New cross-platform EditiX 3.0 combines an easy to use XML editor and XSLT debugger designed to help Web programmers utilize the latest XML technologies.

Stylus Studio is currently accepting entries for its new XQuery Innovator Awards. The awards will highlight the achievement of developers who have used XQuery to solve business problems. Applications are being accepted online until March 31, 2005.

OpenXava 1.0 has been released. This latest release includes greater tailored functionality, developed to create J2EE business applications rapidly and easily.

eBay is releasing a range of new services and enhancements designed to grow its Web services programs.

The US E-Gov E-Authentication Initiative demonstrated interoperability of SAML 2.0, along with 13 of the world's leading tech companies.

XML development tool Stylus Studio was awarded CNET Download.com Editor's 5 star rating, their highest honor.

Digital Evolution today announced the release of the industry's first business-to-business Web services security solution for .NET Web services.

Wyndham Jade's new ONEsystem+ is a Web-based system that helps organizers of large events centralize a number of common travel activities online.

This year it looks certain that a new participation record will be set, as more than 4,000 votes have already been recorded in just the first seven days of voting, as more than 50,000 SYS-CON Media readers are estimated to cast their votes in this year's Readers' Choice Awards. Highlig

Tim Kinslow, practice manager for Web-based solutions at Trigent, will present 'Migrating ASP to ASP.NET' on Thursday, February 17 at 9 a.m. In this presentation, Kinslow will address how to choose a migration strategy that matches your business objectives and how to effectively plan f

Carly Fiorina has stepped down as Chairman and CEO of Hewlett Packard. CEO since 1999, Fiorina is being replaced by Robert Wayman, HP's current CFO, while Patricia Dunn, was named non-executive chairman of the board, effective immediately.

Orbeon, a systems integrator specializing in XML-based integration and Web applications, announced that it has joined the ObjectWeb consortium The company's flagship project, PresentationServer, is now hosted by ObjectWeb.

Stylus Studio and Sleepycat Software today announced the immediate availability of new integrated XQuery development tools which fully support XML development using Berkeley DB XML 2.0.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has quickly taken centre stage as the primary development style of the next decade and beyond. Businesses of all types are preparing for the SOA revolution that promises consistency of process, reduction in duplicate work, ease of maintenance, servic

OASIS is letting members of each of its more than 60 committees choose for themselves one of three Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) modes to meet specific needs. Before, OASIS mandated one mode.

DataPower's XS40 XML Security Gateway has received Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) interoperability certification for the US Department of Defense (DOD) Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).

Microsoft's first Office System Developer Conference suported the use of XML by developers of Office applications. Microsft said Office can be regarded as a platform in its own right.

eBay, The World's Online Marketplace, has more than 114 million registered users, 10,000 developers, and over 700 live, third-party applications.

'Microsoft has been working with the industry to advance a new generation of software that is interoperable by design, reducing the need for custom development and cumbersome testing and certification,' wrote Bill Gates yesterday in an 'executive e-mail' sent to all subscribers to exec

Coherence 3.0 Management Framework Monitors All Cache Settings and Statistics for Coherence caches and services at runtime utilizing the standard JMX interface. Coherence Management Framework makes it possible to view and manage Coherence operational parameters and cache statistics thr

Macrovision Corporation announced it is working with Microsoft to provide support for interoperability between Microsoft WindowsMedia DRM and Macrovision's copy management solution.

Sean Rhody, editor-in-chief of Web Services Journal and Anne Thomas Manes, vice president and research director at Burton Group discussed Web Services trends on Rhody's 'Web Services Update' SYS-CON.TV (www.SYS-CON.TV) program. They also discussed today's UDDI version 3.0 announcement.

Sonic Software is the inventor and leading provider of the enterprise service bus (ESB). Sonic enterprise integration and messaging products deliver flexibility, scalability, and continuous availability through patent-pending innovations. Sonic Software enables over 700 customers to in

On February 16th at Web Services Edge 2005 in Boston, Mass., Mr. Farquharson will present the topic: 'B2B Policy Enforcement: The Third Rail of SOA Implementation.' In this presentation he will discuss XML Virtual Private Networks (XML VPNs) and their potential to mitigate security pol

Jim Bole, Infravio vice president of products and services, will present at the Web Services Edge International Web Services Conference & Expo in Boston, Massachusetts. Bole's presentation will examine 'Best Practices in Web Services Security, Service-Oriented Architecture Policy and G

The latest release of Stylus Studio XML Professional Edition includes new features designed to improve usability, along with full support for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)-to-XML mapping.

Before the information age, car manufacturers only made cars, libraries only stored books, and newspapers only printed the news. Now, however, companies from all industries are realizing that in addition to what they do, they are also publishers, and there is a learning curve.

Enterprise applications such as banking, healthcare, and so on still use flat files to import/export data between applications. Flat files contain machine-readable data that is typically encoded in printable characters. There is a growing need for these applications to interact with XM

SYS-CON Media, the world's leading i-technology media company, announced that its 2005 Readers' Choice Awards polls opened today, February 1, 2005, and will remain open for six months, until July 31, 2005. More than 50,000 readers are expected to cast their votes to select the best so

A new version of Anark Studio, the industry's leading 3D authoring solution, has been released. Version 3.0 contains major changes enabling the creation of much larger applications.

Global Knowledge, the largest privately held provider of training and enterprise learning services for information technology (IT) and management professionals, is partnering with WestLake, aleader in Web development training, to offer customers the industry's bestand most respected We

Microsoft's Jean Paoli, Senior Director of XML Architecture, one of the co-creators of the XML 1.0 standard with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and a significant player in the worldwide XML community since 1985, has published an open letter about 'certain minor clarifications rece

'Interest in real time 3D on the Web is increasing after the long lull,' writes Len Bullard. 'Perhaps among all of the efforts,' he continues, 'a genuine market will emerge and that will create a visible and undeniable need for convergence. Give it ten years.'

On Thursday, in a ceremony held in the UK's Royal Courts of Justice in London, the creator of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, received a $47,000 award and the title - the latest in a line of recent awards and plaudit including his knighthood from HM The Queen - of 'Greatest Br

Altova creator of XMLSpy, MapForce, and other leading software development and data integration tools, today announced that Altova MapForce 2005 was named a finalist in the Best Database Management Product or Service category of the Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA)

Microsoft's quarterly earnings for its fiscal second quarter more than doubled, on sales of a record $10.82 billion, up from $10.15 billion in the same period in 2003.

Sun Microsystems will be in Boston on February 14-17 at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2005, and the Web Services Edge Conference 2005 East at the Hynes Convention Center. You'll have the opportunity to learn more about Sun's work in the Linux and open source communities and meet wi

WebServiceTester 3.0 has enhanced its BPEL based Web Services Orchestration testing by providing Load Testing capabilities for the Workflow of Web Services and easy to debug and diagnose the failures and bottlenecks.

SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media company, announced today that SYS-CON.TV (www.sys-con.tv), the first streaming live i-technology television is scheduled to debut on February 15, 2005 to coincide with the first day of the upcoming Web Services Edg

The class is directed at people who want to understand how ontology-driven technologies can help them manage the meaning of their information. The course doesn't require any previous experience with Topic Maps or the Ontopia Knowledge Suite (OKS).