ESPRE Solutions reported that it has released ESPRE LIVE Media Platform 3.0 which provides an end-to-end delivery system for live video over any IP network. Additionally, with the release of ESPRE LIVE 3.0 ESPRE Solutions also discloses that it is currently workin...

Actuate announced that its spreadsheet management product, Actuate e.Spreadsheet has been honored as a SearchDataManagement.com Product of the Year in the category of Business Intelligence (BI). Actuate e.Spreadsheet was selected for this honor by the SearchData...

'MySQL's employees and culture, along with its near ubiquity across the Web, make it an ideal fit with Sun's open approach to network innovation,' said Sun's CEO and president, Jonathan Schwartz, as Sun today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to...

Vringo announced the addition of Discovery Channel video ringtones to its offering. Vringo users can share video clips of volcanoes, bees, skyrockets and any of 20 other videos, using their mobile phones. Vringo subscribers worldwide will be able to personalize th...

McObject announced that Perst, its all-Java object-oriented, open source embedded database, has been verified as compatible with the Android mobile device platform backed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance.

A mere 5 ½ months after contract singing, net-linx is pleased to announce that Folha de Londrina has taken nxAdvertising into live use, including 12 remote locations, supporting some 30 remote users. Folha de Londrina, a daily metro, is located in Londrina in th...

Objective Interface Systems, Inc. announced that ORBexpress RT, its high-performance CORBA ORB, now supports Mentor Graphics Corporation's Nucleus operating system. Developers of a wide variety of resource-constrained devices can now get a high-performance, smal...

Think of Computer Telephone Integration (CTI) and you probably think about screen popping IT systems and automated dialling. And you might also think CTI is a complex system development. Rostrvm Solutions? new Java toolbar provides easily-deployable standard CTI functions and more.

Jinfonet Software has announced the general release of JReport 8.2, the latest release of its reporting solution, with more than 60 enhancements. JReport 8.2 delivers enhancements in three key areas: performance improvements, greater developer flexibility and an ...

Ikivo AB and Sun Microsystems announced that Ikivo has joined the NetBeans Strategic Partner Program. This alliance will assure that the NetBeans community of developers, have access to enhanced authoring tool solutions for rapid creation and deployment of Mobil...

The IM3910 is the newest member of Imsys' IM3000 platform family of Reconfigurable System on Chip - RSoC products. The combination with Java makes it useful for applications such as automation networking, battery powered devices, Internet connected equipment, and ...

db4objects, Inc announced that db4o runs on the Android platform, a software stack for mobile devices introduced by the Google-backed Open Handset Alliance. db4o fills the gap by providing a fast and secure, native Java object database that makes storing objects a...

JetBrains has just announced the final availability from Monday, December 17 of JetGroovy Plugin 1.0 for Groovy and Grails developers and Ruby plugin 1.0 for productive Ruby development. With JetGroovy, IntelliJ IDEA brings its award-winning, productivity-boosting...

LiveTime Software announced that LiveTime applications will be available as VMware virtual appliances in the first quarter of 2008. Based on LiveTime's custom JeOS Linux distribution optimized for Java runtime environments and virtual machines, organizations can...

ESRI will host an online seminar this month that will help Java developers learn about how to build custom GIS Web applications using ArcGIS Server. Building Applications with ArcGIS Server Using the Java Platform will air on ESRI's Training and Education Web site...

Cloudsmith, Inc introduced the Cloudsmith service (www.cloudsmith.com). The site, now in public beta, is designed to make it easier and faster for developers to assemble, use and reuse software components. Cloudsmith?s infrastructure also aggregates the work of ...

Vgo Software, Inc announced the addition of an Object Repository to the 2.0 release of its Forms to Java conversion tool, Evo. 'The Evo Object Repository will allow users to consolidate business logic across thousands of Forms and applications, aiding customers in...

Coverity Inc announced expanded capabilities of the company's open source code analysis site. The open source Scan site will provide static source code analysis for Java-based open source projects as an extension of Coverity's relationship with the U.S. Department...

FFE Software has announced the first release of its new Java DB - FirstSQL/J Embedded Mobile Edition. Embedded Mobile is a special packaging of the standard FirstSQL/J Java DB for a small footprint, supporting JME and suitable for other embedded configurations.

In the wake of the Google's announcement of Android, its Linux-based cell phone platform, on Monday, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on his blog said he would 'like Sun to be the first platform software company to commit to a complete developer environment around the pl...

Wouldn't JSR 311 - a.k.a. JAX-RS: The Java API for RESTful Web Services - be more accurately named if it were called the 'Java HTTP Server API'? That is the question asked this week by Elliotte Rusty Harold, Java author and expert. 'I no longer think this API is a b...

In the aftermath of the latest spat between Rubyists and Javaholics, it might be worth noting that Ruby is now the 10th most popular programming language, up from 13th place a year ago. That, anyway, is the story according to the TIOBE Programming Community index ...

NetBeans 6.0 Beta 2 is now available for download. Beta 2 comes bundled with MySQL and PostgreSQL drivers, and improvements to Ruby code completion and Woodstock 4.1 Build 14. The focus of NetBeans 6.0 is superior developer productivity with a smarter, faster edit...

'Some folks are far too eager to misinterpret statements and put words in my mouth,' wrote James Gosling recently in his blog, in a post titled 'JavaME Is *Not* Dead!' - a rebuttal to a recent report in the UK media that JavaFX Mobile was perhaps going to eclipse ...

In the canon of anti-Java / Pro Ruby articles, none has achieved the center of attention swifter than the one written last month by blogger-developer Obie Fernandez, who self-describes himself as 'committed to making the world of software development a more enjo...

'In V2, the focus was on understanding how your code is structured today, and where it is tangled or overly complex. V3 takes it to the next level, letting architects define how the code should be structured and communicating this to the team so they can actually ...

IntelliJIDEA is one of the best Java IDE available on the market. While this release is specifically focused on further upgrading performance, usability, and user experience, version 7.0 also provides efficient support for features, technologies, and tools you've asked.

InterSystems Corporation has announced that Four Points Technology will provide the InterSystems CACHÉ high-performance object database to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The contract for enterprise software and maintenance services, with an initial value...

In a demonstration of its commitment to transparency and illustrating its philosophy of 'Innovate, Act, Share,' Sun has released its second annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report. The report features the company's progress and exemplifiesits continu...

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. According to Marketwatch.com, the Dow Jones site, 'to date, SAP has been ple...

A new breed of web manager is emerging to link content management more closely to website visitor satisfaction. The new web manager may operate under several professional guises: 'customer advocate,' 'information guru,' or 'metator,' to name just a few. They need ...

According to CEO Jonathan Schwartz's blog, where this new strategy was revealed on Monday, 'We'll still be strongly focused on being a multi-platform storage provider (just as our servers run multiple operating systems, and our operating system runs on every vendo...

Sun Microsystems and Bank of America, a key provider of treasury services to Sun, are breaking new ground with a pilot of the ISO 20022 global financial messaging standard for end-to-end payment processing. Running on Sun's own Solaris 10 Operating System, the p...

SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards program, widely considered to be the most prestigious award program in the software industry, is a community-driven process in which the products participating in the program are nominated by the industry's vendors, customers, and ...

Speaking at a conference yesterday, Gordon Moore conceded that there are fundamental limits to Moore's Law and that the laws of physics will render it obsolete in about ten to fifteen years' time.

Having just changed its ticker symbol, belatedly, to Java, Sun now wants to do a one-for-four reverse stock split to give its shares, stuck in the doldrums for years now, more heft. It would have 25% fewer shares, but each would be worth four times more, say a more ...

Offering add-ons to test UltraLightClient-based applications more easily, a new 6.2 version of Canoo's Java library for Rich Internet Applications was announced today. The new ULC 6.2 test extensions offer an improved way for developers to test the user interface ...

Sun is buying the open source Lustre File System along with most of the rest of Colorado-based Cluster File System's intellectual property, business assets and people on undisclosed terms for Solaris and Linux, pledging to enhance the parallel cluster file system ...

In his blog, Schwartz claims 'Sun did not approach NetApps about licensing any of Sun's patents' and says 'NetApps first approached StorageTek behind the cover of a third-party intermediary seeking to purchase STK patents,' which Sun wouldn't do when it acquired ...

It is a complete myth, says Elliotte Rusty Harold, that Java is somehow incompatible with the LGPL. 'It seems that no matter how many times the FSF and others deny this canard, it just keeps coming back. It is a dangerous meme that seems completely immune to the truth.'