Amy Newman

WarpSpeed Communications Monday released Automation Interface, a connection manager designed to enable enterprises to meet their networks’ peak bandwidth demands by using simple XML messages to automatically invoke one or more dedicated T-1 connections. The Automation Interface connection manager employs XML to simplify access to WarpSpeed’s Bandwidth@WarpSpeed T-1 service. WarpSpeed’s service delivers a flexible, cost-effective […]

Macromedia Inc. this week launched a partnership with Intuwave to enable the development of advanced wireless content and services based on Macromedia’s Flash technology. Intuwave, which develops wireless data services and applications, will begin porting the Macromedia Flash Player to the Symbian platform, with the intention of bringing rich, interactive, high-impact content to its wireless […]

BEA Systems, Inc. (BEAS) earlier this week released BEA WebLogic Commerce Server 2.0, a commerce server that uses Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) to build customer-driven businesses in Internet time. BEA WebLogic Commerce Server is part of the BEA E-Commerce Transaction Platform. Using an out-of-the-box, fully J2EE-compliant framework, the product seeks to transform traditional companies into […]

Earlier this week, Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) revealed SQL Server 2000’s new scalability features and detailed its location on the company’s technology road map.   SQL Server 2000 beta 2 is scheduled to be available worldwide in April. Microsoft’s vision for the product is one in which SQL Server provides customers with virtually unlimited scalability on […]

FileNet Corp.’s Panagon eSolutions and Autonomy, a leading portal technology provider, have partnered to form an alliance that will add Autonomy’s categorization and personalization technology to Panagon eSolutions’ portal products. By using Autonomy’s technology, Panagon eSolutions hopes to fine-tune its identification and classification tools for portal users. “Autonomy’s technology can analyze and rank the ideas […]

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has selected Mercury Interactive’s automated software testing tools to assure the scalability and reliability of the Microsoft’s Windows 2000 operating system. Microsoft chose Mercury Interactive’s WinRunner, for functional and regression testing; LoadRunner, to verify that the operating system would perform as expected under a heavy load; and TestDirector, to plan and manage […]

In what is claimed to be the first-ever, large-scale test of an Internet-based collaborative product commerce solution using Java technology exclusively on the server side, Sun Microsystems’ out-of-the-box application was able to successfully scale to support Parametric Technology Corp.’s Windchill Factor! e-Series. “This was a real-world test of application performance in an Internet environment, and […]

Macromedia, Inc. Monday unveiled Macromedia Director 8 Shockwave Studio, the latest version of its solution for creating “magnetic” Internet destinations and powerful multimedia. Director 8 Shockwave Studio is scheduled to ship in March. For new users, the product provides a simple way to create compact, low-bandwidth Shockwave content, while streamlining production and publishing for existing […]

E-business product and services provider eXcelon Corp. has formed a technology and marketing partnership with XML development tools vendor Extensibility Inc. The two companies have agreed to package Extensibility’s, XML Authority product with eXcelon’s (EXLN) Dynamic Application Platform, eXcelon 2.0, and the eXcelon B2B Integration Server. The anticipation is that such bundling will enable developers […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. this week announced that the next versions of its key technologies: the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition and the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, have been submitted to the Java Community Process program for review. The JCP program is a community-based process for developing Java technology specifications, reference implementations and associated compatibility […]

Microsoft Corp. this week released its bCentral Site Manager, a new service designed to provide small-business owners with everything they need to build, host and maintain successful Web sites and sell products via the Internet. Site Manager will be offered through bCentral, a Web-based small-business portal that Microsoft launched in September. Site Manager is a […]

eBusiness Technologies, a division of Inso Corp. (INSO) released a conversion engine that will allow users to upload Microsoft Word files and convert them to XML code for storage and indexing in its DynaBase e-business Internet publishing platform. This new utility, offered through the company’s Professional Services Group (PSG), can be customized into DynaBase’s workflow […]