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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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Yahoo! vs Google Race
Heats Up As Yahoo! Enters
"Social Software" Space By i-Technology News Desk Yahoo's 'Mingle' project
has been formally
announced, and re-named
'Yahoo 360' - a social
network or 'social
software' platform
integrating Yahoo's
existing products such as
instant messenger,
photos, local search,
music, and groups with
new offerings such as
bl... Mar. 21, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 25,718 Replies: 10 | GMS Adds GRSI To
Certified Solution
Provider Program By i-Technology News Desk New partnership between
GMS ad GRSI will enhance
FastTrak offering. Mar. 21, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 8,395 | Google Launches "Google
Code" Web Site:
Code.Google.com By i-Technology News Desk Google yesterday launched
Code.google.com, a site
for external developers
interested in
Google-related
development. 'It's where
we'll publish free source
code and lists of our API
services,' Google said as
it unveiled the site,
adding: 'We really care
about free a... Mar. 19, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 38,015 Replies: 8 | Sun Turns J2SE Into
Laboratory For New Java
Licensing Experiment By i-Technology News Desk Sun is creating three new
licenses for Java.
Henceforth there will be
a Java Research Licence,
a Java Distribution
License, and a Java
Internal Use License. Mar. 18, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 35,816 Replies: 12 | Bottomline Pulls Rank In
KMWorld's Annual "Most
Important" List By i-Technology News Desk Bottomline Technologies
was included in KMWorld
Magazine's listing of the
100 most important
companies in knowledge
management. Mar. 18, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 10,125 | ViewSonic True To Its
Name, Creates World's
Fastest LCD Monitor By i-Technology News Desk ViewSonic has released
the world's fastest LCD
monitor. Mar. 17, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 10,370 | IT Workers Most Stressed
Over Job Loss By i-Technology News Desk Results from a recent
poll conducted by
Web-based job site Dice
indicates workers are
most stressed about
losing their jobs,
despite the fact that the
IT job market has
improved. Mar. 17, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 11,401 | "Web Services Enabled
eBay To Become What It Is
Today," Says Matt Ackley
(Live on SYS-CON.TV) By i-Technology News Desk 'Web services is what
enabled eBay to become
what it is today,' said
Matt Ackley, as he opened
Web Services Edge 2005 -
International Conference
& Expo with a
tremendously well
attended keynote devoted
to the role of Web
services in e-commerce
called 'Enabling the... Mar. 16, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 26,617 Replies: 11 | Voluntary Tax To Bring
Technology To Poor
Nations By i-Technology News Desk Geneva is the first city
to sign up for a tax that
will contribute money so
poor nations can gain
basic computer products,
skills and
infrastructure. Mar. 16, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 8,396 | Free Love, Yahoo! Debuts
Social Networking Service By i-Technology News Desk Yahoo is joining rivals
Microsoft and Google with
its own blogging
products. Mar. 16, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 17,639 | Interwoven Introduces
MediaBin Presentation
WorkBench By i-Technology News Desk Enables more efficient
management of Microsoft
PowerPoint files. Mar. 15, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 10,748 | HP Creating Unified
Fabric For Enterprise
Networks By i-Technology News Desk HP announced advances in
its server networking and
storage technologies to
help customers simplify
their IT infrastructures,
improve manageability and
performance and lower the
costs of enterprise
computing environments. Mar. 14, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 10,562 | John C. Dvorak Makes
i-Technology TV Debut
(Live on SYS-CON.TV) By i-Technology News Desk Author and columnist John
C. Dvorak this afternoon
is making his debut on
SYS-CON.TV
(http://sys-con.tv) and
will be following up on
some of the issues most
commonly associated with
him including the state
of the Nasdaq, blogging,
and i-technology in
general. View... Mar. 12, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 12,218 Replies: 2 | IBM-Lenovo Deal Good to
Go: Committee on Foreign
Investment Gives Approval By i-Technology News Desk IBM's $1.75 deal with
Lenovo - the top seller
of PCs in China - won the
approval yesterday of the
Committee on Foreign
Investment (CFIUS). Mar. 11, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 11,218 Replies: 5 | "Supercomputing On
Demand" Introduced by IBM
From Today By i-Technology News Desk IBM has begun to offer
access to its Blue Gene
supercomputing system,
the world's most powerful
supercomputer, as a
commercial offering.
'Deep Computing' on
demand is born. Mar. 11, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 9,405 | Google Founders Close
Net-Worth Gap With Bill
Gates By i-Technology News Desk 691 people from 47
countries with a combined
fortune of $2.2 trillion
feature in the annual
Forbes magazine list of
the richest people in the
world. Bill Gates heads
the list, as he has done
for over a decade.
Microsoft cofounder Paul
Allen is still in the top
ten... Mar. 11, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 34,852 Replies: 6 | Google's Beta App Goes
Alpha: Desktop Search 1.0 By i-Technology News Desk We're proud to take
Google Desktop Search out
of beta, and we will
continue to extend the
utility of desktop search
for users worldwide,'
said Jonathan Rosenberg,
vice president of Product
Management at Google, as
Google yesterday
announced the formal
launch of Go... Mar. 8, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 21,348 Replies: 5 | "Sky Is The Limit For
Game Developers" By i-Technology News Desk Startup Ageia plans on
introducing a graphics
chip dedicated to
so-called gaming
'physics.'
Physics-supported chips
may become another
category, like audio and
graphics that most native
CPUs cannot support
without third-party
drivers or dedicated,
application-specific
CPUs. Mar. 8, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 9,311 | Yahoo Set To Launch New
Online Music Service By i-Technology News Desk Yahoo and digital-music
wholesaler MusicNet have
been working together on
a new online music
service that intends to
compete with Apple's
iTunes. Mar. 8, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 11,079 | Google's Latest Search
Enhancement By i-Technology News Desk Google has expanded its
desktop search tool,
enabling users to find
e-mail and files stored
on computer hard drives. Mar. 7, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 7,538 | Infravio CEO's Aim: To
Make X-registry "the De
Facto Web Services
Registry of Choice" -
Live on SYS-CON.TV By i-Technology News Desk Founded by two brothers
out of a Stanford
University research
project and now already
into its third successful
round of venture finance,
Infravio, Inc. is fast
making a name for itself
in the Web Services
Management space, and
spoke with SYS-CON.TV at
Web Service... Mar. 4, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 24,905 Replies: 7 | Bill Gates, Now KBE,
"Humbled and Delighted"
By Honorary Knighthood
From British Queen By i-Technology News Desk Queen Elizabeth II
yesterday conferred an
honorary knighthood on
Bill Gates in a private
ceremony held at
Buckingham Palace. Gates
was accompanied by his
wife, Melinda Gates,
co-founder of the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation. Mar. 3, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 15,810 Replies: 3 | Bye Bye Client/Server:
Nexaweb's Software
Platform Helps Put RIAs
On the Map - Live on
SYS-CON.TV By i-Technology News Desk As Nexaweb Technologies,
provider of the leading
software platform for
building and deploying
rich internet
applications, announced
at Web Services Edge
2005, in Boston, its new
Port Partner Program
aimed at easing the
migration of
client/server
applications to ... Mar. 3, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 21,147 Replies: 1 | "We're Not Dissatisfied
With Java" Says IBM As It
Steps Up Support for PHP By i-Technology News Desk Saying that its support
of the open source
scripting language PHP
does not reflect any
dissatisfaction with
Java, IBM is partnering
with Zend Technologies to
create Zend Core, a
bundling of IBM's
Cloudscape database based
on Apache Software
Foundation Derby and
... Feb. 28, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 18,010 Replies: 13 | Mozilla Urges 27 Million
Firefox Users to Download
Anti-Phishing Update By i-Technology News Desk Downloaded more than 27
million times and
available in 28
languages, The Mozilla
Foundation's
award-winning Firefox 1.0
browser this week
released a security
update at mozilla.org
aimed at covering
'moderately-critical' and
other security
vulnerabilities. The
... Feb. 26, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 14,739 Replies: 9 | Maureen O'Gara Debuts On
SYS-CON.tv By i-Technology News Desk In a don't-miss moment,
Maureen O'Gara of Linux
Business Week was
available on Friday to a
worldwide audience to
answer all and any
questions about
technology and the
technology industry. The
hour-long broadcast made
history, being streamed
live across the Interne... Feb. 25, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 10,698 Replies: 3 | Google Debuts Movie
Showtime Listings Tool By i-Technology News Desk Google has unveiled a
service that provides
movie showtimes that are
accessible using mobile
devices. Feb. 24, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 10,570 | Microsoft Fighting HIV
Using Algorithms And
Data-Mining By i-Technology News Desk Microsoft Research is
using advanced software
typically used to analyze
large computer databases
and complex digital
images, or to separate
spam from legitimate
e-mail, to uncover hidden
mutations in the HIV
virus. Feb. 24, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 10,379 | Alcatel + Microsoft =
Internet TV Over IP,
a.k.a. "IPTV," Coming
Soon To a PC or TV Near
You By i-Technology News Desk Microsoft is teaming up
with Alcatel - the
company that developed
Amigo TV, a community TV
application, and the
world's leading DSL
equipment provider - to
try and carve itself a
slice of the
fast-emerging TV and
video-over-broadband
market. Feb. 23, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 36,185 Replies: 32 | IBM And Dassault
Aerospace Compliance
Solution Takes Off By i-Technology News Desk New industry solution
from IBM and Dassault
Systems optimizes
aerospace suppliers'
productivity and
flexibility using a
specialized PLM (product
lifecycle management)
solution. Feb. 23, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 10,105 | ESRI Developer Network
Lauched By i-Technology News Desk ESRI, the world leader in
geographic information
system (GIS) technology,
today announced the
launch of the ESRI
Developer Network (EDN). Feb. 22, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 10,529 | US Government Hurts P2P
Networking, Cato
Institute Report Says By i-Technology News Desk Cato Institute argues
that peer-to-peer (P2P)
network technology would
by and large come to an
end, if the US government
becomes entrenched in the
controversy. Feb. 17, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 7,732 | RealSoft's WebTransporter
Takes Browsers Offline By i-Technology News Desk Enhancements to offline
Web browser,
WebTransporter, have made
the application a dynamic
program that can
introduce a whole new Web
experience to users. Feb. 16, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 10,779 | SYS-CON Media Readers
Cast More Than 4,000
Votes In First Week Of
Voting By i-Technology News Desk This year it looks
certain that a new
participation record will
be set, as more than
4,000 votes have already
been recorded in just the
first seven days of
voting, as more than
50,000 SYS-CON Media
readers are estimated to
cast their votes in this
year's Readers' ... Feb. 12, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 98,968 Replies: 1 | Can Wiki Web's Biggest
Out-Muscle Search
Engines? By i-Technology News Desk Web's Biggest claims to
search more Web sites
than any other browser
and allows users to
change the descriptions
of Web sites. Feb. 11, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 11,007 | Sensory Brings Man And
Machine Closer Together By i-Technology News Desk Leading speech
recognition software
supplier Sensory is using
new Adaptive Artificial
Intelligence in its
processors. The new
technology empowers
developers to create
products that learn over
time and display lifelike
personalities. Feb. 10, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 9,878 | Breaking News: "Bye Bye
Carly," Says HP By i-Technology News Desk Carly Fiorina has stepped
down as Chairman and CEO
of Hewlett Packard. CEO
since 1999, Fiorina is
being replaced by Robert
Wayman, HP's current CFO,
while Patricia Dunn, was
named non-executive
chairman of the board,
effective immediately. Feb. 9, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 21,223 Replies: 17 | Google Takes Browser Wars
To Front Line By i-Technology News Desk Google has released a
beta version of Google
Maps, offering access to
maps, driving directions
and the ability to search
for local businesses. Feb. 8, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 9,366 | Bill Gates & Microsoft
Herald "A New Generation
of Software and Web
Services" By i-Technology News Desk 'Microsoft has been
working with the industry
to advance a new
generation of software
that is interoperable by
design, reducing the need
for custom development
and cumbersome testing
and certification,' wrote
Bill Gates yesterday in
an 'executive e-mail'
sent to a... Feb. 4, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 29,206 Replies: 18 | Cape Clear Shows
Goverment How ESB Will
Benefit IT By i-Technology News Desk Cape Clear will provide a
series of initiatives
designed to show the
benefits of emerging ESB
technology. Feb. 4, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 9,538 |
TODAY'S TOP 10 LINKS YOU MUST CLICK ON! YOUR FEEDBACK  | | | What Does the Future Hold
for the Java Language? By Joe Winchester Rajesh Kumar Raj wrote:
Hi All,
I Agree with the author
.First we have to
understand that here we
are discussing about
general purpose
enterprise programming
languages. So here we
don't have to care about
languages like HTML, XML,
JavaScript and these
languages are common for ... | | 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. | | 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 ... | | 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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