http://linux.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from i-Technology News Desk Copyright 2008 LINUX Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT LINUX 10 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://linux.sys-con.com/read/494548.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/494548.htm Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:15:00 GMT '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 acquire Yahoo! Inc. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/494428.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/494428.htm Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:30:00 GMT '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 proposed to the Yahoo! Inc. Board of Directors to acquire all the outstanding shares of Yahoo! common stock for per share consideration of $31 representing a total equity value of approximately $44.6 billion. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/491998.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/491998.htm Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:00:00 GMT 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 the world's population goes online. Without a simplified naming scheme like DNS today's Internet would not exist. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/491179.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/491179.htm Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:15:00 GMT '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 and Numbers (ICANN) as he announced today that ICANN is looking for 6 volunteers to help it with the global task of coordinating the Internet's unique identifiers. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/491076.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/491076.htm Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:45:00 GMT 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 Lerdorf, who between them created C#, Turbo Pascal, C++, and PHP. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/504985.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/504985.htm Tue, 01 Jan 2008 09:00:00 GMT 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 the mere mega-mergers of 2007? http://linux.sys-con.com/read/440484.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/440484.htm Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:00:00 GMT 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 partnership seems to have fallen apart as the two companies appear to be on a competitive collision course.' http://linux.sys-con.com/read/426656.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/426656.htm Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:00:00 GMT 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 Sybase IQ, a highly optimized analytics server not only for compression but also for query performance and lightning speed load performance. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/362062.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/362062.htm Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:00:00 GMT 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. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/322915.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/322915.htm Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:45:00 GMT 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 packaged applications deployed across the enterprise. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/340535.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/340535.htm Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:15:00 GMT 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. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/337163.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/337163.htm Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:15:00 GMT 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 merged with Sybase in February 1995 - was clear how central a role virtualization was about to start playing in the IT landscape. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/295618.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/295618.htm Mon, 06 Nov 2006 02:00:00 GMT 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. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/293425.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/293425.htm Wed, 01 Nov 2006 07:00:00 GMT 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. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/277379.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/277379.htm Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:00:00 GMT 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 podcasts to assorted devices, from different computers. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/272825.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/272825.htm Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:30:00 GMT 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 HP CEO Carly Fiorina, set in train a search for a boardroom leak that involved getting the home and cell phone records of the HP board, nine journalists and two unidentified HP employees to see who was leaking to the press. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/263602.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/263602.htm Wed, 23 Aug 2006 04:00:00 GMT '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, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along.' http://linux.sys-con.com/read/262969.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/262969.htm Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:30:00 GMT 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 department for more than 12 years, most recently in the capacity of Senior Vice President of Marketing & Sales. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/259511.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/259511.htm Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:30:00 GMT 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 AMD's single- and dual core Athlon chips and its low-end Sempron processor in a ThinkCenter A60 desktop or mini-tower. It comes pre-loaded with the ThinkVantage productivity and self-recovery technologies that IBM Global Service has started using to manage non-Lenovo boxes under a new deal the pair just signed. AMD needs corporate business. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/130986.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/130986.htm Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:30:00 GMT 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 AjaxAnywhere to refresh only those zones that needs to be updated.' http://linux.sys-con.com/read/198830.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/198830.htm Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:45:00 GMT 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.' The story examines how user-generated Web sites are rocking the Internet and leading the next tech boom. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/193889.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/193889.htm Fri, 17 Mar 2006 01:45:00 GMT 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. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/187270.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/187270.htm Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:30:00 GMT 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! http://linux.sys-con.com/read/172882.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/172882.htm Sun, 19 Feb 2006 08:45:00 GMT 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' - only problem is, it is an original Webcast devised, filmed, edited,and deployed not by Dr Dobbs or CMP but by SYS-CON Media. Or, to be precise, by the company's Internet TV arm, SYS-CON.TV (www.sys-con.tv). http://linux.sys-con.com/read/180515.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/180515.htm Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:00:00 GMT '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 Software today announced the general availability of the Sybase SQL Expert Option and the Sybase Database Expert Option for Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.0. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/180265.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/180265.htm Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:45:00 GMT 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. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/177672.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/177672.htm Thu, 02 Feb 2006 06:15:00 GMT '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 biggest thing to hit the i-Technology world since Java. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/173630.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/173630.htm Mon, 23 Jan 2006 05:15:00 GMT '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 announced as having placed 92nd in the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu's (DTT) Technology Fast 500 Europe 2005. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/173418.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/173418.htm Sun, 22 Jan 2006 05:30:00 GMT 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: welcome to SYS-CON Media's roundup of i-Technology predictions. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/171283.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/171283.htm Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:45:00 GMT 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. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/169045.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/169045.htm Mon, 09 Jan 2006 04:30:00 GMT '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 last week by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). http://linux.sys-con.com/read/169012.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/169012.htm Sat, 07 Jan 2006 18:15:00 GMT 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). http://linux.sys-con.com/read/166973.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/166973.htm Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:45:00 GMT 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 field of industrial design, having led the team responsible for the design of groundbreaking products such as the iMac, iBook, Powerbook and iPod at Apple. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/152440.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/152440.htm Sun, 04 Dec 2005 03:00:00 GMT For the second consecutive year, HostMySite.com has been selected to receive the prestigious Marvin S. Gilman Award of Excellence for outstanding customer service. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/144167.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/144167.htm Thu, 01 Dec 2005 02:30:00 GMT 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 recent years. Strukhoff also interviewed the CEOs of number software companies in India. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/157913.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/157913.htm Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:45:00 GMT 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. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/156997.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/156997.htm Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:45:00 GMT '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 the announcement yesterday that Brightcove had completed a major strategic financing round, forged a groundbreaking video content distribution partnership with AOL, and appointed Barry Diller, Chairman and CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp and Chairman of Expedia, Inc., to the Brightcove Board of Directors. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/156931.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/156931.htm Wed, 23 Nov 2005 08:15:00 GMT 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 stated that they would like to use this time to find out more about their destination. Enter: Google Space. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/155705.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/155705.htm Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:00:00 GMT 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 appliances pre-configured with GraphOn?s GO-Global for Windows CE client software. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/154810.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/154810.htm Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:00:00 GMT 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 the IBM Virtualized Hosted Client Infrastructure solution portfolio.