A new XQuery tutorial from StylusStudio is designed for anyone who wants to know what XQuery is but doesn't have the time to find out, the company says. The new tutorial is written by XML industry guru, Dr. Michael Kay, founder of Saxonica, the producer of the Sax...

'As we move into the next phase of our growth, T.C. brings to Nexaweb the expertise, knowledge and experience to lead the company in the rapidly expanding RIA market,? said Coach Wei, CTO and founder of Nexaweb, as he announced that Thomas C. (T.C.) Browne has joine...

'Every once in a while, I'm reminded what a great company Microsoft is ... and what great people I work with,' states Houston, TX-based J Sawyer, Microsoft developer evangelist for the Gulf Coast district. He was in Austin at the weekend, helping go live with www....

Nokia announced today that it is accepting applications for its Forum Nokia PRO Awards. The awards are for developers 'who exemplify best practices and who have made significant contributions to driving innovation in the mobility industry,' the company says.

Intermedia.NET, a provider of Microsoft Exchange and web hosting solutions for SMBs, recently announced that it will provide assistance to organizations whose e-mail systems were affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Sybase has organized a company gift matching program for emergency relief. Sybase will match up to $50,000 of combined employee donations made to aid organizations with established hurricane relief funds. Sybase's total matched funds will be donated to the American Red Cross.

Jonathan Mendez and Greg Stoll created a 'Katrina Information Map' at scipionus.com intended for the use of people affected by Hurricane Katrina who have or are trying to find information about the status of specific locations affected by the storm and its afterma...

How often does one common cause unite such disparate technology giants as Cisco, Intel, HP, eBay, Sun and Adobe? Thirteen of the Fortune 500's largest companies are Silicon Valley-based; all are stepping up the the plate in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and a...

'Our presence in Asia addresses a significant enterprise Internet application market need created by the limitations of today's Web technologies,' said Brian Murphy, SVP worldwide sales and services of Nexaweb Technologies as the company today announced the open...

Just nine months after the release of Firefox 1.0, downloads of the Firefox web browser have hit the 80,000,000 mark.

SYS-CON West Coast Bureau Chief and International division head Roger Strukhoff recently wrote an opinion piece decrying the lack of movement with the Nasdaq index in recent years. SYS-CON Publishing Director Jeremy Geelan responded during LinuxWorld Expo with a s...

Cisco's CMO James Richardson will address an influential group of global technology marketing executives in London about the need for technology marketers to balance creativity with business accountability - there's no indication of whether he will address such hi...

Not for Yahoo! the slow boat to China. Instead, it's going to pay $1BN to China's second-largest Internet auctioneer, Alibaba.com, and thereby gain an instant foothold in the world's second-biggest online market after the United States.

Reports that Google has put in an official policy not to speak with CNET stem from an article the news organization recently did in which it googled Google CEO Eric Schmidt to demonstrate how easily it is to obtain personal information these days.

Scott Richter, accused as being one of the world's top spammers, has agreed to pay $7 million to Microsoft, which said it will use the bulk of the money to boost efforts to combat spam and related malfeasance.

'Macromedia's technological innovation combined with their creative vision has resulted in a family of products that will change the landscape of digital video creation and delivery to the masses,' said Douglas McIntyre, Chairman, President and CEO of On2 Technolo...

A team at Sunbelt Software, developers of CounterSpy spyware protection, discovered a massive identity theft ring while auditing CoolWebSearch, include eBay and bank information.

Actuate BIRT provides MySQL Network customers with the ability to deploy enterprise database driven reports to a wider audience. Companies can also meet the evolving business needs of a diverse set of users by building a customized, embedded report library, the company says.

'The mainframe continues to have a vital role in the IT strategies of many of our customers, and making mainframes and distributed platforms true peers in a SOA offers tremendous benefits,' said Kristin Weller Muhlner of webMethods Inc, as her company today announ...

Genuitec, a founding member of the Eclipse Foundation, has announced that MyEclipse 4.0 has completed its integration with BEA WebLogic Server 9.0. Genuitec can now assure customers that MyEclipse integrates with the recently announced application server from BEA Systems, Inc.

SoftArtisans has released version 3 of OfficeWriter featuring pure Application Objects for both Excel and Word. OfficeWriter is a complete server side Java library for reading and writing Microsoft Office documents. Libraries are simple to add to a variety of J2EE...

Kevin Turner was heading up Sam's Club just yesterday, but is now the new Microsoft COO, taking the number three spot in the company after Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer. Turner oversaw more than $37 billion in revenue at the Wal-Mart division.

Containing workflow enhancements, new products, and feature firsts, Macromedia today announced the Macromedia Studio 8 suite for web designers, developers, video professionals, and graphic artists. Studio 8 enables the design, development, and maintainenance of ...

As companies like JetBlue Airways begin to rely on Web services, they face the challenge of building scaleable and reusable networks. It was announced today that JetBlue has selected SOA Software's Service Manager - widely deployed in Fortune 500 and large global ...

Six months ago when Coverity analyzed Linux kernel 2.6.9, the same version used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, six potentially critical defects were found in the core filesystem and networking code; last week's findings on the newest Linux kernel 2.6.12 showed t...

Sybase has has broadened its long-standing relationship with IBM to help joint customers migrate to Linux for improved data management and business analytics. Under the terms of the agreement Sybase and IBM will bundle IBM OpenPower hardware with Sybase Adaptive S...

According to the BusinessWeek magazine / Interbrand Global Brand Scorecard released this month, Nokia - which launched 34 new handsets in the first six months of 2005 alone - is the sixth most valuable brand on earth.

Next week sees another of Microsoft's Patch Tuesdays, for August, and this time as well as releasing no fewer than 6 different software patches, the company is also going to release an update of its Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool.

Univa Corporation has closed an $8 million Series-A round of investment led by ARCH Venture Partners and New World Ventures. Univa is at the intersection of two exploding markets: open source and Grid infrastructure software.

IBM has completed the acquisition of PureEdge Solutions Inc., allowing it to bolser its electronic forms (e-forms) strategy. IBM will now integrate e-forms, based on XML, into its portfolio of collaboration technology, including IBM Workplace, WebSphere and Lotus offerings.

'We are pleased with the results we achieved in the June quarter, delivering revenue and profitability at the high end of our expectations,' said Dave Sikora, president and CEO, Pervasive Software, as Pervasive recently announced results for the fourth fiscal quar...

Novell has garnered the largest market share in China's Linux Server Operating Environment for the first half of 2005, according to IDC's recent study 'China Linux Market Analysis, 1H2005'. The report shows that Novell leads the industry by revenue with 32.9% market...

'I am extremely excited to have Kevin join Microsoft's executive leadership team, where we will benefit immensely from his experience, proven record of success and passion for technology,' said Steve Ballmer yesterday as he announced the appointment of former SAM'...

'Xdrive will further enhance AOL's consumer storage offerings to deliver a more safe and secure digital lifestyle for our members,' said Gio Hunt, Senior Vice President of New Business Ventures, AOL Digital Services, as America Online, Inc. yesterday announced tha...

Yesterday saw an unfortunate turn in the maelstrom surrounding security giant Cisco Systems, when the San Jose-based company posted a security alert on its Web site.

As forecasted last year at the Virus Bulletin 2004 conference by Symantec researcher Eric Chien (pictured), viruses targeting the MSH shell, or Microsoft Command Shell (codenamed 'Monad') have now been devised by an Austrian virus writer as proof-of-concept of a p...

'With Ritmo for iSeries 3.0, HiT Software shows its continuing commitment to the .NET platform,' said HiT Software CEO Giacomo Lorenzin as the company today announced the release of Ritmo for iSeries 3.0. 'As the .NET platform gains momentum,' Lorenzin continued, 'w...

EMC Corporation today announced major improvements to its award-winning EMC CLARiiON family of networked storage systems and software. The new CLARiiON CX300-s, CX500-s, and CX700-s Fibre Channel and iSCSI models are based on UltraPoint hardware and software technology.

The latest version of WebSphere Portal, which includes new features to further support customers' efforts to build service oriented architectures (SOA), is available for the IBM eServer zSeries and iSeries platforms, as well as the new IBM System z9, IBM announced yesterday.

BEA yesterday announced SPECjbb2005 benchmark results which show that JRockit has provided fastest per-CPU performance of a Java Virtual Machine for Server Side Applications running on Intel hardware.