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Web 2.0 News Desk
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The Web 2.0 Journal News Desk keeps you up to speed with all that's happening in the world of the read/write Web and all its mushrooming new facets - from tagging, wikis, mash-ups, and image-sharing to "Advertising 2.0," podcasting, and The Writeable Web.
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Infosys Added to the
NASDAQ-100 Index By Web 2.0 News Desk Infosys Technologies
today announced that the
company will be added to
the NASDAQ-100 index,
effective with the market
opening on Monday,
December 18, 2006. The
NASDAQ-100 index is
composed of the 100
largest non-financial
stocks on the NASDAQ
Stock Market in term... Dec. 11, 2006 04:00 AM Reads: 7,325 | AccuWeather to Deliver
Timely, Localized Weather
Information via IBM Web
2.0 Technology By Web 2.0 News Desk AccuWeather, The World's
Weather Authority,
announced that it will
soon deliver
mission-critical weather
information via IBM's
emerging Web 2.0
technology, QEDWiki
enterprise mashup maker,
to businesses and markets
worldwide. Dec. 8, 2006 11:00 AM Reads: 9,696 Replies: 1 | ShoZu Adds Support For
Pikeo, A New Web 2.0
Photo Sharing Community By Web 2.0 News Desk ShoZu announced that its
free Share-It one-click
image uploading
application for camera
phones now can transmit
images to Pikeo, the new
photo sharing community
recently unveiled by
Orange. Pikeo offers
photo storage, tagging
and sharing capabilities
as well as g... Dec. 8, 2006 10:00 AM Reads: 8,980 Replies: 2 | Orb Networks Unveils
MyCasting 2.0, Turning
Personal Computers into
Personal Broadcasting
Systems By Web 2.0 News Desk Orb Networks today
announced the public
release of Orb MyCasting
2.0, a free service that
transforms the personal
computer into a personal
broadcasting system by
unlocking all of the
digital media people have
on their personal
computers. Orb MyCasting
is available... Dec. 8, 2006 03:00 AM Reads: 8,482 | SPI Dynamics' SPI Labs
Releases Top 2007 Web
Application Security
Threats By Web 2.0 News Desk S.P.I. Dynamics, a
leading provider of Web
application security
testing software and
services, today released
research from its SPI
Labs division predicting
the top Web application
security threats for
2007. The research found
that software developers
who embrace ... Dec. 8, 2006 02:00 AM Reads: 9,268 | AtTask Announces @task
version 4 release 3 Based
on Web 2.0 Technologies By Web 2.0 News Desk AtTask has announced the
availability of @task
version 4 release 3,
which sets a new standard
for Web-based
applications, from its
customizable presentation
and workflow, to its
ability to optimize
personal productivity and
enhance project success.
@task v4 r3 inc... Dec. 8, 2006 01:00 AM Reads: 7,893 | IBM to Acquire Consul to
Offer Integrated Security
Management By Web 2.0 News Desk IBM today announced it
has entered into an
agreement to acquire
Consul risk management, a
privately held software
company headquartered in
Delft, Netherlands, with
a principal office in
Herndon, Virginia.
Financial details were
not disclosed. The
acquisition is su... Dec. 6, 2006 12:00 AM Reads: 8,490 | IBM System Storage DS8300
Turbo Demonstrates the
Best Performance By Web 2.0 News Desk IBM has announced that
the IBM System Storage
DS8300 Turbo, introduced
on August 22, 2006, is
the fastest enterprise
class storage system in
the industry as measured
by the Storage
Performance Council's
SPC-1 Benchmark,
outperforming the
previous DS8300 SPC-1
Results by 22 percent. Dec. 6, 2006 12:00 AM Reads: 7,421 | Web 2.0 Journal: Gartner
Positions IBM in
'Leaders' Quadrant for
Data Integration Tools
Market By Web 2.0 News Desk IBM has announced that
Gartner has positioned
IBM in the Leaders
Quadrant in its November
22, 2006 report, 'Magic
Quadrant for Data
Integration Tools, 2006.'
According to Gartner,
'Leaders' are performing
well today, have a clear
vision of market
direction, and ar... Dec. 6, 2006 12:00 AM Reads: 6,332 | Unica's Affinium
NetInsight 7.1 Helps
Marketers Analyze Web 2.0
Customer Experience By Web 2.0 News Desk Unica announced the
latest version of its web
analytics solution,
Affinium NetInsight 7.1.
Innovative capabilities
in Affinium NetInsight
7.1, including real time
visual exploration
capabilities, will enable
online business marketers
to optimize web sites and
Web ... Dec. 5, 2006 10:00 AM Reads: 10,742 Replies: 2 | Kapow Technologies
Introduces Online Web
Developer Community for
Creating Mashups By Web 2.0 News Desk At the Gartner
Application Integration
and Web Services
Conference, Kapow
Technologies, the
provider of mashup
solutions for the
enterprise, unveiled
openkapow, the industry's
first software service
and developer community
designed to accelerate
mashup adoption ... Dec. 5, 2006 01:00 AM Reads: 7,142 | Microsoft Collaborates
With Telecommunications
Industry to Drive
Transition to Telco 2.0
Era By Wireless News Desk; Web 2.0 News Desk This week at ITU Telecom
World 2006, Microsoft is
showcasing for the first
time its full portfolio
of solutions and services
developed specifically
for the global
telecommunications
industry. In its exhibit
presence and
participation in ITU
Telecom World, Microsof... Dec. 4, 2006 05:00 AM Reads: 14,263 | WildTangent Releases
BlasterBall 3, A 'Web
2.0' User-Authored Video
Game By Web 2.0 News Desk The WildTangent Games
Network (WGN), the
fastest growing online
games network in North
America, today announced
the release of the first
ever 'Web 2.0' video
game, BlasterBall 3. In a
first for gamers
worldwide, WildTangent
Studios, the production
arm of the WildT... Dec. 1, 2006 02:00 AM Reads: 11,048 Replies: 1 | Alcatel Selects
XandMail's Web 2.0
Communication Solutions By Web 2.0 News Desk XandMail, announced it
was chosen by Alcatel for
the provision and
integration of its e-mail
software to Alcatel?s
Voice Messaging Services
(VMS) and Video Mail Box
(VMX) platforms. Alcatel
selected XandMail?s Web
2.0 Communication and
Mobile Communication
Solutio... Nov. 30, 2006 05:00 AM Reads: 7,234 Replies: 1 | Sun Microsystems Launches
The Big Mashup By Web 2.0 News Desk Sun Microsystems, creator
of the open source
Solaris OS, announced the
launch of The Big Mashup,
a unique online
experience examining how
the world of
entertainment and news
gathering is rapidly
changing as the network
blurs the line between
audience and entertain... Nov. 30, 2006 12:00 AM Reads: 7,402 Replies: 1 | Reality Digital Partners
With Key European
Technology Resellers By Web 2.0 News Desk Reality Digital, dealing
in user-generate content
(UGC) and video sharing
for businesses, has
announced partnerships
with international
technology resellers,
Germany's ISC Opcorner AG
[www.opcorner.com] and
Italy's Bitage
[www.bitage.it]. The
resellers will add
... Nov. 28, 2006 02:00 AM Reads: 6,863 | New Artificial
Intelligence & Web 2.0
Developments Change The
Techology Career
Marketplace By Web 2.0 News Desk Staff It Now, an
innovative job sourcing
and job marketing
solution, has created an
unique artificial
intelligence program.
This program, when
combined with blogging
and other Web 2.0
developments, will enable
technology-based
employers and better
qualified cand... Nov. 23, 2006 01:00 AM Reads: 7,512 Replies: 1 | Fotango Launches
Application Design
Competition By Web 2.0 News Desk Fotango UK, creator of
software solutions for
professional developers,
has announced the launch
of a web application
design competition aimed
at developers. The Zimki
Application Design
Competition has been
launched to encourage web
developers and
application desi... Nov. 22, 2006 11:00 PM Reads: 7,946 Replies: 1 | Web 2.0 Solutions
Provider KnowNow And
Automattic Partner By Web 2.0 News Desk KnowNow, pioneer in
enterprise-class Web 2.0
solutions, announced a
preferred partnership
with Automattic, the
creators of the popular
WordPress.com blogging
service. Together, the
two companies will
provide a trusted blog
communication and
authoring platform for ... Nov. 21, 2006 06:00 AM Reads: 7,456 Replies: 1 | Jadu Unveils New Web 2.0
Content Management
Products By Web 2.0 News Desk Jadu's new range of Web
2.0 products have been
designed to enhance the
delivery of web-based
content and services,
help organise information
and vastly improve
communication. Jadu makes
Web 2.0 technology
accessible to local
authorities to help
enable the transformation
of services. Nov. 20, 2006 12:00 AM Reads: 8,224 Replies: 2 | AJAX-Based "openkapow"
Mashup Community
Announced By Web 2.0 News Desk  Mashups represent a
promising new development
approach to building
composite applications
and enabling easier
integration of existing
applications, utilizing a
host of Web 2.0
technologies such as
AJAX, Ruby, RSS, ATOM,
REST, and SOAP-based web
services. openkapo... Nov. 13, 2006 07:15 PM Reads: 11,625 Replies: 1 | HCL Launches FIRST 2.0
Packaged Services and
Proven Methodology for
Rapid Web 2.0 Innovation By Web 2.0 News Desk HCL Technologies (HCL), a
global engineering, R&D
and IT services firm,
launched FIRST 2.0, a
proven methodology and
suite of end-to-end
engineering services that
enables enterprises to
compete effectively in
the world of Web 2.0. The
announcement is in line
with ... Nov. 11, 2006 06:00 AM Reads: 7,194 | Hinchcliffe & Company
Announces Web 2.0
University By Web 2.0 News Desk Web 2.0 University,
offering fast-paced,
highly intensive courses
taught by renowned Web
2.0 advocate Dion
Hinchcliffe and a team of
experts will begin
accepting registrations
immediately, Kate Allen,
Hinchcliffe & Company's
Chief Operating Officer
said. Nov. 10, 2006 03:00 AM Reads: 6,682 | Kapow Technologies Signs
200th Customer In First
Fiscal Quarter as Web 2.0
Technologies Go
Mainstream By Web 2.0 News Desk Kapow Technologies has
reported its best sales
quarter ever, adding more
than 20 new customers and
a total of 30 deals in
the period ending
September 30th. First is
the explosion of
successful Web 2.0
business models that rely
on seamless integration
of HTML and t... Nov. 10, 2006 02:00 AM Reads: 6,447 | IBM Unleashes New Breed
of Hybrid Supercomputers
With System Cluster 1350 By Web 2.0 News Desk IBM has announced a new
line-up of
next-generation processor
systems and blades, high
speed connectivity and
coprocessor acceleration
technology for the IBM
System Cluster 1350. With
its improved ability to
handle a broad range of
application environments
and capa... Nov. 8, 2006 05:00 AM Reads: 6,290 | IBM Lotus Expeditor
Software Offers a
Personalized User
Experience Anytime,
Anywhere By Web 2.0 News Desk IBM has announced Lotus
Expeditor, a development
platform for creating
Eclipse-based and Web 2.0
applications. Lotus
Expeditor's open
standards-based
programming model enables
enterprises to integrate
existing and new
applications and deliver
them to a variety of ... Nov. 2, 2006 11:00 AM Reads: 7,829 | Virgin America Develops
Web 2.0 Online Presence
with Omniture By Web 2.0 News Desk Omniture, a provider of
online business
optimization software,
has announced that Virgin
America, a highly
anticipated U.S. airline
launching in 2007, has
selected Omniture to
measure and optimize
their online channel.
Operating under the
mantra to 'build an
air... Oct. 31, 2006 07:00 AM Reads: 7,229 | GoodStorm Opens GoodStorm
2.0 API By Web 2.0 News Desk GoodStorm, an ecommerce
company, has opened its
GoodStorm API release 2.0
giving web developers
access to ecommerce
functionality and product
metadata for selling
books, non-DRMed MP3s,
CDs, DVDs, and video
games online. Oct. 30, 2006 12:00 PM Reads: 6,998 | Kapow Technologies Adds
Marketing Chief to Seize
Enterprise Web 2.0 Market By Web 2.0 News Desk Kapow Technologies, the
enterprise mashup
software platform
provider, announced the
addition of Joe Keller as
chief marketing officer.
As the company's first
C-level marketing
executive, he will be
responsible for expanding
and managing the
company's worldwide
m... Oct. 26, 2006 08:00 AM Reads: 6,893 | IBM and The University of
Arizona Bring Web 2.0 and
Social Networking to the
Classroom By Web 2.0 News Desk IBM and The University of
Arizona have announced a
new collaborative
initiative to develop a
course aimed at helping
developers build online
communities and social
network systems using Web
2.0 technologies. The
curriculum, which is
designed to equip
students with... Oct. 24, 2006 08:15 AM Reads: 7,699 | Web 2.0 Journal: Sun
Unveils Project Blackbox By Web 2.0 News Desk Sun Microsystems has
unveiled Project
Blackbox, a systems
innovation designed to
reset datacenter
economics. Project
Blackbox applies Sun's
trademark innovation and
network computing
expertise to provide a
simple, 'instant-on'
modular datacenter
targeting compan... Oct. 19, 2006 10:15 AM Reads: 5,381 | Web 2.0 Journal: IBM
Unveils WebSphere
Customer Center 7.0 By Web 2.0 News Desk IBM has introduced
software aimed at helping
clients build more
profitable customer
relationships through
master data management.
IBM WebSphere Customer
Center 7.0, part of IBM's
master data management
family of products, is
designed to help
businesses achieve a
... Oct. 17, 2006 07:00 AM Reads: 7,711 | Web 2.0 Journal:
MyBestDate Partners with
UserPlane By Web 2.0 News Desk MyBestDate.co.uk, UK's
online dating service
enhanced their services
with a cut-edge web
messenger technology,
powered by Userplane.
After the success of
MyBestDate's built-in
AJAX chat, MyBestDate
decided to give a far
more functional live chat
with audio/video
... Oct. 16, 2006 07:00 AM Reads: 7,344 | Flash Site Wins $10M
Series B Funding for
Social Networking
Start-Up By Web 2.0 News Desk San Francisco-based
Wallop recently announced
that its new social
networking website has
helped to trigger a new
round of funding, in the
amount of $10M. This
Series B round of capital
will help Wallop build
out its site combining
social computing with a
marketpla... Oct. 11, 2006 07:30 AM Reads: 5,786 Replies: 1 | Enterprise Web 2.0 Firm
Nexaweb Closes $10
Million In Series B VC
Funding By Web 2.0 News Desk Nexaweb announced it has
secured $10 million in
Series B venture capital
funding from Egan-Managed
Capital, Masthead Venture
Partners and Velocity
Partners. This latest
capital investment
supports Nexaweb's
accelerated growth in the
Enterprise Web 2.0 and
Rich Int... Sep. 29, 2006 12:00 PM Reads: 6,732 Replies: 1 | OpenAJAX Alliance
Launches Website By Web 2.0 News Desk OpenAJAX Alliance, an
open industry
collaboration dedicated
to developing and
expanding AJAX, has
announced new partners
and initiatives around
the AJAX Community,
signaling continued
momentum for AJAX-based
Web technologies. Sep. 21, 2006 08:00 AM Reads: 7,566 Replies: 5 | Web 2.0 Journal: MSN
Launches Beta of Soapbox
on MSN Video By Web 2.0 News Desk MSN has announced the
U.S. beta release of
Soapbox on MSN Video, a
user-uploaded video
service that makes it
easy for people to
express themselves by
uploading, discovering
and sharing personal
videos with the Soapbox
community and others
around the world. Soapbox... Sep. 19, 2006 10:00 AM Reads: 7,638 Replies: 1 | Gartner Rates AJAX As Key
Emerging Technology in
2006 By Web 2.0 News Desk Gartner announced its
2006 Emerging
Technologies Hype Cycle
which assesses the
maturity, impact and
adoption speed of 36 key
technologies and trends
during the next ten
years. This year's hype
cycle highlights three
major themes that are
experiencing significant
... Sep. 18, 2006 03:30 PM Reads: 9,041 Replies: 4 | AJAXWorld Magazine: IBM
Exec Gets Web 2.0 Mash-Up
Religion By Web 2.0 News Desk In a keynote speech to
leading technology
executives, Rod Smith,
IBM's vice president of
emerging Internet
technologies, declared
that the technologies
underpinning blogs, wikis
and innovative sites like
Google Maps and Wikipedia
on the Web will transform
the way ... Sep. 12, 2006 04:00 PM Reads: 12,211 Replies: 4 | Enterprise Web 2.0
Update: Jefferies Deploys
New Business Apps Using
Nexaweb Enterprise Web
2.0 Platform By Web 2.0 News Desk 'Whether the demand is
for highly usable
interfaces or the power
of real-time,
event-driven access to
enterprise information,
Nexaweb can provide the
solution needed,' said
Chris Heidelberger, CEO
at Nexaweb, Nexaweb
Technologiesâ, Inc.,
provider of the leading
... Sep. 7, 2006 12:45 PM Reads: 7,131 Replies: 1 |
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