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2008-12-01
Open-source messaging and collaboration software maker Open-Xchange is set to release its iSync software connector, OXtender for Mac OS X, which will let users access their Open-Xchange e-mail, appointments, contacts, tasks and documents through Mac applications and the iPhone. Supporting Macs and iPhones is increasingly becoming table stakes for enterprise applications users. What better platform to support than Mac for Open-Xchange, which is trying to take down Microsoft Exchange?
2008-12-01
Social networking powerhouse Facebook plans to expand Connect, a service that enables connections between Facebook profiles and other Web sites. This messaging and collaboration development presents opportunities for SMBs negotiating an entry into the world of social networking.
2008-12-01
Many SMBs are looking for a way to harness the power of social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and others. Power.com says it offers “social inter-networking functionality”--the ability to view all your social networking sites in one place.
2008-11-26
Touch-screen phone users are discovering that much of the fun of their devices stems from downloadable applications. A good example is Google's newly updated Mobile App for the Apple iPhone. Google Mobile App has been generating a lot of buzz because of its voice search. Want to find the nearest pizza place, show times for the James Bond movie "Quantum of Solace," or the latest Bruce Springsteen video? Google voice search is uncannily accurate.
2008-11-26
Keeping the "e" in eWEEK, our beat reporters turned up gadgets, apps, phones, GPS devices and even a portable device with 1 terabyte of storage for less than $200, all with an eye toward informing a shopper whose day job involves terabytes, not megapixels.
2008-11-26
Microsoft is reportedly working on a mobile AJAX technology code-named Kojax. The goal of Kojax is said to be to enable developers to create interactive mobile applications using a combination of Visual Studio tools and JavaScript.
2008-11-26
Those looking for something to do during their Thanksgiving break from work can check out these new Web services: Glue, Plista, Zenbe, Hulu, Blist, EtherPad, DotSpots, Mobspin, Socialcast and Searchme. These social services, search, and productivity tools have a little something for everyone living on the Web.
2008-11-26
For years, the Macy's Parade and Entertainment Group office used to collect paper applications for all the volunteer staff and simply kept all those unwieldy physical files in drawers and boxes. Three years ago, the office moved to a Microsoft Access database system, but it proved difficult for many people to use. So this year the venerable FileMaker Pro 9 came to the rescue.
2008-11-26
Nordic River launches TextFlow, a parallel word processing application for consumers and business users who need to spice up their productivity workflow with collaboration capabilities. TextFlow won't challenge Microsoft Word or Google Docs overnight, but it will fire up the conversation about more interactive editing.
2008-11-25
In just a little more than six months after completing its acquisition of Telelogic, IBM has integrated the Telelogic tools into the IBM Rational portfolio. The combined portfolio gives IBM perhaps the most complete arsenal of tools for developers to attack the entire application development lifecycle, with application lifecycle management solutions for IT systems as well as large complex systems, scientific and engineering applications, and embedded systems.
2008-11-24
A lawsuit claims the way the Apple iPhone lets users browse the Web infringes on a patent granted in October. The lawsuit was filed by EMG Technology in the U.S. District Court in Tyler, Texas, by Los Angeles real estate developer Elliot Gottfurcht and two co-inventors. The suit alleges that the technology the iPhone uses to navigate and display some Web sites designed for small phone screens infringes on a patent obtained by Gottfurcht and his co-inventors and assigned to EMG.
2008-11-24
IBM demonstrates for eWEEK a new Web collaboration project called Blue Spruce. This coup in application development lets multiple users work together through what look like shared screens and communicate via telepresence. Though only at a proof-of-concept stage, the IBM Blue Spruce messaging and collaboration solution could be a big step toward more collaborative Web services. Questions remain: Will Blue Spruce appear in Lotus or WebSphere? Will Microsoft respond via Silverlight or Adobe via Flash?
2008-11-24
Analysis: New fixed mobile convergence products from vendors such as Agito Networks and DiVitas Networks are making it easier for businesses to save money and ease concerns about their mobile platforms. Seamless mobility between voice over Wi-Fi and cellular voice service help businesses integrate their mobile phones into the coporate PBX.
2008-11-21
The Ruby on Rails team announces a new internationalization framework to make it easier for developers to build Web sites and applications suited to languages other than English. Ruby on Rails 2.2, released Nov. 21, delivers the internationalization framework.
2008-11-21
Nearly 50 percent of Java shops use the lightweight, open-source, Java-based Spring Framework, according to an Evans Data survey. In addition, 73 percent of organizations surveyed said they either use Spring now or plan to use it within the next two years. Application developer productivity and reduced complexity stand out as key reasons for using Spring in building enterprise applications.
2008-11-21
Two months after stating its intent to support the open-source jQuery JavaScript library, Microsoft announces support for jQuery IntelliSense in Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer Express for application development. IntelliSense is Microsoft's implementation of auto-completion.
2008-11-20
Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer at Microsoft, delivers an update on Internet Explorer 8, saying the product will ship in 2009. Microsoft had said the final version of the IE8 browser would ship by the end of 2008.
2008-11-20
IBM ratchets up application development for mobile and wireless platforms by enabling Lotus Notes Traveler to run on Nokia's S60 smartphones. This is a major move for IBM to spark adoption of its messaging and collaboration software among the enterprise mobility classes, where Microsoft, RIM, Cisco and others are also looking to live.
2008-11-19
The University of Texas at San Antonio Institute for Cyber Security launches an Internet security incubator to commercialize promising technologies that address major cyber-security and privacy issues. The program offers companies access to UTSA ICS labs and research.
2008-11-19
The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory uses software developed by Vint Cerf in an approach called disruption-tolerant networking to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about 20 million miles from Earth. The first deep-space communications network modeled on the Internet, DTN is expected to be used on a variety of upcoming space missions.
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