Nexaweb Technologies has announced its Fall eConference Series created to help IT directors, executives and software developers examine how rich Internet applications (RIAs) enable the agile enterprise and what Forrester dubs the 'Information Workplace.' Technic...

At the end of last year the staff of Google passed the 10,000 mark for the first time; now just eleven months later a new milestone has been passed: Google shares this week hit $700 for the first time - just one month after reaching $600, in fact. It is no coincid...

At its analysts' day the other day, Google remained reluctant to forecast how its Google apps will fare and evaded off the question of whether it could get 5%-7% of the SMB segments saying predictions were 'dangerous.' It claimed it's a function of the penetration...

'There's definitely a lot of betting going on, and it's not rational.' - Book publisher and conference thrower Tim O'Reilly, who coined the phrase Web 2.0, on the Bubble-style amounts of money going into Internet start-ups as quoted in the New York Times where he ...

FatWire Software has acquired Infostoria, a provider of Web 2.0 collaboration and content sharing tools for the enterprise. Infostoria's technology enables single-click wiki creation and blogging, and offers an advanced content integration platform to help organ...

Launched in February 2004, Facebook is now worth $15BN - judging from the fact that Microsoft has reportedly just bought itself a modest 1.6% chunk of the company for a staggering $240M. Mark Zuckerberg, a former member of the Harvard Class of 2006, will not be sh...

In this session we will examine how the SOA and Web 2.0 technology-based platform developed in Openreach Portal by wiring up the existing rigid flows and deploying them for execution, through Web and Web service interfaces in real-time and zero down time, gave the...

WebEffective 6.0 facilitates fast, accurate testing of end users interacting with sites featuring Web 2.0 technologies, including AJAX, Flash and DHTML. DHTML is a combination of technologies gaining in popularity used to create highly dynamic and interactive Web ...

BEA has released its annual state of the enterprise portal market report, which is available for download. The report reveals that portals remain a top priority for CIOs at large enterprises for the sixth consecutive year. It also compiles survey results from over...

The IBM Mashup Starter Kit can combine information from databases, departmental information, personal information or the Web. It rapidly blends information and Web services, such as real-time weather reports or maps, with enterprise content and services, and eas...

Recent research conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of Yahoo! on the state of the Web shows that consumers are suffering from 'Web search fatigue.' The study revealed that while 99% of online adults use a search engine to find information on the Internet, a ...

Told ya so. Told ya so. Told ya Adobe was gonna buy that free Buzzword online word processing widgetry so it can finally get into the Office business. Adobe, which invented desktop publishing and saved one of Apple's nine lives, denies it's going up against Micros...

Secure Computing Corporation unveiled the company's new 'SWAT' Initiative for protecting organizations from Web 2.0-related threats carried in Web and messaging protocols. The 'Secure Web 2.0 Anti-Threat' initiative is an intensive effort to provide corporations w...

Postini's e-mail security and compliance services have been added to Google Apps Premier Edition. Google acquired Postini last month to help companies realize the benefits of hosted applications while also addressing complex information security and compliance requirements.

Nexaweb Technologies, provider of the leading standards-based platform for building and deploying Enterprise Web 2.0 (EW2.0) applications, today announced the latest release of its Nexaweb Enterprise Web 2.0 Suite. Nexaweb?s Enterprise Web 2.0 Suite enhanced desi...

The Firefox 'QuickTime Bug' - has been fixed. QuickTime Media-Link files contain a qtnext attribute that could be used on Windows systems to launch the default browser with arbitrary command-line options and previously when the default browser was Firefox 2.0.0.6 ...

Enterprise Web 2.0 and SOBA development have gained significant momentum among enterprise and public sector IT organizations as delivery platforms for next-generation 'services-based' composite, RIA, 'mashup,' and Net-centric applications. A major consideration ...

New computer technologies - driven by communications data and analytics - that intelligently automate our communications will transform the way we interact with each other to conduct business, according to Avaya Labs scientist Doree Seligmann.

Chris Alden, who co-founded Red Herring in 1993 and joined Six Apart over a year ago, has stepped up to the top job at one of the world's leading independent blogging services. Barak Berkowitz, who has served as Chairman and CEO since January 2004, has been succeeded by Alden.

Friday saw the beta launch, to invitees only, of Yahoo!'s latest attempt to catch up Facebook in the social networking stakes. Called 'pretty raw' still even by its own project leader, Will Aldrich - ('there are bugs and we haven?t gotten to several of the feature...

MTV Networks is launching a social networking site, Flux.com. The new site encompasses Viacom's network of websites and external sites such as Sk8site.com and the Pussycat Dolls' official site. 'Flux powers the communities on your favorite websites and lets you ta...

Web audience interests are both more diverse and practical than the 'big stories' orientation of the major media outlets. That is the main conclusion of a study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ),a research organization that specializes in using e...

Netscape Director Tom Drapeau has announced the end of Netscape's Digg-clone experiment. 'Visitors to Netscape.com will see a more traditional news experience very soon,' said the Netscape Blog main page on Thursday, adding: 'Don't worry, the social news site isn'...

Much like it did for consumer Web applications such as Gmail and Netflix, AJAX is quickly injecting enterprise applications with a more dynamic and interactive user experience. But, with so many products and techniques available it is difficult for organizations to know where to start.

As it continues to build out its 'unified communications' offering, Microsoft has swooped to buy Parlano, the US-based company spun out of Swiss bank UBS to develop and market the MindAlign group chat application used by Deutsche Bank, Putnam Investments and others.

In the business world, there are real competitive advantages to be had for those companies who can figure out how to access the wide variety of enterprise and Web-based data sources available and then rapidly repurpose that data to create incremental business value and get more done.

JackBe CTO John Crupi, IBM CTO for Emerging Internet Technologies David Boloker, Kapow Technologies Founder & CTO Stefan Andreasen, ITerating Executive Nicolas Vandenberghe, Roundarch RIA Practice Leader Charles Fiesel, Rubicon Consulting Founder Nilofer Merchant,...

The voice of your customer, employee, or partner is more important than ever. With Web 2.0 technology, they are connecting, sharing, educating, and influencing each other in ways that businesses have never experienced before. In this session, we'll share how enter...

The Impact of Web 2.0 on Big, Successful Companies Rich Internet Applications and their related business models are inherently a more efficient way of creating and delivering software. With these models, start-ups can crash a $1B market and quickly take $100M of m...

ITerating, provider of a free Wiki-based software guide for open source, commercial, and hosted software, has announced the availability of a free Semantic Web service providing up-to-date information about more than 17,000 software products.

Most web mashups and Web 2.0 applications are based on data that is specifically prepared for the application, to make it easily accessible via HTTP and the AJAX client. But what about the rest of the data on the LAN? Why should that be treated differently? The pr...

Zoho, the Web 2.0 software start-up, is bragging about beating Google to the punch and using Google's own Google Gears widgetry to make Zoho Writer, its online word processor, useable off-line as well as on - even if the job isn't completely done yet. When Google ...

AJAX is quickly emerging as the best solution for developing a new generation of functionally rich, highly interactive Web applications - Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Web 2.0 applications from companies like Google, Yahoo, and Flickr all use AJAX extensive...

CNBC's Julia Boorstin reports that 'Social Networking is so hot right now, Nielsen is launching a social network to FIND OUT what's hot. It's all very meta. Nielsen is launching 'Hey! Nielsen,' a social network to act as a buzztracker for what in the entertainment...

Sequoia Capital, which backed Apple, Google, Cisco, Yahoo and YouTube, has put $15 million in Jive Software, the part-time open source start-up developing collaboration software that competes with Microsoft's Sharepoint and its Tellme acquisition. Jive's choice ...

'For Zoho Writer, we added support for nine languages last week, comments and offline support this week, and yet another significant new feature will be added next week,' said Raju Vegesna, Zoho evangelist, as he announced that Zoho customers can now work with the...

What company, well-known for pushing the frontier of desktop-like user experience, has pioneered an open source platform that allows developers to combine the rich user interface capabilities of desktop client software with the universally accessible, no-download ...

'We challenged ourselves to create an exciting project management solution that's as simple as email to use, set in the collaborative, dynamic Web 2.0 environment,' said Avinoam Nowogrodski, co-founder and CEO, Clarizen, as Clarizen announced yesterday that the ...

Creating 'new-school' collaboration solutions might not take rocket science, but arousing old-schoolers to participate does. What features matter most? How should you effectively synthesize Web 2.0 for newbies? How can you architect a solution to achieve both corp...

Web 2.0 is one of the hottest things on the consumer Web, but where does it fit in the enterprise? What's the business value and how can developers use new Web 2.0 mashups to bring value to the line-of-business users? You'll hear all of this and more from Rod Smit...