Canoo has announced that a new major release of WebTest is available for download. WebTest is a free open source tool for automated testing of web applications.

Riya leverages potent facial and text recognition technology with an intelligent interface to help people make sense of the thousands of untitled and untagged photos that are building up on their hard drives (and on the web.

In the upcoming edition of Newsweek, dated April 3, the cover story features fledgling companies MySpace.com and Flickr and describes them as 'leading a charge of innovators making hay out of the Internet's ability to empower citizens and enrich those who help with the empowerment.' Th...

Bokee, a blog hosting company in China, will localize and distribute Movable Type, Six Apart's web publishing platform, to Chinese businesses and educational institutions.It will make it easy for Chinese businesses to communicate with their customers and for employees to communicate in...

Derek Organ, CEO of Jeebers has launched the official news and support blog for 1time,a web-based time and expense tracking application that allows companies to easily keep track of real time project costs.

Foldera said it will launch on April 15, Web-application suite with web 2.0 technology for e-mail, calendaring, instant messaging, document storage, versioning and tasks.

Deep Focus, a digital agency to film studios, reached an agreement with YouTube to promote its studio clients' trailers on the breakaway video portal. The first trailer promoted under the deal, for Dimension Films' 'Scary Movie 4,' was added to YouTube's 'featured videos' section on M...

Netvibes, a web 2.0 company, announced it has received seed funding from a group of high-profile investors including leading European venture fund Index Ventures; Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape; Pierre Chappaz,founder of Kelkoo and Wikio; and Martin Varsavsky founder of Jazzte...

Accipiter Solutions, an online advertising technology innovator announced the company has signed Photobucket,an image hosting provider that will use its AdManager solution to serve ads across non-traditional mediums such as photocasts, mobile ad platforms, and advergaming technology.

EchoSign launched the first Web 2.0 service that completely automates the process of signing, tracking and archiving agreements. EchoSign dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of managing signed documents and contracts for small, medium and large businesses. There is no software...

BBC will work closely with tech giants such as Microsoft and Apple as well as distibution players such as ntl and HomeChoice as it looks to revamp its website and deliver programmes online.

At the MIX06 keynote presentation by Bill Gates, he asked two companies to come out and show what they're doing to provide 'rich user experience' (always avoiding the term Web 2.0).

Bill Gates gave the keynote presentation that framed MIX06 for the next few days, which is really about the 'web experience' and 'beyond the browser'. He said the world is changing and should be more user centric rather than device centric. He discussed users' experiences from the pers...

It was a tiring but thrilling day yesterday in Times Square at the Real-World Ajax Seminar. There was an stellar line-up of speakers including the 'Father of Ajax' himself, Jesse James Garrett, Bill Scott, Ajax Evangelist for Yahoo!, Scott Dietzen, CEO of Zimbra, David Heinemeier Hans...

It's been a busy, busy week indeed in the Web 2.0 and Ajax space. Never mind the interesting discussions and news that came out this week on the Web, I've been traveling and indeed will be traveling to various Web 2.0-related events for the next week or so. Expect lots more coverage as...

19 leading Internet companies have joined to ask the Board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to reconsider a decision that they say would deprive the .com domain registry of future competition, to the harm of all Internet users.

I was always skeptical about AJAX. This technology can be useful for Google, Yahoo, or Amazon, and the like. Because regular businesses can not afford it. They can not hire a team of experts to find workaround for dozens of serious problems browsers/JavaScript introduce. Browsers/JavaS...

Ektron, an innovator in Web content management software, announced the company introduced a new Ektron Partner Program for Web design and development firms, interactive agencies and systems integrators delivering interactive Web sites.

Oak Pacific Interactive (Oak Pacific), a Chinese Internet company formerly known as ChinaInterActiveCorp, announced that it has closed a new round of financing of $48 million from a group of leading global private equity and venture capital firms led by General Atlantic LLC (GA).

When a San Francisco web development company was on February 14 assigned a US patent covering the use of rich-media applications on the Internet, it was always going to be only a matter of time before the self-same Internet exploded with concern and astonishment. The company in questio...

We have a long way to go before the next generation of the Web truly arrives. Years and years. As commentator Shel Israel has said: 'Web 2.0 isn't dead. It's just barely being born.' In line with its commitment to keep developers, IT managers, and vendors alike ahead of the i-Technolog...

It's been almost three months since my last major roundup of Web 2.0 software and I thought it's about time to release another update. The pace of innovation in the next generation of online software has continued unabated and we've seen dozens upon dozens of new entries into the marke...

Introducing an intriguing mobile version of a combination of, Ajit Jaokar continues his insightful contributions to the fast-emerging new 'Mobile Web 2.0' category of ideas and applications.

SYS-CON Publishing Director Jeremy Geelan moderated a Power Panel devoted to AJAX and Web 2.0 in a recent taping for SYS-CON.TV at the Reuters Studio overlooking New York's Times Square. Geelan's guests included Web 2.0 gurus Dion Hinchcliffe and Thad Scheer, venture capitalist Charles...

Strategy Analytics estimated that more than 800 million mobile phones were shipped in 2005. Some 50 percent of these were feature phones, and all signs indicate that percentage will grow. The market is growing and demanding software creation that can provide mobile phone manufacturers...

SYS-CON Events (www.events.sys-con.com) announced today the speaker line-up for the upcoming 'Real-World AJAX' (www.ajaxseminar.com) one-day seminars, added new venues; April 24, 2006 San Jose, CA; June 5-6, 2006, New York City; and October 2-3, 2006, Santa Clara, CA. SYS-CON will anno...

It's been one year since Jesse James Garret wrote the first article on Ajax, which gave a name to the existing technology and helped it to boom and reach magnitudes and a buzz never imagined by anyone before. It's still taking off, with new magazines, seminars, and articles everywhere.

SYS-CON Events (www.events.sys-con.com)announced today the speaker line-up for the upcoming 'Real-World AJAX'(www.ajaxseminar.com) one-day seminars, added new venues; April 24, 2006San Jose, CA; June 5-6, 2006, New York City; and October 2-3, 2006, SantaClara, CA. SYS-CON will announce...

The subject of Web 2.0 has become profoundly important over the last year. Web 2.0 describes the next generation of the Web as an application platform where most of a user's software experience resides. The subject is somewhat controversial, but it's becoming ever more apparent as the ...

Marc Hedlund set the blogosphere on fire today with a terrific new article on O'Reilly Radar that discusses the real things happening out there in the Web 2.0 development wild. What I find so fascinating about the things we keep seeing is that ground truth seems genuinely different tha...

'Led by The Father of 'AJAX' himself, the charismatic Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path, 'Real-World AJAX' has one overriding organizing principle: its aim is to make sure that delegates fortunate enough to secure themselves a place - before all seats are sold out - will leave the s...

2006 is turning into quite the year for the convergence of software architecture. And not in a way that's boring or obscure in the least. If fact, what's so compelling is that these changes turn out to be relevant to all of us in our daily lives. As Web 2.0 tenets emphasize, a big part...

Yesterday I had the pleasure of talking with key people from two Ajax providers, TIBCO General Interface's Kevin Hakman and Zapatec Ajax Suite's Dror Matalan. Each company has two quite different approaches to designing Ajax-enabled software and it highlighted an increasingly clear div...

Sybase Chairman, CEO, and President John S. Chen recently granted a pair of exclusive interviews to SYS-CON.TV, during which he held forth about the past, present, and future of Sybase, the software industry, and the complex challenge of understanding China. SYS-CON Special Corresponde...

Since a Rich Internet Application (RIA) is not a stateless client, you typically have a lot of data in the client, especially when you load dynamically over time. Often, while developing Flex applications, you might need to peek at data structures during runtime - this is where my util...

A lot has been written on the approach to service-oriented architecture (SOA) migration. Although they are referred to by many names, there is the strategic approach, which is of high quality and so is also costly and initially less responsive because of the analysis involved up front....

'Sun is making the Java Enterprise System, Sun N1 Management software and Sun developer tools available at no cost for both development and deployment,' the company said yesterday, in an announcement. The announcement also said that Sun is 'reaffirming its commitment to open source thi...