StrikeIron and salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) announced that StrikeIron will be offering its subscription based Web services to salesforce.com customers via the salesforce.com AppExchange. Salesforce.com customers can now add live business demographics, data verification and cleansing capab

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) - stewards, incubators, and developers of leading Open Source projects, including the Apache HTTP Server, the world's most popular Web server software for ten years running - reflects on its activities and milestones achieved during 2005.

Today, Mercury Interactive Corporation (BULLETIN BOARD: MERQ) , the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO) software, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Systinet Corporation, a privately held company, for $105.0 million in cash.

Dice Inc., the leading online career site that helps businesses source technology and engineering professionals, and Targeted Job Fairs, a leading provider of career fairs for technology and engineering candidates nationwide and a Dice company, will host two technology and engineering

the Zimbra Collaboration Suite. Built on open source technology, the Zimbra Collaboration Suite will fundamentally change the way people interact with e-mail by fixing the most frustrating problems for users and administrators. Currently available as a Beta, the messaging server and cl

Composite Application Integrator (CAI), Software AG's powerful design and runtime environment for combining Web services into rich composite internet applications now supports Google maps. CAI is the first AJAX based product to include a Google maps control.

ClearNova will announce its plans to open osurce its AJAX development environment ThinkCap this week by keeping a dual-licensing strategy with various pricing options. ClearNova's Vice President of Strategy and Evangelism Steve Benfield, who recently presented at a SYS-CON.TV hosted AJ

Dave Crane is senior developer and architect for Historic Futures Ltd., a UK firm specialising in web-based supply chain management solutions. He is also lead author of the bestselling 'Ajax in Action', and has been using the technologies that we now know as Ajax in production for seve

Creative Modeler is a full-featured diagramming environment that can be extended to create any type of diagram. It includes a data translation engine that facilitates the editing and conversion of data in any structured file format into any other structured file format (XML or non-XML)

In contrast to '800-pound gorilla' load testing tools, WAPT is designed to minimize the learning curve and give the user an ability to create a heavy load from a single regular workstation. You can create a basic test scenario and get meaningful information about your performance lands

InteractiveVoices (http:/ /www.interactivevoices.co m/), 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

In a service-oriented architecture (SOA), a service is a unit of work performed by a service provider to achieve desired results for one or more service consumers. A service provides a function that is well defined, self-contained (for example, loosely coupled to its environment), desc

When I first looked over MagooClient from Magoo Software, it was difficult to categorize. I expected that it would be another composite application builder, but that's not what I found. Instead I found a tool that not only allows users to interact with business processes, but that also

'I predicted this acquisition on October 18, 2005,' notes Yeshim Deniz as formal word emerged yesterday of the acquisition by IBM of Bowstreet.

You may have noticed recently that lots of websites now contain little graphical buttons with the word XML on them. When you click on the button, all you see is a bunch of jumbled text and computer code [ed: unless you have a newer web browser or an aggregator]. What's this all about?

SoftJin, an EDA(Electronic Design Automation) software development services company, todayannounced its free source code for Anuvad*, a suite of GDSII-OASISlibraries and GDSII to OASIS translator, has been downloaded by over 400,since its introduction last year (November, 2004). The do

TongTech, one of China's leading middleware technology companies, and the world's biggest UNIX system vendor, Sun Microsystems , announced today that a cooperation agreement, based on JAVA, would be established and a Business Orientated Architecture (BOA) would be launched. The announ

Network Testing Lab's, today announced thepublication of its XML Infrastructure Front-End review. According to testsdone by Network Testing Labs, Reactivity, Inc.'s Gateway 2400 product wasthe leading application in this review. Products from Act ional(www.actional.com),D ataPower [recen

The HR-XML Consortium announced today theformation of an initiative to deliver a web services (WS) profile forbackground checks and other employment screenings. HR-XML's WS profile forscreening will build upon the Consortium's existing Background Checkingspecification, which enjoys sig

Stylus Studio announced the availability of a new XQuery tutorial entitled 'Schema-Aware Queries and Stylesheets.' This is the third tutorial of Dr. Michael Kay's XQuery series which contains, 'Learn XQuery in Ten Minutes', and 'An Introduction to FLWOR Expressions'. 'Schema-Aware Quer

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.

Cape Clear Software today announced the appointment of James Pasley as chief technology officer (CTO). In his new position, Pasley assumes the role of Cape Clear's lead technologist and is responsible for ensuring that Cape Clear's enterprise service bus (ESB) technology supports the e

Invistics, developer of manufacturing performance optimization solutions for complex, asset-intensive industries such as consumer packaged goods and pharmaceuticals, announced today that it has achieved SAP(R) Certified Integration of its MachSix Integration Server. This product from I

Progress Software and NEON Systems announced they have signed a definitive agreement under which a wholly owned subsidiary of Progress will make a $6.20 per share cash tender offer for all outstanding shares of NEON common stock. The transaction is valued at approximately $68 million i

SYS-CON Events (www.sys-con.com) announcedtoday the 'Real-World AJAX One-Day Seminar' (www.ajaxseminar.com) to takeplace on Monday, March 13, 2005, in New York City. Delegate and sponsorregistration information can be obtained at the conference website,www.aj axseminar.com, as it become

Leveraging 15 years experience in developing single-source publishing solutions, Mekon has designed the first XML publishing adaptor to enable Adobe FrameMaker users to utilise the powerful print pagination capabilities of FrameMaker and FrameMaker Server within DITA based XML publishi

Altova, creator of XMLSpy and other leading XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, announced a new addition to its award-winning line of XML applications. Altova SemanticWorks 2006 is a visual Semantic Web development tool with support for Resource Description Framework (RD

Stylus Studio, a provider of XML development tools and components for advanced data integration, has announced the availability of a new XQuery tutorial entitled - 'Blooming FLWOR: An Introduction to the XQuery FLWOR Expression'.

Altova has announced that Altova XMLSpy 2006 includes full support for the newly released Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. From directly within the Visual Studio 2005 development environment, developers can easily access the advanced functionality of XMLSpy 2006 to build powerful XML-base

'Though it's been around for a while, AJAX is now a hot topic in the application developer community because it brings cross-platform rich user interfaces to Web applications without having to use products like Microsoft .NET or Macromedia,' said Steve Benfield. Benfield explains what

Microsoft Corp has announced it will take steps to offer the file format technology behind billions of documents to customers and the industry as an international standard. Apple, Barclays Capital, BP, the British Library, Essilor, Intel Corporation, Microsoft, NextPage Inc., Statoil A

Really Strategies worked with J.J.Keller to identify requirements and solutions for all aspects of its new single-source content management system and integrated the system components. After pilot-testing two representative looseleaf books, J.J.Keller is now putting publications throug

At the XML 2005 Conference & Expo in Atlanta, Georgia, Justsystems announced the release of xfy Enterprise Solution 1.0, an integrated development and runtime environment for enterprise XML applications. xfy Enterprise Solution 1.0 helps application developers quickly create innovative

CA today launched a new integrated global branding program to demonstrate CA's commitment to unifying and simplifying the management of enterprise-wide information technology (IT) to help ensure customers receive the maximum return on their IT investments.

The Working Group will have to balance the needs of a diverse community - including Business Rules and Semantic Web users - specifying extensions for which it can articulate a consensus design and which are sufficiently motivated by use cases.

The OASIS WS-SX Technical Committee will advance a set of modular specifications that standardize the concepts, WSDL documents, and XML Schema renderings for trusted brokering of SOAP message exchanges, shared security contexts, and security policies.

'The technology of Semantic Web services envisions easy access to various systems and facilitates the consumption of the functionality exposed by these systems on the Web,' says senior Ovum analyst, Bola Rotibi.

Oracle has announced that it won four Intelligent Enterprise 2005 Readers' Choice Awards, including 'Best Customer Data Integration Application,' 'Best Database Management System,' 'Best XML Database,' and 'Best Business Process Management System.'

DocSoft, a leader in XML technology, announced the release of W2XML version 2.5, with new support for converting Microsoft Equation objects to MathML. W2XML is a very popular tool for converting DOC and RTF files to well-formed XML. The XML can then be further modified via custom XSLTs