Sir Tim Berners-Lee was in fine form at the 13th annual World Wide Web Conference, running this week in New York. He gave a keynote address yesterday devoted to the successor to the WWW, namely the 'Semantic Web.'

Version 2004 Release 4 (v2004r4) of Altova's entire product line is available immediately, providing major enhancements ranging from advanced editing features and new data integration capabilities to user interface improvements and new product editions.

Prior to .NET, DCOM existed as Microsoft's solution to remote object access. This technology leveraged the successful COM architecture to provide an infrastructure for remote communication. However, DCOM suffered from a variety of drawbacks and difficulties, and it ultimately led to Mi

Tarari Inc. has released its latest XML Silicon technology - the RAX Content Processor, with the industry's first silicon implementation of Random Access XML (RAX).

Microsoft's Antivirus Award Program, the $5 million fund to reward people for coming forward with information about those who release major worms and viruses, scored a major success when the Sasser culprit was brought to book at the weekend.

New data field types, math functions, and advanced real-time validation options for designing 'smart' forms for XML are among the enhancements that make Ektron's eWebEditPro+XML Version 4.1 a powerful tool for creating structured XML content in Web-based applications.

The new XG4 (XML Generation 4) family of chips and modules about to be released by DataPower is the first to break the 1 gigabit barrier, enabling server, blade, security and networking device vendors to embed fast, secure XML-aware networking into Web services devices.

The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) version 1.0 has been approved as an OASIS Standard, the highest level of ratification. CAP enables the exchange of emergency alert and public warning information over data networks and computer-controlled warning systems.

This week, Jon Bosak, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems and Chair, OASIS Universal Business Language Technical Committee, announced the approval of UBL 1.0 to UBL TC members. Following, the text of his announcement.

When dealing with application integration, as you know by now, we are dealing with much complexity. The notion of ontologies helps the application integration architect prepare generalizations that make the problem domain more understandable.

The whole point of teams is to allow different specialties to complement one another and achieve the extraordinary, so it can only be a good thing to reduce the barriers between them. This article shows how to eliminate the interdependency between HTML design skills and XML processing.

This article addresses the problem of heterogeneous XML-based information integration within the enterprise. First we examine the business problem and the technology options currently available to build a solution. Next, we discuss how emerging XML-based technologies can be used to eff

As anticipated Web-wide since last week, Google just filed for its IPO - a $2.7 billion offering that ranks as one of the largest ever. Last year's profits, according to IPO papers filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, were $105.5 million on revenue of $961.8 million, up f

How do five of IBM's most highly-placed executives, the five GMs of its Software Group, see the future unfolding in areas like grid and autonomic computing, security, systems management, application development, and SOAs? What's the current story with DB2, how do Tivoli and Lotus fit i

The director of IBM WebSphere was there, along with the president of open-source JBoss and Borland's GM of developer tools. Much of Javaland was there, in fact. The occasion? A press event in San Francisco ushering in version 1.4 of J2EE, being billed by Sun as 'the leading enterprise

Computer Associates has sacked the head of its worldwide sales operation, EVP Stephen Richards, the latest executive claimed by the investigation of the revenue-inflating scandal that has gripped the company for several years now and stripped CEO and chairman Sanjay Kumar of his titles

'GMail created a surprising storm for a product that hasn't yet been released,' writes the chairman of the EFF, Internet pioneer Brad Templeton. 'I come to this problem from two sides,' he continues. 'One, I'm a fan of Google, and have been friends with Google's management since they s

According to the very latest reports, the Google IPO is just days away from being announced. The company is due to file a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission any moment, says the news agency Reuters.

Tim Berners-Lee, who when last we looked was being knighted by the Queen, has been given the very first Millennium Technology Prize by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation for creating the World Wide Web and not making any money off of it or patenting it. To kinda make it up to him

OASIS hosts the Symposium on Reliable Infrastructures for XML, April 26 - 27, 2004, in New Orleans. The event, which will be open to the public, will offer a forum for the international community to exchange ideas and present results of standards work-in-progress.

To absolutely no fanfare, Microsoft - well, five developers at Microsoft at any rate - quietly took their internally developed Windows Installer XML (WiX), the toolkit that builds Windows installation packages from XML, and on Monday plunked the tools and the source code on SourceForge

Today members of OASIS announced plans to advance an electronic business architecture that builds on ebXML and other Web services technology.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released the Document Object Model Level 3 Core and Load and Save specifications as W3C Recommendations.

In a first for the industry behemoth, Microsoft has donated its Windows Installer XML (WiX) to SourceForge.net, the open source developer network. WiX is a toolset that uses XML code to build Windows installation packages.

Karl Best, Vice President of OASIS, confirmed today that WS-Security is now an OASIS standard.

So was it or wasn't it? No one seems 100% sure one way or another whether Google's 'Gmail' announcement on April 1 was an April Fool or not. We review the various interpretations from around the i-Technology world.

Microsoft is going to pay $1.95 billion to get Sun Microsystems, the company with the sharpest spurs, off its back. The pair said this morning that they had settled all their legal differences. Microsoft will pay Sun $700 million to resolve antitrust issues, $900 million to resolve pat

Just what the world needs on April 1st, a revolutionary new protocol, the 'XML Control Protocol' (XCP for short). 'With the advent of XCP/IP,' gushes the launch site, 'connection-oriented networking will finally move from the legacy environment of inscrutable bits and bytes to a struct

In what may or may not be just a high-tech April Fool, Google says it's launching a free e-mail service, leveraging Google search technology to automatically organize and find messages, and coming with a free gigabyte of storage.

The International Standards Organization (IS0) has approved a suite of four ebXML OASIS Standards that enable enterprises in any industry, of any size, anywhere in the world to conduct business over the Internet.

Sarvega has just introduced its Guardian Gateway and the Guardian Accelerator for XML security applications.

This week at SpeechTEK 2004, Opera Software announced the upcoming release of a multimodal desktop browser that incorporates IBM's Embedded ViaVoice speech technology, using XHTML+Voice (X+V).

Starting today, a special 'Borland Edition' of Altova XMLSPY 2004 is included with Borland JBuilder X Enterprise.

Takeover talks - with Microsoft taking its AOL division along with all its debt in exchange for a handsome chunk of change - are being reported today as having been under way for some time between the Redmond giant and Time Warner.

Anyone with an interest in real time 3D in XML will be interested to know about a new site that the Web3D Consortium has just launched.

Settlement talks between Microsoft and the European Commission have hit the wall despite the last-minute intervention of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer who flew to Brussels this week to meet face-to-face with EC regulator-in-chief Mario Monti.

In what it's describing as 'another industry first,' a Waltham, MA-based company has announced a 'Web services security' play, releasing what it is claiming is the only way stop a new breed of Web services-related threats before they enter the network.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published VoiceXML 2.0 and Speech Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS) as W3C Recommendations.

Nexaweb Technologies, Inc. has released Version 3.0 of its platform for building Enterprise Internet Applications. Used by enterprises to rapidly build and deploy rich enterprise Internet applications, the Nexaweb platform now includes a visual development environment, server clusteri

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