According to Evans Data Corp's latest Web Services Development Survey, Web Services with Web 2.0 interfaces are surging. Evans Data finds this in the rising use of AJAX, a key component of the Web 2.0 architecture. Close to half of developers surveyed say they are already working with

Rich Internet Applications (RIA) describe what the software development community aims to do; break out of primitive Web delivery to deliver robust functionality, exciting data visualization and 'thicker,' role-based and process-oriented user interfaces. These types of RIAs are now pos

Analyst firm explains Nexaweb's Enterprise Web Application leadership through flexible, open product platform and deep expertise with over 5,000 successful deployments at large, highly dispersed enterprises Burlington, MA 3/4 February 20, 2006 3/4 Nexaweb Technologies, Inc., provider

Pop quiz: what company both doubled its annual revenue in 2006 and closed a $26.25 million round of funding? Clue: it also tracked 290,000 downloads of its RIA platform and lined up IBM, Walmart.com, H&R Block, Monster, Barclays Global and Pandora as customers. Extra clue: it also anno

Nexaweb Technologies, Inc., provider of theleading standards-based platform for building and deploying Enterprise Web2.0 (EW2.0) applications, and Inkriti, a technology consulting company thatis a leading provider of Web 2.0 Solutions for customer-centric e-business,today announced a n

SYS-CON Events (www.sys-con.com) announced today that AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West (www.ajaxworld.com) willtake place on September 24-26, 2007, at the Santa Clara Convention Centerin Santa Clara, California. The event is expected to attract over 2,000 developers, architects, I

telepark, the developers of Personal Web Applications, present a new type of Wiki software, telepark.wiki ['telepark-dot-wiki', which features an AJAX-powered interactive navigation system and caters to non-geek users. telepark.wiki enables companies and freelancers to quickly and easi

SYS-CON Events (www.sys-c on.com)announced today that AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East(www.ajaxworld.com), which will take place on March 19-21, 2007, will attract over 1,000 developers, architects, IT managers, and software professionals of every stripe who will be converging in N

TapeTrader.com is a ColdFusion-powered, live music sharing community with over 50,000 members and a vast database cataloging hundreds of thousands of hours of live music recordings. The TapeTrader.com community connects fans together so that they can catalog, share and trade their reco

MB Technologies added generic SVG support to Bindows and implemented the charts, graphs, gauges and more in both VML and SVG. Bindows now presents a unified, object oriented API for creating rich Business Graphics in all supported browsers. Now developers can create complex graphics wi

JackBe, provider of Enterprise Web 2.0 infrastructure solutions that integrate SOA and AJAX, announced that it has suspended all additional entrants into the recently unveiled beta program for its Presto Rich Enterprise Application (REA) platform. Announced in October 2006, the program

Ruby on Rails is what we call a full stack. A full stack meaning that it has all the components built in for doing most Web applications. Unlike a lot of other open source software, you don't have to cherry pick a lot of different packages. We try to deliver one solution in the sense o

What we need is a Web browser that doesn't just serve up documents, but serves up applications.' Early in 2006 I was given a design brief: a UK-based shipping company wanted to replace its shipment tracking system with a Web-based solution.

Serendipity Technologies has announced the debut of the world's first secure RSS reader. The reader, for the first time ever, will allow information workers to receive updates of protected data currently lost within their information systems.

Early in 2006, before the general Internet-using public was aware of what I began referring to ­in editorials, blog entries, and SYS-CON's Internet TV Webcasts ­as 'The AJAX Moment,' there was a strong sense among industry insiders that AJAX-like approaches, if not actually AJAX itself

Microsoft today announced the official release to Web of ASP.NET AJAX 1.0. This tool provides Web developers with the essential tools to simplify building next-generation, AJAX-style Web applications through what it calls 'seamless integration with the .NET Framework and Microsoft plat

At Lotusphere today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announcedthe planned availability of the IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino 8 publicBeta starting this February. This is the final beta phase before theproduct's target ship date of mid-2007, concluding the most collaborativesoftware review program in

When building the right project team to complete a custom solution there are many forces at work. These include business drivers, technical drivers, and organizational and political motivations. Regardless of the business or organization there are three basic rules to follow in buildin

ActiveGrid, which bills itself as a Web 2.0 company and offers open source software to the Global 2000 in place of .NET and Java widgetry in developing rich interactive web applications, has switched CEOs. Founder Peter Yared is now CTO replaced by Christopher Keene, the founder of Per

Early in 2006 there was a strong sense among industry insiders that AJAX-like approaches were a shoo-in as the new paradigm for fulfilling the software development community's dream of freedom from OS or runtime environment dependent technologies. Was the early optimism borne out by su

In this comprehensive article Wei re-examines Web 2.0, in contrast to the common consumer-centric point of view, by looking at its technology stack and impact on enterprise computing. Wei establishes a Web 2.0 technology stack that forms the foundation of a paradigm shift he calls the

Gomez Inc., the leader in web application experience management, today announced a reseller partnership with Limelight Networks, the high performance content delivery network for digital media.

Even though I write for SYS-CON, I've never publicly complimented them. But this time they really deserve a credit. SYS-CON will present the AJAXWorld 2007 Conference & Expo 2007 East in March. Usually, attendees have very limited access to speakers during conferences, and SYS-CON Even

Nexaweb Technologies, Inc., provider of theleading standards-based platform for building and deploying Enterprise Web2.0 (EW2.0) applications, today announced availability of the latestversion of Nexaweb Studio. Nexaweb Studio 3.0 is an Eclipse-basedIntegrated Development Environment (

Just as 2006 was the year of streaming video and the birth of 'Internet TV,' 2007 is going to be the move beyond infancy toward the long-awaited and complete convergence of television and the Internet. Now that broadband is available to more than100 million households worldwide, every

Understanding the complexity of AJAX at the browser level is critical to refining and debugging rich AJAX applications that leverage Web technologies such as JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and XMLHttpRequests. Adding a third-party AJAX runtime heightens the complexity and su

Understanding the complexity of AJAX at the browser level is critical to refining and debugging rich AJAX applications that leverage Web technologies such as JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and XMLHttpRequests. Adding a third-party AJAX runtime heightens the complexity and su

At the end of each year, when SYS-CON informally polls its globe-girdling network of software developers, industry executives, commentators, investors, writers, and editors, our question is always the same: where's the industry going next year?

News Corp, Viacom, CBS and NBC Universal parent General Electric are reportedly trying to gang up on YouTube with a video-sharing YouTube-like site of their own, according to Monday's Wall Street Journal, even if - illegally poached videos to one side - CBS and NBC have not-very-succes

12 percent of content is viewed at university locations, while only 6 percent of page views at Yahoo! Sites occur at university locations.

Nexaweb Technologies, Inc., provider of theleading standards-based platform for building and deploying Enterprise Web2.0 (EW2.0) applications, today announced the availability of NexawebPlatform 4.5. Version 4.5 builds on the success of earlier editions bydelivering the industry's fir

Is this really the way forward? A tree-based object model accessed by an interpreted scripting engine tacked onto a specification designed for static read-only documents?

Pegasystems , the leader in unified process and rules technology, today announced that eWEEK Labs has named Pegasystems latest version of SmartBPM 5.1 to its List of Top Products for 2006.

MetaMatrix announced the Defense Logistics Agency's Integrated Data Environment (DLA IDE) program is the latest United States Department of Defense (DOD) program to select the MetaMatrix suite of data-integration products to help implement their data strategy and transformation efforts

Nexaweb Technologies, provider of the standards-based platform for building and deploying Enterprise Web 2.0 (EW2.0) applications, today announced that Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Japan's largest bank, has migrated its client/server-based institutional foreign exchange system to an i

New research findings from STL, an analyst firm specialising in the Telecoms industry, has found that the vast majority of telecoms industry professionals lack confidence that Telcos are set up to cope with the threat from new internet and IP-based services. Over 550 telecoms industry

Infosys Technologies today announced that the company will be added to the NASDAQ-100 index, effective with the market opening on Monday, December 18, 2006. The NASDAQ-100 index is composed of the 100 largest non-financial stocks on the NASDAQ Stock Market in terms of market capitaliza

AccuWeather, The World's Weather Authority, announced that it will soon deliver mission-critical weather information via IBM's emerging Web 2.0 technology, QEDWiki enterprise mashup maker, to businesses and markets worldwide.

ShoZu announced that its free Share-It one-click image uploading application for camera phones now can transmit images to Pikeo, the new photo sharing community recently unveiled by Orange. Pikeo offers photo storage, tagging and sharing capabilities as well as geotagging that enables

Orb Networks today announced the public release of Orb MyCasting 2.0, a free service that transforms the personal computer into a personal broadcasting system by unlocking all of the digital media people have on their personal computers. Orb MyCasting is available for free at www.orb.c