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

'The combination of these two great teams would enable us to jointly deliver a broad range of new experiences to our customers that neither of us would have achieved on our own,' said Ray Ozzie, chief software architect at Microsoft, as the Redmond giant announced today that it has pro...

When the Domain Name System (DNS) was created 25 years ago, eight years before the introduction of the World Wide Web, a few hundred machines were connected to the Internet. Today more than 130 million are connected, and this number is expected to grow substantially as the majority of ...

'ICANN's work coordinating the Internet's addressing system is at the foundation of the Internet and its future - and we are always looking for people who want to make a contribution,' said Hagen Hultzsch, Chair of the Nominating Committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names...

Google's main page today celebrates the 50th anniversary of the iconic LEGO brick. Today?s LEGO bricks still fit bricks from 1958, but more importantly it is one of Denmark's best-known exports, along with programming language creators Anders Hejlsberg, Bjarne Stroustrup, and Rasmus Le...

2007 was undoubtedly the year of Social Networking, but what of 2008? Will '08 be the year of 'Unified Communications' or the year when CMS comes to stand for 'Community Management System' - or even 'Collaboration Management System'? Or will it be the year of the giga-merger, to beat t...

BEA, Cognos, and Informatica have all been named yesterday by a Credit Suisse analyst Jason Maynard as possible acquisition targets in the wake of the SAP acquisition of Business Objects. In a note released to Credit Suisse clients yesterday, Maynard reportedly said: 'The SAP/Microsoft...

Sybase, Inc., has announced, in conjunction with Sun Microsystems and BMMSoft, that Sybase IQ powers the world's largest data warehouse implemented in history, as noted in the independently audited report. The benchmarks were achieved in large part due to the compression capability of ...

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

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

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

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

At the end of 2005, 30,000+ SYS-CON.com readers enjoyed the benefits of industry legend Mitchell Kertzman's prescience about virtualization. Already back then, Kertzman - now at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners but still famous for having been the founder and CEO of Powersoft, which mer...

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

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

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

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

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

In a series of whipsaw revelations over the last 10 days - on which more ink seems to have been spent than Enron got - it has come to light that HP's non-executive chairman Patricia Dunn, who is supposed to be one of the most powerful women in America and was instrumental in removing H...

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

SYS-CON Media announced today that Carmen Gonzalez has been named President and Chief Operating Officer of the company effective immediately. Gonzalez, as the first employee of SYS-CON Media, started the company's marketing and sales organization in 1994, and has managed the sales depa...

AMD Tuesday cracked Lenovo's previously Intel-only enterprise-directed ThinkCenter PCs, but the sacred ThinkPad notebook that Lenovo inherited from IBM, responsible for 52% of Lenovo's sales in Q2, is still off-limits to the interloper - at least for the time being. Lenovo is putting A...

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

In the upcoming edition of Newsweek, dated April 3, the cover story features fledgling companies MySpace.com and Flickr and describes them as 'leading a charge of innovators making hay out of the Internet's ability to empower citizens and enrich those who help with the empowerment.' Th...

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

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

Thanks to the all-pervasiveness of Google News's searchbots, it has been discovered that CMP Media is making available - for free - on its website content that it did not originate. It is being branded by CMP as belonging to something itcalls the 'Dr Dobbs Journal Research Center' - on...

'Our relationship with Quest Software underscores our commitment to providing ASE customers with the best database management and optimization solutions available,' said Kathleen Schaub, VP of product marketing, Sybase Information Technology Solutions Group, as Sybase and Quest Softwar...

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

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

'We are pleased to be among the top 100 fastest growing technology companies in the EMEA region,' said Glenn Hasen, CEO of Kapow Technologies, as the company whose Kapow Web Integration Platform is making waves through the information and application integration market was today announ...

AJAX, LAMP, Virtualization, SaaS, Open Source, SANs, Web 2.0, Blog consolidation, InfoSec, BitTorrent, Googlecrash, Adobe, IE7, SOA, REST, Single Sign-On, SemWeb, iComm, Structured Blogging, VPMNs, VoIP Phones, Semantic Technologies, Ruby on Rails, spam/phishing, VoIP, and WiFi: welcom...

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

'If you look at Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, the average patch time is under a day. With the recent critical WMF (Windows Meta File) vulnerability, it took Microsoft seven days.' This, claims a consulting software engineer for Red Hat, is the key to interpreting the raw data published l...

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

The senior vice president of Design at Apple, Jonathan Ive, has been awarded a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in the UK's so-called 'New Year's Honors' list. The award recognizes Ive's international achievement in the...

Mandriva and LaCie will introduce a mobile USB hard drive named the 'GlobeTrotter 2.0.' The GlobeTrotter comes in 40 or 80GB and is pre-loaded with a specially tuned version of the award-winning Mandriva Linux operating system. Combined with the power and unique design of LaCie hardwar...

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

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

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