Monthly Archives: May 2004
NetBeans IDE is Much Improved
NetBeans 3.6, released last month by the NetBeans.org open-source community, offers Java developers an attractive and capable programming environment that features a native look...
Sun Goes Out on Development Limb with New Java Tools
Sun Microsystems Inc. finds itself lately in growing agreement with Microsoft Corp. on interoperability goals and with IBM on the significance of open-source offerings....
Sun Tightens Java Power/Simplicity Gap
Its hard to remember a time before the advent of drag-and-drop application development. In many Java tools, however, a facade of component assembly has...
Java Studio Enterprise Builds on NetBeans
Sun Microsystems Inc.s Java Studio Enterprise 6 combines innovative, comprehensive packaging of developer technologies and supporting services with an easy-to-swallow subscription-based model of pricing...
AmberPoint Puts Web Services to Test
Those who are developing Web services often lack the testing and management tools that are taken for granted in other development environments. Also, many...
Broadcoms SecureEZSetup Guards Consumer WLANs
Chipmaker Broadcom Corp. on Monday announced a software tool designed to attack the problem of security on home wireless LANs by eliminating the need...
Nortel Networks Cleans House
Nortel Networks fired its president and CEO, Frank Dunn, last week, along with its chief financial officer, Douglas Beatty, and Controller Michael Gillogly. The...
IBM xSeries 206 Well-Equipped for Small Businesses
IBMs single-processor xSeries 206 provides an entry-level server for small businesses without burning a big hole in small IT budgets.
The xSeries 206 is IBMs...
HP Adds Low-Cost RISC System
Hewlett-Packard is rolling out a RISC-based workstation with boosted performance, officials said, but it costs about half the price of the current model.
Key to...
Cool C Voice Recognition Software Gets Lost in Translation
Cool Conversations LLCs first release of its Cool C Talking Computer software is a good demonstration of how far speech recognition has come—and how...