Norwegian browser maker Opera Software ASA has complained to the European Commission that Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by tying its Internet Explorer browser to the Windows operating system and hindering interoperability by not following accepted Web standards. It wants I...

A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing. Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we identified back in January of this year, to 250 - testimony, if any...

SYS-CON Events has created a hands-on, immersive learning experience for all Web developers who want to know the how, what, and why of the tools and concepts behind AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), the popular user-interface approach to creating Rich Internet Applications. AJAXW...

SYS-CON.TV invites you to join an industry all-star lineup today at 1:30PM EST - Enerjy CEO, Nigel Cheshire; renowned IT guru, Andrew Binstock; and Java Developer's Journal publisher, Jeremy Geelan - as they shine the spotlight on the increased quality and reliability your application...

SYS-CON Events (www.events.sys-con.com) announced today that the first international 'AJAXWorld(TM) Conference & Expo' (www.ajaxworldexpo.com), taking place on October 3-4, 2006, at theSanta Clara Convention Center, California, will offer AJAXWorld University - Developer Bootcamp progr...

Salesforce.com , the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, today marked a major milestone in on-demand computing, announcing that on July 31, 2006 the company's industry leading Salesforce service handled more than 50 million transactions in a single day. During ...

'Though it's been around for a while, AJAX is now a hot topic in the application developer community because it brings cross-platform rich user interfaces to web applications without having to use products like Microsoft .NET or Macromedia,' said Steve Benfield, VP of strategy & techn...

Twenty-one year old Billy Bones of Orem, Utah is the proud winner of the Game Trust LaunchNow Race to Space Contest. The office worker (http://www.myspace.com/billy427) will travel to Moscow where he'll strap into a Russian MIG 25 and travel a more than twice the speed the speed of so...

In response to Intel's ViiV digital home platform, AMD unveiled a chip called AMD Live, saying that it plans a full-featured Athlon 64 X2 dual-core-based consumer multimedia desktop PC and AMD dual-core mobile-based notebook PCs to be delivered mid-year using Microsoft's Windows XP Med...

Quest Software and Intrinsic Technologies were chosen by Atlantic Health System to implement Quest's Active Directory migration and management software to simplify and manage its IT infrastructure. 'We were looking to create a more unified directory services environment by having all o...

Visual Paradigm provides a suite of products that facilitates organizations to visually and diagrammatically architect, integrate and deploy enterprise applications and their underlying databases. The products are designed to help software development teams to excel the entire model-bu...

PDF Tools focuses delivering reliable PDF products to international customers in virtually all market segments. The company provides server-based software products designed specifically for developers, integrators, consultants, customizing specialists and IT-departments. The tools can ...

BMC Software, Inc. , a leading provider of enterprise management solutions, today announced the appointment of Stephen (Steve) B. Solcher to the position of senior vice president and chief financial officer, effective immediately. In this role, Mr. Solcher will be responsible for Fina...

Published reports are claiming that Google has paid $1 billion to take a 5% stake in AOL, thereby securing the significant (10%) portion of its annual sales that derives from AOL.

Verio says that it 'leads the Internet services market by providing state-of-the-art technology with flexible options and control that guarantee the right solution at the right price.' An NTT subsidiary, the company provides Internet access, web hosting, colocation, as well as addition...

Dedicated Servers from a $99 'Value Series' to the newest Dual Xeon 3.2ghz SATA RAID servers are among the variety of services offered to customers by EV1Servers.net The company also says that it offers a full line of upgrades and add-on solutions.

For the second consecutive year, HostMySite.com has been selected to receive the prestigious Marvin S. Gilman Award of Excellence for outstanding customer service.

Agility, flexibility, and integrity are attributes which underscore any successful business. Typically, this success is based on the way businesses process information. From design and production, through order entry and shipping, information is the critical commodity, so much so that ...

Unstructured data is doubling in size each year within most enterprise organizations. Yet in many of these same organizations, this vital information is hidden within individual desktops and fragmented in server silos across the enterprise. Employees spend countless hours looking for r...

'It's time for the software industry to recognize that code quality is in a critical state,' says Enerjy Software CEO Nigel Cheshire. To address this challenge, he says that Enerjy will unveil a new product that will empower development managers to meet the code quality challenge witho...

'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 yeste...

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-configure...

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 Host...

President George W. Bush has announced that IBM has been awarded the 2004 National Medal of Technology by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Technology Administration in recognition of more than four decades of innovation in semiconductor technology.

It's become very popular lately, even though it's not exactly new. It's been possible to use the concept behind AJAX since browsers introduced the XMLHttpRequest function in 1999. AJAX isn't a technology, or a language, and there's no recipe to implement it; it's just a combination of ...

HP has introduced an expanded Total Print Management portfolio - the company's integrated suite of devices, management software and services designed to help businesses streamline their printing and imaging resources and document output.

Gary Reasons of DocSoft visited SYS-CON headquarters for an exclusive SYS-CON.TV interview to talk about one ofthe latest product releases from DocSoft, element, an XML search platform and an appliance that you can use to search XML data.

The Associated Press and MSN have announced that they are teaming to provide AP members with news video for their Web sites: the AP Online Video Network is born.

Xythos Software announced that more than a half dozen new colleges and universities have joined its customer ranks. Included among these new institutions are Pepperdine University, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Cleveland State Univer...

MicrosoftZone.Com has started the process of building new Corporate Board of Directors to coordinate bringing to market our new suite of Business Intelligence products and services.

Synaptris, a provider of enterprise reporting solutions has announced the release of IntelliVIEW Designer 3.0, a product that is slated to add significant power into their IntelliVIEW suite of products.

MapInfo has reported earnings per share of $0.18 for the fourth fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2005, representing the tenth consecutive quarter of year-over-year earnings per share growth for the company.

In conjunction with the release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Software FX is offering Chart FX for Visual Studio 2005 which has integrated development environment integration and easy deployment.

Perforce Software has announced that IHP has selected Perforce, the fast Software Configuration Management system, to manage the development of its hardware and software solutions.

Dassault and IBM has announced the release of Version 5 of their Product Lifecycle Management portfolio.

GraphOn Corporation, a developer of cross-platform application publishing and Web-enabling software, has announced that it has entered into a distributorship agreement with Netherlands-based Acropolis Automation BV.

Now the next question coming from the spin circles is 'Will Oracle buy Borland?' Similar questions were raised when IBM's WebSphere chief John Swainson joined CA as their CEO earlier this year.

A report in The New York Times yesterday suggests that 'Microsoft has emerged as the front-runner in the talks surrounding the potential sale of a stake in America Online.'

Seapine Software has announced that it is giving away fully functional TestTrack Pro and Surround SCM software licenses at the Australian Game Developers Conference in Melbourne.

Ansoft's PExprt speeds the design and optimization process of magnetic components used in electronic transformers and inductors, the company says.