is certainly understandable when you think ....

Elizabeth Montalbano

Microsoft Corp. is readying changes to its certification programs that are expected to take effect with the release of SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 in November.

At the recent Worldwide Partner Conference in Minneapolis, a manager in the Microsoft Learning group outlined tweaks to Microsoft's certification programs for developers and database engineers that will give technologists specific credentials around what have been more general certifications.

"We're responding to customer and partner feedback [about] how the IT landscape has changed and how skills need to differentiate competencies," said Al Valvano, lead product manager for Microsoft Learning. "We want to reflect ....

Studio 8 review,New Macromedia product a mix of old and new

By Chris Reynolds

Macromedia has just released Studio 8 which is a bundle of several of their products for web content producers. This includes several old familiar faces as well as a couple of recent additions.

While waiting for the installation to run in the background, I was working on a Microsoft Powerpoint presentation in the foreground. So the first product in Studio 8 to grab my attention was Macromedia FlashPaper2. This is a combination of a print driver and a Microsoft Office Toolbar add-in. It is visible in Word, Excel and ....

Not-for-profits show how to innovate on a budget, Computerworld Excellence Awards 2005: Excellence in the Use of IT in a Not-for-Profit Organisation

By Paul Brislen, Auckland

While information technology is important to most businesses around the country, non-profit organisations need to have particularly robust, dependable platforms. When making money isn't the focus of your organisation, taking care of the pennies and not squandering them on anything unnecessary is very important.

The two finalists in the Computerworld Excellence Awards Use of IT in the Not-for-Profit Organisation category both understand the need to be innovative when there are major budget constraints.

Te Runanga o Ngai ....

Enterprise monitoring comes to PHP,Once a simple scripting language for newbies, PHP has evolved into something far more sophisticated

By Peter Wayner, Framingham

During the past few years, PHP has grown to be more than just a simple tag-centered scripting language for neophyte web designers who want to do a bit of programming. A quick survey of the breadth and depth of the open-source projects using the language shows that people can and will build enterprise-grade applications with the embedded tags. Now Zend Technologies, the company steering the language, is rolling out more tools to support the enterprise-grade servers that run ....

US requests more info on Adobe's Macromedia acquisition, Merger may not be as straightforward as Adobe hoped

By James Niccolai, Paris

The US Department of Justice has requested more information from Adobe and Macromedia before it will sign off on their planned US$3.4 billion (NZ$5 billion) merger agreement announced in April, the companies say.

In its second request for information, the DOJ has asked for additional documents and materials related to the companies' products for web authoring, web design and vector graphics illustration, the companies said in a statement on Monday.

The DOJ includes the US government's antitrust division, which is responsible for ....

Sun seeks to increase and boost corporate blogging,We have 1500 bloggers and want more, says Sun web director

By Juan Carlos Perez, Miami

About 16 months after officially encouraging employees to take up web logging, Sun now estimates that between 1,500 and 2,000 staffers are engaged in this increasingly popular practice, says the man behind Sun's blogging effort.

Now, Sun is working to boost even further its corporate blogosphere by strengthening the back end infrastructure of its blogging system and facilitating the posting of multimedia content to the journal entries, says Tim Bray, Sun's director of web technologies.

The company also plans to ....

Worm targets Linux systems, Security vendors disagree on seriousness of threat

By Nancy Weil, Boston

A worm that affects Linux systems and spreads by exploiting web server-related vulnerabilities has been reported by antivirus companies, but so far Linux. Plupii, which is also known as Lupper, hasn’t spread much and isn’t seen as much of a threat.

The worm spreads by exploiting web servers hosting vulnerable PHP/CGI programming language scripts, according to antivirus software vendor McAfee. The worm is a derivative of the Linux/Slapper and BSD/Scalper worms from which it has taken its propagation strategy, McAfee says. It attacks web servers by sending ....

Ruby IDE is set to shine,ActiveState to support open source language

By Paul Krill, San Francisco

ActiveState is looking to accommodate the burgeoning interest in the open source Ruby programming language by supporting it in the company’s IDE.

ActiveState’s Komodo 3.5 IDE adds Ruby to a list of other programming languages supported such as Python, PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) and Perl. Version 3.5 also offers support of the Mac OS X platform.

Komodo focuses on “dynamic” languages, says David Ascher, chief technologist at ActiveState. “Dynamic languages are pretty well suited for projects where you have fast-changing requirements,” Ascher says.

Ruby is particularly successful because of ....

Paul Krill

Power in computing has shifted from proprietary, Microsoft APIs to URLs on the Web and content provision, Google Vice President Adam Bosworth said during the Zend/PHP Conference & Expo.

There has been a shift from 10 years ago, he said. Developers for the most part no longer build applications with the client-server paradigm and database access in mind, with C++ and Visual Basic being the predominant languages, according to Bosworth.

"Mostly, what we see today is people building applications using things like PHP" (Hypertext Preprocessor) and the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python) stack, Bosworth said. He said his son is a ....

Web-based software getting more feature rich,Apps delivered over the net are getting more complex, Jon Udell says

By Jon Udell, San Francisco

When Peter Yared, chief executive and founder of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/PHP/Python) middleware startup ActiveGrid realised he needed project management software to coordinate his company’s development work, he tried Microsoft Project 2003.

The experiment didn’t last long. “2003?” Yared asks incredulously on his blog. “This code hadn’t been touched in three years!” What’s more, the features and functions simply weren’t compelling, he writes. So, Yared switched to Basecamp, a web-based application that also served as the proving ground ....

Robert McMillan

An unpatched bug in a file installed with Microsoft Corp.'s Office and Visual Studio software could lead to some serious problems for Internet Explorer users, security researchers have reported.

An attacker could seize control of a vulnerable system by exploiting the bug, which the FrSIRT (French Security Incident Response Team) reported in an alert published Wednesday. This would be achieved by installing malicious code in a Web page that exploits a memory corruption error in a file that ships with Microsoft Office 2002 and Microsoft Visual Studio .Net 2002 products, the research organization said.

Though the attack would be executed via ....

SMEs deliver big results
Computerworld Excellence Awards 2005: Excellence in the Use of IT in a Small to Medium Enterprise

By Juha Saarinen, Auckland

The vast majority of businesses in New Zealand are counted as SMEs, so recognition in the Excellence of the Use of IT in a Small to Medium Enterprise category of the 2005 Computerworld Excellence Awards marks success in a large and competitive market. The category is open to all organisations with a maximum of 25 employees. Finalists this year include two online stores and a computerised booking system.

Weddings can be famously expensive and complex process, so e-store The ....

Enterprise monitoring comes to PHP,Once a simple scripting language for newbies, PHP has evolved into something far more sophisticated

By Peter Wayner, Framingham

During the past few years, PHP has grown to be more than just a simple tag-centered scripting language for neophyte web designers who want to do a bit of programming. A quick survey of the breadth and depth of the open-source projects using the language shows that people can and will build enterprise-grade applications with the embedded tags. Now Zend Technologies, the company steering the language, is rolling out more tools to support the enterprise-grade servers that run these ....

Eric Lai

Led by small to medium-size businesses, IT spending in the U.S. will increase by 5.5 percent in 2006, although the job market for IT workers will remain "challenging," Gartner Inc. says.

While spending related to security and storage, two IT stars of recent years, is expected to slow next year, outlays for mobile devices such as BlackBerry and Treo handhelds will likely grow, as will investment in software development tools and middleware, according to preliminary results from a summer survey of 1,500 U.S. IT managers by the Stamford, Conn.-based research firm.

"Despite the spending increase, the message to IT managers is ....

Michael Crawford

Chaos will rule the Internet in 2010 as spam, viruses and fraudulent e-mails continue to cause havoc, according to Professor Trevor Barr, user environments program manager at Australia's Swinburne University of Technology.

Delivering the Smart Internet 2010 report, a 50,000 word prediction on what the Internet will be in five years' time, Barr, who is also the leader of the research team that conducted and compiled the report, Smart Internet Technology CRC, outlined the four distinct issues that various schools of thought consider the Internet faces in the near future.

Speaking at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney yesterday, he said the ....

By Clint Boulton

There's a new Semantic Web group in town.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has formed the Rule Interchange Format (RIF) working group with the job of standardizing the rules that propel data across the Web, regardless of format.

Rules are a cornerstone of the Semantic Web, the idea that the Internet can be tapped for information as though it was one, giant database.

W3C said an RIF can trigger the integration and transformation of data from multiple sources.

RIF will provide a way to allow rules written for one application to be published, shared, merged and re-used in other applications and ....

License proliferation in the open source community is a much-debated and hotly contested topic.

Microsoft, a company often reviled in the open source community, has taken dramatic steps to simplify its open source style shared source licenses by paring the number it offers down to three.

Microsoft established its Shared Source Initiative in 2001 and had been offering over 10 licenses under which code could be shared. There are currently more than 80 Microsoft technologies available via shared source and over 600 non-Microsoft technologies released under one of the many shared source licenses.

As of today, Shared Source Initiative technologies will be simplified ....

By Sean Michael Kerner

New versions of both branches of the Apache Software Foundation's (ASF) HTTP Web server are now available.

Apache HTTP Server 1.3.34 and Apache HTTP Server 2.0.55 are both principally security and bug fix releases.

The Apache 1.3.34 release addresses two potential security issues. A TraceEnable per server directive has been added and a change made to the code to remove Content-Length headers when a request includes both Transfer-Encoding and Content-Length headers which could potentially lead to a HTTP Request Splitting/Spoofing attack.

Apache 2.0.55 addresses six security issues, three of which are related to HTTP Request and Response Splitting/Spoofing attacks.

Other ....

By Tim Gray

MovieFlix has brought together two of America's favorite industries with a new bit of self-promotion by offering free gas cards at random to newly registered members.

The Hollywood-based broadband movie provider on the Web, with 500,000 members, says all new MovieFlix members who successfully register for MovieFlix.com memberships, are now eligible to win a $250 gas card.

"With gas prices so high, this is a perfect opportunity for us to give back to our members," Opher Mizrahi, CEO and co-founder of MovieFlix.com, said in a statement.

One free $250 gas card will be given out each month to a MovieFlix ....

By Clint Boulton

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Microsoft is in the advanced stages of building a software application that enables distributed computing among various computing devices.

At VSLive today, company officials generated buzz for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), formerly known as Indigo, by showing how it works for both commercial and enterprise scenarios.

WCF, formerly known as Indigo, is being prepped for a 2006 launch. When it appears, the Redmond, Wash., software giant hopes WCF will provide a viable Web services platform capable of triggering communications between PCs and handheld computers, among other devices.

Richard Turner and Payam Shodjai, product managers for ....

By Jim Wagner

After four months of developer scrutiny, Alfresco is seeing the light of day with the general availability of the open source enterprise content management (ECM) application, officials announced Monday.

Alfresco is the brainchild of John Newton, co-founder of commercial ECM vendor Documentum, and John Powell, former COO at Business Objects. The two delivered a technology preview of the application in June, which prompted more than 25,000 downloads in the first two months, and have been busy getting the software ready for its prime-time launch.

Alfresco builds upon the ECM premise, collating structured and unstructured data on the network, with ....

SEATTLE (AP) - Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released a business version of software that aims to help people more quickly find documents, e-mail and other data stored on Windows-based computers.

The free new desktop search product comes after years of complaints over how hard it can be to locate Microsoft Word documents, sort through long e-mail lists and find other data people use during the workday.

The software will feel similar to Microsoft's consumer offering for searching files on desktop computers. But the product is designed so corporate technology executives can easily install it on many computers simultaneously, and better control how ....

Google is watching you
AS WE SEARCH AWAY, WEB FIRMS GATHER DATA ON OUR HABITS

By John Battelle

Google. Google. Google. It's all we can talk about these days in Silicon Valley, where the 7-year-old company has once again validated our collective belief in the power of technology to change our culture (and make a lot of people rich in the process).

But what are we creating each time we head to Google (or Yahoo, or Ask, or any other search-driven site) and tap our intentions, fears and hopes into their blank boxes and blinking cursors? After all, this is where we first worry ....

By Frank Michael Russell

Thanks, but no thanks. Sunnyvale Internet company Yahoo said today that it has "politely passed" on the chance to bid for a stake in America Online, leaving Microsoft and Google as the leading contenders.

According to an AP report, spokeswoman Joanna Stevens said Yahoo decided to abandon its bid after Chief Executive Terry Semel and Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker met in late October with executives of AOL's parent company, Time Warner.

Citing two people close to the talks, AP said the major obstacle was which company would be the majority owner. One of those people told AP that ....

NEW YORK (AP) - Microsoft Corp. is teaming with The Associated Press to offer an advertising-supported online video news network in the first quarter of 2006, the companies announced Wednesday.

Microsoft will supply the technology, video player and advertising support to the network, while AP's broadcast division will provide the video, which will feature about 50 different stories per day. AP, the world's oldest and largest newsgathering organization, originally announced plans to develop the venture after a board meeting in July.

Jim Kathman, the head of strategy for the AP's broadcast division, said the network would be offered free of charge to ....

By Matt Marshall

When the three-person San Jose company Meebo launched in September, venture capitalists smothered it with requests to make an investment.

The company was hot -- or at least venture capitalists thought so. Its technology lets people access their instant messaging programs from America Online, Yahoo, Microsoft and Google from the Meebo Web site without having to download each service's software to their computers. Thousands of people were flocking to use it.

Meebo had become a ``Web 2.0'' company -- a buzz-filled, admittedly vague moniker that many in Silicon Valley are using to describe companies that embody a second era of ....

RECENT PATENT APPLICATION ANOTHER INDICATION

By Michael Bazeley

New evidence that Google intends to leap into the lucrative and competitive classified advertising business has surfaced, this time in the form of a recently filed Google patent application that details a new type of advertising aimed at individuals.

The new technology would let people sell things on Google much as they do on eBay or craigslist. Google's application describes a technology dubbed ``Google Automat'' that would let people create ads in less than a minute. They would enter details about the item they want to sell, and Google's technology would create a small text ....

Microsoft's Web. 2.0 Draws Skepticism
Analysis: Marketing ramps up, but does Microsoft yet 'get' the Web?

Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service

Though the powers that be at Microsoft seem to have finally grasped the impact of the Internet on the future of packaged software, industry observers and a key rival said the company still must prove that its plan to compete in the Web 2.0 marketplace is more than just hype.

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Web 2.0 is a name given to the Web's transition from a collection of static Web sites to a computing platform providing Internet-based applications, or services, to end users. Richard MacManus, a ....

Microsoft Hosted Services Expected
Gates, Ozzie may announce Web-based software, built on Groove or featuring Office

Elizabeth Montalbano

SAN FRANCISCO -- Top Microsoft executives speaking here next week are expected to reveal the first in what many observers believe will be a range of hosted services from the software company, analysts said Friday.


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Microsoft Chief Software Architect Bill Gates and Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie will hold a press and analyst event in San Francisco on Tuesday where they will, among other things, "preview upcoming technologies from Microsoft," according to an e-mail alert about the event from Microsoft's public relations firm, Waggener Edstrom.

Analysts say ....

Web Site Reborn as Ad Hoc Hurricane Info Center
Web designer who owned Katrina.com site uses tech skills to help victims

Todd R. Weiss, Computerworld

For about seven years, Web designer and PC technician Katrina Blankenship has worked out of her Powhatan, Virginia, home, helping customers with their computing and Web site problems through her company, Computer Connections.


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But on Sunday, as powerful Hurricane Katrina approached Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, worried Internet surfers found Blankenship's Web site, www.katrina.com, and began looking to her for information about the storm. The site was set up in 1998, long before the storm bearing the same name appeared.

"I ....

Google News Adds RSS Feeds
Users will be able to have targeted news content delivered directly to them

Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service

Google plans to enhance its Google News article search service by adding content syndication, according to executives from the Mountain View, California, company.


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The new feature will allow Google News users to set up RSS (Really Simple Syndication) or Atom content syndication feeds for specific Google News sections, such as entertainment, business, or world news, and for specific terms users search for on Google News, such as "George Bush," "diabetes," or "space shuttle."

Users will also be able to set up ....

Microsoft Revamps MSN Blogs
MSN Spaces gets 'PowerToys' with multimedia support, custom design tools, other advanced features

Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service

Microsoft has released new features for its MSN Spaces blogging service to make it more attractive to advanced users, a key MSN Spaces official announced in his Web log late Tuesday.


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The new features, collectively called PowerToys, are the capability to create custom HTML modules, to play audio and video files, and to significantly customize user interfaces, Mike Torres, MSN Spaces lead program manager, wrote in his blog Torres Talking. "PowerToys are special features in MSN Spaces designed specifically for you, ....

Associated Press

NEW YORK -- A quiet revolution is transforming life on the internet: New, agile software now lets people quickly check flight options, see stock prices fluctuate and better manage their online photos and e-mail.

Such tools make computing less of a chore because they sit on distant web servers and run over standard browsers. Users thus don't have to worry about installing software or moving data when they switch computers. And that could bode ill for Microsoft and its flagship Office suite, which packs together word processing, spreadsheets and other applications.

The threat comes in large part from Ajax, a ....

By Antony Savvas

Google is making its hosted web analytics service free to use, to enable more firms to track the effectiveness of their online marketing campaigns.

Though free, Google Analytics will come with a five million per month page view limit. This is more than enough for smaller companies and also for many larger organisations.

This cap is removed if the user is a Google Adwords advertiser, said company said.

Google Analytics was, in the past, called Urchin on Demand, and cost Ł120 a month with a 100,000 monthly page view limit. The decision to make the system free comes after Google acquired ....

Broadcaster ITV is to roll out Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 database, along with advanced reporting and analytics software, to help calculate the profitability of its television programmes.

ITV will work with business intelligence integrator IMGroup, which will implement SQL Server 2005, and link it with a business intelligence platform from ProClarity.

"ITV's data requirements are extremely complex and I am confident that SQL Server 2005 is the best tool with the capability and scalability required by ITV for supporting the level of analytics involved," said Ian Whitfield, director of broadcasting technology at ITV.

By Patrick Tarpey

Without ballyhoo or headlines, open source is eating away at the enterprise computing core and moving steadily outwards.

Open source desktops are here already, but I believe it will be at least three years before we see any real effect on the Microsoft-dominated corporate desktop. So on the surface nothing looks untoward, but a look inside tells a very different story.

A factor in this phenomenon is the steady commoditisation of Intel/AMD-based computers. Supercomputing power is now readily available for commercial and academic use, running on Linux clusters. Oil companies have been keen proponents of these clustered installations to process ....

By Nick Langley

Lamp languages could be lit up as the big suppliers invest in PHP

What is it?

Perl, Python and PHP are the language elements of the Lamp open source development and deployment platform, the others being Linux, Apache and MySQL or Postgres.

In August, research group Evans Data Corporation reported that the use of all three languages had dropped significantly from a peak two years ago, with many sites planning not to evaluate or use them in future developments. Evans felt the decline was due to the languages' failure to penetrate the enterprise.

However, IBM, Intel, SAP and Oracle are all investing ....

By Nick Langley

What is it?

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) or, less commonly, Rich Site Summary, is an integral part of Microsoft's forthcoming Internet Explorer 7 web browser and Windows Vista operating system, but it is also widely used for aggregating updates to blogs and news sites. IBM calls it "an XML-based format for syndicated content"
According to the RSS 3.0 homepage, "It is a way to broadcast online content's meta data via the internet, thus letting webmasters inform users who read the RSS feed of changes in their site (updates, news, new links etc) or inform applications of changes in a service."

It ....

Microsoft has launched Sparkle Interactive Designer to compete with existing high-end graphics design tools such as those marketed by Adobe and Macromedia. Sparkle is a vector-based user interface designer that can deliver 2D and 3D objects, which can be used for tasks ranging from Flash-type presentations to designing user interfaces for Windows applications.

Sparkle - which forms part of the Microsoft Expression suite - was unveiled in a pre-release version at Microsoft's recent Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.

The Expression suite, which is currently available to developers as a community technology preview, along with Microsoft's .net framework and Windows Presentation Foundation ....

By Antone Gonsalves
Courtesy of TechWeb News

Newspaper Web site traffic grew by 11 percent year-over-year in October to 39.3 million unique visitors, indicating that the traditional media is alive on the Internet, despite declining readership offline, a research firm said Tuesday.

More than 1 in 4 of the active U.S. Internet population visited a newspaper Web site last month, Nielsen/NetRatings said. The New York Times led the pack with 11.4 million visitors to its site, followed by USA Today and The Washington Post, with 10.4 million and 8.1 million, respectively.

Rounding out the top five were the Los Angeles Times and the ....

John Walko
EE Times

LONDON — The global Internet security market is expected to grow at an annual 16 percent over the next five years to reach $58.1 billion by 2010, according to a soon to be published report from Business Communications Co Inc.

The company says the recent spate of serious Internet security threats will continue to be the key market driver.

BCC (Norwalk, CT) estimates that between 2002-2004 the market for Internet security products increased at an average annual growth rate of over 30 percent. This year, BCC estimates it will be worth $27.7 billion.

It suggests that following the huge ....

By Paula Rooney & Barbara Darrow

Courtesy of CRN

With its tight integration between Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk 2006, Microsoft has developed a compelling software stack.

But deployment of that long-awaited platform, which is slated to finally launch this week, could be slowed by still-missing pieces, partners said. Visual Studio 2005 features data access integration into SQL Server 2005 and a new Team System. SQL Server 2005’s business intelligence engine, XML support and Common Language Runtime (CLR) will give developers a consistent programming model across the Microsoft platform.

Microsoft partners said they see opportunity in the combination of the ....

By The Associated Press

Agile, browser-based applications using technology similar to Google Maps could make life tough for Microsoft's flagship Office suite.

A quiet revolution is transforming life on the Internet: New, agile software now lets people quickly check flight options, see stock prices fluctuate and better manage their online photos and e-mail.

Such tools make computing less of a chore because they sit on distant Web servers and run over standard browsers. Users thus don't have to worry about installing software or moving data when they switch computers.

And that could bode ill for Microsoft and its flagship Office suite, which packs together ....

By The Associated Press

A quiet revolution is transforming life on the Internet: New, agile software now lets people quickly check flight options, see stock prices fluctuate and better manage their online photos and e-mail.

Such tools make computing less of a chore because they sit on distant Web servers and run over standard browsers. Users thus don't have to worry about installing software or moving data when they switch computers.

And that could bode ill for Microsoft and its flagship Office suite, which packs together word processing, spreadsheets and other applications.

The threat comes in large part from Ajax, a set of ....

By Paula Rooney & Barbara Darrow

The next versions of Visual Studio, SQL Server, and BizTalk feature tight integration between components, but deployment could be slowed by still-missing pieces.


With its tight integration between Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk 2006, Microsoft has developed a compelling software stack.

But deployment of that long-awaited platform, which is slated to finally launch this week, could be slowed by still-missing pieces, partners said. Visual Studio 2005 features data access integration into SQL Server 2005 and a new Team System. SQL Server 2005’s business intelligence engine, XML support and Common Language Runtime (CLR) will ....

By Paula Rooney & Barbara Darrow Courtesy of CRN

With its tight integration between Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk 2006, Microsoft has developed a compelling software stack.

But deployment of that long-awaited platform, which is slated to finally launch this week, could be slowed by still-missing pieces, partners said. Visual Studio 2005 features data access integration into SQL Server 2005 and a new Team System. SQL Server 2005’s business intelligence engine, XML support and Common Language Runtime (CLR) will give developers a consistent programming model across the Microsoft platform.

Microsoft partners said they see opportunity in the combination of ....

By The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) -- A quiet revolution is transforming life on the Internet: New, agile software now lets people quickly check flight options, see stock prices fluctuate and better manage their online photos and e-mail.

Such tools make computing less of a chore because they sit on distant Web servers and run over standard browsers. Users thus don't have to worry about installing software or moving data when they switch computers.

And that could bode ill for Microsoft Corp. and its flagship Office suite, which packs together word processing, spreadsheets and other applications.

The threat comes in large part ....

By W. David Gardner
TechWeb News

Zend sells PHP, a scripting language used for Web development


Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen has joined Zend Technologies as a member of the firm’s board of directors.

Andreessen, the co-founder of Netscape and the creator of the pioneering Mosiac browser, was a key player in the origins of Java, giving his support to the then-new programming language when it was launched by Sun Microsystems.

Also joining Zend’s board of directors on Thursday was Gaurav Dhillon, the founder and chief executive officer of jaman.com inc.

PHP, which originally meant Personal Home Page, then PHP Hypertext, is increasingly called just ....

By Antone Gonsalves, TechWeb News

Yahoo Inc., trying to deliver more relevant search results faster, is testing an instant-search feature that displays results while the person is typing a query.

The feature displays a "search bubble" while the person is typing a keyword or phrase. A link in the bubble will take the user directly to the web page, or the person can click on "search the web." to get the full list.

Providing users with relevant search results quickly remains a problem for search engines, which still deliver long lists of web pages that possibly contain the information sought. On its search ....

By Aaron Ricadela
Courtesy of InformationWeek

Microsoft on Tuesday said it would bring to market a suite of three Web-development products that could compete directly with software from Adobe Systems Inc. and Macromedia Inc., which are preparing to close a merger this fall.

Software from Microsoft code-named Acrylic Graphic Designer, Sparkle Interactive Designer, and Quartz Web Designer will make up a suite of design and development products for Web sites called Microsoft Expression, said Eric Rudder, a group VP, in a keynote address at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Acrylic, out in test form now, lets programmers and graphics ....

Microsoft Details IE 7 Priorities
Internet Explorer 7 will support cascading style sheets, but other standards will take a backseat to critical bug fixes
By Antone Gonsalves, TechWeb
InformationWeek

By Antone Gonsalves, TechWeb
InformationWeek

Microsoft plans to add support for cascading style sheets in the upcoming Internet Explorer 7, but other standards will take a back-seat to fixing the worst bugs that Web developers have reported.

The company's intent is to build "a platform that fully complies with the appropriate Web standards, in particular CSS 2," development team leader Chris Wilson said on Microsoft's IEBlog.

But bug fixes and security are the top priorities for ....

Bug Fixes, Security Are Top Priorities In IE 7,Microsoft plans to add support for CSS 2 in the upcoming Internet Explorer 7, but other standards will take a back seat to critical bug fixes.

By Antone Gonsalves
Courtesy of TechWeb News

Microsoft Corp. plans to add support for cascading style sheets in the upcoming Internet Explorer 7, but other standards will take a back seat to fixing the worst bugs reported by web developers.

In Microsoft's IEBlog, development team leader Chris Wilson said the company's intent is to build "a platform that fully complies with the appropriate web standards, in particular CSS 2."

Nevertheless, ....

By Aaron Ricadela
Courtesy of InformationWeek

Back in 1998, when the Web was just starting to upend retail, publishing, software development, and other fields, the chief technology officers at IBM and BEA Systems were hashing out the details for a new version of Java for business software development. The Java computer language changed the way PC software, emergent Web sites, and the back-room systems that powered them were written. And the Java 2 Enterprise Edition technology that IBM's Rod Smith and BEA's Scott Dietzen created with their counterparts at Sun Microsystems, which created Java, became a standard in business computing.

Today what ....

By Aaron Ricadela
InformationWeek


IBM, historically one of the computer industry's biggest supporters of Java, is starting to put some weight behind the competitive PHP language. So far, IBM's investment is just a trickle. Yet the company already is walking a fine line between building a business on PHP and protecting its customers'--and its own--investments in Java.

Why the interest in PHP, a scripting language that lacks Java's nuance and power? For one, PHP's role in life is to negotiate the transfer of data between Web users' PCs and the big database systems on the other end of their Internet connection without ....

By Jacques Surveyer
Courtesy of Intelligent Enterprise

MySQL can no longer be viewed as a limited, departmental database. With the release of version 5.0 in mid-November, the popular open-source database is a serious contender for enterprise-level use. Triggers, stored procedures, cursors, views and beefed-up transaction processing have shortened the list of missing ingredients needed for large-scale projects. A few rough spots might put off developers in demanding online transaction processing (OLTP) environments, but MySQL 5.0 offers a few innovations and cost advantages that will win more enterprise converts.

MySQL executives argue that the database stepped over the enterprise threshold long ago, pointing ....

PHP Scripting Language Going Mainstream With Move Inside Eclipse Workbench, Scripting languages such as PHP are driving high-powered, high-speed Web content such as Google Maps, raising their profile and credibility

By Charles Babcock
InformationWeek

PHP, the popular Web site scripting language, will soon be used in conjunction with mainstream programming languages, now that its parent firm, Zend Technologies Inc., joined the Eclipse Foundation as a strategic developer.

Zend will lend its expertise to an Eclipse "dynamic language" project that will let developers using integrated tools for scripting languages plug them into the Eclipse programmer's workbench. Eclipse plug-ins are development tools that follow Eclipse ....

By Larry Greenemeier
Courtesy of InformationWeek

Lower cost and greater flexibility continue to prove their value, especially among small and midsize companies

It takes a lot of horsepower to create the 3-D virtual world known as Second Life, where users can build digital avatars to their likenesses, participate in a virtual economy that lets them purchase real estate and construct buildings, and fly through pixelated blue skies over a 100-square-kilometer computer-generated campus. In the past, the sticker shock of buying and managing the 1,400 CPUs and associated software needed to power this rapidly expanding massive multiplayer online game would have been enough ....

Jaha Nababan, Jakarta

The 'e' in front of e-learning can limit learning potential. Though many experts agree that technology is only a tool to help learning, the word 'electronic' in e-learning refers only to computer technology. William Horton wrote that e-learning was rooted in correspondence education started by Sir Isaac Pitman in 1840. Though he listed many forms of technology in the history of distance education, he refuses to call it e-learning, rather terming it web-based training.

Meanwhile, Ruth C. Clark and Richard E. Mayer defined e-learning or electronic learning as training delivered via a computer -- including CDROM, Internet and intranet ....

By Charles Arthur

A few years ago, you knew where you were in computing.

Microsoft made the software that powered pretty much everything computer-y you’d come into direct contact with, such as PCs. Palm did handhelds. Mobile phones were just phones. And Google did a web search engine.

Now? Well, where to start… Google does maps, satellite photos, e-mail, instant messaging, voice-over-internet phone calls, a free program to analyse web-site traffic (Google Analytics, launched this week), news searching, a shopping service and free blogging software (through blogger.com).

Palm is vanishing into a rump, and Microsoft is becoming dominant in handhelds. Mobile phones are getting ....

Clint Witchalls outsources his home page – and is surprised at the results

Computers defeated me. After 15 years of frustration and boredom, I finally abandoned my IT career in March 2002. I had lost. The machines had won. I vowed never to attempt to program one ever again, not even a two-line macro. I took to writing about them instead. The only applications I’d use would be a word processor, e-mail and occasionally a spreadsheet – just to please my accountant – but that was all. No more monkeying about with code. But then people started asking me what ....

By CALVIN ROSS

This past week a memo leaked from the halls of Microsoft that provided us with a rare glimpse into the strategic planning for the endless battles that protect Microsoft's dominance in software.

In the memo, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates urged his senior executives to prepare Microsoft to meet the growing challenges from Internet-based software and services. Gates called this enormous, world-altering shift a "sea change" in information technology and urged his charges to respond swiftly.

Yes, we've been here before. Microsoft has fought a number of wars to prevent losing its dominant position. Sometimes it enters into strategic partnerships. At ....

By Roger Cheng
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- In an effort to make surfing the Web easier, Cingular Wireless will unveil a new Internet interface for its cell phones.

On Thursday, Cingular subscribers who access Media Net, which is the carrier's Web browser, will immediately be upgraded to the new service. Cingular hopes the easier service will drive more usage, leading to higher data revenue.

Overall, the wireless industry has seen declines in the core voice business, as competition and programs such as family pricing plans have eaten into revenue. As such, the carriers are focusing more on data services such ....

Edited by Riva Richmond
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

Here's a roundup of news about the world of technology from the Web.





Can Yahoo Sign On to Hollywood?

Yahoo's (YHOO) year-long effort to marry the worlds of Internet geeks and media sophisticates has been a bit rocky, but the company's success hinges on making it work, the Los Angeles Times reports. The Hollywood types housed in the company's Santa Monica offices grouse about the sizes of their offices and the location of their parking spaces, while Internet executives in Sunnyvale live in a "cubicle society" and eat with the rank-and-file in the cafeteria. ....

By Chris Reiter
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Adobe Systems Inc. (ADBE) plans to move fast, integrating employees and pushing out new bundled offerings, once its deal to acquire Macromedia Inc. (MACR) closes in the coming weeks, Chief Executive Bruce Chizen said Wednesday.

Because of a lengthy regulatory-review process, Adobe and Macromedia have had plenty of time to prepare for their $3.4 billion merger, which was announced in April. The U.S. Department of Justice cleared the deal in October, but the companies are still awaiting the go-ahead from certain European regulators.

In an interview with Dow Jones Newswires, Chizen said the ....

NEW YORK (AP)--An anti-spyware initiative backed by Internet portals Yahoo (YHOO) and AOL would certify downloadable software as consumer-friendly and non-invasive.

Under the program, which was to be formally announced Wednesday, developers that want to obtain certification for their downloads would also have to prove their products can be easily removed from computers once installed.

TRUSTe, an organization that already certifies and monitors Web site privacy and e-mail practices for businesses, will rely on testing by two outside labs for the vetting. It would not name the labs.

Developers earning TRUSTe's certification will not be permitted to promote that fact, said its executive ....

TUNIS -(Dow Jones)- A compromise agreement on oversight of the Internet is expected to be agreed later Tuesday in advance of a U.N summit in Tunis, diplomats said Tuesday.

U.S. officials said the text would be vague, meaning that the status quo would prevail A California-based organization called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, overseen by the U.S. Commerce Department, sets present Internet standards.

"We're waiting until they pass something we can accept," said U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce Michael Gallagher.

Diplomats want to get an agreement before the official opening of the three day summit on Wednesday.

European Union officials say ....

By David B. Wilkerson

SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) -- Two Time Warner Inc. units plan to counter TV networks' video on demand by offering vintage television programs such as "Welcome Back, Kotter" free over the Internet, the company said.

Beginning in January, In2TV plans to offer 300 episodes per month and about 100 shows in the first year on six channels ranging from comedy to drama, and Warner Bros. has cleared 300 series, or about 14,000 individual episodes, for use on the service, including a diverse range of programs including "The FBI," Eight Is Enough," "Growing Pains," "Chico and the Man," "V" ....

By Riva Richmond
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Google Inc. (GOOG) is considering testing print advertisements in Chicago newspapers, in a sign that the Internet giant, to date seen primarily as a threat to traditional media, could also become an ally.

The company is considering the newspaper tests following positive reactions from advertisers and publishers to its tests of print ads in two technology magazines, Google spokesman Michael Mayzel said. Google will "continue exploring ads in print media," he said.

The Mountain View, Calif., company bought ad pages in the September and October issues of PC Magazine and Maximum PC and ....

By Riva Richmond
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- A group of 25 investors, foundations and other organizations allied with a press freedom group plan to step up the pressure on Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) and other Internet companies to support freedom of expression in China and other repressive countries.

Reporters Without Borders said Friday that the investor group, which together manages $21 billion, will release a joint statement at a press conference in New York on Monday committing themselves to freedom of expression on the Internet and agreeing to "monitor" Internet companies' practices in repressive countries.

Yahoo came under fire in September ....

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP)--Yahoo Inc. and TiVo Inc. are teaming up to blend some of their services, a move that further fades the lines between offices and living rooms, TVs and PCs.

Under a partnership to be announced Monday, the two will collaborate to offer Yahoo's Internet-based content and services through TiVo's digital video recording devices.

Users of Yahoo's TV page will be able to click on a record-to-TiVo button directly from a television program listing to remotely schedule recordings.

And in the coming months, possibly before the end of the year, Yahoo's traffic and weather content, as well as its users' photos ....

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Microsoft (MSFT) Thursday announced a "strategic partnership" with the British Library that will allow the software group to digitise 25 million pages of content - the equivalent of 100,000 books, according to an article on the FT.com Web site.

The deal with one of the world's great libraries will be seen as an attempt to make up lost ground in its battle with Google (GOOG), which only Thursday unveiled its first digital book collection, the article said.

The agreement will allow the U.S. software company to scan some of the library's collection and to make digital copies of ....

BERLIN -(Dow Jones)- Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has agreed to buy privately-owned Swiss company Media Streams.com AG, thereby gaining a developer whose software is used to provide Internet-based telephone services, the company said in a statement Thursday.

The U.S. company - the world's largest software-maker - didn't disclose terms of the transaction.

Media Streams.com is headquartered in Zurich and develops communications applications based on voice over Internet protocol, or VOIP, technology.

The software effectively converts employees' e-mail system into a telephone, by integrating voice communication into the e-mail system. The software can be used with Microsoft's Outlook e-mail system.

Media Streams.com, founded in 2000, had ....

SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP)--Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) has redesigned its online maps to make it easier to get driving directions to multiple destinations and find local merchants - the latest move in the company's duel with Internet powerhouse, Google Inc. (GOOG).

The company planned to unveil its latest mapping improvements Wednesday, less than a month after Google upgraded its maps service. Yahoo's service will be available on a test basis at http://maps.yahoo.com/beta.

Yahoo is matching some of Google's features, such as the ability to scroll across a map without reloading a Web page, as well as introducing tools that haven't been available previously on ....

NEW YORK, New York (Reuters) -- Entries from Wikipedia, the popular free online encyclopedia written and edited by Internet users, may soon be available in print for readers in the developing world, founder Jimmy Wales said on Monday.

He said content from the Web site may also be burned onto CDs and DVDs so computer users in places like Africa, who lack access to high-speed Internet, could consult parts of the reference work offline.

Wales also described as incorrect reports, one of them from Reuters, that certain pages of the Wikipedia could be subject to tightened controls or "frozen" for good to ....

LOS ANGELES (Dow Jones) -- Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday unveiled Web-based versions of its flagship Windows and Office products as part of its strategy to deliver software over the Internet and push into a fast-growing market that's been staked out by smaller rivals.

But the software giant didn't roll out new offerings that would threaten Salesforce.com Inc. and the other companies that have pioneered online business software, as some had anticipated.

At an invitation-only gathering for analysts and media in San Francisco, Microsoft (MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates outlined what he called "live software" that aims to make software a service, linking all ....

By Riva Richmond
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Internet search engines are riding a monster wave of online-advertising dollars. But last week it became clear one company - Google Inc. (GOOG) - is catching it more expertly than others.

Blockbuster third-quarter financial results from Google showed the search leader is growing much faster than its top rivals Yahoo Inc. (YHOO). Google's revenue rose 96% to $1.6 billion, while Yahoo's advertising revenue rose 46% to $1.2 billion. Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) MSN unit, which posted $564 million in revenue, had 20% advertising growth.

One reason for the disparity is Google's growing share of ....

SEATTLE (AP)--Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is widely expected to announce Tuesday further forays into software and services that can be accessed over the Internet - a growing competitive arena that some say could eventually threaten Microsoft's biggest cash cows.

The software behemoth is facing increasing competition from companies such as Google Inc. (GOOG) and Yahoo Inc. (YHOO), which offer an array of free consumer services, and Salesforce.com (CRM), which has had success with Web-based business offerings.

The concern is that applications including free email and Web-based business products could eventually grow so broad and easy to use that people will begin to question ....

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. Supreme Court Monday refused to hear an appeal from Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) challenging the methodology under which damages were calculated in a patent lawsuit filed by Eolas Technologies Inc. and the University of California over features in the software giant's Web browser.

Rejection of the appeal leaves the fate of the lawsuit in a U.S. District Court in Illinois, which was earlier this year ordered by a federal appeals court to hold new proceedings on the disputed patent technologies in Microsoft's Internet Explorer. That March ruling threw out portions of the ruling against Microsoft, which included ....

NEW YORK (AP)--NBC News said Monday said that it would begin making its "NBC Nightly News" broadcast available for free on the Internet starting next week.

Past broadcasts will also be archived at the www.nightlynews.msnbc.com Web site, the network said.

It's not necessarily news on demand, though. The newscast, aired at 6:30 p.m. on many NBC stations on the East Coast, won't be available on the Web until after 10 p.m. ET.

"Many of our viewers tell me they often miss the broadcast because they're not at home or tending to their busy lives and families," anchor Brian Williams said. "This new service ....

SAN JOSE, California (AP) -- An ambitious new Google Inc. service lets anyone upload almost anything to a publicly searchable database, potentially laying the groundwork for a foray by the Internet juggernaut into classified advertising.

The venture, Google Base, could lead to a vast expansion of its content and signal grander ambitions for the king of online search-related advertising. Google's stated mission is, after all, nothing less than organizing the world's information.

Launched as a "beta test" early Wednesday, Google Base has the potential to make instantly available a vast sea of content including -- but not limited to -- recipes, job ....

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (AP) -- Google Inc.'s Internet-leading search engine on Thursday will begin serving up the entire contents of books and government documents that aren't entangled in a copyright battle over how much material can be scanned and indexed from five major libraries.

The list of Google's so-called "public domain" works -- volumes no longer protected by copyright -- include Henry James novels, Civil War histories, Congressional acts and biographies of wealthy New Yorkers.

Google said the material represents the first large batch of public domain books and documents to be indexed in its search engine since the Mountain View-based company ....

Kristie Lu Stout

SHANGHAI, China (CNN) -- Just like the U.S. tech boom of the 90s, China's Net entrepreneurs are young, smart and riding the crest of a wave.

Young, wired and hooked -- the country's online tribe is massive, and its members are itching to get their fix.

For e-commerce execs, this place looks like the mother lode, but there is just one hitch -- China has a notoriously fragmented banking system.

There are too many ways to pay, from online game cards, debit cards, international debit cards, local credit cards, bank wires, post wires, and last but not least, cash.

Oliver Kwan, CEO ....

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced online enhancements to its Windows operating system and other popular software programs, hoping to defuse a growing threat from Google Inc. and other fast-moving challengers.

With a new Web site called "Windows Live," Microsoft hopes to create a new platform that will unfasten some of its applications from a computer hard drive.

The change reflects Microsoft's recognition of the growing demand for applications and services that can be used from any place, at any time, as the lines between the home and office blur and portable computing devices become more powerful.

"It's a ....

SAN JOSE, California (AP) -- An ambitious new Google Inc. service lets anyone upload almost anything to a publicly searchable database, potentially laying the groundwork for a foray by the Internet juggernaut into classified advertising.

The venture, Google Base, could lead to a vast expansion of its content and signal grander ambitions for the king of online search-related advertising. Google's stated mission is, after all, nothing less than organizing the world's information.

Launched as a "beta test" early Wednesday, Google Base has the potential to make instantly available a vast sea of content including -- but not limited to -- recipes, job ....

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Britain's foreign spy service MI6 has turned to the Internet in an attempt to recruit real-life James Bonds and dispel myths about the secretive agency.

The launch of the Web site on Thursday marked the first time the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) -- as MI6 is also known -- has publicly appealed for staff since its creation in 1909.

The move follows intelligence failures that gave no warnings of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States or this year's July 7 transport bombings in London.

MI6 also said it hoped the Web site would help to quash ....

LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Autonomy Corp. PLC said Tuesday that its consumer division has created a conceptual index of the World Wide Web.

The index currently contains approximately one billion items, including web pages, audio, video and image files, and expansion continues rapidly.

The index is available so consumer facing companies can offer their customers next generation search technologies across the Web.

Also, for the first time enterprise users will be able to fully integrate retrieval, from the desktop to enterprise content to Internet content, based on the understanding of the meaning of the information, all on a private basis.

Autonomy's Intelligent Data Operating Layer ....

IDG News Service

MySQL AB has released the first beta version of a major upgrade to its open source database, adding several features designed for corporate users.The beta to MySQL 5.0.3 was made available from MySQL's Web site earlier this week for platforms including Linux, Solaris, AIX, Windows and Mac OS X. The software isn't intended yet for production use; instead, MySQL hopes developers will try out the database and provide feedback to help it resolve issues. The final release is due by the end of the second quarter, said Zack Urlocker, vice president of marketing for MySQL, in Uppsala, ....

Matthew Broersma, Techworld.com

Servers running PHP are vulnerable to a number of serious security exploits, including some which could allow an attacker to execute malicious code, as well as denial-of-service exploits, according to the PHP Group.

The project has issued updates fixing the bugs, available from the PHP Web site and directly from various operating system vendors. "All Users of PHP are strongly encouraged to upgrade to this release," the PHP Group said in its advisory.

PHP, an open-source programming language mainly for server-side applications, runs on server operating systems such as Linux, Unix, Mac OS X and Windows.

Several of the flaws were ....

Matthew Broersma, Techworld.com

Oracle is the latest database vendor to put its weight behind the PHP scripting language for business, with a new tool that integrates PHP applications with its databases.

Oracle and PHP tool developer Zend Technologies have developed a PHP engine called Zend Core for Oracle. The tool, to be released for free in the summer, will integrate Oracle's databases and Zend's PHP environment.

PHP is an open-source scripting language used for developing Web applications. While it has been mainly used by Web developers in the past (the name originally meant Personal Home Page) the language is increasingly being used as ....

Robert McMillan, IDG News Service, San Francisco Bureau

A looming deadline following a dispute between two prominent open-source developers has forced database vendor MySQL AB to consider a change to the way it develops its software, and will also force scores of other open source projects to consider a similar move within the month.

Open-source projects that have been able to freely use the BitKeeper source-code management software since 2002 have until July 1st to either begin paying license fees or stop using the software.

BitKeeper is used by more than 100 open source projects including MySQL, the Xen virtual machine monitor, and ....

Elizabeth Montalbano,
IDG News Service, San Francisco Bureau

The LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco last week featured strategic partnerships among key companies and the release of proprietary commercial code to the community.

On the partnership front, leading open source database provider MySQL lined up Dell and Novell to resell its MySQL Network directly to their customers. MySQL introduced the network in February as a subscription offering that includes certified software updates, technical support, and indemnification for enterprise customers using its database.

MySQL is an integral part of the LAMPstack, which Dell is packaging with its hardware. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, ....

Elizabeth Montalbano,
IDG News Service, San Francisco Bureau

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is now reselling support services for MySQL AB's open-source database, an HP spokeswoman has confirmed.

Under the terms of the deal, HP is selling MySQL Network directly to their customers. MySQL introduced the network in February as a subscription offering that includes certified software updates, technical support and indemnification for enterprise customers using the MySQL database. A customer can choose from three levels of service -- silver, gold and platinum -- and the cost ranges from US$595 per year to $5,000 per year depending on the level of service a customer ....

James Niccolai,
IDG News Service, Paris Bureau

MySQL AB has released the production version of its open-source database upgrade, MySQL 5.0, the company announced on Monday.

The new release, which had been expected this month or next, adds several features that have long been standard in databases from MySQL's bigger rivals, including triggers, views and stored procedures. The company is billing it as its biggest upgrade ever, although pricing remains unchanged from the previous version.

The company offers two types of licenses: customers can download the software for free under the open-source General Public License or they can pay for a commercial license. ....

By Emeka Aginam

With more cyber cafes springing up in every nook and cranny of many commercial centres across the federation, especially Lagos State, the world wide web (www) as a means of communication has continued to create new wave of activities and business opportunities among people all over the world.
Although the menace of advanced fee fraud, generally known as 419 and other online scams may pose problems to the users and cyber cafes operators, the apparent truth is that the technology has generally changed the socio-economic lives of people all over the world.

Today, business activities, educational opportunities, and contacts among ....

An Open Enterprise Trends
Interview with Brian Aker, Director Architecture,
MySQL AB

In less than a month after its GA, MySQL has hit the 1 million download mark. To commemorate the milestone, OET takes a look at the MySQL user trends with MySQL�s architecture director Brian Aker. OET also provides a list of 3rd party support products that are assisting MySQL 5�s push into the enterprise.

OET: How would you describe the impact of MySQL 5's new features on
the prospects for a mission-critical, and/or enterprise-ready Open Source stack?

Aker: MySQL delivers a transactional databases with triggers, stored procedures and views with 5.0. We also ....

By Stephen Ryan

Opinion: The governance of the Internet is being decided in Tunis at the World Summit on the Information Society. Aside from the impact on the virtual world, the decisions could take their toll on travel budgets for Internet workers.

TUNIS—The WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society) here is the culmination of a three-year effort to wrestle over the future governance mechanisms of the Internet. The scope of the task is evident by the diversity of the crowd: some 26,000 diplomats, real Internet workers and various "hangers on" are arriving in Tunisia this week. The last ....

By Declan McCullagh

TUNIS, Tunisia--A brief cessation of hostilities between the United States and its critics on Internet management is raising a new question: Who's in charge next?

According to the agreement inked here this week, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan will create a new Internet Governance Forum that will meet for the first time in 2006. It's supposed to debate everything from spam to computer security to domain name management.

But because it's not clear which organization will be in charge of organizing the forum, a new round of backroom negotiating and political jockeying is already under way. The ....

By Declan McCullagh
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

TUNIS, Tunisia--The last-minute deal between the United States and its critics at a summit here merely postpones a debate about Internet management to next year.

According to the agreement, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan will create a new Internet Governance Forum where the discussions will continue. One group that might organize the forum--and can therefore set the agenda--is the International Telecommunication Union, a U.N. agency based in Geneva.

The ITU is in a unique position. Created in 1865 to facilitate telegraph transmissions, its mandate has steadily expanded to include radio and telephone communications, and its annual budget ....

By John Blau

For its Windows Mobile 5.0 handset software announced in May, Microsoft Corp. plans later this year to offer an upgrade that will provide push e-mail technology and improved security management, the company announced Monday at its Tech Ed conference in Orlando.

The Messaging and Security Feature Pack for Windows Mobile 5.0 is software based on wireless features that will be added to Exchange Server 2003 in Service Pack 2 (SP2).

"One of the key components of the Messaging and Security Feature Pack is to enhance the Outlook mobile experience by pushing e-mail from Exchange to handhelds equipped with Windows 5.0 ....

BUSAN (AFP) - Chinese Internet firm Alibaba.com has vowed to defeat US giant Google in the battle to become the dominant search engine for the potentially lucrative Chinese market.

Alibaba.com chief executive Jack Ma said his company was the undisputed king of the web in China after seeing off e-Bay and taking over Yahoo's Chinese operations in an August deal that secured a billion dollars of investment.

Ma said Google was vulnerable in China and that Alibaba would focus on building up its search engine to keep out Google.

Speaking to reporters at a meeting of Asia Pacific leaders in the South Korean ....

TUNIS (AFP) - Machines will overtake humans to become the biggest users of the Internet in a brave new world of electronic sensors, smart homes, and tags that track users' movements and habits, the UN's telecommunications agency predicted.

In a report entitled "Internet of Things", the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) outlined the next stage in the technological revolution where humans, electronic devices, inanimate objects and databases are linked in real time by a radically transformed Internet.

"It would seem that science fiction is slowly turning into science fact in an 'Internet of Things' based on ubiquitous network connectivity," the report launched at ....

By PATRICK CASEY, Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK - A typical Chinese Internet user is a young male who prefers instant messaging to e-mail, rarely makes online purchases and favors news, music and games sites, according to a new study.

The only major public opinion research tracking Internet use in China, the survey was conducted in five cities by Guo Liang of the prominent Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, the government's main think tank.

According to the study, released Thursday at the Brookings Institution in Washington, about two-thirds of survey participants use the Internet for news — often entertainment-related ....

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Internet in China is heavily driven by entertainment but has the potential of becoming a powerful political weapon, according to a poll.

The survey, directed by a Chinese professor and funded by a US foundation, showed that 84 percent of Internet users sought information on the Web, mostly pertaining to entertainment.

As many as 65 percent of Internet users believed that the Web was a key entertainment source, said the poll, conducted in five cities -- Beijing, Chengdu, Changsha, Shanghai and Guangzhou -- in February-March 2005, covering 2,376 people, over half of them Internet users.

"The Internet is supposed ....

Netopia Launches eSite Builder Service to Web Site Developers & Service Providers,
Intuitive Online Development Tool Speeds Web Site Production and Management


Netopia, Inc. a market leader in broadband gateways and service delivery software, today announced its eSite Builder service, an online solution enabling Web developers to cost-effectively build, manage, and deploy fully customizable Web sites for their clients.

eSite Builder is designed to make it easier and more efficient to produce, deploy, and manage from one to thousands of privately-labeled Web sites. For independent Web developers and service providers, it offers greater versatility in creating and managing a high volume of ....

(PRWEB) - November 16, 2005 -- Spline Technologies Corporation has released a unique web development tool -- SplineTech JavaScript HTML Debugger -- that enables web developers who have been challenged with resolving JavaScript errors to easily edit and debug JavaScript and VBScript inside HTML pages -- without the need for inserting additional lines of code to handle the debugging process. Client-side JavaScript, JScript and VBScript debugging languages are fully supported for simple and complex HTML and DHTML debugging scenarios.

Aside from a vast array of features, SplineTech packages step-by-step JavaScript debugging tutorials and functional multimedia demonstration with its software, to help ....

By A.P. Lawrence

While Perl may not be the "cool" language for websites anymore, there are some of us who prefer to work with it because we use it for so many other tasks.

I've done PHP, and toyed with other things, but I always come back to Perl because it's where I'm most comfortable.

Steve Suehring is very direct and to the point. There's little or no fluff here, no wasted words. The assumption is that you know Perl, though there is a fifty or so page appendix that covers Perl basics.

I liked that Steve mentioned security almost immediately and never ....

By Jonathan Bennett,
Builder UK

The majority of Web users will be using mobile devices, but first improvements in development are necessary

p>The next challenge facing Web developers is to make their sites accessible to mobile users, according to the W3C. At an event to promote its Mobile Web Initiative (MWI), held on Tuesday in London, members of the consortium outlined their vision for a single Web, usable from both the desktop and handheld devices.

Speaking in a video recorded address to the event, W3C chair Tim Berners-Lee said that in the future the majority of Web users will be using mobile devices. ....

By Graeme Wearden

Mobile Web pages get their own domain, Mobile Internet services will soon be dealt from a .mobi deck

Web pages specifically designed for mobile phone users will soon have their own domain — .mobi.

ICANN which runs the Internet's top-level domain name system, approved the creation of .mobi at a meeting in Luxemburg on Monday.

Although ICANN has approved the creation of .mobi, the domain will be run and promoted by a new organisation called mTLD

The mobile phone industry has been lobbying for its own top-level domain for companies to offer content intended to be viewed on a mobile device.

"We have ....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading U.S. technology companies, including AOL and Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news), unveiled on Wednesday a plan to certify software that tracks Web use and generates online pop-up advertisements, in an attempt to cut down on unwanted spyware and adware.

Consumers, lawmakers and regulators have grown increasingly frustrated with software being secretly loaded on to computers, tracking moves on the Internet, disabling computers and filling the screens with pop-up ads.

The organization TRUSTe said it would certify tracking and advertising software if the programs disclose the types of advertising to be displayed, personal data tracked and obtain consent for ....

By Barbara Darrow

IBM has put its upcoming Viper database into broader beta testing, a company executive said Tuesday.

The company said in addition to previously disclosed information, that the hybrid database will support PHP. IBM will make the latest beta available with the Zend Core for IBM to facilitate PHP implementations.

Viper, which will carry the IBM DB2 brand, will also support three types of partitioning: range, multi-dimensional clustering and hashing, according to IBM. Bob Picciano, vice president of database servers for IBM will talk about the features and plans at the XML 2005 Conference in Atlanta.

As CRN first reported last ....

By Mario Morejon, CRN

Changes featured in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 focus heavily on aiding developer productivity in the face of the increasing complexity of the .Net framework and the tool’s diverse feature set.

To speed development, Visual Studio now has additional code refactoring capabilities, including IntelliSense code snippets and intelligent helpers. Hundreds of components and classes inside the .Net framework have been added to the palette. The code snippet library includes more than 400 reusable sections of code for common operations that can be transferred into the code editor.

With a right click of a mouse the IDE is configured, enabling ....

By Barbara Darrow, CRN

Macromedia on Thursday will outline updates to its Flash player and Flex development tools aimed at expanding the vendor’s tools franchise and taking on Microsoft's dominance.

The version 8.5 update of Flash Player, Macromedia’s tool for playing multimedia Web-based applications, incorporates a new virtual machine for faster performance and error reporting, improved debugging and an ECMAScript-compliant scripting engine. That combination should provide a higher least-common denominator for applications, said Jeff Whatcott, vice president of product management at Macromedia.

The San Francisco-based company also is breaking out a new Eclipse-based Flex integrated development environment (IDE), code-named Zorn. The IDE ....

By Barbara Darrow, CRN

Macromedia on Thursday will outline updates to its Flash player and Flex development tools aimed at expanding the vendor’s tools franchise and taking on Microsoft's dominance.

The version 8.5 update of Flash Player, Macromedia’s tool for playing multimedia Web-based applications, incorporates a new virtual machine for faster performance and error reporting, improved debugging and an ECMAScript-compliant scripting engine. That combination should provide a higher least-common denominator for applications, said Jeff Whatcott, vice president of product management at Macromedia.

The San Francisco-based company also is breaking out a new Eclipse-based Flex integrated development environment (IDE), code-named Zorn. The IDE ....

By Barbara Darrow, CRN

With upcoming updates to its Flash Player and Flex development tools, Macromedia hopes to expand its franchise and take on Microsoft’s dominance in the tools market.

First, the company is updating the nearly ubiquitous Flash Player for playing Web-based, multimedia applications. Version 8.5 incorporates a new virtual machine for faster performance and error reporting, better debugging and an ECMAScript-compliant scripting engine. That combination should provide a higher least-common denominator for applications, said Jeff Whatcott, Macromedia’s vice president of product management.

The San Francisco-based company is also breaking out a new Eclipse-based Flex IDE, code-named Zorn. The IDE will ....

By Seth Johnson, CRN

A survey by the Gartner Group states that 80 percent of IT budgets are spent on the management and maintenance of legacy systems, leaving only 20 percent to be spent on innovative business practices. But when trying to spend IT resources on innovation (replacement of legacy systems or development of new applications) many companies are wasting time, money and resources on what often ends up as failed IT projects. These issues are pushing the need for an application development tool to evolve from traditional programming methods toward an automated codeless development platform such as TenFold’s EnterpriseTenFold.

The ....

By Barbara Darrow, CRN

The U.S. Department of Justice has cleared Adobe Systems' proposed acquisition of Macromedia, both companies said late Thursday.

Pending approval in a few European jurisdictions, the $3.4 billion deal is expected to close this fall, Adobe said.

Adobe, San Jose, Calif., and Macromedia, San Francisco, announced their merger plan in April and shareholders approved it in August.

Both companies field strong entries in content creation and display. Adobe's Acrobat is the de facto standard document reader, PhotoShop is the perennial leader in professional photo editing, Illustrator is big in graphics, and InDesign is making strides in professional publishing/page layout. ....

By Paula Rooney, CRN

Sun's Java programming language continues to grow in use but the company's development tools and middleware platform is getting eclipsed by a key open source rival, partners say.

As Microsoft unveiled its long awaited Visual Studio 2005 earlier this week, Sun announced a significant upgrade of its Java Studio Enterprise at JavaOne Tokyo on Wednesday.

Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8, built on the company's NetBeans 4.1 IDE, offers numerous benefits including enhanced Unified Modeling Language (UML) support, real-time collaboration, new mobile and wireless features, integrated load testing and support for Solaris 10. It is available free to all ....

By Mario Morejon, CRN

SQL Server 2005 may likely be a boon for solution providers that build applications with Visual Studio. Due to its new security, manageability and performance capabilities, which far surpass CRN Test Center engineers’ expectations, it achieves highest marks in every technical category.

SQL Server 2005’s new integrated Visual Studio features allow solution providers, who write lines of business applications, to be more productive by giving them faster access to data and more visibility into data-driven code.

Within Visual Studio, solution providers can build applications and manage all database projects. Developers now can debug and explore data directly from ....

ATLANTA – IBM today unveiled details of the next-generation DB2 database–code-named "Viper" — which is designed to help customers manage and access data across a service oriented architecture (SOA) with unprecedented flexibility and speed.

In a keynote address today at the XML 2005 Conference, Bob Picciano, vice president of database servers for IBM, outlined the company's plans for DB2 Viper--the industry's first database designed with both native XML data management and relational data capability. Picciano also announced that Viper is entering open testing and evaluation by qualified customers, developers and partners.

Scheduled for release in 2006, DB2 Viper is expected to lead ....

Next version of DB2 enters beta testing
IBM's 'Viper' update is designed to manage both structured and unstructured enterprise data

By Stacy Cowley, IDG News Service


Customers can now start kicking the tires of a beta version of IBM's (Profile, Products, Articles) next DB2 database update, code-named "Viper." IBM (Profile, Products, Articles) said Wednesday that it has moved Viper, scheduled for a 2006 release, into customer and partner testing.

XML (Extensible Markup Language) capabilities are at the heart of Viper's planned improvements: IBM has designed Viper to effectively manage both structured and unstructured enterprise data. IBM Vice President of Database Servers Bob Picciano plans ....

Paul Krill

San Francisco (InfoWorld) - Providing an alternative to JavaServer Pages (JSP) Web development and the PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) scripting language, Apache's Jakarta Velocity tools team is touting open source tools to function with the Velocity Java template engine.

Version 1.2 of VelocityTools, a sub-project of Velocity, is now available for download. Velocity enables use of a template language to reference objects defined in Java code and can be used in Web development or to generate SQL, PostScript, and XML from templates.

"VelocityTools 1.2 offers a variety of improvements over the 1.1 release," said Nathan Bubna, who serves as lead on the ....

Behind the revolution
The technology driving everything from next-gen networks to Web 2.0 has surprisingly deep links to experts and entrepreneurs in Ottawa, reports Peter Hum

Peter Hum
The Ottawa Citizen


It was clear earlier this month that XUGO had seen much better days.

A few years ago, the XML Users' Group of Ottawa attracted between 40 and 50 people to its monthly meetings. Its mailing-list membership peaked at nearly 160 consultants, students, hobbyists and tech users. But by last year, XUGO get-togethers were drawing less than a dozen. This month's meeting was cancelled due to lack of interest -- just one person RSVP'd.

And ....

By Sierra Jenkins
INDEX-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

At the end of the school day, Cameron Davis, 14, designs his own video games, digitally inserts himself into frames of his favorite games, and travels the entire world with a satellite's-eye view - all with the click of a mouse.

"I've gone to Anaheim to see Disneyland, zoned in on sports stadiums, stuff like that," he said on a recent afternoon, deftly hopping continents in the program Google Earth to zoom in right on the very spot he was sitting - the brand-new Intel Computer Clubhouse lab at the Boys & Girls Club Valley of ....

(I-Newswire) - Toronto, Canada---Edentity Web Systems today announced the immediate availability of the Agility Content Management System ( CMS ) developer tools. Agility’s success has been driven by working closely with customers and partners to provide flexible solutions for web content management. Most CMS companies openly discourage external development of their products, Agility embraces it.

“Our developer tools put the power of Agility into the hands of your Web developer or your favorite Web development company,” said Jon Voigt, Director of Technology for Agility. “Because our tools are based on standards and the Microsoft .NET framework, there is no proprietary technology ....

Software AG Supports Google Maps with AJAX Technology; Composite Application Integrator Is the First AJAX Based Product to Deliver Rich Internet Applications Including a Google Maps Control

RESTON, Va.-(CCNMatthews)
Software AG, Inc., today announced that Composite Application Integrator (CAI), the company's powerful design and runtime environment for combining Web services into rich composite Internet applications, now supports Google maps. CAI is the first AJAX based product to include a Google maps control. Composite Application Integrator enables organizations that develop composite applications to rapidly incorporate services from Google maps, integrate existing applications, and exchange information with Google maps - thus significantly reducing ....

By Frank J. Ohlhorst, CRN

Occasionally a new technology or set of practices comes along that forces change in the industry and, invariably, a new buzzword or acronym is born. The latest one to learn is AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), a programming method that may very well change how applications are built and delivered.

AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications using a combination of XHTML (or HTML), CSS, JavaScript, XML and other technologies. Why is this important? Simply put, AJAX applications look almost as if they reside on the end user’s system, as opposed to ....

(PRWEB)-- Spline Technologies Corporation has released a unique web development tool -- SplineTech JavaScript HTML Debugger -- that enables web developers who have been challenged with resolving JavaScript errors to easily edit and debug JavaScript and VBScript inside HTML pages -- without the need for inserting additional lines of code to handle the debugging process. Client-side JavaScript, JScript and VBScript debugging languages are fully supported for simple and complex HTML and DHTML debugging scenarios.

Aside from a vast array of features, SplineTech packages step-by-step JavaScript debugging tutorials and functional multimedia demonstration with its software, to help JavaScript developers get up and ....

Anton Gonsalves,
InternetWeek

Browser-maker Opera Software ASA has released in beta a set of tools for building and running software on mobile phones.

The Opera Platform SDK is based on AJAX, a Web development technique growing in popularity.

AJAX is based on several Web technologies, including HTML, cascading style sheets and JavaScript. The technique is used to develop Internet services, such as Google Maps and Amazon A9 Search.

AJAX applications built with the Opera development kit are meant to run on mobile phones. Developers also can use the tools to adapt existing content and Web applications for wireless devices, officials with the Norwegian company ....

By Jonathan Bennett
Special to CNET News.com

Opera has announced a beta software development kit (SDK) for its mobile phone Web browser and user interface package, called Opera Platform.

The announcement was made in conjunction with the World Wide Web Consortium's Mobile Web Initiative event, held Tuesday in London. Opera's plan intends to make mobile applications easier for developers to create and cheaper for the end user.

The Opera Platform was announced two years ago to enable developers to build cell phone front-ends using native interfaces. The SDK helps coders build applications for mobile phones using Web languages such as HTML, CSS ....

By Renai LeMay
Special to CNET News.com

A small team of developers in California on Friday launched a cutting-edge Firefox-based Web browser dubbed Flock, which integrates next-generation Web technologies such as RSS content feeds, blogs and bookmark and photo sharing.

The team of developers was spearheaded by Bart Decrem, who is well known in the open-source community due to his involvement in the Mozilla Foundation and his ill-fated start-up Eazel, which from 1999 until its demise in 2001 aimed to bring greater usability features to the Linux desktop.

"Indeed the time is upon us," wrote Flock co-founder Geoffrey Arone on his blog shortly ....

By Alorie Gilbert
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Opera Software has inked an agreement to license its Web browser and related software for next-generation, in-flight entertainment systems built on Web technology, the company said on Tuesday.

Under the one-year agreement, Oslo, Norway-based Opera is partnering with Thales, a French firm that makes in-flight entertainment systems for airlines. Thales specializes in video-on-demand and broadband services for Boeing and Airbus aircraft.

Opera worked with Thales last year to add Web browsing capabilities to Thales' TopSeries system, which is already used by more than 15 airlines, including Air Canada and Air France. With the new arrangement, the ....

By Joris Evers
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Two Microsoft security updates for Internet Explorer can break the functionality of Web sites that use certain custom applications.

The problems occur after installing the patches Microsoft delivered with security bulletins MS05-038 and MS05-052, Microsoft said in two advisories posted on its Web site Wednesday. The bulletins were issued in August and October, respectively.

Both patches can cause problems with ActiveX controls, small programs designed to perform simple tasks that can make a Web site more interactive. The MS05-038 patch can also hinder Java applications. After the patches are installed, applications that are programmed in specific ....

By Dawn Kawamoto
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

A test version of an updated Firefox browser is out, offering such features as automatic updates and improvements designed to speed browser navigation.

Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1, which came out earlier this week, is a preview of the upcoming version of the browser. The final release is expected later this year, following several delays.

"It has been made available for testing purposes only, with no end-user support. If that sounds scary, you'd probably be better off with the latest version of Firefox 1.0," according to a statement on the Mozilla Foundation Firefox Project's Web site. ....

By Alorie Gilbert
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

With a new referral program, Google has launched an effort to expand its business of serving up ads on other people's Web sites.

The program, which Google introduced Friday, is aimed at Web sites that participate in its AdSense network. With AdSense, Web publishers agree to run text and banner ads brokered by Google and share per-click revenue with the company. Google ensures the ads are relevant to the site's content via contextual ad-matching technology.

Now Google will reward AdSense participants that refer other small Web publishers and bloggers to the program. The company will pay ....

By Joris Evers
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Papa John's has beefed up security for its Web-based e-mail system after the pizza chain learned that internal e-mail and customer data had been exposed.

The leak at the Louisville, Ky.-based pizza chain made internal corporate e-mail and thousands of customer comments available to anyone with a Web browser. The customer comments were submitted between Sept. 29 and Nov. 7 and included names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of customers.

"It looks like there is no password protection on Papa John's internal Web e-mail system," said Richard Smith, an Internet privacy expert who reviewed the ....

By Dawn Kawamoto
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Firefox turned 1 year old Wednesday, marking yet another milestone for the popular open-source browser.

Since the debut of Firefox 1.0 last November, users have downloaded 106.4 million copies of the open-source Web browser, according to the Mozilla Foundation, which coordinated the development of Firefox.

And within a span of a year, Firefox has grabbed 8.65 percent of the market and put a dent into Internet Explorer's dominance, according to Web site traffic tracking in October by NetApplications.

"At the launch, we had a million downloads on the first day and have not seen any letup in ....

By Martin LaMonica
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

ght to use source code releases as a means to work with developer communities, this number was only going to rise further."

Although Microsoft does allow third-parties to view portions of its code, none of the company's shared-source licenses is considered open-source by the Open Source Initiative. Microsoft does not intend to submit its new licenses to OSI for approval as open source, though two of them would meet OSI's criteria, a Microsoft representative said.

The three new licenses are:

Microsoft Permissive License: Designed primarily for developer-related products, it enables developers to view, modify and redistribute Microsoft source ....

By Joris Evers
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Netscape on Wednesday released a new version of Netscape 8 to bring the Web browser up to date on security patches with the underlying Firefox software.

Netscape 8.0.4 includes the fixes that have been made in the Firefox browser, according to the update's release notes. That means it has all patches through Firefox version 1.0.7, which was made available by Mozilla last month.

Netscape, a division of Time Warner's America Online subsidiary, typically trails Mozilla by a few weeks when it comes to security updates. The company revamped its browser in August to catch up to ....

By Stephen Shankland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

BURLINGAME, Calif.--The simplicity of scripting language PHP means it will be more popular than Java for building Web-based applications, Internet browser pioneer Marc Andreessen predicted Wednesday in a speech here at the Zend/PHP Conference.

Java enjoyed great success when its inventor, Sun Microsystems, released it in 1995, largely because it was optimized better for programmers than for machines, making software development significantly easier, Andreessen said. Unfortunately, Java has acquired many of the unfavorable characteristics of its predecessors, he added.

"Java is much more programmer-friendly than C or C++, or was for a few years ....

By Jennifer Guevin
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Just shy of Firefox's first birthday party, the Mozilla Foundation celebrated the 100 millionth download of its Web browser Wednesday.

Mozilla has seen steady adoption of its browser since its release last November. After a somewhat higher download rate immediately following its release, the browser has settled into between 200,000 and 300,000 downloads a day, said Asa Dotzler, the Mozilla liaison to the SpreadFirefox community.

"This is a great milestone. Our massive, worldwide community of grassroots marketers and users--not to mention the developers--have helped to put out a product that's really kicking butt," he said.

Firefox has ....

News Story by Jeremy Kirk
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Microsoft Corp. will stick by the set of protocols it has picked for identity federation, a concept that includes single sign-on for several different Web portals and secure transfers of data between partnered businesses.

Microsoft has backed WS-Federation protocols for the next generation of message-based applications because it offers a full suite of security, message and transaction protocols, said Don Schmidt, senior program manager for Microsoft's Identity and Access group. The company's stance is not about which protocol set is necessarily better but rather which offers wider flexibility in accommodating federated identity, ....

News Story by Paul Krill,(INFOWORLD)

IBM's Rational Software Corp. unit plans to enhance its application testing tools with support for Visual Studio 2005, Tivoli and SAP applications.

Offerings announced Tuesday are to be built on the open-source Eclipse tools platform. "What we're doing is continuing to invest in our automated software quality solutions," said Jeff Schuster, product manager at IBM software quality products.

IBM Rational Functional Tester, which has provided functional and regression testing for Java and Web applications, will offer functional testing of applications built with the new Visual Studio 2005 tool set from Microsoft. Version 6.1.1 of the IBM tool ....

News Story by Paul Krill,INFOWORLD

Sun Microsystems Inc. is making its new Sun Studio tool free and is adding support for development on multicore chips.

Sun Studio 11 is for developing C, C++ and Fortran applications to run on the Solaris or Linux operating systems on Sparc, x86, and x64 hardware, according to the company. Enabling development on multicore and multithreaded systems, the tool supports the new multicore UltraSparc T1 chip, which had been code-named Niagara (see "Sun announces new T1 chip").

Previously, Sun Studio sold for about $3,000 per developer, but Sun hopes to leverage the tool to promote its hardware. "We ....

News Story by Paul Krill,INFOWORLD

Focusing on the familiar theme of developer productivity, Sun Microsystems Inc. on Wednesday is unveiling its Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 development tool, which featured a visual Unified Modeling Language (UML) modeling interface. The tool will be provided free to Sun Developer Network subscribers.

With Version 8, developers can drag interfaces and class diagrams and drop them into the tool's design center. UML tools provide markerless development, meaning there are no markers within the Java source code, said Dan Roberts, Sun director of marketing for developer tools.

"It improves the readability and maintainability of the code that's developed," ....

Sites for Sore Eyes
Lessons learned from the top support Web sites of 2005 -- and the also-rans

News Story by Kathleen Melymuka,
COMPUTERWORLD

"The Year's Ten Best Web Support Sites -- 2005" is an in-depth look at the makings of a great customer support site. Published by the Association of Support Professionals (ASP), a research organization that deals with support and service issues, and reflecting the evaluations of more than 50 judges, the report details what works and what doesn't work in sites ranging from internal employee portals to vendor support Web sites. ASP Executive Director Jeffrey Tarter talked with Computerworld's Kathleen Melymuka ....

News Story by Paul Krill, INFOWORLD

EBay Inc. is removing some fees for using application programming interface (API) in its Web services-based eBay Developers Program.

The program allows for developers to build sites that drive transactions on eBay, and then get paid by eBay. Or, developers can build software that is used by sellers as front ends to eBay, whereupon developers are paid by sellers. About 22% of eBay listings are generated though these third-party applications.

Fees have been charged for using APIs to access the program. "Essentially for us, we really wanted to build on the past success we've had and we ....

News Story by Paul Krill, INFOWORLD


Microsoft recently made available an updated beta release of its Windows Workflow Foundation technology. The release is built to work with the general release of the Visual Studio 2005 tool set, which was released Nov. 7.

The new beta also will function with a beta release of the Office 12 applications suite, to be released in a few weeks.

Windows Workflow Foundation is for building workflow-enabled applications on Windows. It provides the programming model, engine and tools to quickly build workflow applications, according to Microsoft.

"It's a very developer-focused infrastructure for workflow," said Scott Woodgate, group product ....

Opinion by Linda Hayes, COMPUTERWORLD


Like babies, most code is born beautiful, at least in the eye of its creator. But the only time I ever heard one programmer praise another's code was prerelease. In this newborn state, the code reflects the developer's original design, untouched by the unknown demands of future users.

But once code enters into use, this innocence is lost. Just as the wrinkles on a person's face are carved by his experiences, so do missed requirements, bug fixes and -- especially -- code being adopted by another programmer all result in additions and patches that become downright ....

News Story by Paul Krill,INFOWORLD

SAN FRANCISCO -- Borland Software Corp. is in a peculiar spot when it comes to offering tools for developing Windows applications.

On one hand, Borland provides Universal Modeling Language (UML) capabilities to Microsoft Visual Studio developers, via Borland's Together product; on the other hand, Borland believes it offers a viable alternative to Visual Studio via its Delphi platform, with easier transitions to Microsoft technologies.

Microsoft rolled out its Visual Studio 2005 tools platform on Monday here, a day before Borland began its Borland DevCon 2005 conference in the same city.

"I think one of the major reasons that developers ....

Gates memo puts online services at heart of Microsoft, Says the next 'sea change' in computing has arrived


News Story by James Niccolai,
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Bill Gates has backed a sweeping plan to reshape Microsoft Corp.'s development efforts to adapt to the threats and opportunities presented by the rapid growth of new Internet-based services.

In an e-mail to his top lieutenants dated Oct. 30, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect proclaimed that "the next sea change" in computing has arrived and called on his company to focus more sharply on Internet services as it develops new products and technologies.

"Today the opportunity is ....

Microsoft works on tuneups for Visual Studio, It plans to release Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2003 in April

News Story by Jeremy Kirk

NOVEMBER 09, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Microsoft Corp. plans to issue service packs next year for both Visual Studio 2003 and Visual Studio 2005, its packages of tools for developers.

The news was posted Monday on a blog by Microsoft employee Scott Wiltamuth, a Visual C# product service manager, on Microsoft's Developer Network Web site. The same day, Microsoft hosted galas in places such as San Francisco and London for the launch of Visual Studio 2005, ....

Microsoft joins Yahoo on digital library alliance, Software maker will fund digital duplication of 150,000 books

News Story by Eric Auchard
REUTERS - An alliance including Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. says it is fast gaining backers to challenge Google in digitizing many of the world's great books.

The grouping -- the Open Content Alliance (OCA) -- is making its pitch even as Google Inc. and the publishing industry lock horns over Google's ambitious plan to create a digital library.

The OCA, unveiled earlier this month by a group of digital archivists and backed by Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Adobe, says it has ....

News Story by Paul Krill
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Unifying its developer offerings for Windows, Borland Software Corp. on Monday will announce Borland Developer Studio, an environment that includes the latest versions of the company's Delphi, C++ Builder and C# Builder tools.

Featured are the 2006 versions of these three tools, with links to Borland's CalibreRM requirements management software, StarTeam change management software and Together modeling capabilities. Shipping late this year and formerly code-named Project Dexter, Borland Developer Studio is to be available in multiple versions based on the level of needs.

"With Borland Developer Studio, we are offering in a single, integrated environment support ....

No Pause to Refresh: More Robust Web Apps
Rich Internet applications improve the user's experience over the Net and skip the deployment and maintenance hassles of client/server apps

News Story by Heather Havenstein

OCTOBER 10, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - The Internet has represented a huge leap forward for many organizations, allowing them to expand the reach of their applications to remote workers, customers and suppliers. Unfortunately, limitations in browsers have meant a step backward for the user experience compared with client/server applications.

But a burgeoning group of users is solving this dilemma with new tools designed to preserve the rich content and interactive features ....

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