(March 20, 2002) - Macromedia, Inc. unveiled Macromedia Flash MX, the latest version of the Macromedia Flash development environment, which will usher in a new generation of rich Internet content and applications. With support for video, application components, and accessibility, this ...

(June 19, 2002) - eXcelon Corporation has announced the latest release of its Stylus Studio XSLT Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Stylus Studio 4.0 enables development teams to deliver higher quality XML and XSLT applications faster by enabling developers to visually define XM...

(September 9, 2002) - With 135,000 members across Massachusetts, Neighborhood Health Plan (NHP) faced two tough challenges. First, NHP needed to leverage the Web to automate patient referral and eligibility processes and provide accurate information to its members and providers. Seco...

(November 21, 2002) - Novell plans to provide visual tools based on the emerging XForms standard in the next major release of Novell exteNd, its J2EE-based Web application development suite. Developed by the W3C, XForms enables information to be presented as XML to provide a next-gener...

(February 19, 2003) - The beta version of ZeoSphere XR, a mobile infrastructure software suite with On Demand Mobile Server technology, is now available from Zeosoft. New in ZeoSphere XR is XML/RPC for distributed computing, and support for the Oracle9i Lite database. With ZeoSphere XR...

(May 6, 2003) - Through collaborative and coordinated effort between W3C's XML Query Working Group and XSL Working Group, a collection of ten updated working draft specifications has been issued for public review and comment. XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model and XQuery 1.0 and XPath...

(June 25, 2003) - OpenLink Software, Inc., announces Virtuoso 3.2 - the latest edition of its cross platform Virtual Database for SQL, XML, and Web Services - for Mac® OS X. The new release incorporates full client and server support for the Blogger, Moveable Type, and MetaWeblog A...

(February 12, 2002) -- IXIASOFT, the leader in native XML database technology, and Altova Inc., the leader in XML development tools, announce the availability of the XML Spy integration kit. The free package, downloadable from IXIASOFT's Web site, enables the widespread XML Spy user co...

(March 20, 2002) -Microsoft has released the second beta of Microsoft® Visual J#? .NET, a development tool for Java-language developers who want to build applications and services on the Microsoft .NET Framework. Visual J# .NET is the first Java-language development tool to run on a pl...

(July 2, 2002) - BEA Systems, Intalio, SAP AG, and Sun Microsystems have announced the publication of the XML-based Web Service Choreography Interface (WSCI). This new specification is available for public comment at the companies' respective Web sites (see links below). WSCI provides ...

(September 10, 2002) - Popkin Software has announced full, integrated support for the first public draft 1.0 of the Business Process Modeling Language (BPML 1.0) in its flagship enterprise modeling tool, System Architect. Created under the auspices of the Business Process Management In...

(November 21, 2002) - XIS Lite, eXcelon Corporation's new version of its native XML database management system, eXtensible Information Server (XIS) offers the same functionality as XIS, but scaled to smaller projects, with a lower cost to match. XIS Lite is designed to enable customer...

(February 19, 2003) - Corel Corporation's Corel XMetaL 4 is a new platform that extends XML content editing to virtually any Windows application, including e-mail and Web browsers. The Corel XMetaL 4 platform provides the only richly-customizable XML editing solutions that support dyna...

(May 6, 2003) - TIBCO Software Inc. describes the new TIBCO XML Canon 2.4 as 'the first solution that gives customers the ability to manage and leverage their investment in XML enterprise metadata.' The solution is designed to help build a robust information infrastructure, and lay the...

(June 26, 2003) - The SALT Forum, a group of companies with a shared goal of accelerating the use of speech technologies in multimodal and telephony systems, has published a SALT profile for the W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) markup language. The new SVG profile supplements the S...

There is an accelerating trend to migrate electronic documents and data into XML, resulting in achieving goals more quickly through the use of standard software tools. Many databases now support XML as a known data type, and a growing number of databases are specifically designed for ...

The co-inventor of XML, Tim Bray, has been stirring up a lively debate among Internet technologists. The reason? He thought it might be fun to make a public presentation in which XML - and indeed every other Internet technology of the past and present - was 'ranked' according to the s...

(July 10, 2002) - eXcelon Corporation has announced that its XML products integrate with BEA WebLogic Platform 7.0TM to provide customers with a comprehensive solution for implementing Web services applications based on XML business documents.

(September 10, 2002) -Rogue Wave XML Object Link is Rogue Wave Software, Inc.'s latest release supporting its Web services integration strategy. XML Object Link helps businesses smoothly integrate XML and Web services with their existing applications to extend their mission-critical sy...

(November 21, 2002) - When HTML Forms were introduced to the Web in 1993, they provided a means to gather information and perform transactions. But now the original HTML Form design is showing its limitations. Users today wish to access the Web through cell phones, handheld devices, an...

(February 26, 2003) - Altova Inc. has recently released ready-to-use templates for the Research Information eXchange Markup Language (RIXML). The new RIXML templates, in conjunction with AUTHENTIC 5's recently announced free software licensing model will enable faster adoption of XML c...

(May 6, 2003) - Arbortext, Inc.'s newly announced Arbortext 5 now puts the business user in control rather than requiring the specialized expertise of an XML programmer. This version provides the business user with direct access to XML content across the enterprise, which protects docu...

(San Francisco) -- Microsoft Corp. chief software architect Bill Gates launched Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework, the application development tool and platform for .NET applications, at the VSLive! 2002 Conference in San Francisco, on Feb. 13, 2002. In a keynote address and wo...

(March 20, 2002) - The co-inventor of XML, Tim Bray, has been stirring up a lively debate among Internet technologists. The reason? He thought it might be fun to make a public presentation in which XML - and indeed every other Internet technology of the past and present - was 'ranked'...

(July 22, 2002) - Amazon.com has launched its first version of 'Amazon.com Web Services,' a platform for creating innovative Web solutions and services designed specifically for developers and Web site owners. Developers can access AWS through two industry standards: XML and SOAP.

(September 10, 2002) - Three veteran entrepreneurs have launched Swingtide, a new software company whose aim is to protect, measure, and maximize companies' Quality of Business amid the proliferation of XML. Swingtide was founded by three veteran software entrepreneurs, one a former ...

(February 26, 2003) - Altova's XML content editor, AUTHENTIC 5, will be included as a standard component of all future Tamino Server product offerings at no additional cost to the Tamino Server customer, providing a highly cost- effective means to realize XML content editing applicatio...

(May 13, 2003) - In response to the growing use of XML in Web and Web services applications, Ipedo has updated its XML Information Hub. The Ipedo XML Information Hub 3.3 now features integrated content conversion, rules-based auto-organization, a universal XQuery engine and enhanced XM...

(Boston) - OASIS, the XML interoperability consortium, announced the formation of the OASIS Web Services for Remote Portals (WSRP) Technical Committee to create an XML and Web services standard that will allow the plug-n-play of visual, user-facing Web services with portals or other in...

(August 5, 2002) - The Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) project, whose specification provides one of the building blocks for Web services applications and services, and OASIS, an industry standards body, have announced that OASIS will serve as the steward for th...

(September 16, 2002) - DataPower Technology, Inc., and Altova, Inc., have teamed up to speed the time to market of XML applications by integrating XMLSPY 5 with the Datapower XA35 XML Accelerator. The XMLSPY 5 and XA35 integration is the first unified solution to offer enterprises a si...

(December 10, 2002) - DataPower Technology, Inc., and Contivo, Inc., have agreed to integrate the Contivo Enterprise Integration Modeling (EIM) solution with the DataPower XA35 XML Accelerator. The joint solution provides enterprise customers with a complete standards-based XML integra...

(March 5, 2003) - Reactivity, Inc. has just introduced the Reactivity XML Firewall network security appliance, to protect new-generation businesses applications while tackling the hidden operating costs of securing XML and Web services. The Reactivity XML Firewall makes it easy for ent...

(May 21, 2003) - This week at the 2003 ACORD Conference, Microsoft Corp. and the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development (ACORD) announced that ACORD will provide more than 500 insurance forms built using Microsoft® Office InfoPath™ 2003, Microsoft Office System...