OpenAJAX Alliance, an open industry collaboration dedicated to developing and expanding AJAX, has announced new partners and initiatives around the AJAX Community, signaling continued momentum for AJAX-based Web technologies.

MSN has announced the U.S. beta release of Soapbox on MSN Video, a user-uploaded video service that makes it easy for people to express themselves by uploading, discovering and sharing personal videos with the Soapbox community and others around the world. Soapbox...

Gartner announced its 2006 Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle which assesses the maturity, impact and adoption speed of 36 key technologies and trends during the next ten years. This year's hype cycle highlights three major themes that are experiencing significant ...

In a keynote speech to leading technology executives, Rod Smith, IBM's vice president of emerging Internet technologies, declared that the technologies underpinning blogs, wikis and innovative sites like Google Maps and Wikipedia on the Web will transform the way ...

'Whether the demand is for highly usable interfaces or the power of real-time, event-driven access to enterprise information, Nexaweb can provide the solution needed,' said Chris Heidelberger, CEO at Nexaweb, Nexaweb Technologiesâ, Inc., provider of the leading ...

As consumer and enterprise users alike nowadays demand more from their online experiences, the timing of the release of v 2.4 of Nexaweb Studio 2.4 - the latest version of its Eclipse-based IDE toolset - could hardly be better.

Conducting small business on the Internet is still too complicated. Women who want to launch a part-time career to augment their earnings, or who desire to create a full time business from the Web face an immense learning curve of technology and services that stop...

Leading Web 2.0 sites such as YouTube, Flickr, Habbo Hotel, Linden Labs, CyWorld, Technorati, Facebook, FeedBurner, Feedster, Wikipedia, Digg, LiveJournal, Mixi.jp, SimpleStar, PhotoBucket, 37signals, del.icio.us, Trulia, Neopets, and Zimbra have all selected MySQ...

Exclaim launches Media Merchant, an exciting new service that plugs into any online social network to offer merchandising and selling options to photo-sharing shutterbugs, and to create a new revenue stream for service providers.

Author and publisher Ajit Jaokar, a contributing editor to SYS-CON Media's pioneering Web 2.0 Journal, has launched a brand new blog, the 'Mobile Web 2.0' Blog.

Eloquent Systems has launched two new modules which improve research and information access for the heritage industry. Leveraging the popular Google Maps and Google Earth products, as well as the power of leading search engines such as MSN, Google and Yahoo, Eloqu...

ZapThink released a report showing that demand for Rich Internet Applications and more sophisticated user interaction is increasing dramatically. RIAs provide an end user experience that combines the experience that users are most familiar with in desktop and clie...

Dealspl.us, which combines BensBargains.net and Digg.com, is an online social shopping community driven by its users and community. It offers a distinctive place where user can share great bargains gathered from throughout the internet. dealspl.us was founded on t...

ActiveGrid announced the release of ActiveGrid Studio 2.0, a development environment specifically engineered for enterprise Web 2.0 application development. The company also announced the release of ActiveGrid Server 2.0, an application server that allows companie...

Sun Microsystems has announced that its ground-breaking family of workstations and servers earned an Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA). Sun's Ultra Series Workstations, and the Sun Fire X4100 servers and the Sun Fire T2000 server with CoolThreads technolog...

Sun Microsystems has announced new customer adoption of its breakthrough Sun Fire server family with CoolThreads technology. DigiTar, Joyent and Fotolog represent a new crop of Web 2.0 customers that have recently moved to the UltraSPARC T1 processor-based Sun Fir...

IBM has introduced a new IBM BladeCenter blade and System x servers and workstations geared to help reduce power and cooling costs while delivering substantial performance gains over earlier technology. The new systems enable up to 90% percent better application p...

Microsoft and Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works, have teamed up to release a copyright licensing tool that enables the easy addition of Creative Commons licensing information for works in popular ...

ActiveGrid, the Enterprise Web 2.0 company, announced the release of ActiveGrid Studio 2.0, the development environment specifically engineered for enterprise Web 2.0 application development. The company also announced the release of ActiveGrid Server 2.0, an ap...

IBM Chairman & CEO Samuel J. Palmisano has opened IBM's first development lab in Russia as the company continues to increase its investment in high-growth countries. IBM will invest $40 million over the next three years in the Russian Systems & Technology Laborato...

Microsoft releases Windows Live Messenger, which goes beyond the traditional instant messaging (IM) service, enabling people to connect and share, with free PC-to-PC calls and inexpensive calls from a PC to phones around the world, video calling, easy sharing with...

Cingular Wireless will offer its business customers access to corporate e-mail via Direct Push Technology, a feature of Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 with the Messaging and Security Feature Pack (MSFP) upgrade, beginning on June 19, 2006.

Arkivio providing Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) solutions for the enterprise has announced that it has joined the Hitachi Data Systems independent software vendor (ISV) partner program. As part of its participation in the program, Arkivio will be ensuri...

Microsoft has announced two key advances in Windows Live Book Search, a service that will enable Web searchers to find answers from authoritative, trusted book content. The addition of two new participants, the University of California and the University of Toro...

Microsoft has announced the release of Microsoft Antigen e-mail security products - including Antigen for Exchange, Antigen for SMTP Gateways, Antigen Spam Manager and Antigen Enterprise Manager available to customers July 1, 2006.

Ubiquity Software and Microsoft announced they have signed an agreement to jointly develop market and sell converged communications solutions to telecommunications service providers worldwide. Through the alliance, the companies will deliver solutions that bring t...

As a part of the Microsoft Security Response Alliance (MSRA)'s charter to help protect computer users from online threats, Microsoft led a group of global Internet service providers (ISPs) in announcing Protect Yourself This Summer, a weeklong effort beginning J...

In a keynote speech to leading technology executives, Rod Smith, IBM's Vice President of emerging Internet technologies, declared that the technologies underpinning blogs, wikis and innovative sites like Google Maps and Wikipedia on the Web will transform the way ...

IBM and AvarSYS have announced a collaboration using IBM's Deep Computing Visualization (DCV) technology that can provide AvarSYS customers with visualization systems, particularly those customers migrating from Silicon Graphics Incorporated (SGI) technology.

Microsoft announced manufacturing of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, the company's first software offering designed to run parallel, high-performance computing (HPC) applications for customers solving complex computations. Windows Compute Cluster Server 200...

Rogers Business Solutions has launched Canada's first subscription-based encryption email service, hosted by IBM, which provides for the confidentiality of email communication for business users. Rogers Secure Mail encrypts information between sender and recipien...

IBM has announced that analyst firm Gartner Inc. has ranked IBM as the worldwide market share leader in the IT operations management software marketplace based on total software revenue for 2005. This marks the fifth consecutive year that IBM maintained its leader...

Redback Networks announced that it has extended its existing relationship with IBM for the use of IBM's Applications On Demand Services. Redback believes that utilizing IBM's services will allow Redback to further focus on developing innovative IP-based products a...

Microsoft has announced that it has formed the Interoperability Customer Executive Council to identify areas for interoperability improvements across its products and the overall software industry. Customers are working in increasingly heterogeneous IT environme...

Microsoft's Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) initiative has launched the next generation of Smart Watches for MSN Direct: the ABACUS Smart Watch 2006. These newest watches feature double the storage capacity of previous watches, improved download speed, ...

PodZinger has been selected as a winner in the category of Best Web 2.0 Application for the 2006 MITX Technology Awards. The MITX Technology Awards, produced by the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange, recognize innovative technologies developed in th...

FinSock has announced that it will release a web-based small business software solution in June. The so-called 'Web 2.0' application will allow business owners and their employees the ability to break the confinement of the conventional office. It has had the bene...

Just as Yahoo and eBay announce a major agreement to work together against Google (and to some extent, Microsoft), comes word that Dell will be bundling Google's desktop and toolbar, adding another dimension to the emerging battle among Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft.

Analyst Marc Farley has some strong opinions as to new Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz's appointment of long-time Sun executive David Yen as head of the company's storage division. Farley acknowledges Yen's technical brilliance and success in heading the company's scala...

Jobster announced it has acquired Jobby, an innovative start-up that helps jobseekers get noticed through new tagging techniques. With the addition of Jobby's AJAX programming expertise as well as their innovative user interface and tagging methodology, Jobster wi...