Amy Newman

Media Lab Inc. Monday unveiled PhotoWebber, a graphic and design software package that aims to simplify the process of converting a layered Photoshop file into individual graphics files and HTML code. The product is expected to be available later this quarter. “PhotoWebber lets Web designers focus on creative work and avoid the drudgery of building […]

Sybase Inc. Wednesday announced a strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems to license Sun’s Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technology and incorporate itinto Sybase’s key product offerings, including Enterprise Application Server, Adaptive Server Enterprise and Enterprise Portal. The agreement aims to ensure that Sybase’s products will be fully compliant with the J2EE specification and will […]

E-business solutions provider Commence Corp. Monday unveiled a prerelease of Allure Forms, a Web-based forms solution designed to dynamically capture information from the Web and link it directly to back-end databases. Allure Forms is a suite of business forms designed to easily capture input from the Web for, among other things, sales orders, customer surveys […]

The O’Reilly Network this week added Meerkat to its portal for developers interested in open and emerging technologies. Meerkat is an open wire service designed to keep developers on top of rapidly changing technology news. The service organizes information, drawn from a wide variety of sites, by channel, category, and date. Meerkat’s key feature is […]

WebGain Inc. Wednesday released WebGain Studio, an integrated e-commerce development solution designed to make customers’ e-business concepts their e-business realities. WebGain Studio integrates several leading technologies into a product suite. It is WebGain’s attempt to provide an end-to-end, browser-to-database Java development solution and deliver a comprehensive component-based solution to enable companies to quickly move into […]

FileMaker Inc. Monday released FileMaker XML Central, a resource for IT professionals and Web developers designed to provide essential documentation that details the XML support available in FileMaker Pro. FileMaker XML Central also includes instructional examples and useful links for learning more about XML and XML formatting technologies. XML Central’s XML documentation and examples will […]

X-traWeb Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of World Wireless Communications Inc. Friday unveiled its new Wireless Markup Language (WML) X-Node. The WML X-Node provides connectivity between Web-enabled devices and Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) enabled personal communicators. WAP facilitates access to Internet content from wireless telephones and mobile computing devices that employ micro-browsers. According to the WAP […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. this week unveiled its plans to release the source code to Forte for Java, Community Edition 1.0, its cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) for Java technology. Sun (SUNW) said the decision, illustrates the company’s commitment to open source technologies and marks the first step in a major new Sun initiative to make […]

Data transformation software vendor Data Junction Corp. this week released XML Junction. XML Junction aims to provide e-commerce and business integration professionals with the ability to XML-enable virtually any application or data source for a full range of e-commerce integration, application integration, and business-to-business data exchange projects. XML Junction features the automated creation of Document […]

WebSideStory Monday released a French-language version of HitBox Enterprise service, a Web audience measurement technology geared toward enterprise-class clients. WebSideStory develops Internet-based Web audience analysis tools. HitBox Enterprise enables customers to monitor, in real time, hundreds of visitor traffic statistics for one or more Web sites. The release of the French-language HitBox Enterprise is part […]

E-business infrastructure software provider WRQ this week unveiled Holistix, a strategy it believes will address the escalating needs of mission-critical Web systems. Holistix Web Manager seeks to enable rapid and reliable e-business growth by providing Web, IT, and business managers with comprehensive identification, organization, monitoring, and management of all Web system components. The Holistix.net Web […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. this week released its Java API for XML Parsing, an application programming interface it hopes will serve as a common interface for developers using XML. Sun (SUNW), which originally created Java, released JAXP in an attempt to bridge Java to XML and expand their appeal to e-commerce sites by ensuring compatibility across […]