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AMD Names Meyer President and COO

Dirk Meyer, an 11-year veteran with Advanced Micro Devices, on Jan. 23 was named president and chief operating officer of the chip-making company.The 44-year-old...

W3C Has New Speech Specs in the Works

In addition to VoiceXML 3.0, a working draft of which was introduced at the end of last year, the World Wide Web Consortium is...

W3C Taps Steven Bratt as Its First CEO

The World Wide Web Consortium has created the position of CEO and named Steven Bratt to the post, effective Jan. 20.Bratt held the position...

NOPD: Communications Unprepared for More Disasters

Public safety officials from police departments in Louisiana and Alabama are joining telecommunications carriers and equipment makers in Washington to seek answers for the...

Exadel Delivers Open-Source Toolkit with Eclipse, AJAX Flavor

Exadel Inc. announced Jan. 30 the release of Exadel Studio Pro 3.5, an enterprise-class Web application development environment with enhanced AJAX support that leverages...

AJAX Poses Security, Performance Risks

Web services and service-oriented architecture security software provider Forum Systems issued an alert on Jan. 30 for AJAX-related security threats and performance issues. Asynchronous JavaScript...

iAnywhere Announces Embeddable Software for Readers

Sybase Inc. subsidiary iAnywhere announced Jan. 30 at the Global RFID ROI Summit in London new software to help RFID hardware vendors develop "smart"...

Customers Report Major Salesforce.com Outage

Salesforce.com, which has had several high-profile system outages over the past couple of months, is apparently still having issues. Salesforce.coms servers were down for several...

Consumers Resist Retail Biometrics

As assistant director of information systems for the $700 million Piggly Wiggly grocery chain, Rachel Bolt has been one of the most vocal proponents...

SOA Governance Gets Real

Service-oriented architecture development can be successful to a fault if service developers are empowered to create and publish services more quickly than service consumers...