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SYS-CON's i-Technology News Desk trawls the world of Internet technologies for news and innovations and presents IT professionals with updates on technology advances, business trends, new products and standards.
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Around the Blogosphere By i-Technology News Desk '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 ... Feb. 2, 2008 04:15 AM Reads: 7,740 | Microsoft Bids $44.6BN
for Yahoo! By i-Technology News Desk '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
... Feb. 1, 2008 07:30 AM Reads: 9,832 Replies: 1 | i-Technology Milestone:
The Domain Name System
(DNS) Turns 25 This Week By i-Technology News Desk 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 substantial... Jan. 29, 2008 05:00 AM Reads: 6,888 | Wanted: Six Volunteers To
Help Coordinate the
Internet's Unique
Identifiers By i-Technology News Desk  '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
Corpor... Jan. 28, 2008 07:15 AM Reads: 2,491 | C#, Turbo Pascal, C++,
PHP...and the LEGO Brick:
Denmark's Leading Exports By i-Technology News Desk 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
S... Jan. 28, 2008 01:45 AM Reads: 6,396 | Where's i-Technology
Headed in 2008 By i-Technology News Desk  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
th... Jan. 1, 2008 09:00 AM Reads: 2,566 | Is BEA the Next Big
Acquisition Target? By i-Technology News Desk 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 sa... Oct. 9, 2007 04:00 AM Reads: 13,884 | Sybase IQ Powers Largest
Green Data Warehouse
Including Unstructured
Data By i-Technology News Desk 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
co... Sep. 10, 2007 10:00 AM Reads: 9,438 | Web Age Solutions to
Present at SOA World
Conference & Expo By i-Technology News Desk 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. Jun. 2, 2007 10:00 PM Reads: 11,876 | TIBCO's Matt Quinn To
Give SOA World Conference
Session On Service
Virtualization By i-Technology News Desk 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... Apr. 2, 2007 03:45 PM Reads: 16,304 | Estonia Becomes E-stonia
As Internet Voting Takes
Off in Post-Soviet
Republic By i-Technology News Desk 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 upco... Feb. 23, 2007 10:15 AM Reads: 15,424 Replies: 2 | Industry Legend Mitchell
Kertzman's 2005
Prediction On
Virtualization Comes True By i-Technology News Desk 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... Feb. 19, 2007 03:15 PM Reads: 15,812 | JotSpot Founders Joe
Kraus and Graham Spencer
Sell To Google By i-Technology News Desk 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. Nov. 6, 2006 02:00 AM Reads: 16,983 | Grandma's Knitting Circle
Enters Cyberspace –
Taking Clubs and
Associations to the Web By i-Technology News Desk 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. Nov. 1, 2006 07:00 AM Reads: 15,551 | Apple Is Claiming It Owns
the Word "Podcast" By i-Technology News Desk 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 t... Sep. 27, 2006 04:00 PM Reads: 15,884 Replies: 2 | HP Admits to
"Pretexting,"
Non-Executive Chairman
Patricia Dunn Falls on
Her Sword By i-Technology News Desk 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
inst... Sep. 16, 2006 11:30 AM Reads: 18,164 | Forget Web 2.0, Says
Berners-Lee: "Web 1.0 Was
Already All About
Connecting People" By i-Technology News Desk '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 yo... Aug. 23, 2006 04:00 AM Reads: 23,961 Replies: 4 | SYS-CON Media Names
Carmen Gonzalez President
and Chief Operating
Officer By i-Technology News Desk 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 ... Aug. 21, 2006 08:30 PM Reads: 18,169 | AMD Cracks Another Intel
Icon By i-Technology News Desk 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 bein... Aug. 11, 2006 03:30 PM Reads: 16,604 Replies: 1 | AJAX Update: AjaxAnywhere
– Initial Release
of v1.0 By i-Technology News Desk 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 mu... Apr. 12, 2006 02:30 PM Reads: 45,132 Replies: 5 | Web 2.0 In The News:
Social-Network Sites Are
Leading a New Tech Boom,
Reports Newsweek By i-Technology News Desk 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
wit... Mar. 26, 2006 02:45 PM Reads: 25,704 | i-Technology News:
Consequences of ICANN
Board's .com Decision Are
'Far-Reaching and
Permanent' By i-Technology News Desk 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. Mar. 17, 2006 01:45 AM Reads: 20,415 Replies: 1 | Bye Bye Microsoft
FrontPage, Hello
AJAX-Based "Google Page
Creator" By i-Technology News Desk 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! Feb. 23, 2006 01:30 PM Reads: 22,669 | Is CMP's Dr. Dobb's
Journal Pirating SYS-CON
Media's Internet TV
Content? By i-Technology News Desk  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... Feb. 19, 2006 08:45 AM Reads: 23,873 Replies: 4 | Sybase Bases New
Offerings On Quest
Software Technology By i-Technology News Desk '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 ... Feb. 7, 2006 07:00 PM Reads: 21,127 Replies: 1 | RIA Update: Nexaweb and
Hitachi Partner On
Deploying Rich Internet
Apps By i-Technology News Desk 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. Feb. 7, 2006 03:45 PM Reads: 26,234 Replies: 1 | As IBM Jumps On Board,
There's Just No Stopping
AJAX Now By i-Technology News Desk '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 ... Feb. 2, 2006 06:15 AM Reads: 70,867 Replies: 1 | "Web 2.0 Integration"
Pioneer Kapow Achieves
865% Revenue Growth Over
a 5-year Period By i-Technology News Desk '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
... Jan. 23, 2006 05:15 AM Reads: 21,887 | AJAX Tipped To Play Major
Role in the Shape of
i-Technology to Come By i-Technology News Desk  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... Jan. 22, 2006 05:30 AM Reads: 41,753 Replies: 1 | NetBeans IDE 5.0 Release
Candidate Download
Becomes Available By i-Technology News Desk  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. Jan. 14, 2006 01:45 PM Reads: 19,234 Replies: 2 | Will Security Be the
Microsoft vs Linux
Battleground for 2006? By i-Technology News Desk '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 th... Jan. 9, 2006 04:30 AM Reads: 21,647 Replies: 4 | AJAX Support Added To
Opera Browser By i-Technology News Desk 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). Jan. 7, 2006 06:15 PM Reads: 29,891 Replies: 1 | iPod and iMac Designer
Recognized: H.M. The
Queen Honors Jonathan
Ive, Apple By i-Technology News Desk 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
internatio... Dec. 30, 2005 05:45 PM Reads: 20,594 | HostMySite.com Wins
Second Consecutive Award
of Excellence in Hosting By i-Technology News Desk For the second
consecutive year,
HostMySite.com has been
selected to receive the
prestigious Marvin S.
Gilman Award of
Excellence for
outstanding customer
service. Dec. 4, 2005 03:00 AM Reads: 19,790 Replies: 1 | Apple's Video iPod Plays
SYS-CON.TV's i-Technology
Programming By i-Technology News Desk  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
ex... Dec. 1, 2005 02:30 AM Reads: 23,019 Replies: 6 | Firefox v1.5 Formally
Released By i-Technology News Desk 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. Nov. 29, 2005 06:45 AM Reads: 18,501 | Jeremy Allaire's Triple
Whammy: Brightcove Snags
$16M, Major AOL Support,
and Barry Diller By i-Technology News Desk  'We are thrilled to get
both the backing of such
a strong group of
strategic investors and a
major distribution
agreement with AOL,' said
the 'Father of
ColdFusion,' Jeremy
Allaire, now Chairman and
CEO of Internet TV
start-up Brightcove.
Allaire was referring to ... Nov. 23, 2005 07:45 PM Reads: 43,335 | Google Comes To London:
Google Space Launches at
Heathrow Airport Terminal
1 By i-Technology News Desk In a recent survey of
British air passengers
commissioned by Google
and conducted by
independent market
research firm
Tickbox.net, 50% of those
surveyed said they had
nothing better to do in
airport terminals than
eat, drink and shop.
However, 71% of
respondents... Nov. 23, 2005 08:15 AM Reads: 23,797 | BlueShark Adds GraphOn's
GO-Global Softwareto
Apriza Thin-Client
Hardware By i-Technology News Desk A leading developer of
cross-platform
application publishing
and Web-enabling
solutions, has announced
that it has established a
strategic co-marketing
agreement with BlueShark
Technologies. BlueShark
will now offer its Apriza
5400 and 5410 thin-client
hardware ap... Nov. 18, 2005 01:00 PM Reads: 21,157 Replies: 1 | IBM Announces BladeCenter
Solutions for Financial
and Banking Industries By i-Technology News Desk IBM has announced new
solutions to allow
financial services and
banking customers to
centralize operations and
reduce overhead costs.
The new IBM Systems
Solutions for Branch
Banking leverages IBM's
growing ecosystem of
partners, and also adds
another option to th... Nov. 16, 2005 02:00 PM Reads: 24,718 Replies: 1 |
TODAY'S TOP 10 LINKS YOU MUST CLICK ON! YOUR FEEDBACK  | Is Sun Looking to Replace
CEO Jonathan Schwartz? By Maureen O'Gara Brigdson Smith wrote:
remember, Eric Schmidt
was Schwartz's first boss
at Sun - something tells
me if he left Sun, it'd
take four minutes for him
to end up to Google. | | What Does the Future Hold
for the Java Language? By Joe Winchester Tommy wrote: I simply do
not agree on many parts:
- .NET has a lot of
traction
- you can
certainly know well (and
master) more than one
language. If you cannot
master more than one
language, this could
potentially be one of
your limits.
- Java is not a perfect
language
- It is ea... | | i-Technology Opinion: Why
Use Extreme Programming? By Troy Holmes James Nwaba wrote: This
is a nice article - very
straight froward, easy to
understand.However, there
was no mention of any
organization that have
implemented XP.
The author said, "Many of
the concepts found in
this lightweight method
of development have been
implemented into the ... | | iPhone Office: 100 Ways
to Turn Your Device into
the Ultimate Productivity
Tool By Jessica Merritt QueZZtion wrote: Can the
iPhone really work as a
multimedia remote for
iTunes or even a desktop? | | DoJa in NTT DoCoMo Phones By Zev Blut Venkat wrote: Excellent
explanation. It will be
helpful if it was in
pictorial form ie with
the emulator images. Can
u please send me the
I-mode to I appli
communication and a brief
explanatioj about the
architecture.Thanks in
advance. |
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