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Tweet Advertisers have a major stake in any action that might be taken to curb online tracking. The type of advertising that results from the practice — called “behavioral targeting” — reportedly generates more than $1 billion for the industry each year. But with consumers strongly opposed and regulators considering restrictions that could be a […]
Tweet Dragon Dictate for Mac is a reminder of how far speech recognition software has come in just a few years. The application takes mere minutes to set up and “train” to recognize the user’s voice, and its ability to discern what words are being said is extremely accurate. The user has to actively dictate […]
Oracle’s database software business constitutes about 38% of the $36 Trefis price estimate for Oracle stock, while middleware software adds another 24% and applications software also contributes 24%.
Tweet IBM predicts that holographic cellphone conversations, in which users will view one another’s image via 3D projector, will be a reality in five years. While the possibility has fired up imaginations, it’s also raised some practical questions, including how power-efficient such a technology would be. But IBM has something to say about the future […]
At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next month, Jungo Ltd., a leading provider of software connectivity solutions, will showcase its continued market leadership with a demonstration of its Automotive Connectivity Middleware for in-car infotainment systems.
Tweet Cloud vendors are working furiously to beef up the security around their offerings in the hope of allaying potential customers’ fears. That’s a sound move on the vendors’ part, but I predict that as we get further into the Facebook and social networking age, the fear of placing even the most sensitive data on […]
Tweet BonitaSoft, the leading provider of open source BPM solutions, today announced that there are now over 100 paying customers using Bonita Open Solution, the company’s open source business process management (BPM) suite. This milestone comes less than a month after BonitaSoft reached the half million download mark of the Bonita project. More than 70% […]
Tweet Google Inc. and other providers of Web content aren’t contributing enough to the costs of telecommunications networks and may be forced to pay, the French minister responsible for the Internet said. The French government plans to convene a working group including Internet companies with “the objective that services that occupy the largest part of […]
Tweet Amazon has brought a fleet of major PeopleSoft and JD Edward applications to its Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) service, following a promise in September to do so. The new services are certified by Oracle. EC2 allows users to rent Amazon’s computers on an hourly basis–either rent bare-bones configurations of an empty OS, or with […]
Tweet Progress Software, a leading software provider that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive, has predicted that airlines will have to evolve and adapt or perish through 2011. The warning comes from Joshua Norrid, industry vice president, Travel and Leisure, at Progress Software, who also cautions that the ever continuing external pressures will see airlines […]
Tweet SOURCE: Appian Appian, the global innovator in enterprise and on-demand business process management (BPM) technology, today announced that Appian customer Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) has won the Global Awards for Excellence in BPM and Workflow 2010. NSN was recognized in the Middle East/Africa region for a global BPM program delivering millions of dollars in […]
Tweet With Google’s announcement Thursday of the Body Browser, online mapping technology finally caught up with the medical crew of “Fantastic Voyage,” miniaturized in the 1966 sci-fi flick to enter a renowned scientist’s bloodstream and save his brain from a life-threatening blood clot. A Chrome-OS driven online Gray’s Anatomy, Body Browser continues Google’s quest to […]
Tweet SOURCE: Packt Packt is pleased to announce WS-BPEL 2.0 for SOA Composite Applications with IBM WebSphere 7, a new book that will help SOA architects and developers to define and model real-world BPEL 2.0 business processes with SOA-powered BPM. Written by BPEL experts like Matjaz B. Juric, Swami Chandrasekaran, this book helps readers to […]
Tweet Things took an interesting turn in the aftermath of Cablegate, which saw 250,000 documents, many of them sensitive, put on the open Web by WikiLeaks. Julian Assange, the founder of the site, has been charged by Swedish police with a sex crime; the U.S. government is seeking to try Assange, who’s currently out on […]
Tweet Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old CEO of Facebook, was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year on Wednesday. Time argued the importance of Zuckerberg and Facebook saying, “Facebook has merged with the social fabric of American life, and not just American but human life: nearly half of all Americans have a Facebook account, but 70 […]
Tweet If anyone had doubts that Richard Stallman dislikes Google’s (Nasdaq: GOOG) new Chrome OS, he laid them to rest in an interview with the Guardian Tuesday. The Chrome OS will push people into careless computing by forcing them to store their data in the cloud, said Stallman, who’s the founder and president of the […]
Tweet AppDynamics, the next-generation Application Performance Management (APM) company, today announced the results of its 2011 Application Performance Management Survey, “Apps on the Move.” Polling more than 140 IT professionals who oversee application performance in Java or .NET environments, the survey provides a snapshot of application performance practices in 2010 and how these will evolve […]
Tweet Service-oriented architectures, in which software is built in reusable components that work easily with multiple applications, generally over the internet, are widely used in banking, according to a new report from Forrester, “SOA Is Anything But Dead In Financial Services.” Analysts who surveyed 80 IT executives in financial services firms around the world this […]
Tweet TIBCO recently announced that it has been named a Leader in the November 2010 report by Forrester Research, Inc., The Forrester Wave™: Comprehensive Integration Solutions, Q4 2010.* The evaluation of TIBCO in this report is based on current offering, strategy, and market presence. According to the report: “To determine the state of the CIS […]
Tweet SOURCE: BWise BWise, the global leader in Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) management software, announced today that the company has integrated Ext Scheduler technology into its BWise Enterprise GRC platform. The sophisticated JavaScript based Ext Scheduler technology provides BWise with more powerful scheduling and Gantt-chart capabilities, further extending the functionality of the independent analyst […]
Tweet SOURCE: Aberdeen Group The latest report by Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), “Business Process Management in Manufacturing,” has revealed that manufacturers today are struggling with pressures from many different sources; regulators, shareholders, customers, and suppliers all impact operations. The ability of an organization to quickly sense and adapt to these pressures can […]
Tweet SOURCE: WSO2 WSO2 today announced the launch of WSO2 Application Server 4.0 (formerly WSO2 Web Services Application Server). Among the new features in Version 4.0 is full support for Apache Tomcat, providing the ability to run Web applications and Web services on the same server and manage them through a unified console. Because WSO2 […]
Tweet SOURCE: PRWeb Small businesses in Northeastern Pennsylvania received a surprise Christmas gift in the mail this week, a lump of coal. CoalCreative, a web and graphic design company based out of Wilkes-Barre, PA, officially launched their business on December 1st by sending out 50 pieces of coal to area businesses. “We wanted to take […]
Tweet SOURCE: Pegasystems Pegasystems , the leader in business process management (BPM) solutions, today announced enhancements for its Pega Cloud for BPM offering to meet the increased demands that today’s organizations have for enterprise cloud computing. Pega Cloud for BPM addresses many of the concerns that organizations have traditionally expressed around security and integration in the […]
Tweet SOURCE: Oracle News Facts Premium Wine Brands has successfully deployed Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g – the industry-leading middleware suite, including Oracle SOA Suite 11g and Oracle WebLogic Server 11g to integrate disparate applications. The deployment will help the company optimize business processes, remove duplication and increase transparency to support real-time decision making. Premium Wine […]
Tweet SOURCE: Progress Software Progress Software Corporation , a leading software provider that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive, has announced that PLUS-SX (a London based stock exchange) has deployed the Progress® Apama® Market Surveillance and Monitoring solution accelerator to stay ahead of ever-changing financial regulations. PLUS-SX begins live operations with their Apama solution in […]
Tweet SOURCE: Progress Software Progress Software Corporation, a leading independent enterprise software provider that enables companies to be operationally responsive, announces the general availability of a new adapter for market data connectivity to Brazil’s BM&FBOVESPA exchange’s new Unified Market Data Feed (UMDF). The new UMDF API, announced by BM&FBOVESPA in July, will replace the existing […]
Tweet Does Google intend to release Chrome as a full open source operating system for users to install willy-nilly on any old netbook? Or will it be available only embedded on specific netbooks that Google intends to sell? Google’s limited beta for the OS is tied to an unbranded black netbook, the Cr-48, prompting some […]
Elastic Cloud X2-2 is the cloud middleware expressly designed for Oracle’s SPARC Exalogic, which is the company’s new hardware platform for cloud systems. Oracle on Dec. 8 launched Exalogic Elastic Cloud X2-2, a new-generation Java application infrastructure for virtual machines.
Tweet The end result of the war on HP could be even more dramatic for Oracle than the outcome of the war on Microsoft was for Sun. Larry Ellison is a brilliant strategist — but his ego, rather than his mind, appears to be driving this war. While I’d generally suggest that no one bet […]
