Scalix Corporation and SugarCRM have announced that their mutual customers can now integrate their Linux-based messaging from Scalix with their customer relationship management (CRM) system from SugarCRM, using multiple versions of Microsoft Outlook, for a fully integrated, server-to-s...

It has been just two years since Firefox appeared on the scene, but this Mozilla browser has surely changed the rules of the game. Firefox brought back the spirit, the innovation and the crowds of followers. Firefox is not only the underdog we are rooting for, it is a movement that is...

With this article I hope to reach out to the companies and thought leaders working in the attention space and start the dialog on the infrastructure for the Attention Economy. Note that the views presented in this article are my own and do not represent the views of the AttentionTrust ...

Samisa Abeysinghe, pioneer of the the Apache Axis2/C effort, architect of the core of the Apache Axis2/C Web services engine, and an AJAXWorld Conference 2006 speaker, has announced the release of Apache Axis2/C version 0.93.

Managed hosting provider MosaicGlobe announced on Thursday it has launched its hosted Web 2.0 content management system.The Web-based application enables users to implement HTML and CSS to customize their visual designs.

When a San Francisco web development company was on February 14 assigned a US patent covering the use of rich-media applications on the Internet, it was always going to be only a matter of time before the self-same Internet exploded with concern and astonishment. The company in questio...

The subject of Web 2.0 has become profoundly important over the last year. Web 2.0 describes the next generation of the Web as an application platform where most of a user's software experience resides. The subject is somewhat controversial, but it's becoming ever more apparent as the ...

One of the 'inflexion points' of the development of the Web, when commentators and analysts draw breath for long enough to chronicle its history, is certain to be the day that Google, through first Gmail and then Google Maps, opened the eyes of millions to the fact that the Web can be ...

The value of blogging continues to surface as a navel-gazing exercise within the technology community. Does blogging matter? Does anyone care whether or not it matters? Should it matter? These and other meta-questions continue to be posed by those who a.) aren't getting enough hits on ...

'Few people know that the first webpage ever created, Tim's home page, was actually a blog,' writes Alex Krupp. 'Blogs are the epitome of Web 1.0. They focus so much on the individual that even Ayn Rand would blush. At their best they can be truly uplifting and inspiring, but on averag...

'If Java is to remain at the forefront of technology for the next 10 years,' writes Joe Winchester in his Java Developer's Journal column, 'it needs to find a way of decoupling API calls between internal code and external blocks, perhaps even introducing soft typing calls across progra...

SYS-CON Events' iTVcon Internet TV Conference & Expo, to be held in New York in 2006, has released information about the four tracks scheduled to be on the program. Track 1 will be of interest to corporate marketing, advertising, product and brand managers Track 2 is aimed at software ...

SYS-CON's Geelan takes on both Nicholas Carr and Dan Farber as he ponders blogging in the context of what he terms 'insight capture' - and argues that the volume of insight worth capturing in the blogosphere is no great shakes.

Prior to the year 2000, business was a world in love with office spaces and corporate travel. We traveled to work (the office) every day. We traveled away from the office for customer meetings, for internal meetings, for conferences, for awards ceremonies. We traveled because we could ...

To paraphrase, 'I come not to praise the Browser, but to bury it.' Because the cold hard fact of application development is that the browser needs to die. Immediately. It's already caused more than enough damage. This may seem to be a harsh statement. After all, the browser was respons...

With the popularity of Object Relational Mapping tools like Hibernate and Cayenne, developers are more often than other giving control of some of their code to models. Will this help raise MDA into the mainstream?

Sun and Google are going to be teaming up to take on Microsoft in its holiest of holy markets, the desktop. Could such an alliance have been dreamed of just one year ago? The answer, of course, is 'Yes!' 'Game-changing' is what a disruptive company like Google does best, and Sun for it...

Christopher Wilson explores the things to watch out for in the workplace that might be sure signs that it's time to move on from your current IT gig. Included in his analysis are three major mistakes to look for in your manager. 'Take any of these as a sign that it is time to have that...

From time to time, I find myself lassoing a sacred cow in this Editorial space, dragging it over to the slaughterhouse of rhetoric, and ultimately barbecuing its falsehood over the stainless-steel, six-burner, propane-powered grill of real-world experience. To wit, the current industry...

The Nokia 3650, 6600, and 6630 are all vulnerable to 52 new trojan viruses, which anti-virus specialist SimWorks says are 'cracked' versions of popular Symbian applications such as BitStorm, BugMe!, Cosmic Fighter, 3D Motoracer and SplashID.

'If you have not looked into Spring yet, it is time.' That's Rick Hightower's New Year's advice. 'As Rod Johnson once put it: Spring puts the OO back in J2EE development,' he continues. What makes Spring different than the other frameworks and containers, Hightower explains, is that Sp...

District Court Judge I Leo Glasser has put off indefinitely the trial of ousted Computer Associates CEO Sanjay Kumar, who has been indicted for securities fraud, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and lying to law enforcement officials.

What does the runaway success of Firefox mean for the Java developer community? According to Harshad Oak, it shows the Java community that it's possible to compete with Microsoft. Firefox users had to relate with the product and promote it as if it was their own creation. 'Linux alread...

'SAP is now delighted to be able to participate in the application server shootout and demonstrate the power of SAP Web Application Server as a development and runtime platform for enterprise-scale Java applications,' said SAP's Christopher Hearn as the news was announced.

Hurricanes Ivan, Charley, and Frances notwithstanding, sometimes being in the eye of the storm has its advantages. At SYS-CON Media, where we by definition dwell at the epicenter of what might be called the i-technology weather cycle, our central position allows us to ask industry infl...

'The new portal services and solutions can help us meet today's ever-increasing business challenges,' said Jukka Tiainen, the director of Finland Post, as he announced that BEA platform and portal products would help Finland's national mail carrier with the utilization of Internet serv...

What do a CNET technology columnist, 95.5 million telephone handsets, and Sun's president and COO all have in common? Answer: they all strongly favor Java. Is it a sign of better times ahead for the language once known as 'Oak'?

(August 8, 2002) - Intrinsyc Software, Inc. has announced its second annual maintenance and support contract with BEA Systems, the world's leading application infrastructure software company.

So who invented XML? A committee, says Tim Bray - often referred to as 'The Father of XML' or 'XML's inventor.' Plus a couple hundred others.

(July 2, 2003) - Verizon Wireless has filed a lawsuit against Nextel Communications Inc. for improperly obtaining confidential information about Verizon Wireless's technology. The suit claims that Nextel acquired two prototype handsets on June 10 and used them to make hundreds of call...

In the aftermath of the horrific events of September 11, 2001, the entire nation came together to mourn the loss of those who died and suffered, and to plan a way to recover as a society as best we could. No words that I could write here would be adequate to convey how awful the atroci...