Andy Patrizio

SAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems made its name on Solaris, but the company is reaching out to the upstart on the Unix block, Linux, with a new licensing system designed to allow smaller Linux distributions to bundle Java with its operating system. The announcement came during the keynote speech kicking off its annual JavaOne developer […]

Sun Microsystems kicked off its annual JavaOne conference with a trio of announcements concerning code availability: it’s offering two new open source efforts and has officially released Java Platform 5, Enterprise Edition. Sun has never been short on hyperbole and isn’t about to start now. It proclaimed Java EE 5 “the most significant update to […]

Open source mania continues. Motorola is the latest corporate giant to wade into the pool by offering its mobile Java technology to the open source community. Motorola will release the framework and sample test cases for the Mobile Information Device Profiles (MIDP) 3.0 specification as a freely available download. The company has set up a […]

FrontPage has been a part of Microsoft Office for several versions, but beginning with Office 2007, if you want to do some heavy-duty Web page editing, you will need a whole new, stand-alone product that Microsoft has just begun beta testing. Microsoft today released the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft Expression Web Designer, […]

Microsoft has released the first Community Technology Preview (CTP), its fancy term for a beta, of LINQ, a modification to Microsoft’s programming languages that allows for direct calls to data sources from within the language, rather than intermediary technologies. LINQ stands for Language INtegrated Query. It allows for query and set operations, like SQL statements, […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, confidently laid out the world’s biggest software company’s agenda and competitive standing in a speech here today. In a follow-up Q&A, he faced questions about how prepared Microsoft is to handle increased competition on multiple fronts. Ballmer spoke to a crowd of about 200 Silicon Valley executives […]

Just what we needed, another technology limitation about to put the squeeze on everyone. And we don’t mean the Unix date bug. The growing popularity of smartphones and other gadgets with Internet connectivity is sucking up all of the available IP addresses, and it’s beginning to impede emerging Internet markets around the world. Cyberspace has […]

Los Angeles drivers know the term “sigalert” all too well. It means there’s an accident making the already-congested L.A. freeways even slower. It’s so bad, there’s even a Web site dedicated just to watching SoCal traffic. However, the site isn’t in real-time, there is a slight delay. Likewise, sites like Citysearch can offer a plethora […]

Microsoft has launched a public beta of its Windows Live Messenger, the next-generation of its instant messenger software with a number of new communications features. The software has been in testing since December but only by invitation. This is the first public beta, which can be downloaded from the Windows Live Ideas Web site. One […]

So, what’s one more operating system between friends? Linspire is preparing a new Linux-based operating system that uses AJAX as the interface for all of its applications and documents. The value of ajaxOS is that it is AJAX-aware, so any compatible file will be recognized by AJAX   applications. Double-clicking on any known file type […]

UPDATED: A Yankee Group report published today predicts imminent doom for anti-spyware makers with the release of Windows Vista. But don’t plan a funeral for WebRoot and Ad-Aware just yet. First, Microsoft has to sell the darned operating system. Microsoft still has not spelled out the system requirements for Windows Vista, with less than a […]

Microsoft today formally opened up a public beta test of the Microsoft Speech Server 2007, a significant upgrade to its voice recognition and telephony server with a host of new features and technologies. Speech Server 2007 is the third release of Microsoft’s speech and telephony platform but the first to feature VoiceXML , the approved […]