Netconcepts announced the launch of GravityStream 2.0 - a powerful enterprise level automated natural search advertising platform for online retailers. GravityStream 2.0 automatically converts a retailer's millions of website pages into optimized landing pages to match its branded prod...

WSO2 announced the debut of the WSO2 Registry, the industry's first registry to combine service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance with Web 2.0 collaboration. The open source WSO2 Registry features a structured registry and repository; Web-based interface; and Web 2.0 community fea...

Vitria announced a Web 2.0 BPM suite that empowers business users to directly model, manage, monitor and optimize their business processes -- Vitria's M3O. Business analysts can now model and execute business processes in a rich web-based environment in direct collaboration with their ...

Google, IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo and Verisign have all become the OpenID Foundation's first corporate board members, giving a push to the seven-month-old group's ideas about portable web identities or OpenIDs and how personal information is shared online, something that Google, Yahoo and ...

Live by the Web, die by the Web - we look at what the blogosphere is saying about Microsoft's $44.6BN offer. Among blogs mentioned are those by David Kirkpatrick, Patty Seybold, Mark Anderson, Jon Fortt, and Marc Andreesen.

Kentico software has just released a major upgrade to its web content management solution. Kentico CMS 3.0 now supports Visual Studio 2008, allowing developers to build powerful WEB 2.0 sites. Kentico CMS 3.0 now supports development in both Visual Studio 2005 and 2008. The administrat...

OpSource announced that Nets to Ladders (N2L) has selected OpSource On-Demand to deliver its groundbreaking Benefits Enrollment Network (BENtm). By delivering this innovative Web application with OpSource, N2L has gained the critical reliability and security it needs to help social ser...

Hyperic announced that CNET Networks will standardize its systems and application management on Hyperic HQ Enterprise across all its web properties. When the CNET implementation is complete, Hyperic will be deployed across thousands of live Linux servers throughout CNET's data centers....

Optaros announced its design and assembly of a new online shopping concept for Wonderbox, a leading international Internet and retail company that sells the 'Wonderbox', which is a themed gift box containing vouchers for 6000 experiences from which the recipient can choose. Optaros red...

Vitria Technology has announced a Web 2.0 BPM suite that enables business users to model, manage, monitor, and optimize their business processes - Vitria's M3O. Business analysts can model and execute business processes in a Web-based environment in direct collaboration with their IT c...

'We are committed to lowering the barrier to entry for developers around the world to build a more collaborative and dynamic Internet,' said Chris DeWolfe, CEO and co-founder of MySpace, 'while empowering our members to take control of their online presence in new and exciting ways.' ...

AJAXWorld Conference & Expo, March 18-20, 2008, in New York City will provide an overview of Canoo's RIA technology as compared to its other European competitors. Upcoming AJAXWorld Conference is demonstrating a stronger interest and participation from delegates around Europe. Canoo an...

Within the past few years, Web 2.0 has become a major technology trend, dramatically impacting the way consumers interact with information and applications. This consumer trend is now extending into the enterprise; however, businesses have been more reluctant than consumers to adopt th...

After a process of careful evaluation, eZ Publish from eZ Systems was selected to help the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Controller's Office meet its primary objectives - to provide easy-to-find, relevant information for the MIT user community, and to offer a secure, efficient,...

Phurnace announced support for JBoss web application servers with the availability of its newest version, Phurnace Deliver 3.3. The latest release, available in mid-February, provides IT operations staff with the resources they need to decrease configuration errors, which is one of the...

Nexaweb announced its membership to the HP Governance Interoperability Framework (GIF). GIF provides a collaborative, standards-based approach for publishing, associating, accessing and managing service-oriented architecture (SOA) metadata and business service information across multip...

Less than 10 years ago, still in its infancy, the Internet was a land of promise for businesses. Companies saw bright new ways to increase their agility, reach more customers and to deliver new, never-before-seen services. Unquestionably since then it has transformed the way consumers ...

Imagine you are a contestant on a TV game show and your grinning quiz master pops the question: 'Name the one thing you most associate with Google?' Think about your answer - write it on a card (don't show me yet). Turning your card over, it's likely to be one of the following...Great ...

jMaki is an AJAX framework that provide a wrapper over rich widgets from multiple toolkits such as Yahoo!, Dojo and many others. jMaki-wrapped widgets can be easily used in a JSP, Rails, PHP and Phobos app. This session will explain what jMaki is and show using live code demos how easy...

OpSource announced that LitSoft has chosen OpSource On-Demand to deliver LitScope, the electronic discovery industry's first Web 2.0 electronically stored information (ESI) review platform. LitScope will enable LitSoft's law firm and corporate clients to use any main-stream Web browser...

Amazon's DRM-free MP3 digital music store is going inernational. That, according to Bill Carr, Amazon.com Vice President of Digital Music, is the plan for 2008. 'We have received thousands of e-mails from Amazon customers around the world asking us when we will make Amazon MP3 availab...

The success of SOA runs two ways. SOA serves as the catalyst for organizational change, yet an organization must be ready to embrace these new dimensions opened up by SOA. The latest survey data shows most organizations are just starting on their SOA journeys. Why do enterprises set ou...

Adoption of federated identity technology has been slower than the hype might indicate, despite the maturity of standards such as SAML 2.0 and Web Services Security. This presentation examines the distinct business and technical identity management issues in both the commercial and use...

The New York Post has done it again. Its report on Thursday that Microsoft is once more contemplating a potential acquisition of Yahoo! has set the industry on fire with rumors, views, and counterviews. Here we bring you a round-up of what's being said and written.

Fueled by the explosive growth in digital media and user generated content, the demand for storage has increased exponentially, placing significant stress on current 'in house' storage architectures and costly overcapacity build-outs. Factoring in time-to-market pressures as well as po...

Web Developers these days should use libraries, for the main reason that all libraries want the same thing: make it easier for developers to think about building their applications rather than worrying about quirks and failures of Web browsers. Some libraries go even further in giving ...

Service oriented architecture (SOA) is finally being adopted at various enterprise environments after years of conceptualization and testing. However, the rapid rise of Web 2.0 puts SOA enterprise architecture into question: This session will explore: Do Web 2.0 and SOA play together...

The Web needs fixing. The standards and recommendations that define the Web were last revised in 1999. Since then, the Web has grown from a document retrieval system into an application delivery system. We have made significant progress since then, due to the cleverness of the Web deve...

Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 have brought IT organizations a set of capabilities to better meet the demands of business users. However, IT needs to be proactive and build processes to enable agility and creativity, and deploy these assets with appropriate enterprise-level control. What l...

EMC announced its newest distributed document capture solution that offers dramatic advances in Web-based distributed capture?EMC Captiva eInput 2.0. Key to streamlining paper-based transactional processes, eInput 2.0 makes the scanning and indexing of paper documents from remote offic...

DreamFace Interactive provides a revolutionary new way for web-savvy business people to create, control, and share their own web applications, through a unique and innovative concept called WebChannels that make possible the creation of applications designed for change. The company's g...

Nexaweb's Enterprise Web 2.0 solution is an application development and deployment platform that increases productivity by minimizing painful coding; improves efficiency through the re-use of legacy and SOA assets; and creates a more agile business by delivering secure, mission-critica...

The recent popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo are costing UK corporations close to £6.5 billion annually in lost productivity, according to a poll conducted by Information security consultancy - Global Secure Systems (GSS) and Infosecurity Europe 2...

Incansoft announced the release of its latest web application, WEB 2.0 Video Gadgets. Based on the YouTube Developer API and built in PHP and AJAX, Video Gadgets is designed to allow web site owners to seamlessly integrate targeted video from youtube.com for enhancing visitor experienc...

Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) run inside web browsers and provide a much more dynamic user experience than conventional web pages. While traditional HTML-based pages require a full reload of the page when the user clicks on a link, many modern web pages only reload parts of the pag...

It's not the latest sequel to the 'Jason versus Freddie' movie, it's one of the decisions you need to make if you're rolling out a Web 2.0 product. Make the wrong choice, and your project and reputation can suffer. Make the right choice, and you can be a hero. There aren't any easy ans...

The main concern of any project manager is if there are enough people in the pool of Flex developers to staff the project. Yes, there is a pool of Flex developers, but let's look at the creature called 'Flex Developer' under the microscope. If you are considering adding Flex to your se...

Okay there are thousands of rich internet applications (RIAs) out there that I could write about but I'm trying to be very selective in order to provide a good sampling of different uses of RIAs and their advantages. Being pretty is one thing, but being incredibly functional is what ma...

The Web needs fixing. The standards and recommendations that define the Web were last revised in 1999. Since then, the Web has grown from a document retrieval system into an application delivery system. We have made significant progress since then, due to the cleverness of the Web deve...

Wedding retail specialist Truly Wedding has changed the way retailers engage customers by launching two new websites that harness the latest web 2.0 technology and marketing techniques. The websites are exceptionally user friendly, plug-in to the popularity of social networking and pro...