It's official - the Adobe acquisition of Macromedia has been finalized and our beloved ColdFusion has a new home. Is this a bad thing? No, not at all. There was a lot of talk within the community about how this may adversely effect the server, but talk is cheap and, in this case, also ...

InteractiveVoices (http://www.interactivevoices.com/), the voice-over marketplace, has just rolled out a new Web 2.0 platform for businesses that need to hire voice-over talents. Principles that render InteractiveVoices a Web 2.0 company include the continued focus on a rich user expe...

The term (and world-wide attention) behind AJAX is not even a year old, but you can find a wide range of powerful tools either with newly added support for it or created just to support the AJAX way of life. In addition, many of the constaints and problems with AJAX have been resolved ...

Silicon Valley will once again be lauded for its traditional strengths--good educational base, plenty of funding, and a warm-weather location set in a highly competitive society with a relatively low level of government interference, theoretically non-existent class structure, and a cr...

A 2005 year-end review of blogging finds that politics took a back seat to discussions about entertainment, technology, natural disasters and the evolution of blogs as legitimate media channels, according to Intelliseek's BlogPulse.com (http://www.blogpulse.com/).

Yesterday, we celebrated the birthday of my employee Alex in a fancy Russian restaurant. If you haven't tried it, go there - once. The party started late, and I've never seen such a variety of food on the table at the same time (they call this setup 'bratskaya mogila,' which means 'mas...

Ektron, a leader in Web content management software, announced the availability of Ektron CMS400.NET Version 5.1. The release provides advanced Web content management functionality that enables Web sites, Intranets and Extranets to provide more interactive communications to visitors, b...

'While Ajax isn't a necessary part of SOA, they're certainly an optimal pairing,' said Kevin Hakman, director of product marketing for Tibco Software Inc.'s Ajax-based graphical interface tool. 'They're able to leverage each other's strengths.'

Web sites are getting a facelift thanks to a newly popular internet technology called AJAX.

Lumen Software, a leader in Web Services Products and Solutions, announced today the release of their latest AJAX based environment and virtual desktop, Lumenation v5.4.8. Lumenation's mature environment offers customers and developers an 'out-of-the-box' solution to quickly and easil...

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, known as Ajax, has exploded on the Web development scene, introducing a new breed of applications, such innovations as Google Maps, imbued with the rich expressiveness of desktop applications. Up to now, there has been no authoritative guide to this com...

It is amazing what is in 38K of Midlet, and it is good to see Google pushing the envelope on mobile like this. As per my comments previously on this page, there already exists MGMaps which provides a J2ME interface to Google Maps but it is not as slick as this. Check this out from Goog...

has been honored with an InfoWorld 100 Award for its creative use of TIBCO General Interface Framework. Iconix Pharmaceuticals' leveraged TIBCO's AJAX solution to develop and power an intuitive, high productivity graphical user interface (GUI) for its comprehensive DrugMatrix database.

Zimbra, a leader in open source, next-generation collaboration and messaging, today announced the availability of a comprehensive group scheduling calendar, along with RSS and Atom support, online back-up and recovery utilities, hierarchical storage management, clustering for high avai...

Zimbra (http://www.zimbra.com/) today announced that it has been chosen to present at the third Under the Radar one-day event, with a focus on Enterprise Technologies. Under the Radar will take place on November 16, 2005 at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View, CA.

NextApp, Inc., today announced the availability of the open-source AJAX-based Echo2 Web Framework and commercially-licensed EchoStudio2 Visual Development Tool.

The new Tibco General Interface 3.0 consists of two components, Tibco General Interface Framework and Tibco General Interface Builder, which together enable developers to deliver applications that run completely in a standard Web browser, the company says. This installation-free framew...

Executives from ClearNova, Inc. will champion AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript + XML) in their session at the South Florida Java User's Group in the Miami area on August 17. The discussion will be led by Steve Benfield, VP of strategy & technology evangelism at ClearNova.