'Today's generation of wireless e-mail solutions often limit customer choice by dictating the device and carrier that must be used,' said Julie Farris, Scalix founder and chief strategy officer. 'The Scalix Wireless Solution gives IT departments and users the freedom to tailor a soluti...

As a member of the Deutsche Notes User Group (DNUG), IntelliPRINTPLUS recently participated in the IBM Lotus Technical Forum 2005 hosted by DNUG in Hannover, Germany. Version 4.1 of this software was recently announced and continues to serve Lotus Domino/Notes users.

'The legal profession depends upon secure, anytime, anywhere access to information, and being able to safely manage documents is an important part of that,' explained Ed Miller, CEO of Xythos, as Xythos yesterday announced the selection and deployment of its Enterprise Document Manager...

New Xythos customers include the United States Joint Forces Command, California State University at both Long Beach and Sacramento, Pittsburgh State University, Queen's College, and Sudbury Regional Hospital. The number of licensed users has now exceeded two million.

An early access version of the server plugin for the JBoss 4 Server can now be downloaded from the Beta Update Center in NetBeans 4.1.

'We do not believe we have used up our capacity to be a consolidator,' Scott McNealy told analysts yesterday as Sun announced its Q4 results, including revenue of $11.1BN for its 2005 fiscal year, down 1 per cent compared to last year's revenue of $11.2BN. The StorageTek and SeBeyond a...

General Motors Corporation yesterday chose Sun Java Enterprise System (Java ES) to provide an integrated software environment for its global IT infrastructure. This contract grows the total number of Java ES subscribers to nearly 1 million. Additionally, Sun announced that GM plans to ...

'The interest in Solaris 10 is exceptional' according to Tom Goguen, vice president, Operating Platforms Group, Sun Microsystems. 'And by open sourcing Solaris 10 and our Java System Application Server under the Common Development and Distribution License, Sun is enabling a new wave of...

AOL and IBM in the news.

Arkeia Corporation has recently announced Red Hat Ready certification as well as support of Macintosh OS X Tiger. The 'Red Hat Ready' Independent Software Vendor (ISV) application program allows vendors to test and qualify their software applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Bryan Shumsky joins Revelation from Via Systems, Inc. where he served as Director of Engineering for the past 11 years. During his tenure at Via Systems, Bryan created and developed the ViaODBC and WebWizard products as well as enhancing the ViaDuct, UniVision and myViewpoint product s...

The mainframe isn't exactly dead, if one gauges things by IBM's announcement of the z9. This is not your father's big iron, but rather a system that takes a 'holistic' approach to today's enterprise IT environments, according to IBM.

Microsoft announced the transition of the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) pilot to a version 1.0 launch with worldwide availability. WGA is part of what Microsoft calls its 'ongoing commitment to protecting...customers from software counterfeiting and to helping support partners throug...

Laszlo Systems has teamed with IBM to propose the 'IDE for Laszlo' integrated development environment (IDE) project at Eclipse, a joint initiative designed to further accelerate the development and deployment of OpenLaszlo applications.

'The Eclipse ecosystem is huge and growing,' writes Eclipse Developer's Journal editor-in-chief Bill Dudney. 'The ecosystem will benefit from having an independent magazine devoted to the various aspects of Eclipse and I'm looking forward to Eclipse Developer's Journal becoming that so...

'Avocent continues to innovate with KVM, KVM over IP, and wireless KVM, among other technologies,' said John Humphreys, research manager at IDC. '(The company's latest announcement) provides yet another example of how Avocent continues to extend the capabilities of its products to prov...

CNET, Microsoft, and Beer in the news.

The new release of CommandCenter provides support for HP?s Lights-Out management technologies and tighter integration of analog and digital KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) switch environments.

GraphOn Corporation, a leading developer of cross-platform application publishing and Web-enabling software, announced that it has signed a VAR agreement with ARC SYSTEM to distribute the GO-Global family of thin client, server-centric solutions in Brazil.

The Learning Continuum Company (TLCC) has announced a new advanced programming course for developers ready to learn J2EE development. Servlet and JSP Programming for WebSphere using Rational Developer 6 focuses on Servlets, JavaServer Pages, and JDBC. Students learn how to manage user ...

IDC has reported that IBM is the worldwide leader across the key middleware areas of application servers and integration suites with 37% of market share. In 2004 the application deployment market software market grew 6% to reach nearly $6.9 billion in software revenue, according to IDC...

Oracle HTML DB is a feature of Oracle Database 10g designed to let customers easily build, deploy and manage secure Web applications using only a Web browser. Two educational institutions?a public two-year college in the Midwest and a private four-year university on the West Coast?rece...

A small Redmond, WA company with the website domain www.vista.com says it might sue Microsoft over use of the name Vista in the new version of Windows OS due next year. Is this for real?

IBM, Microsoft in the news.

GraphOn Corporation has announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Sedicom Europe to distribute the GO-Global line of thin client, server-based computing solutions throughout Poland.

SicolaMartin has increased its creative bench with the addition of six new employees, adding more support to their growing creative teams and internal support functions.

Red Hen Systems, an ESRI Business Partner, has released GeoVideo 1.1, an extension for ESRI ArcGIS (versions 8.x and 9.x) that enables users to integrate spatially referenced video and stills into interactive maps.

Microsoft has launched a beta version of MSN Virtual Earth, which it describes as 'a service enabling users to search, discover, explore, plan and share information and activities relevant to specific U.S. locations by combining aerial imagery, detailed maps and precise local search ca...

Nielsen//NetRatings reported Q1 and Q2 2005 search engine growth for the top five search engines. The online research company found that AOL and Ask Jeeves rose 15 and 16 percent, respectively while Google and Yahoo! maintained a single digit growth.

PointRoll Inc. has launched ad sequencing, a feature that allows online advertisers to control the progression and delivery of multiple ad units within the same campaign.

Strong sales of chips for notebook PCs and robust business in emerging markets like China and Latin America continued to help Intel Corp. boost second-quarter profit 16 percent.

Google on Thursday reported record revenues of $1.384 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2005, up 98% year over year.

Microsoft Corp. reported fourth-quarter net income of $3.7 billion, or 34 cents per share, up from $2.7 billion, or 25 cents a share a year earlier.

IntelliPRINTPLUS, the leading Printing and Reporting solution for Lotus Notes announces its entry into the German market.

EBay, the online marketplace reported a strong second quarter, sending its shares up 14 percent in after-hours trading.

Hewlett-Packard plans to eliminate 14,500 jobs during the next year and a half in a bid to slash costs and create a simpler, nimbler HP.

Microsoft Corp. sued one of its former executives and Google Inc.; the same day the Internet search engine company said it had hired Kai-Fu Lee to head its first research-and-development center in China.

Microsoft agreed to buy a 160-person California company that filters, archives and secures e-mail for thousands of businesses in centralized data centers.

MCI is going to be helping Sun to improve software downloads for its customers using the Sun Download Center (SDLC), a Web-based global software distribution service. The SDLC servcie will now be powered by MCI's advanced Enterprise Hosting Services and Akamai's Electronic Software Del...

Microsoft 'has taken over Atlanta' for a major sales meeting called MGB 2005 with a theme of 'Going Beyond.' This news comes in the wake of the emergence of the name Microsoft 'Windows Vista' as the official name of the long-awaited Longhorn release. Longhorn, or Vista as it is now kno...