Jeff Burt

Oracle Corp. and SilverStream Software Inc. on Monday are announcing products aimed at giving programmers integrated environments that offer everything from the Web servers to the application development tools. Oracle is unveiling the latest version of its Oracle9i JDeveloper tool set, a product rewritten in Java. The offering follows releases earlier this year of the […]

Microsoft Corp. and IBM on Thursday announced a new specification aimed at helping developers search the Web for XML-based Web services. The Web Services Inspection spec, or WS-Inspection, defines how an application can discover Web service descriptions on a Web server, even if it is not listed in the UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) […]

Citing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Adobe Systems Inc. on Tuesday downgraded its fourth-quarter projections and cut about 150 jobs. The Web publishing software company said it now expects revenues to come in between $275 million and $285 million, with earnings at 20 cents to 22 cents a share. Before the attacks in New York […]

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, the joint venture between Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson and Sony Corp., last week announced its first joint product. The Ericsson Bluetooth Handsfree HBH-20 is designed to eliminate the need for a wire between a cell phone and an earpiece by linking the two via a short-range wireless connection. The device, which is […]

For businesses that want to find out where their customers are coming from, DataFlux Corp., a subsidiary of SAS Institute Inc., has added geocoding capabilities to its dfPower Verify PowerPack data quality software. The geocode option provides ZIP+4-Centroid-level geocoding and will return longitude/latitude, state/county Federal Information Processing Standard codes and census tract and block group […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is bulking up its Solaris 8 operating environment by tightly linking it with iPlanet Application Server and improving its Java and storage capabilities. Combining the Solaris 8 10/01 (also known as Update 6) platform with the application server is part of the Palo Alto, Calif., companys push to make it easier for […]

Expected changes Midsize companies that need high-speed symmetric service have not warmed up to DSL technology as an access option, but a company based in San Jose, Calif., said it expects that to change. Pledging speed Symmetricom Inc., a broadband access equipment maker, this week launched two integrated access devices based on the recently ITU-approved […]

Service providers are looking for ways to offer next-generation voice services over existing infrastructure. Unisphere Networks Inc., of Westford, Mass., said the new ATM module for its media gateway will enable legacy carriers to deliver advanced IP-based services. The SMX-2100 media gateway supports IP, asynchronous transfer mode and time division multiplexing in a single platform […]

WebSideStory Inc. and ComScore Networks Inc., of Reston, Va., have teamed up to launch HitBox Benchmarker, a service that tracks and analyzes visitor behavior at a Web site vs. visitor behavior at competitors sites. The new service combines San Diego-based WebSideStorys HitBox Enterprise outsourced visitor analysis technology with data from ComScores Global Network, a 1.5 […]

Computer Associates International Inc. on Monday released an updated version of its Cool:Plex development tool designed to enable users to quickly create Java-based applications for Microsoft Corp.s Windows and IBMs iSeries 400 platforms. Cool:Plex Version 5.0, which supports Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP and is aimed at the midmarket range, incorporates what CA […]