IBM has announced a new line-up of next-generation processor systems and blades, high speed connectivity and coprocessor acceleration technology for the IBM System Cluster 1350. With its improved ability to handle a broad range of application environments and capability to scale up to

JotSpot says it will no longer bill customers for the privilege of using the wiki service it previously charged $5-$200 a month to host. Whether JotSpot users will have to use Google IDs like Writely is unclear.

IBM has announced Lotus Expeditor, a development platform for creating Eclipse-based and Web 2.0 applications. Lotus Expeditor's open standards-based programming model enables enterprises to integrate existing and new applications and deliver them to a variety of connected and disconne

Every now and then we create reusable components, and so far we are giving them away for free. Some pathetic bloggers call this 'giving back to the community'. We look at it simple: if we do not have time to productionize the component, we donate it.

Omniture, a provider of online business optimization software, has announced that Virgin America, a highly anticipated U.S. airline launching in 2007, has selected Omniture to measure and optimize their online channel. Operating under the mantra to 'build an airline people will love,'

GoodStorm, an ecommerce company, has opened its GoodStorm API release 2.0 giving web developers access to ecommerce functionality and product metadata for selling books, non-DRMed MP3s, CDs, DVDs, and video games online.

Back four years ago (2002), a good friend who works at Microsoft told me confidentially that Microsoft is working on something called 'XAML'. 'Very similar to Nexaweb - watch out', he said. To the contrary, I was actually thrilled. Regardless of what it means from a competitive perspec

Chris Rowe, founder of innovative recruitment site, Employmint, is using the Web 2.0 model to turn the recruitment business on its head. 'The global acceptance of Google grew to the point that people don't search any more, they Google.' explains Chris. Google leveraged the search engin

Kapow Technologies, the enterprise mashup software platform provider, announced the addition of Joe Keller as chief marketing officer. As the company's first C-level marketing executive, he will be responsible for expanding and managing the company's worldwide marketing efforts, primar

Oracle today announced Oracle(R) WebCenter Suite, a new component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. Oracle WebCenter Suite will improve information worker productivity by delivering a unified, context-aware user experience that integrates a full set of enterprise services. It delivers a un

Kapow Technologies (http: //www.kapowtech.com/), the leading enterprise mashup software platform provider, today announced the addition of Joe Keller as chief marketing officer. As the company's first C-level marketing executive, he will be responsible for expanding and managing the co

IBM and The University of Arizona have announced a new collaborative initiative to develop a course aimed at helping developers build online communities and social network systems using Web 2.0 technologies. The curriculum, which is designed to equip students with skills in the creatio

Virtualization of the computing environment is a clear trend in the industry. RHEL5 will provide support for Virtualized Linux. For some Linux system administrators virtualization already means virtualized disk space. Being able to manage your storage independently of your applications

Sun Microsystems has announced its 'Galaxy' line of Sun Fire x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers powered by Next-Generation AMD Opteron processors and the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), the most advanced operating system on the planet. The Sun Fire X4100 M2, Sun Fire X4200 M2 and Sun Fire X46

It has been just two years since Firefox appeared on the scene, but this Mozilla browser has surely changed the rules of the game. Firefox brought back the spirit, the innovation and the crowds of followers. Firefox is not only the underdog we are rooting for, it is a movement that is

Sun Microsystems has unveiled Project Blackbox, a systems innovation designed to reset datacenter economics. Project Blackbox applies Sun's trademark innovation and network computing expertise to provide a simple, 'instant-on' modular datacenter targeting companies seeking rapid and hi

We all know HTTP, the communication layer of Web 1.0. Recently, we also started to realize some of the limitations of HTTP. For example, HTTP is request/response only and does not support bi-directional communication. There are techniques to be employed for enabling bi-directional comm

IBM has introduced software aimed at helping clients build more profitable customer relationships through master data management. IBM WebSphere Customer Center 7.0, part of IBM's master data management family of products, is designed to help businesses achieve a single version of the t

MyBestDate.co.uk, UK's online dating service enhanced their services with a cut-edge web messenger technology, powered by Userplane. After the success of MyBestDate's built-in AJAX chat, MyBestDate decided to give a far more functional live chat with audio/video streaming and anonymous

Unique social networking, news, and content website, providing users with the ability to create their own communities of content URLs. Uses democratic editorial control where users can vote content to the front using Web 2.0 and Ajax technologies.

The subject of this piece is how to pass parameters from HTML to a Flex 2 application using flashVars parameters.

San Francisco-based Wallop recently announced that its new social networking website has helped to trigger a new round of funding, in the amount of $10M. This Series B round of capital will help Wallop build out its site combining social computing with a marketplace, allowing users to

Flash Player 9 enters pre-Alpha stage on Linux. Adobe marketing needs to work harder.

We are about to enter a new era, when plain looking Web applications will gradually be replaced with RIA delivered over the Web that can actually land on the PC and work in a disconnected mode as well. How this will affect the evolution of Business Intelligence (BI) applications?

David Boloker, IBM's chief technology officer for emerging Internet technologies, said that the combination of Web 2.0 tools and open source communities are creating a 'perfect storm' to enable new kinds of collaborations among businesses and their constituents.

Web 2.0 technologies promise to turn the Internet into a true application platform, featuring robust client-side logic and rich interfaces that put users back in control of application flow. For the enterprise IT community, achieving the aims of Web 2.0 requires looking beyond the ado

With all the noise the Web 2.0 revolutionaries are making, it's easy to ignore another-this time velvet-revolution. E-commerce 2.0 is coming into maturity and getting ready to relieve its now 10+ year old predecessor. It's about time.

Nexaweb announced it has secured $10 million in Series B venture capital funding from Egan-Managed Capital, Masthead Venture Partners and Velocity Partners. This latest capital investment supports Nexaweb's accelerated growth in the Enterprise Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Application (RIA

SYS-CON Events (www.events.sys-con.com) announced today that the first international 'AJAXWorld(TM) Conference & Expo' (www.ajaxworldexpo.com), taking place on October 3-4, 2006, at theSanta Clara Convention Center, California, will offer AJAXWorld University - Developer Bootcamp progr

'As a pioneer of RIA and Enterprise Web 2.0 solutions, Nexaweb has met the application development challenges of enterprises, independent software vendors, and system integrators around the world,' said Chris Heidelberger, newly appointed CEO at Nexaweb, as the company today announced

Mark Knopfler once said, 'I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.' Anyone with that kind of gif

This AJAXWorld Conference session discusses how Java EE 5 technologies can be used to create next-generation Web 2.0 applications. It covers how rich interactive GUIs similar to traditional desktops can be designed with AJAX, enabling features such as mash-ups, tagging, and user partic

Ruby on Rails, as it has come to be known ever since, certainly hit a dry spot. Armed with Hansson's mantra - such as 'Don't Repeat Yourself' and 'Convention Over Configuration' - developers found that Ruby on Rails (RoR) empowered them, allowing beautiful code to solve the problems mo

With all the noise the Web 2.0 revolutionaries are making, it's easy to ignore another &emdash; this time velvet &emdash; revolution: 'E-commerce 2.0' is coming into maturity and getting ready to relieve its now ten-plus year old predecessor. It's about time.

OpenAJAX Alliance, an open industry collaboration dedicated to developing and expanding AJAX, has announced new partners and initiatives around the AJAX Community, signaling continued momentum for AJAX-based Web technologies.

Level 3 Communications Content Markets group today announced it has been selected by YouTube to support the company's rapidly growing online video entertainment service. Under the terms of the agreement, Level 3 will provide Level 3(R) High Speed Internet Access via Multiple 10 gigabi

Optaros Inc., an open source software consulting and integration firm that provides enterprises with online platforms for the next generation of the Internet, announced the development of Swisscom Mobile Labs (http://labs. swisscom-mobile.ch/), an innovative web platform and testing env

Optaros, an open source software consulting and integration firm announced the development of Swisscom Mobile Labs, an innovative web platform and testing environment for Swisscom Mobile that all Internet users can access. The environment allows the leading Swiss telecommunications com

When we talk about AJAX and its huge impact on Web development, one important thing to mention is that it's not a ready-to-ship component that you just plug into your app and now you're Web 2.0. In fact, what AJAX can do for you is to provide a simple, yet powerful way to make transpar

I had an interesting discussion on the phone today with Yoram Meriaz, CEO of MB Technologies, and maker of the remarkable Bindows AJAX framework. As AJAX becomes more mainstream, organizations have become increasingly interested in taking advantage of rich, interactive, zero-footprint